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Best open sources for a web-entrepreneur

Posted by on November 12, 2009 8 comments

When a person with a dream of making a online carrier enters this fascinating world of codes and services, is always confused? There are lot of confusions that they are having in their mind, one such confusion is with the platform and the mode of presence.

Let’s talk about some great open source software’s for this purpose. But before moving to this you will be requiring a hosting package, to host the open source software’s.

Linux Hosting

Over here for hosting we recommend Linux Hosting for open source lovers, as most of the open source software and services are developed in open source languages (like PHP) and performance is great over Linux Platform. In Linux there are various hosting operation available like fedora, centos etc. Best performance comes on Centos and is recommended from our end.

Control Panel

In the hosting next comes the choice of the control panel from where you will be managing your domain and the files related to your website. There are few choices available in the market for control panel over Linux hosting, like Cpanel and Lxadmin panel. Our recommendation is for Cpanel, as its a undisputed leader and had a market capitalization of 75% compared to other panels. For Lxadmin as we have stated in the past regarding the vulnerabilities found in it, so its a no from our end but its a great panel to work on as it resources consume a very little 15MB RAM.

Open source Software’s

Well there are hundred’s of open sources available for making a website, we are also running over one such open source called wordpress. We will be talking about few such top open sources and why we recommend them.

Blogs

There are two best options available in blogging as per your requirement. One is blogger.com, its free and no investment. If you are a simple writer and don’t want to waste time in managing things your self, its best for you. Similarly, wordpress.com provides free blog hosting service just like blogger.com. Now comes the interesting part that makes wordpress the best, are its plug-in and the support available for them. Moreover you could host wordpress over your servers with full control, there are lot of great features in wordpress for which i can write a new post. WordPress can also be used as CMS.

CMS (Content Management System)

Their are two tough competitors present in this open source range also. One is the Joomla and second one is Drupal recently adopted by white house. In this category we recommends Joomla. If you are new to Joomla it could be hard for you to manage, for this we again recommend wordpress as you could customize it to CMS and their are lot of great themes available for it.

Forum

These days a lot of discussion boards are being developed instead of fully functional and properly managed websites. But i recommend forums as a part of a CMS website, as forums had a poor SEO and alone it could destroy your online presence. Moreover, optimizing a forum for Search Engine is a tough Job.

The available open source software in the forum category are PHPBB, SMF, Icy Phoenix. They all have a bad SEO, so i will not give a hardcore recommendation for a single one. Well if you look at the support available for the three PHPBB leads the race far ahead, and a lot of mod’s are also available for it. If we look at a better SEO among the three, Icy Phoenix is a good choice; but the problem with it is the amount of server resources it utilizes when it operates. Hence, resulting higher cost of operations.

Concluding all the three categories of the open sources covered above, best option of managing a website is through blogging software’s. Specifically wordpress, as it will be meeting all your requirements, and its very simple to manage and operate.

And all the Open sources that are detailed above are being developed in PHP. Hence their are plug-ins available for their interoperability and inter connectivity.

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XML-RPC enabling for configuration of Windows Live Writer

Posted by on November 6, 2009 4 comments

Setting up a windows live writer account on your PC is one is the most easiest task that you could perform easily, no rocket science involved in it. However their is one issue that uses to occur for very few, while setting up the writer.

What’s the issue involved? Few users uses to face problem with XML-RPC enabling, during their setup process. We will we covering it later while we will be following the steps of configuration.

Steps along with screen shots:

First of all you need to have a setup of the windows live writer, that you could download from Live Writers site.
Run the setup, and select windows live writer from the options available with the installation.
Now open the installed windows live writer, it will automatically ask for configuration. Below are the screens attached for step by step understanding of this process.
Select blogger, wordpress, typepad as your blog service.
Enter the details of the blog account, with the username and password,
Now this is the Step where we will get the problem of XML-RPC, the popup window comes up shown in step 8 appears.
Error connecting to blog Message Pops Up
Open the writing settings from your Dashboard>>Settings>> Writing Settings

If you are still unable to enable, the look at the post made by wpnotifier.
Create a temporary theme on your local disc, so that you could get the look and feel of your blog while working offline.
This is a powerful feature that helps you link to a powerful interface of social services in a single go, highly recommended.
Enter your post and than publish, you could even save the draft online for future edition.

So, have a happy publishing experience with this superb blogging tool from Microsoft’s Vault. Explore a lot of new things in this tool, here is a review from Techcats who have covered its features.

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Lxadmin’s default permalink configuration for wordpress

Posted by on November 2, 2009 6 comments

Today, i did an wordpress installation for one of my client on a lighttpd server. Every thing was fine in the installation, blog got installed successfully. It was a nice experience working on a new control panel (Lxadmin), but the thing that made me restless was the permalink issue that i got when i tried to customize the url’s to http://example.com/%postname%/. It was displaying the permalink with index.php attached to it like http://example.com/index.php/%postname%/. If i removes index.php from the blogs permalink settings, it returns me with and error page 404 on the post pages. Moreover, i had a commitment that need to be completed in time. I did a lot of search about it and was presented with very useful and detailed solutions to my problem. There were some great explanation’s from sudhakar and chrisjohnston to them.

But i was hunting for something more easier, that could be done more easily, and surprisingly i found the solution in the Lxadmin panel itself. The Lxadmin panel comes with a pre-configured permalink solution for wordpress and drupal.

Lxadmin comes with default permalink configuration for many apps. Please select the application and the directory where you have installed it, and lxadmin will add the corresponding rewrite rule into the lighty configuration. Please note that for some applications, permalinks are achieved via setting the 404 error handler, for instance wordpress.

Here is what you have to do for reaching the solution:

Login in into your Lxadmin panel.
Browse to script and select permalink.
Screenshot hilighting the permalink location in lxadmin panel
Select the domain, location and the application ( only wordpress and drupal are supported, currently).
Descriptional Screenshot of the fix

In the last go to your wordpress dashboard> settings> permalinks> and make the changes for customization, things will absolutely act finely.

Lxadmin panel’s such powerful and light weight functions can help the blogger’s to focus on their writing skills, rather than hunting and looking for solution to their solutions. It just functions like another wordpress plugin provided in the lxadmin panel.

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Tracking of earnings on multi-author blog

Posted by on October 27, 2009 5 comments

Today lets look today into the concept how the advertisements are tracked for the respective author of the post. On colorsofnet.com we works on the concept of author id’s, at the bottom of the post we specifies the unique author id for the post author. This author id we use in the back-end php script with the respective author advertisements, and how we differentiate among various authors advertisement who don’t have an adsense account of their own will be covered later in the post.

In the above screen shot for the user gknp007 the unique author id is 109, and similarly for user Rainbow the unique author id is 2.

Now lets look how the ads being delivered for the users on the basis of the author id. Here is the code that we are using for tracking the respective authors earnings.

if ($author == “109″) { ?>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-8423824671108420″;
/* 336×280, created 10/26/09 */
google_ad_slot = “3676079036″;
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>
<?php } elseif ($author == “2″) { ?>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-8423824671108420″;
google_ad_slot = “8227300545″;
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>

From the above script its clear that on the basis of the author id the ads are delivered, for the author id: 109 the google_ad_slot = “3676079036″; and for the author id: 2 the google_ad_slot = “8227300545″;
So, the tracking is on the basis of the unique author id and their respective google_ad_slot.

Now lets see how we check the earnings online as per the google_ad_slot, this screen shot will give a clear view.

In the screen shown the earnings for each author will be tracked in real time, from this we can track daily weekly and monthly stats for the different google_ad_slot. Here earnings for users con-rainbow, con-square, style_o_moon, anjuraj03.

And how you will be able to view these stats of earnings, for this right now we don’t have any provision. But in the end of the month i will be sharing my system with you, so that you can online access and check the adsense earnings from my system. And the payments will be made after 45 days from the month end.

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Dummies guide for posting on blog

Posted by Rainbow on October 27, 2009 6 comments

There are lot of users who are asking me how to post on a blog? Its almost the same as composing a mail, all you have to remember are some formatting rules. The rules are simple, post with correct words and grammar, don’t use short forms like “u” for “you” etc, use proper highlighting with headings, explain with graphical (images) representation where ever necessary.

Now moving step by step how to use this site for writing an article:

Step 1: First login into the site.

Step 2: you will see the Dashboard, on the left hand side of the dashboard you will see some options of posts, media,comments, profile etc. From these options select posts>> add new for composing the new post.

Step 3: Below is the frame where you compose your article by your writing skills.

Step 4: On the right hand of the screen you will see few options of Publish, post tags and categories. First enter the tags related to the post that you have composed eg. “audi car for 2010 market” for this article you could have tags like automobile, audi, cars, cars 2010 etc the tags mainly depends on the content of the post. After tags, select a category/ categories where you find your article to appear.

Step 5: And then publish it for review.

Lastly, do reply over your post comments.

We hope this will enlighten some light on the use of this site.

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