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In this tutorial, I will explain the basics of how WordPress theme works and show you how to convert a static HTML template into a theme. No PHP skill is required, but you need Photoshop and CSS skills to create your own design. 1. The Blog Frontend Before you start, let’s take a look at the WordPress default theme and see how it is structured. Take note of the elements (header, post title, search form, navigation, footer, etc.). Default Frontpage (index.php) Default Single (single.php) 2. Photoshop Mockups Based on the information gathered from the default theme, design a Photoshop mockup of your blog. Here I’m using GlossyBlue , one of my free WordPress themes , as an example. 3. HTML + CSS After the PSD design is done, create a static HTML+CSS template of each page. Why Create a Static HTML File First? Mainly because it will make the development process a lot easier. I usually create a HTML file for every template that I need, test it across all browsers, validate bo...

Overview Fiat Group SpA is a diversified global company in business for over a century and is one of the top fifteen automobile manufacturers in the world, even larger than Daimler AG. Producing more than 85% of the automobiles that the Fiat Group manufactures and sells, the Fiat Group Automobiles SpA (FGA) subsidiary produces about 1.98 million automobiles/year. Over 42,000 Fiat users channel over $30 Billion (USD) in revenue (24 billion euros) through their PHP-based Fiatlink system which is now the primary access point for all of FGA's dealers and service centers to enter car orders and access information across the Fiat Auto enterprise. This is business-critical PHP. Improving sales performance and customer relations by exploiting back-end and point-of-use technology in the sales, service, and support processes they engage in was the goal for Fiat. Fiatlink addresses both sales and after sales that FGA processes, and currently handles 100% of the ordering and logistics and 6...

NEW DELHI, INDIA: In an effort to bridge the digital divide and to take knowledge to every Indian household, the Government of India is set to make available low-cost computers at US$ 10, within six months. Once this becomes a reality, it would help students get feed on every subject while sitting home. Based on the technology developed by IISC, Bangalore and IIT Madras, the Rs 500 computer will be a small equipment with expandable memory, LAN and Wi-Fi facilities. "But lot of testing has to be done to ensure that the technology works properly. Once the testing is over, the computers will be made available on commercial basis. The target is to make it available in six months time," Higher Education Secretary, Ministry of HRD, R P Agrawal said reporters on Thursday. The government is also planning to produce e-content on every subject which will be made available free of cost, said reports. A prototype computer has been designed which is being tested now. "Its cost will b...

This HOWTO applies if: * Your machine already has Windows installed, and you are installing Linux as a second operating system, and * You want to leave the Windows boot loader (NTLDR) on the MBR (Master Boot Record). This allows you to continue to boot Windows with no issues. I've heard that Windows 2000/Windows XP or anti-virus software may complain if the MBR does not contain the Windows boot loader You can use either GRUB or LILO to dual-boot Windows 2000/Windows XP and Linux. Both functionally work fine, but from what I've read, GRUB requires less maintenance, as LILO requires you to reinstall the boot loader (by running /sbin/lilo) every time you rebuild the kernel or make changes to /etc/lilo.conf. Requirements for /boot Partition The location of the /boot partition on the hard drive is critical so that you don't get screwed by the infamous BIOS 1024 cylinder limit. The BIOS of older systems can't access data beyond cylinder 1024, which is ~8.5 GB. A simpl...

Apache Web Server configuration for Redhat 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 with Dynamic ip to router. This section is designed to detail the steps you may need to go through to setup a server on an ISP that only gives out a dynamic IP address. You will need to edit network configuration on your server by set it to statically and taking the ip number you've been assigned by your router (eg) - (192.168.0.2), subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and gateway 192.168.0.1, and use your isp nameservers ip's. The general approach is to use a dynamic ip address yet access your server via a domain name. This allows you and others to always reach your website from the outside even if the ip address changes regularly. Basically what needs to be done is to configure the apache configuration file httpd.conf for your dynamic IP. You could access you site via your current ip address but since you have a dynamic ip, it may change every few days, weeks or months and you would have to tell everybody every time it changes....

'You will talk to the Web... and the Web will talk back,' predicts IBM in its latest list of innovations that "have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years". The IT giant, however, wants this web to work on cellphones rather than a personal computer (PC), since mobile devices dramatically outnumber PCs -- over 335 million cellphones versus below 30 million PCs in India alone. Moreover, IBM's Institute for Business Value predicts the number of mobile web users worldwide will reach one billion by 2011. The concept is gathering steam with a project named "Spoken Web" that is being led by IBM's India Research Laboratory (IRL) team, and also being incubated in IBM's eight global labs in six countries. In fact, the corporation recently completed a pilot in Andhra Pradesh to implement the concept. "The project was very successful. It started out with around 100 villagers but many hundreds joined later aft...

So you may have come across the term of cloaking URLs, this usually sounds evil and bad, like cloaked pages, which is something entirely different. Cloaking pages is presenting pages based on certain conditions, usually presenting a specific page to Google, for example. Doing this will get you banned and removed from Google's index. Not good. Cloaking URLs is a slightly different concept. It's showing a URL that usually points to something in your own domain. Once you click on the link you'll be redirected to the 'real' destination URL. For example a CJ link for eBay would look like this: http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-1751-2978-328/1?aid=10366506&pid=123456 But to cloak it you would make it look like this: http://www.money-code.com/ebay For this example we'll use Apache's module called mod_rewrite. Almost all installs of Apache have this installed, but some may not, so you'll need to verify this. Also, this will need to be managed via a .htaccess...

This is software that retrieves a web page and then displays it in the browser. PHP or SSI (in conjunction with a CGI program) can be used. Other programming languages can be used, also, like ASP. With PHP, the program code is generally right in the web page source code. With SSI, the SSI tag calls an external program to fetch the web page. The code on the PHP/SSI web page retrieves the remote web page, inserts a base URL tag into the retrieved web page source code, then displays the contents of the retrieved web page. The URL in the browser's address bar does not change. You end up with the contents of a web page in the browser window that is located at a URL different than the URL in the browser's address bar. The web page originally loaded into the browser and the web page retrieved from elsewhere may be on different domains. There are no visual clues that the web page being displayed is not at the URL in the browser's address bar unless the web page being dis...

Rewriting URLs in a certain way with the .htaccess file can display web pages from a URL different than the URL in the browser's address bar. However, both the URL in the address bar and the web page being viewed must be located on the same domain as the .htaccess file. There are no visual clues that the web page being displayed is not at the URL in the browser's address bar unless the web page being displayed itself contains clues. There are many nuances to consider when writing URL redirect lines for the .htaccess file. Consider testing with an .htaccess file in an otherwise unused subdirectory before going live. Here is a simple directive that will rewrite all URLs for any documents in the /free directory so the /paid/index.html will display, instead. The URL in the browser's address bar will be the original URL to a document in the /free directory. Yet, web page /paid/index.html is being viewed. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/free($|/) RewriteR...

Here are the PHP stats for October 2008. To learn about methodology, read la section phpversion. 35.1 millions servers hosted on 2.1 millions IP were surveyed during October, and 12.7 were used for stats : domaines without web sites, those unreachable, ISP, shared hosters or domain parkings were not considered. This map represents PHP market share for each country. Green countries are the one using most PHP, red countries the least and yellow countries are in the world average (32,84 %). The table below show the exact figures for each country. Some countries may no show on the map, and will require the larger map (click on the graphic). Some countries may not be represented at all. Bahamas (.bs) 96.23 % Cote d'Ivoire (.ci) 69.03 % Vanuatu (.vu) 68.40 % Tajikistan (.tj) 67.39 % Korea, Republic of (.kr) 64.67 % Ukraine (.ua) 62.65 % Georgia (.ge) 61.80 % Tokelau (.tk) 60.44 % Netherlands Antilles (.an) 58.06 % Indonesia (.id) 56.84 % Panama (.pa) 55.79 % Uzbekistan (.uz...

Cloud computing will fuel growth in open source software as companies try to manage costs, according to database heavyweight Ingres. Tom Berquist, former managing director of financial powerhouses Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and now CFO of open source database firm Ingres, made the prediction last week. Ingres, the second largest open source company, counts the likes of BAE Systems, Cathay Pacific and Lufthansa among its customers. Berquist said the cloud computing model --of companies' serving applications over the Internet--requires vendors to spend large amounts of cash buying and maintaining servers, telecoms infrastructure and software such as operating systems, Web, application and database servers to support their software as a service (SaaS) operation. He added because SaaS vendors needed to invest in more hardware and software than traditional software vendors--where applications are sold to customers to install on their own ma...

Cloud computing is a computing paradigm in which tasks are assigned to a combination of connections, software and services accessed over a network. This network of servers and connections is collectively known as "the cloud." Computing at the scale of the cloud allows users to access supercomputer-level power. Using a thin client or other access point, like an iPhone, BlackBerry or laptop, users can reach into the cloud for resources as they need them. For this reason, cloud computing has also been described as " on-demand computing ." This vast processing power is made possible though distributed, large-scale cluster computing , often in concert with server virtualization software, like Xen , and parallel processing . Cloud computing can be contrasted with the traditional desktop computing model, where the resources of a single desktop computer are used to complete tasks, and an expansion of the client/server model. To paraphrase Sun Microsystems' famous ad...

<p><strong>In the good old days when building web sites was as easy as knocking up a few <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/glossary.php?q=H#term_75" class="glossary" title="HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.">HTML</a> pages, the delivery of a web page to a browser was a simple matter of having the web server fetch a file. A site's visitors would see its small, text-only pages almost immediately, unless they were using particularly slow modems. Once the page was downloaded, the browser would <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/glossary.php?q=C#term_21" class="glossary" title="Cache, pronounced "cash", refes to a stored copy of (or pointers to) previously accessed data. ">cache</a> it somewhere on the local computer so that, should the page be requested again, after performing a quick check with the server to ensure the page hadn't been updated, the browser could displa...