NiharsWorld turns 2!

Happy Birthday to NiharsWorld

An eventful year has passed by. Many events that reflect a myriad hues of the universe. Change of guard in the White House, eventful celestial events like solar eclipse and the geo-climatic changes. And lo! 2009 ends with a lunar eclipse.

But for us, the surfers it is all in a nutshell. We at Nihar’s World have been trying to keep abreast.

And all we say as we complete two years is ‘Let us explore more and let us enjoy more the marvels of modern technology… the internet.

The world is shrinking and is a global village already. Let us make it a global family.
So looking forward to your continued interest as we march together…..

As a part of 2nd Anniversary, I am going to give three weekly advertising slots for free to the first three commentators of this post.(Three slots are already filled up by first three commentators)

To claim the gift:

• Just leave a comment with your correct email id in the Mail text box.
• I will contact you via email asking you the 125X125 image location along with your website address

Thank you for all your participation.

And lets keep rocking!

Most of us follow our favorite blogs via RSS Feeds. To keep track of all the blogs, i use FeedDemon on my PC and Newsgator on the Web as a online feed reader.

Both Newsgator and FeedDemon synchronize feeds so, that both are in sync.

Few days back, Newsgator has come up with a news that their Online Feed Reader will no longer be available. This news has caused upset to lot of users who depend on both to keep track of the blogs or news.

You guys might have noticed if you had tried to login to NewsGator account.

Now, to make sure that your feeds both in FeedDemon and Online web Feed Reader in Sync. You need to signup an account in Google Reader and move the Feeds from Newsgator to Google Reader.

How to Move Feeds from Newsgator to Google Reader

1. Sign-up for a Google Reader™ account

   You can use your existing Gmail account to login to Google Reader, so that Google Reader is also attached to the Gmail id you use the most.

2. Export NewsGator RSS Feeds
• Login to NewsGator Online
• Check on the top Nav Bar, you should see Settings. Click on it
• A new page will open, You will see Tabs on the Tab. Click on Edit Locations
  
• Under the NewsGator Web Edition Location, click OPML
• A new page will open. Now Select Expose OPML to all users and click Save Changes button
  
• Click OPML once more. A web page will open which will have OPML URL link. Click on it
• It will open the link in your browser, select File | Save as and save the file with extension .opml

  Now the first task is completed i.e., Exporting RSS Feeds into OPML file from NewsGator.

3. Import your NewsGator RSS OPML to Google Reader
• In Google Reader, click on Settings
• A page will open. Now click on Import/Export link
• Now click on Choose OPML file button and select the OPML file you saved in the previous step.
• Now click on Upload button to import OPML file to your Google Reader
• Google Reader will add all the subscriptions in the list to your account and start checking the feeds for updates

If you have followed the above steps properly, you have successfully transferred all the Feeds from Newsgator to Google Reader.

How to synchronize feeds between Google Reader and FeedDemon

All these days we were able to Synchronize feeds between FeedDemon and Newsgator. This was due to compatibility and understanding between both parties. Now that Newsgator is discontinuing Online Web Feed Reader. FeedDemon new version will be able to keep the feeds in the sync with your Google Reader.

In order to tell FeedDemon to keep the feeds in sync with Google Reader, you need to Download below FeedDemon and install it.

Download FeedDemon Latest Client

I will come up with one more post to show How to setup FeedDemon Latest Client so that it can sync with your Google Reader Feeds.

- Check this How to setup FeedDemon Latest Client to Synchronize with Google Reader

Hope you were able to understand this post and implement it. Appreciate your comments/suggestions/inputs.

Today, i upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.8. The upgradation went fine without any problems.

Wordpress 2.8

But after upgrading, I felt that the Dashboard and wordpress admin pages were loading very slow. Each page was taking 5-10 seconds to load.

I then opened the blog and tried browsing some posts. There was the same effect. The blog was slow.

It was for sure that Blog slowed down due to Wordpress 2.8 Upgrade. My first suspect was to check the plugins. There are 40+ plugins that i use. I was sure that this is due to some plugin which may not be supporting Wordpress 2.8.

I went to Plugin page and disabled all plugins at one go and saw the pages started loading faster.

I then started enabling plugins one by one and then I found the culprit plugin that slowed down the blog post upgrading to Wordpress 2.8 .

The plugin was Performancing Ads plugin. I disabled the plugin, jumped to Performancing Ads and got the javascript code to display 125X125 Ad on the sidebar.

I was surprised and was also upset on myself to see that i was using a plugin instead of placing just a one liner javascript to display the ad

The problem was solved.

Did you guys find any problem? If yes do leave a comment about the problem and the plugin that caused the problem after upgrading to Wordpress 2.8. I am sure that this will be of help to all those who have faced problems after upgrading to Wordpress 2.8

If you are new to Performancing Ads, Then Try joining Performancing Ads

Jonny from Jonnys Blog left a comment few days back on my Previous Post Broken Links Remover – A must Wordpress Plugin. He mentioned a freeware tool that can check all the broken links of any website. I took a look at that freeware software. It is a great tool to use for all the webmasters.

Xenu’s Link Sleuth is a freeware tool to check Broken Links of your website. It uses multi-threading to scan broken links. Hence, it is very fast compared to any other link checking software. Given the URL of the website, It can come up with all the broken links withe the details like title, type, size etc. It does all this pretty quickly.

How to use Xenu’s Link Sleuth

1. Download and install the program
2. Run the program and enter the URL of the website which you want to check
3. Now it will check for all links like normal links, images, backgrounds, style sheets, scripts and java applets.

Find Broken Links of any website. Image Credit : Xenu’s Link Sleuth

After this, It will display a continuously updated list of URLs which it has scanned so far. You can sort the list based on a certain criteria. Since, it also displays the size of each page / image, you could use this tool to check any fat pages and large images and try to optimize them to reduce the page size and the load time.

It will also scan and list out all the In-bound links and Out-bound links so you know which of your pages are most linked and contain the most outgoing links. It also displays the Missing titles and Missing Alt Text for images. This way you can find out the problems and fix it to improve your SEO score.

A full report can also be generated which can be used.

I liked this tool very much because of it’s Mult-purpose usage. Its main purpose is to find Broken Links, But as you saw in above, It can be also used to find Missing Title and Missing Alt text and can be used to improve SEO score. It can be also used to find out any fat pages and large images.

If you want to improve your SEO for your Blog or Site, then do read this:

– Increase Blogs internal linking using SEO Smart Links Plugin

– How to Show different posts for Search Engine Visitors

I recommend each and every WebMasters / Blogger to use this tool and if you know any other tool. Do share it.

Download Xenu’s Link Sleuth

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Just sign up for Ryan’s newsletter and post about the contest on you Blog.

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All the best!!!

Wishing you a very Happy New Year 2009.

2009 is here. After an eventful 2008, we are geared up for more action and fun this year. Hope this year brings lot of success and happiness to all.

Last year was a successful year for this blog. Hope this year makes this blog more popular. Hope you all will keep visiting to this blog!

Stay Connected. Happy Blogging!!!

My friend Arun from BEFolks is holding his first contest, BEFolks First Grand New Year contest.

Take part in the contest and You Could win lots of prizes.

I am also a sponsor for this contest!. If you enter the contest, you could end up winning 125X125 ad spot for 1 month on this blog!

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To participate for the Grand New Year Contest?

1. Write a review about the contest with the title BEFolks First Grand New Year contest in your blog and sponsors and gifts involved in it with the link as http://befolks.com/blog/befolks-first-grand-new-year-contest. you can also a send a trackback to this post when once you’re done. ( 20 points)
2. Subscribe to my email feed (15 points)
3. Stumble upon and review this post (15 points)
4. Add this site to Technorati (15 points)
5. Comment on this site ( 3 points)
6. Link or add BEFolks to your blogroll (6 points)
7. Link sponsors to your site.(8 points)

The blogger who receives maximum points by the doing the most tasks will be awarded with maximum gifts and also the winner’s blog will be reviewed by BEFolks.

The Contest result will be posted on january 1st 2009.

For more details please visit:

BEFolks First Grand New Year contest

Hope you enter the contest and win a prize !!!

In Wordpress 2.7 Features, a new feature – Threaded Comments is introduced.

The problem is that most of the wordpress bloggers are facing is that their theme doesn’t support Threaded or Nested Comments.

To check whether Threaded Comments is supported by your current theme or not, Follow the below steps:

1. Upgrade Wordpress is to 2.7 version, if not yet upgraded.
2. Login to Wordpress admin and go to Settings -> Discussion
3. Check on “Enable threaded (nested) comments ‘n’ levels deep”.
4. Click Save changes to enable Threaded Comments.
5. View any post of your blog that contains few comments.

If you see a Reply link after each comment like shown below, then your Wordpress Theme supports Threaded Comments otherwise it doesn’t support:

You will see reply links for every individual comment

My current theme doesn’t support it. I have made some changes to comments.php and style.css to support Threaded Comments. But, the changes are not yet live on my blog. I have done whole testing on my Local PC and the screenshot is taken from there. I need to do little bit of tinkering in CSS. By the way, if you are new to CSS then Learn CSS by reading this Book. Download It Free!

Continue reading this post, To implement Threaded Comments feature in your Wordpress theme
Before you proceed further, please make a backup of comments.php, functions.php and style.css

If you want your theme to be backward compatible (compatible with Wordpress 2.7 and older versions), then do the following:

You can skip the below steps, if you just want your theme to be compatible with Wordpress 2.7

1. Copy comments.php with a new name legacy.comments.php. This legacy.comments.php will be used, if your wordpress is older version and comments.php will be used for Wordpress 2.7.
2. Copy the below code and paste in Themes functions.php file

<?php
add_filter( 'comments_template', 'legacy_comments' );
function legacy_comments( $file ) {
	if ( !function_exists('wp_list_comments') )
		$file = TEMPLATEPATH . '/legacy.comments.php';
	return $file;
}
?>

3. Above code will check whether wp_list_comments function exists or not. If exists, it will cleverly use comments.php (which will contain Comment Threading feature) otherwise it will use legacy.comments.php which is original comments.php code that came with the theme.

JavaScript Comment Functionality

To allow full JavaScript functionality with the comment features in WordPress 2.7, the following changes must be made to header.php.

To support the new JavaScript functionality with comment threading, add the following in the header.php immediately before the call to wp_head():

if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' );

Now replace the below code in your comments.php file

<div id="comments-wrap">
<?php // Do not delete these lines
	if (!empty($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']) && 'comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
		die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');

	if ( post_password_required() ) { ?>
		<p class="nocomments">This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.</p>
	<?php
		return;
	}
?>

<!-- You can start editing here. -->
<?php // Begin Comments & Trackbacks ?>
<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
<h6 id="comments-wrap"><?php comments_number('No Comments', 'One Comments', '% Comments' );?> to &#8220;<?php the_title(); ?>&#8221;</h6>
	<div class="navigation">
		<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_comments_link() ?></div>
		<div class="alignright"><?php next_comments_link() ?></div>
	</div>
<ol class="commentlist">
	<?php wp_list_comments(); ?>
</ol>
	<div class="navigation">
		<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_comments_link() ?></div>
		<div class="alignright"><?php next_comments_link() ?></div>
</div>
<?php // End Comments ?>

 <?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>

	<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
		<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->

	 <?php else : // comments are closed ?>
		<!-- If comments are closed. -->
		<p><?php _e('Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.'); ?></p>

	<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>

<div id="respond">

<h4 class="postcomment"><?php comment_form_title( 'Leave a Reply', 'Leave a Reply to %s' ); ?></h4>

<div class="cancel-comment-reply">
	<small><?php cancel_comment_reply_link(); ?></small>
</div>

<?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
<p>You must be <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink()); ?>">logged in</a> to post a comment.</p>

<?php else : ?>

<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">

	<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>

<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(get_permalink()); ?>" title="Log out of this account">Log out &raquo;</a></p>

	<?php else : ?>

	<p>
	<input type="text" name="author" id="author" class="textarea" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="28" tabindex="1" />
	<label for="author"><?php _e('Name'); ?></label> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?>
	</p>

	<p>
	<input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="28" tabindex="2" class="textarea" />
	<label for="email"><?php _e('E-mail'); ?></label> <?php if ($req) _e('(required)'); ?>
	</p>

	<p>
	<input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="28" tabindex="3" class="textarea" />
	<label for="url"><?php _e('<acronym title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</acronym>'); ?></label>
	</p>

	<?php endif; ?>

	<p>
	<label for="comment"><?php _e('Your Comment'); ?></label>
	<br />
	<textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="60" rows="10" tabindex="4" class="textarea"></textarea>
	</p>

	<p>
	<input name="submit" id="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e('submit'); ?>" class="Cbutton" />
	<?php comment_id_fields(); ?>
	</p>
	<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
</form>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php else : // Comments are closed ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>

Most of the changes are done. If everything is done properly, you should be seeing Comment Threading appearing on the post. But, with the new code for comments in place, you need to style the comments area on the WordPress Theme with more design integration than previously.

Below is the snippet of CSS Styling that i added to current Theme’s style.css, you can refer this for your understanding and style it according to your Themes look:

.alt {margin: 0;padding: 10px;}
#comments ol {list-style-type: none;line-height: 18px;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 0px;padding-top: 0px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 10px;padding-left: 5px;}
#comments ul li {list-style-type: none;list-style-image: none;list-style-position: outside;margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-left: 5px;padding-top: 5px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left: 0pt;}
.commentlist {padding: 0;text-align: justify;}
.commentlist li {margin: 15px 0 10px;padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px;list-style: none;}
.commentlist li ul li { margin-right: -5px;margin-left: 10px;list-style: none;}
.commentlist li li {background:none;border:none;list-style:none;margin:3px 0 3px 20px;padding:3px 0;}
.commentlist li .avatar {border:1px solid #ccc;margin:15px 8px 6px 0;float: right;padding:2px;width:45px;height:45px;}
.commentlist cite, .commentlist cite a {font-weight: bold;font-style: normal;font-size: 1.1em;}
.commentlist p {font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.5em;text-transform: none; margin: 10px 5px 10px 0;}
#commentform p {font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;}
.commentmetadata {font-weight: normal; margin: 0;display: block; color: #ca5433;}
.commentmetadata a, .commentmetadata a:visited {color: #fa7703;}
.commentmetadata a:hover{ color: #333333;}
.children { padding: 0; }
.thread-alt {background-color: #f8f8f8;}
.thread-even {background-color: white;}
.depth-1 {border: 1px solid #ddd;}
.even, .alt {border-left: 1px solid #ddd;}

If you don’t follow any part of the above post or want any clarification. Please leave a comment. I would be happy to respond.

Any suggestions to improve this post are also welcome. I will change this post to make it more clear.

Hope you have implemented Comment Threading on your Wordpress Theme!!

There is a good news for all bloggers who blog on Wordpress Platform. WordPress 2.7 has finally been released!

Though there was Wordpress 2.7 Beta version was available, i didn’t upgrade my blog. I was sitting happy with Wordpress 2.6. Few hours back i upgraded my blog to Wordpress 2.7. There are lot of features that have been added. The first feature you will see as soon as you upgrade your blog is a Brand New look to your Wordpress Dashboard. I was surprised to see that the whole look of Wordpress Administration. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version.

List of Wordpress 2.7 New Features.

1. Totally customizable Dashboard and post area
2. New User interface & Layout.
3. A Sticky post feature
4. Built-in Threaded comments support (my current theme doesn’t support,but i will modify the theme to support it. Will also come with a post, so stay tuned!)
5. Automatic Wordpress Upgrade
6. Reply comments through the admin interface
7. AJAX on the administration

Check the Introduction to Wordpress 2.7 Video at Official WordPress 2.7, codenamed “Coltrane” blog.

Download Wordpress 2.7 now!!!

As i mentioned above, my current theme does not support Threaded comments. I am right now editing the current theme to get it working. Once i get it working, I will publish a post on how to edit the comments.php to get Threaded comments working. Stay tuned to get the updates or subscribe to my feed to get the latest updates from this blog).

Every day there are number of blogs coming up on the web. With this increase in number of blogs, there is also a increase in “Copy Cats” who simply copy our content without our permission and without attribution.

The question is How do you Protect your Blog content from getting copied?

Below is one of the solution.

My friend Chetan from TheChetan.com has developed his first ever Wordpress Plugin called WP-CopyProtect.

This is just a basic copy protect plug-in which stops the Copy Cat from copying the content. But, if someone want to copy your content he/she can go to source of the blog and can easily copy the stuff from there.

The plugin Disables Right Click and Disables Test Selection on a Wordpress Blog with this plugin installed!

I recommend you all to visit Chetan’s Blog and Download WP-CopyProtect Wordpress Plugin.

I am very happy to see that he has developed the plugin. It has also inspired me to create a Wordpress Plugin. I have few things in my mind. If i am free and have mood to do some coding in PHP, I will come up with my own Wordpress plugin in future.

The installation instructions and Faq’s about the plugin are there on the same above link.

Please leave your thoughts and suggestions…

Typhoon at Smart Bloggerz are holding a contest with prizes worth over $300. All you need to do to enter this Smart Bloggerz Smart Contest is simply subscribe to his feed by email and blog about this contest, You get 20 points for doing this.

I think you must have a look at the prizes which are being offered below:

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Hope you win that!

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Entrecard Prizes(Winners Of This will be chosen by me randomly)

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Additional Points:

• 5 points ~ Digg or Stumble this article.
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Deadline: Dec 25th, 2008.

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Prizes Updated:

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All the best for those who are in this contest!

On this day last year, we had started a new journey. It had not been a smooth ride from ThinkersOnMove (Blogspot blog) to NiharsWorld.com. Check this ThinkersOnMove is now NiharsWorld!

NiharsWorld turns 1!

As time passed additions and changes came in this blog. Your criticism and appreciation kept us going.

Few Facts:

1. Total number of Posts : 252
2. Total number of Comments : 1,470
3. Total number of Categories: 34
4. Busiest Day: 48,160 views on May 4, 2008
5. Busiest Month: 414,680 views in May, 2008
6. Total subscribers: 900-1000 subscribers. If you want to be one of them then go ahead and subscribe to this blog
7. NiharsWorld was reviewed recently by Lyndi. Do check out what she has to say about us here.
8. For the first six months, this blog was on CopyBlogger Wordpress theme.
9. From May 2008, it is on the current theme WP Premium Theme

To claim the gift:

• Just leave a comment with your correct email id in the Mail text box.
• I will contact you via email asking you the 125X125 image location along with your website address

Thank you for all your participation.

And lets keep rocking!

I just now visited Unofficial WP School and found out that Hack Wordpress is celebrating its first birthday. Happy Birthday to Hack Wordpress!

You can find lot of Free themes on the internet. But if you want your blog to standout and be different than you should have a premium theme. It is like having a designer dress. One more advantage with premium theme is that, they come with support so you an figure out how to use it.

As a birthday celebration Hack WordPress is will give away premium theme. Wait!. It is for only those who win the contest.

Listed below is the prize list and the sponsors. To get a chance to win all you need to do is either comment on the official contest post or blog about it with links to the contest post, and you must also list the prizes with all the links intact. For a better chance at winning, do both!

Visit Hack Wordpress now, and enter for a chance to win a premium theme! Best of luck!

• 6 Month Developer Subscription – The winner of this prize will receive a 6 month developer subscription to Woo Themes (Courtesy of the Adii and the Woo Themes team)
• 2008 Theme Club Subscription – The winner of this prize will receive a copy of all themes released by iThemes in 2008, valued at over $1400.00 (Courtesy of Cory Miller of iThemes)
• 3 Revolution Single-Use Licenses – All 3 winners will get their choice of which Revolution theme they want their license to be for. (Courtesy of Brian Gardner of Revolution Themes)
• 5 One Theme Single-Use Licenses – All 5 winners will receive a webmaster (single-use) license of the extremely popular One Theme (Courtesy of Lee Cooper and Karl Forshaw of One Theme).
• 2 Gabfire Single-Use Licenses, 2 Multiple-Use Licenses, and 2 Developer’s Licenses – Winners will have a choice of which of Mehmet’s 3 different themes you would like your license to be for. (Courtesy of Mehmet of Gabfire Themes)
• 2 TV Elements Single-Use Licenses – Winners will get a single-use copy of the extremely popular TV Elements video theme. (Courtesy of Jason of Press 75)

If you have a blog, then blog about it and leave a comment and get 4 entries or leave a comment and get 1 entry. I am keeping my fingers crossed to win a theme!

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ViralBlogAds is a new banner advertising network that has come up. It is very easy to join. It took me just 5 minutes to get registered, activated and also placed the ViralBlogAds 125X125 two ad slots on sidebar.

You can monetize your blog by placing 125X125 banner ads. Your accounts get credited when someone clicks on the ad(which is similar to google adsense or any other CPC networks).

More details about ViralBlogAds :

• Free Ad Exchange : You can add up to 3 free ads to exchange with other users
• Displays only Image Ads. Ad Size are two types: 125X125 and 468X60 (banner size)
• You get paid if someone clicks on the banner
• Once someone has signed up through your referral link, you will automatically receive 15% of their ad publishing earnings, for life
• Payout will be via PayPal

REFERRAL COMMISION – ViralBlogAds is giving each approved Publisher who refers another Publishers 15% for life of all referral earnings. It’s not just a one-time referral payment. I think you should not miss this chance. Cool!

Banner Ad exchange – This is a cool feature. You can put 3(max) banners of your sites or blogs to be displayed on another VBA Publisher sites just in case there are no available advertisers on certain slots. Also, VBA is sponsoring a Pre-Launch Contest starting September 1, 2008. All you have to do is to signup as Publisher, and achieve a click through rate of 0.2% or better, and you stand to win USD100.00 or more. Better check out the Pre-Launch Contest Information for more details.

I have configured ViralBlogAds to display two 125X125 ads on a single row.

Register for ViralBlogAds now before you are left behind and start making money from your 125×125 ad slots

I think you are in this program

You may also like to join other 125X125 Advertising network. Check this out Performancing Ads

Via – Michel Aulia – Technology and Reviews

Yahoo Buzz service by Yahoo is now open to public. It is similar to Digg. If you find a post which is interesting and want to share then just submit it. Anybody who likes it will Buzz on that post.

If you have a Yahoo account then you can start using Yahoo Buzz service.

Here is how to add Yahoo Buzz button on blog easily so that your readers can start submitting your posts on Yahoo Buzz:

1. There are lot of Yahoo Buzz submission buttons to be chosen from Yahoo Buzz Submission Buttons
   From the above link:

   Important! You must replace the word ARTICLEURL in the code with the URL of the page you want to submit to Yahoo! Buzz.

   If you own a WordPress blog like my blog, Just replace the ARTICLEURL with:

   <?php the_permalink(); ?>

   It’s a built-in WordPress function to print out the permalink URL of the current post. Simply put the modified Yahoo Buzz button code on your Single Post theme file (single.php)

2. Use a third party plug-in/widget.
   If you are a WordPress user, there is a wordpress plugin called “Add to Any” that has already included Yahoo Buzz on the bookmark list (I’m will start using it). For other platforms such as Blogger, Typepad, etc, you can check it out yourself on Add to Any site.

If you found this post useful or any other post on my blog, consider trying to “Buzz” the post to share it to other fellow bloggers.

Will you put this on your blog ??

Thanks to Mike

Technorati Tags: yahoo buzz, digg, add yahoo buzz button

I know lot of bloggers like me and website owners are concerned about one thing that is…

Is the website compatible on different browsers?

Whenever a webmaster changes the website design or theme or tinker with CSS code. The only question that comes to the mind is the above question.

There are lot of browsers and every one uses the browser they like. As a webmaster, you don’t want the visitor to see a crappy web design. You want to make sure that your website or blog layout is consistent on all browsers.

I found one website BrowserShots.

Using this website you can type in your website url and select any browser of your choice to check how your website design looks.

It is a very useful tool to check and make sure that your website is consistent in most of the popular browsers.

How it works?

1. Type in your website url
2. Select the browsers for which you want to check (i selected firefox 3, IE 7.0 and Opera 9.51
3. It will prepare the screenshot (note: takes some time to generate the screenshots)

You are almost done. After the screenshots are generated you will know if your website design or layout is breaking in any browser or not?

If your website layout is breaking then try to find out the problem and fix it.

I have tested my website on firefox, IE and opera…

Hope you found this post helpful. If you have any suggestions or feedback. Drop in a comment.

Test your website now BrowserShots

Technorati Tags: Website compatibility, blog layout compatibility, Test your website

I am a regular visitor of Problogger and I found out a new Advertising Network called Performancing Ads. Many bloggers have started enrolling in that network. I also joined there. You know what! I got two 125X125 ad spots booked and are right now served on the right sidebar . The third spot is waiting to be booked!!!. It took just 1 or 2 days to get an advertiser using this network.

Something about Performancing Ads. It is ad marketplace. You can join as a publisher or advertiser based on your need. I joined as a publisher. For publishers, you create a region and put the ad slots on your blog and and advertisers go through the marketplace and purchase those spots. The price ads should be setup by you. The price you set is for per week (for ex: I have setup 8$/week). You earn 60% of the price and 40% goes to PerformanceAds. If you’re a “good publisher” by their metrics, then you can claim as high as 90% of the ad price. Ads are booked by the week and payments are transferred through PayPal.

According to Performance Ads, it is designed to sell only 125×125 ads. But they say:

If you are a publisher whose website receives over 250,000 US pageviews per month PerformancingAds may be able to offer you direct ad sales representation for your 728×90, 300×250 and 160×600 ad spots.

We have established relationships with brand advertisers and are able to leverage our network of sites to get high-value ad deals. If you’d like us to help sell ads on your site, a

I found PeformancingAds to be a great place to advertise. If your blog is performing well, then you will definitely do well. I was able to get a booking under 24 hours from being accepted in.

It has a affiliates/referral program too. So, if you are thinking of joining, I request you to join by clicking the below link or banner from this post.

I would also like your feedback on Performancing Ads. How is it performing for you?

Technorati Tags: performancing ads, direct private advertising, 125X125 ad spots

This blog is PR 3 !

I started blogging from December 2007. In January 2008, NiharsWorld got PageRank 2. From then it is the same. Now this blog has a PageRank of 3. I am happy that the pagerank has improved but my expectation was PageRank 4.

Thanks to all readers of this blog. A special thanks to all who have linked to my blog.

I hope that all blog owners have also got good PageRanks.

Hope to publish more and more interesting posts in future!!!

Till then, Happy Blogging!

Let me know what is your PageRank?

Technorati Tags: pagerank, google pagerank, niharsworld

Wordpress 2.6 is out !!

Wordpress 2.6 Final is released!

This release has fixed lot of bugs and has come up with a lot of new and good features. If you are using Wordpress, i advice you to upgrade it to Wordpress 2.6 now.

Here are the few features that i immediately noticed after i upgraded wordpress to 2.6 version:

• Theme preview — Theme preview functionality would allow you to see what a new theme would look like on your blog before you activate it.
• WordPress Auto-Upgrade — There’s been some early progress on incorporating auto-upgrade for WordPress itself into version 2.6.
• Google Gears support — Now integrated into the WordPress, this feature will allow Google Gears users to experience a faster admin interface, and possibly manage their WordPress blogs while offline (how cool would that be).
• Plug-in page — You can see a bubble on the top of Plug-ins link. It lets you know the number of plug-in updates available without actually going to the page.
  

  Bubbles on top of Plug-ins

• Identicons — In WordPress 2.6 you’ll have the ability to select a default Gravatar for those who don’t have one.
• Post Revisions — Wiki-style revisions management for blog posts: a cool new power-feature, just announced on the WordPress Development Updates blog.
• Image Captioning — As pointed out by Michael, The WordPress image on the top left of this post has an image caption, a built-in feature from the going-to-be-final-WordPress 2.6!

There are many more features.

To implement image captioning, you need to add the Image Captioning CSS style code to your current theme stylesheet.

Just copy paste this Image Captioning CSS style to the bottom of your theme’s CSS:

[lang='css']/* Captions & alignment */
.aligncenter, div.aligncenter {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.alignleft {
float: left;
}

.alignright {
float: right;
}

.wp-caption {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
text-align: center;
background-color: #f3f3f3;
padding-top: 4px;
margin: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
-khtml-border-radius: 3px;
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
}

.wp-caption img {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0 none;
}

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
padding: 0 4px 5px;
margin: 0;
}
/* End captions & alignment */[/lang]

What are you waiting for ? Download WordPress 2.6 it now !

Technorati Tags: wordpress 2.6 review, wordpress 2.6, wordpress 2.6 features, Identicons, Google Gears support, WordPress Auto-Upgrade, Theme Preview

Lot of webmasters are very much interested to get a page rank(PR) for their website(if they don’t have PR) or want to increase their page rank(if they have already have).

NiharsWorld has page rank 2 from February 2008 and has not increased till now

I came to know from a friend Hitesh that there are some sites out there which actually analyse the website you input and can give possible page rank that you may get in future.

Sounds very interesting!!!

I am not sure how much of this is true. But if this is,then i am excited.

Below is my Future PR:

I found the above page rank of my site from first site from the following sites listed:

• Page Rank Predict
• IWebTool PageRank Predict
• Predict Page Rank

You can find your current page rank using this link

Some more information on Page Rank :

Page Rank (or PR) is a tool using which a webpage is assigned a particular weightage. The weightage or the rank assigned is done using an algorithm that is based on link assessment. The link assessment algorithm is a smart algorithm that checks the key word density and the cohesiveness of the data carried by a web page. Each web page is reached using a link, and the link assessment algorithm assesses the presence of keywords that a particular hyperlink points at.

The numeric weightage that a web page receives is represented as page rank of the element and is abbreviated as PRE. The concept of Page rank was introduced by google and is a very efficient way of determining the factual data a page carries.

The page rank prediction tool or the predict pagerank tool is another smart program that can provide a rough estimate of the page rank that a web page can actually reach. The page rank predictor can be used to judge the cohesiveness of the data and actually foresee the standings and ranking a web page is capable of reaching.

Future PR of a web page can be known by providing the uniform resource locator better known as URL, in the predict page rank tool. These tools are mostly available online and have a potential of precisely determining the page rank that a particular web link can reach.

Page rank predictor tool is mostly used by the search engine optimizers to get an idea of the future ranking of their web page. By getting the future rankings of a web page the SEO can manipulate and re arrange the data and the back links present in a web site, so that the ranking is further improved. To predict page rank, the page rank prediction tool works as really smart way to ameliorate the page ranking of any web page.

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