Rabu, 01 April 2009

Instant WordPress Theme Creator

Ever wanted to make your own WordPress theme but you don’t know how to program? Well, you’re in luck! There’s a really cool WordPress Theme Generator where you can select how many columns you want, color scheme, text scheme, menu type, tag cloud, and more — all with just selecting a few drop downs.

Once you’ve decided on the layout and are ready to create your new blog template, just click the “save” button and you’ll get a link to download the zipped files. You don’t need any knowledge of HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS and just need to be able to unzip and upload files.

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This generator is great for creating basic WordPress themes if you’re new to blogging or want a good framework to build on top of. There are only a few images which get created so you’ll likely want to spice up your blog (especially your header) with some cool graphics. You might want to read our post on “How to Easily Create Make Your Own Web 2.0 Blog Logo” and instantly add flare to your new WordPress theme.

Author: David


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How To Easily Make Your Own Web 2.0 Blog Logo

It’s a question I get asked quite often and I figured it’s easier just to write a post about it. Many people who download Blogger templates or WordPress themes from our site would like to replace the default header image with one more personal and professional-looking. Some templates come with header logo or some with just plain text so it would be nice if you could spice up your blog with a cool Web 2.0 logo wouldn’t it?

There are a couple great free sites out there that allow you to instantly create a Web 2.0 header logo for your website. You don’t need any photo editing software experience or technical knowledge — just type in the text you want, select the style, font size, color, etc and voila — you’ve got a brand new Web 2.0 logo!

Two of the free sites I would recommend are http://cooltext.com and http://web2.0stylr.com which is actually how I first created the logo for this site. Here’s one I recently built in less than two shakes of a lambs tail.

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Free Live Blog Traffic Widget

Ever want to know things like who’s visited your web site, where they came from, and what they’re reading? Well, now you can with this cool free blog widget by FEEDJIT. They provide a simple page where you select one of four widgets which are: live traffic feed, live traffic map, live recommended reading, or live page popularity.

Here are my two favorites which will fit nicely in your blog’s sidebar.

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It couldn’t be any easier for Blogger users to install. Just click on the “Add It” link and a Blogger icon will appear. Click on that and it will take you to your Blogger site asking to install the widget. Same goes for Typepad users. WordPress or other web site owners will need to copy the small bit of javascript and paste it somewhere on your site.

Having this widget on your blog makes it fun to look at your site each day and see who’s recently stopped by. Knowing that people from all over the world actually read some of your content is pretty rewarding. Also knowing what sites they came from provides some good data especially if you don’t have any blog analytics like Google Analytics running on your site.

Go and get your free FEEDJIT blog widget and get a better idea of who’s coming to your blog!

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Free Blogger Training Videos

Using Blogger can be confusing especially with the limited documentation available by Google. If you’re like me, you prefer visual tutorials vs the traditional documentation method which makes learning more enjoyable and interactive.

There’s a website called Recognized Expert which provides over 7 hours of free Blogger training videos covering the basics and also some more advanced techniques. It’s a very helpful way for those of you who are beginners looking to better understand how Blogger works.



The content is created by two brothers by the names of Bob and Josh Sommers who do a great job explaining Blogger step-by-step. I highly recommend you checking out their collection of videos as I’m sure you’ll learn something new just by watching a couple of them. Here’s the high-level list of the videos available on their site:

* Getting Started with Blogger
* Navigating Blogger
* Text and Links
* Uploading Images to Blogger
* Video In Blogger
* Post Options
* Managing Posts
* Page Elements
* Post Options
* Gmail Account
* Uploading Audio
* Working With Your Template
* Blog Settings - Basic
* Blog Settings - Publishing
* Blog Settings - Formatting
* Blog Settings - Comments
* Blog Settings - Archiving
* Blog Settings - Site Feed
* Blog Settings - Email
* Blog Settings - Permissions
* Google Gadgets
* Slideshows
* Credit Cards and PayPal
* Converting Your Blog Into A Website

Let me know what you think and if these videos are helpful for Bloggers of all levels. It’s really great of the Sommers brothers to provide all this content for free! Watch the videos now.

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Selasa, 31 Maret 2009

Statistik gratis untuk web atau blog anda

Statistik web/blog merupakan hal penting yang tidak bisa ditinggalkan begitu saja, meski bukan fasilitas wajib, tetapi hampir semua web/blog populer pasti mempunyai statistik pengunjungnya, baik ditampilkan maupun tidak. Saat ini begitu banyak yang menawarkan fasilitas statistik gratis untuk web/blog kita.

Berikut beberapa layanan web statistik gratis yang sebagian sudah pernah saya coba. Disini tidak akan dibahas detail fasilitas yang diberikan, terutama fasilitas umum, seperti Unique Visitor, Visits, PageViews, dan lainnya, tetapi sedikit memberikan gambaran umum atau nilai plus/minus yang bisa di amati.
Google Analytics

Mungkin fasilitas gratis yang diberikan google ini bisa dikatakan yang terlengkap dari yang lainnya. Selain berbagai fasilitas standard yang disertai dengan tampilan grafik, export ke pdf, csv, xml dan lainnya, disertakan pula fasilitas hasil pencarian dari google yang masuk ke web kita. Dibandingkan dengan yang lainnya, Google Analytics memberikan detail yang lebih banyak.
Hanya saja hasil yang ditampilkan hanya bisa dilihat oleh pemilik account itu sendiri, belum bisa di set sebagai public. Selain itu, detail statistik dan fasilitas lengkapnya terkadang harus dibayar dengan beban loading yang agak berat.


Sitemeter

Sitemeter memberikan statistik standard, hanya saja untuk versi gratis, tidak diberikan statistik unique visit dan pageviews. Statistik bisa di set public ( semua orang bisa melihat ) maupun private. Meskipun fasilitas standard, tetapi proses loading dapat dikatakan cukup cepat, sehingga tidak perlu khawatir membebani proses loading web kita.

Tampilan grafik yang diberikan sederhana, tidak ada fasilitas melihat trafik untuk tanggal tertentu, hanya disediakan hari ini, 7 hari, 30 hari dan 12 bulan sebelumnya. Dan sepertinya untuk statistik pagevies lebih kecil dibandingkan layanan lainnya.


HiStats

Ini yang baru saja saya ikut daftar. Baru beberapa hari ikut, langsung tertarik. Fasilitas standard yang diberikan ditampilkan cukup menarik, hampir semua dengan grafik dan ditampilkan secara dinamis. Misalnya ketika cursor kita arahkan di salah satu grafik maka akan ditampilkan detailnya. Seperti Google analytics, disertai perkiraan jam dan hari ini.



Selain itu, statistik bisa di set publik, private dan bahkan tidak menampilkan logo/icon statistik di web kita alias hidden. Kita juga dapat memilih alternatif puluhan icon/gambar yang akan ditampilkan di web/blog kita. Dibandingkan sitemeter, HiStats lebih lengkap dengan tampilan yang lebih menarik.


Motigo webstat

Pertama kali yang saya gunakan adalah motigo webstat, yang sebelumnya namanya bukan motigo. Hasil yang diberikan cukup minim, tetapi disana diberikan rangking berdasarkan pengunjung web/blog, baik total maupun per negara, termasuk Indonesia.

Awalnya tidak ada masalah, tetapi mulai curiga ketika banyak keluhan bahwa web ini sering muncul popup besar (iklan) yang cukup menganggu. Ternyata setelah di cek kode yang di load, iklan tersebut asalnya dari motigo webstat. Kode yang dipasang memanggil kode javascript dan kode tersebut memanggil kode-kode javascript lainnya yang salah satunya berisi iklan tersebut. Sejak itu saya tidak memasang lagi statistik motigo.


ExtremeTracking

Sampai saat ini, pendaftaran untuk wilayah Indonesia sudah di tutup. Ketika saya ingin mencoba mendaftar, ternyata sudah tidak dibuka untuk account free. Tetapi sempat melihat beberapa statistik web yang menggunakannya. Hasil statistik ini bisa di set public, sehingga setiap pengunjung bisa melihatnya.

ExtremeTracking memberikan fasilitas standard statistik web, Fasilitas tambahan sepertinya hanya statistik referral dari usenet, email atau hardisk.


StatCounter

StatCounter menyediakan fasilitas Invisible Counter, selain fasilitas standard web statistik, statCounter juga memberikan fasilitas tambahan lainnya misalnya : Keyword Analysis, Recent Keyword Activity, Search Engine Wars, Visitor Paths, Recent Pageload Activity, Recent Visitor Activity, Email Reports, User Access Management, Public Stats dan lainnya.

Sayangnya jika web/blog kita setiap hari sudah mencapai 9000 pageview atau lebih, maka harus upgrage ke versi yang berbayar. Tapi jika masih kurang dari itu, statCounter masih tetap gratis.


Clicky

Clicky mengusung nama Web Analytics 2.0, dengan tampilan yang khas. Di perbandingan yang ditampilkan, Clicky menampilkan beberapa keunggulan dibanding Google analytics. Misalnya Developer API, See every action by every visitor, Visitor organizations (e.g. Microsoft Corp), Widgets of Mass Deliciousness untuk dipasang di web site, stats via RSS feeds dan lainnya. Yang menarik adalah fasilitas Statistik Real Time (Spy), jadi setiap satu atau dua detik bisa dilihat statistik pengunjung web kita.
Clicky tidak sepenuhnya free, fasilitas sepenuhnya (pro) bisa didapatkan selama 21 hari, setelah itu tinggal memilih versi gratis (yang terbatas fasilitasnya) atau versi pro dengan membayar. Sampai saat ini Clicky belum bisa menerima web site yang dalam sehari punya lebih dari 100,000 page views.



Piwik

Piwik merupakan Open source web analytics. Tujuannya menjadi alternatif dari Google analytics. Berbeda dengan web statistics lainnya, Piwik dibuat berdasarkan plugins, sehingga kita bisa menambah atau menghilangkan fasilitas yang tidak diinginkan. selain itu, kita sendiri yang memiliki data, dan bisa diolah datanya menggunakan Open API. User Interface juga dapat di custo


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Add Favicon - Widget For Blogger

Favicon is known as favorite icon for a your blog or site. Adding a Favicon to your blog is a good way to distinguish your blog from the millions of other blogs.
Below is Screen Shot of my Favicon so that you can know what Favicon exactly is :-



Ok now you what Favicon is now let see how to add it into your Blog or site. I have seen many procedures of adding Favicon. I will tell you the simplest method to add it
Here we go...

Step 1> step 1 is choosing you Favicon it may be in any format like JPG,JPEG,PNG Etc. Just save that Image which you like into your hard drive.
If you have problem in finding Favicon then simply go to google images and type the keywords like Favicon or icon or anything you want as Favicon (Be Creative).After saving your image file into your hard drive go to step 2

Step 2> Now you need to create the .ico file of that image file which you saved into your hard drive. For making .ico file of any image file i use Html-Kit.com. After opening there site you just need to upload you image file there and they convert you image file into .ico format then you just need to download it and step 2 is Done !

Step 3> Now time to upload your .ico file to any hoster like Google pages. After uploading your .ico file get the path of that image file - http://Bloggingforbread.googlepages.com/favicon.ico now after getting the path move to Step 4

Step 4> Now login to your blog and go to the Edit Html tab from Template. Then paste the following code below

Before pasting this code to your blog's Html just exchange both the line - http://youraccount.googlepages.com/myicon.ico
with your .ico files path

That's It you are Done !

If you have any type of problem adding Favicon to your Blog fell free to ask here by commenting.

Happy Blogging And Good Lucky !!

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Disable Right Click on Blog - A Blogger Hack

I know many Blogger don't like to get there unique content copied by any other blogger.
SO now don't worry about getting your content copied here is a solution.
By this Hack users of your blog cannot right click on your blog and your content remains safe :)

This widget is very simple to install into your blog
Following are the steps

Step 1 > Go to Template -> Page Elements.
Step 2 > Add a Page Element -> then Add a HTML
Step 3 > Now just copy and save the following code into Html and you are done !




Enjoy this hack !!!

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