WordPress Blog

Upgrading your Wordpress blog to the latest version (2.5.1 at the time of this posting) is usually a breeze:

1. make a backup copy of your blog database should something unexpected happen.
2. download the zip folder containing the latest version of wordpress (i.e wordpress 2.5.1) from http://wordpress.org/
3. extract the content of that folder somewhere in your computer
4. use an FTP program or Dreamweaver to upload all the newly downloaded wordpress files except the wp-content ( and whatever is inside the wp-content folder)
5. execute the upgrade program by entering http://www.your-blog-address/wp-admin/upgrade.php in your web browser’s address bar.
   http://www.your-blog-address is whatever your blog address is. For instance our blog web site address is http://www.saheltech.com/blog
6. follow the step-by-step instructions displayed on your screen.

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The WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.3.1 in the WordPress 2.2.1 admin panel makes the file upload functionality to go awol. This plugin would allow the blog author to automatically send notification to the blog subscribers about updates and new posts in the blog.

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I thought I needed to write this small visitors counter in PHP to display the total number of visitors in your web site. This counter is written in PHP therefore your web hosting account must have PHP enabled in order for the counter to work.

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I just had a pleasant surprise this morning while surfing one of the e-commerce web sites I am in charge of maintaining and search engines marketing: the google PageRank of most of the web pages has skyrocketed from 0 to 3.
For over a year or more, only the home page had a Google Pagerank 3. All the catalog and the individual product pages still had a PR 0.

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When editing text within Dreamweaver, web site owners are often discover a very the large gap between lines after pressing the Enter on the Keyboard.
That keystroke is interpreted by Dreamweaver as the end of the previous paragraph and the opening of a new one. Depending on the web browser you are previewing the current page with a gap of 20 to 30 pixels appears between the two lines of text.

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In its default settings, Dreamweaver will not allow you to put several blank spaces in a row when editing text in your web page.
In order to correct this situation and make your page update as easy as in a word processor you need to modify your Dreamweaver software preferences.

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CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets.

Typically a Style Sheet is a plain text document with a set of instructions (CSS styles, rules) specifying how each element (selectors) in your web page should be appear in a computer screen or even how it is printed on a sheet of paper.

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Javascript is a programming language just as any other computer programming language.
However it is very popular and useful in web site design as it allow some kind of interaction between the web page and the web site visitor.

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How to make the vertical navigation column expands through the entire height of the web page with CSS. That’s question often asked time and time again on various forums.

While this can be easily achieved with table-based web page layout, it can be tricky when using CSS instead. As a matter of fact maintaining columns of same height when one of them is expanding vertically is quite a bit of a challenge in CSS without the use of javascript.

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The power of CSS, besides giving the web desigers more control over the web pages layout is also the separation between the page content and its presentation.

Linking your web pages to an external CSS file makes the HTML code cleaner, creates a more consistent look throughout your web site and updating your web pages layout much much easire: modify your CSS files then all your web pages follow the new CSS rules in a snap.

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