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People have being looking for a toolbar for Chrome browser to display the famous Google PageRank bar of the web page currently visited web page.
Well there isn’t one, unless somebody can tell me otherwise.

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In a forum where I am an active member, I recently offered a quick solution to create a password protected page where the visitor does not need to register in order to access the page information. The server-side code of page in question is written in PHP but one can use any other language to get the same results. Keep reading »

Email communication is without any doubt one of the most important traffic on the internet. The very first thing most of us do in the morning after “booting up” the computer is to log into our email account to read our email mail while sipping some coffee (or tea for the rest of us).

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I receive an email this morning from a client I just provided Dreamweaver Training to.
Here it is:

A quick question for you…I’m wondering about the differences between using tables, layers, and floating divs (is that what you call what we used yesterday with CSS?) When would someone want to use one vs. the others? Layers seem to be the easiest way to create your layout the way you want it, but I’m wondering what the drawbacks are to that? Also wondering how you might combine two or more methods to create your layout?

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Google the web search giant has just released its very own web browser named Google Chrome. 
Although Google Chrome is still in Beta stage, I am really delighted by the test drive I gave it today. 
You can download it from http://www.google.com/chrome 
The  installation process of google chrome is simple and fast. Only make sure your firewall allows the installer to connect to the web to download the files needed.

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The Popularity Constest Plugin written by Alex King adds functionality to your Wordpress blog: it displays a list the most popular posts in your blog’ sidebar based on the post / category / archive views, comments made by visitors, trackbacks,…

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- New admin panel since Wordpress 2.5 is more visually appealing with a light blue color but I am a little bias here since that color is almost the same as my web site’s
- The visual editor has media section with icons to add “image”, “video”, “audio” or any other “media”.

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The WordPress Featured Video Plugin is a very useful and powerful feature to add in your wordpress blog.
* It  reads and displays a video in your wordpress blog post.
* All you need is tag the video HTML code as follows:
[youtube:url to your video] (e.g. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE]) or taggged [googlevideo:url] (e.g. [googlevideo:http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=8577255250907450469])

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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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