Sandeep Hegde

Cheapest Domain Name Registration Service

// March 8th, 2010 // View Comments // Web World

IT is a world of computers and internet. World Wide Web has become common and reachable to everyone. The internet user can avail information on any subject desired. While you are sitting on your computer, you get connected to the rest of the world in fraction of seconds. You can order or shop anything online. So, you can say that the whole world has come to the screen of your computer on the click of a mouse.

A domain name is like a brand name for your site. Domain name registration is a necessary, easy & important first step in establishing an web site. When registering a domain name, we can choose from a lot of registrars. Registrars is the middlemen who interact with registries on behalf of registrants. The domain name will usually cost you around $10 (Rs.500). The prices vary from registrar to registrar.

My company dotCORD also provides domain name registration and web hosting services at dotcord.net. As an special promo we shall provide the cheapest domain name registration service available online. We are providing .com domains for just Rs.299 and .in domains for just Rs. 199 ! our domain registration  prices are the cheapest on the internet.

The Cheapest domain name pricing offered by dotCORD:

.COM – Rs.299

.IN – Rs.199

.CO.IN – Rs.199

.MOBI – Rs. 399

.INFO – Rs. 299

For more details about pricing visit www.dotcord.net

Top 10 reasons to buy domain names with dotCORD !

1. Cheapest Domain Name Registration

Save more than 40% of the actual cost. No hidden charges ! No commitments to buy other products !

2. Various tlds available

We offer domain name registration in various tlds of your choice. You could buy .com, .in, .mobi etc.We also provide an name suggestion tool to simplify your task of finding a good domain name.

To get the complete list of tlds visit : www.dotcord.net

3. Multiple Payment Options

We understand different people wish to choose different payment methods. Don’t worry if you don’t have credit card, you could pay us offline too. You can choose one of the following options to pay:

• PayPal
• Online Banking
• DD
• Cheque
• Direct deposit into our bank account
• Western Union Money Transfer
• Cash !

4. Local & Global Support

All our services are available globally. We are based in Belgaum, India. Indian’s have an advantage of getting local support. No more international call and wait times ! You could reach us on our number with minimal expenditures. We are also there to help you even in Hindi!

We are also provide support through social media sites. Yes now you can chat with us right from your Facebook account

Twitter : http://twitter.com/dotcord

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dotcord

5.Privacy protection

Protect the information that you display in the WHOIS details of your Domain Name with Privacy Protection. Although most providers charge anywhere between $6 – $14 for this service, we offer you Privacy Protection absolutely FREE of cost! You can safeguard your personal information from spammers, data harvesters, etc. ensuring that your WHOIS information is never misused.

6. Domain Theft Protection

Domain Theft Protection is a security service offered to provide an additional layer of security to Domains. This FREE service allows you to lock your Domain Names, guarding them against unauthorized Transfers.

7. Free DNS service

Any product you buy from us, comes with complete control to manage the DNS records for the associated domain, absolutely FREE of cost! Plus, our FREE DNS service is hosted on globally distributed and highly redundant infrastructure making it one of the most reliable in the industry. Manage SOA, A, AAAA, MX, CNAME, SRV and NS records – with all updates reflecting instantaneously.

8. Free Domain forwarding

• Blazing fast performance – Nothing beats the request serving speed of our domain forwarding service.
• Hide the destination URL – You can hide the destination URL in any domain forwarding order by enabling URL Masking. That way any long destination URLs remain hidden from the surfer and your brand identity remains consistent.
• Wild carded Sub-domain Forwarding and Path Forwarding – You can setup wild carded forwarding such that each sub domain (eg http://jobs.yourdomain.com) forwards to independent destinations automatically. Also you can enable path information to be replicated in the destination URL such that http://www.yourdomain.com/path1/path2 gets forwarded to http://destinationURL/path1/path2
• Search Engine Optimization and backward compatibility – You can set the <HEAD> tag content, in order to provide <META> tags and <TITLES> for search engine optimization. You can also set the <NOFRAMES> tag content for compatibility with browsers that do not support frames.

9. Free Mail Forwarding

Make your Email Addresses look professional with mail@yourdomain.com  Accept and forward mails sent to your Domain Name to a free email service like gmail/hotmail using this handy Free Service.

• Unlimited Mail Forwards: You can add unlimited mail forwards each forwarding to a different address
• Catch-All Accounts: Create a catch-all account and forward all mails sent to your Domain Name to a single email address

10. Easy-to-use Control Panel

Any Domain owner knows that Domain Names need to be managed on a continuous basis, which makes a simple and effective Control Panel absolutely essential. The Control Panel that we offer Free of cost, make changing contact information, modifying name servers, renewing the Domain Name, etc. extremely easy.

This offer will be available only upto 30th March. So hurry up and register your domain names now !

Buzz, Buzz – Google Buzz

// February 12th, 2010 // View Comments // Web World

The latest Buzz around the internet is all about Google’s latest product “ Google Buzz”

“Google Buzz is easily the company’s boldest attempt yet to build a social network. Imagine taking elements of facebook, Twitter, Yammer, Foursquare, Yelp, and other social services, and shoving them together into one package. Now imagine covering that package in a layer that looks a lot like FriendFeed. Now imagine shoving that package inside of Gmail. That’s Buzz. If Google Wave is the future, Google Buzz is the present.”

Google Buzz is a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting. It’s built right into Gmail, so you don’t have to peck out an entirely new set of friends from scratch — it just works. If you think about it, there’s always been a big social network underlying Gmail. Buzz brings this network to the surface by automatically setting you up to follow the people you email and chat with the most. Google focused on building an easy-to-use sharing experience that richly integrates photos, videos and links, and makes it easy to share publicly or privately (so you don’t have to use different tools to share with different audiences). Plus, Buzz integrates tightly with your existing Gmail inbox, so you’re sure to see the stuff that matters most as it happens in real time.

Google Buzz will also be available to businesses and schools using Google Apps, with added features for sharing within organizations.

On your phone, Google Buzz is much more than just a small screen version of the desktop experience. Mobile devices add an important component to sharing: location. Posts tagged with geographical information have an extra dimension of context — the answer to the question “where were you when you shared this?” can communicate so much. And when viewed in aggregate, the posts about a particular location can paint an extremely rich picture of that place.

If you like this article do follow me Google Buzz at http://www.google.com/profiles/sandeephegde88. Also don’t forget to Buzz this article

Build social networks with Tuiyo

// February 2nd, 2010 // View Comments // Joomla

Tuiyo is  a powerful Joomla!™ component, combining a set of useful applications, for ultimate Social interaction.

Tuiyo™ is a social networking component for Joomla!, comprising of all the main features you’d expect of a social network, including extensive user management tools, user profiles, user relationship management and idea sharing. All these and lots more, provide your site members useful tools for better interaction

1. Tuiyo™ is built on PHP5 and MySQL, and primarily as a component for Joomla!™ CMS. Tuiyo team hopes to integrate other content management systems in the nearest future.
2. Joomla!™ is a free open source framework and content publishing system designed for quickly creating highly interactive multi-language Web sites, online communities, media portals, blogs and e Commerce applications.

More about Tuiyo™

As described, Tuiyo™ is a complete social networking solution! The name Tu-i-yo is a mix of traditional Spanish, Catalan and cool-ness, i.e “Tu i jo”, in Catalan meaning “you and me”, However for many obvious reasons(including phonetics) Tu-i-yo was selected as final. As per its name, Tuiyo™ is not just another component for Joomla! but written from the ground up to ensure, the complete benefits of the Joomla! 1.5 framework, including adjustments for a complete search engine optimization, localization, and powerful user management features.

Feature Overview

1. Requires Joomla!™ 1.5.10+
2. Built with PHP5 and MySQL 4 (or any other DBMS supported by Joomla). There are no specific added requirements of your Joomla site to allow you run Tuiyo. However the most important requirements are listed below
   1. Joomla as well as Tuiyo, are built and tested primarily on Apache servers configured as described below. As such we cannot guarantee the behavior of your install on other server configurations.
   2. Preferentially, your server should be running PHP versions greater than 5.2.0, together with specific modules that are required by PHP for MySQL, XML, ZLib, JSON functionality.
3. User Resource/Files/Uploads management. With Tuiyo there is a centralized user resource management for all user uploads to the site

   

   

4. Photos gallery

   

   

5. Comprehensive user management. Tuiyo provides additional set of tools to allow for a comprehensive, yet simplified approach to user management from both the back-end and front-end of your community site.

   

   1. Back-end user management tools, include the ability to import user data, including profiles, from other Joomla sites running Tuiyo, or any other component, capable of generating a compatible comma separated values file.

      

   2. Tuiyo, unlike its predecessors, now handles a simplified user registration and authentication system, and provides for a straight forward user moderation, including blocking, suspension, and deletion of profiles.

      

   3. Tuiyo also extends its flexibility to the front-end, providing secured user profile, allowing your site users to share a little bit more about themselves. Unlike most user and community management systems, Tuiyo aims at captivating the creativity of your users, from their profile design to the ideas and social content they share on your site, hence an ultimate experience, that will surely increase your sites activity rate

   

6. User Activity stream (Timeline). Love Twitter? Plurk, or Friendfeed? Now you could take your love for these social networks a little further by hosting your own. With Tuiyo, user activity is aggregated into a central, though ‘digestible’ feed, allowing your site users to subscribe to specific elements of the feed, such as friends status update, profile activity, group activity and activity from third party profile applications.

   

7. Robust privacy settings

   

8. User Groups and Relationship management

   

   

9. Intergrated Joomla search
10. Multiple Languanges.

Building Communities with Tuiyo

Building a unique website with tuiyo combines your creativity with the inbuilt versatility of tuiyo, to give your site users an unforgettable experience. This application repository provides you with not only Tuiyo applications, but everything from Joomla! templates, to plugins, widgets, styles and languages to make your community truly unique!

• Profile Applications

The Tuiyo ™ component for Joomla!™ is highly extensible by the use of applications. Applications ranging from simple profile extenders, external profile integration, music players, and even more social ones for sending and receiving gifts, kisses and hugs. Browse through the available applications developed by the Tuiyo team, or external developers.

• Profile Styles

Profile styles are a unique way to guarantee the uniqueness of your user profiles. Though Tuiyo™ provides a highly customizable interface for users to style their profile, You could simplify this task by using pre-sets.

Widgets, Plug-ins and back-end ‘auto-run’ scripts

Plug-ins range from profile enhancers, external mail collectors, to stream commands for sending direct messages, setting reminds, creating groups and events right from the status update box. For information on building your own extensions, please visit the documentation site. This repository, list the available extension from which you could build yours

So how much does all this cost?

Tuiyo™ is released under the terms of the GNU/GPL v2.1. It is free to use , modify and distribute under the open source ideology.

For more Information visit Official Tuiyo Website http://www.tuiyo.co.uk

Website in 10 Minutes

// January 21st, 2010 // View Comments // Wordpress

Yes it’s possible! You can build rock solid, dynamic websites within few minutes! All credit goes to the open source software’s like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and others. But unfortunately not many people know about this. I have been conducting many seminars, workshops to create awareness that web development is not a rocket science and can be done even by a common man. “Website in 10 Minutes” campaign has been quite successful in this regards.

Now it is the time to take this campaign to next level. My motto is “Every Computer Educated Indian should have a website”. For this I’m expanding my horizons to organize training programs in any corner of the country. The only thing I’m expecting is someone to invite me and take care of the organization of the session. To provide an overview of the possibilities, here are some ways:

· Website in 10 minutes

This shall involve a live demo wherein I shall demonstrate building a Website in 10 minute using Wordpress. The session will provide an overview of Wordpress with themes and plugins with an overview of open source. The ideal time for the session is 1 hour which involves 30 minutes of interactive talk & demonstration and another 30 minutes for solving the queries of the audience.

· Half day workshop

This workshop will be around 3hours. The participants will have hands on experience, as I make them create their own website in the workshop. Each candidate should have an system or laptop to work along with me. The workshop shall cover the following topics

· Introduction

· Setting up Apache, MySql & PHP (using XAMPP or WAMP server)

· Wordpress Installation

· Using Wordpress

· Theming

· Plugins

· Widgets

· Full day workshop

This workshop will be of around 5 to hours. By the end of the workshop the participant shall have his/her website accessible online! This workshop shall also cover the search engine optimization basics and tips to market and monetize the website. The topics covered will be :

·       Introduction

·       Hosting & Domains

·       Wordpress Installation

·       Using Wordpress

·       Theming

·       Plugins

·       Widgets

·       Using Analytics

·       S.E.O.

·       Promoting the site.

·       Monetizing the site

The above three are just an overview of what can be done. I’m flexible to tune the training program as per to your needs.

Terms and Conditions:

· Atleast 30 participants should be there for a session.

· The session should be planned well in advance with proper organization.

· Projector, Internet facility and other requirements has to be taken care by organizers.

· My Travel, Stay and other expenditure has to be taken care by the organizers.

· Optionally Domain Name Registration & Quality Web Hosting is available for nominal charges.

Who can organize?

· A group of individuals

· Academic Institutions

· Training Centers

· Clubs & Associations

· Companies

· Non Profits Organization

· Basically Anyone

How to contact me?

All initial communications has to be made through email only. You can send me an email at contact@sandeephegde.me with subject as “Request for Wordpress Training”.

If you have any queries/suggestions please comment them below.

Basics of Search Engine Optimization

// January 13th, 2010 // View Comments // S.E.O.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results as opposed to search engine marketing (SEM) which deals with paid inclusion. Typically, the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine.

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

Here is an overview of few basics to be considered for a good search engine optimization strategy

• Proper Title Tags

Well-constructed title tags contain the main keyword for the page, followed by a brief description of the page content. It will be less than 65 characters and avoid using stop words such as: a, if, the, then, and, an, to, etc. Your title tag should also be limited to the use of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and commas.

• Proper Description Tags

Good description tags contain information about the page’s content and persuade search engine users to visit your web site. They should be between 25 and 35 words in length.

• Proper Keywords Tags

Your keywords meta tag should contain between 5-10 keywords or keyword phrases that are also found in page content.

• Proper Heading Tags

Each page of your site should use at least the H1 heading tag for the search engines that examine it when crawling your site.

• Page Content

Pages should have between 300 and 700 words of descriptive content that contains the keywords specified for the page.

• Proper Navigation

Each page of your site should contain links to every other page so search engine spiders can find every page. This is a critical step for the proper indexing and page rank distribution of your site.

• Proper Sitemap

It’s important to use two site maps for your website–an XML version and a static version. The XML version can be created with Search Engine Visibility’s site map tool. The static version should sit on a static HTML page and contain links to every other page.

• Controlled Crawling

It’s important that search engine spiders find your robots.txt file that guides spiders to pages and directories you want crawled and denies entry to protected areas of your site.

• Duplicate Content/Tags

Because search engines treat web sites as a grouping of pages and not a single entity, each page on your site should be unique so that the tags and content differ between each page. Doing so increases the number of pages that will rank.

• Word Density

Pages should contain 300 to 700 words of unique and descriptive content. A page’s meta tag keywords should also be those that occur most frequently on the page.

There is no hard and fast rule for an search engine optimization. The above strategy has been yielding a good results to me till date and i believe it will yield a good results to whoever adopts it. If I have missed out anything in this post, or if you have any of your search engine optimization  tips i would be glad to see it in the comments

PayPal – Easy Way to Pay

// January 9th, 2010 // View Comments // Web World

Paypal is a simple and affordable payment solution for online entrepreneurs. It is one of the most popular payment options available online. Paypal is used worldwide, though some countries are not allowed to use it.

Paypal is known as one of the easiest and popular ways to pay online. If you ask yourself what is Paypal, than the simplest answer is this: a tool that allows you to safely send and receive money via email. The company is owned by eBay, and it is a global online payment system. With this online payment system you can send money from your credit/debit card, transfer money to and from your bank account. Use it whenever you need to send money to someone (settle a debt with a friend, pay for online purchase/auctions…) or when someone needs to send money to you. Paypal system is an easy way for individuals and merchants to send and receive money online for goods, services, charitable donations, and more.

What Do I Need To Open Paypal Account?

To open a Paypal account, you will need:

• An email ID
• A bank account in one of the allowed countries.
• A residential address in one of the allowed countries.
• A valid phone number in one of the allowed countries
• A credit card to be used to verify the account after it is opened.

How Does Paypal Work?

Paypal works this way: You create an account (click here -> it will open in a new tab). After you register you fund your account. You send payments to anyone with an email address.

How much does it cost me?

As many people already know, it’s always free to send money. You always send the same amount of money without having to pay extra. But personal accounts can receive a limited number of credit or debit card funded payments per year and are assessed a transaction fee. To view your Personal account limit, log in to your account and click the View Limits link. Members with a Paypal Business account or Paypal Premier account are charged a low transaction fee for receiving payments. For more information, consult the list with the transaction fees

Does Paypal work in India ?

Yes. You can send money by Paypal in India and withdraw them by asking Paypal India check. You can see all the available countries on the Paypal website here.

Even more important! You can now transfer money from your PayPal account to any of your bank account in India directly from the PayPal website. PayPal has also scrapped the withdrawal fees for electronic transfer if the amount withdrawn is more that Rs 7000 and a nominal Rs 50 for small transfers. Earlier PayPal would charge $5 per transaction irrespective of the amount on the cheque.

As stated on their official website: If you have an account registered from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, India, Jamaica, or Uruguay, you can request a check. When you request a check, it will take 4-6 business days to process the request and prepare the check to be mailed. Postal delivery time is additional and varies depending on your country of residence.

Paypal Bank Account in India

If you have a indian Paypal account, then you can add the following indian bank accounts:

• State Bank of India
• Bank of India
• Canara Bank
• Union Bank of India
• HDFC Bank
• ICICI Bank
• ING VYSYA Bank
• UTI Bank
• Standard Chartered Bank
• HSBC
• Citibank – As an example Citibank cheques take more than 4 weeks to clear.

Trough this indian bank accounts you can send money by Paypal to India. Before you withdraw the amount from PayPal to your Indian Bank account, ensure that name of the bank record and PayPal match character by character else the transaction will not go through and PayPal would also charge a INR 250 processing fee.

To get your money from PayPal to a bank account in India, all you require is your bank account number and the IFSCI code of the bank branch where you have the account – call your bank customer care service and ask for IFSC code -it’s an 11 digit code maintained by The Reserve Bank of India.

PayPal offers another option for Indians who hold a Visa credit card or debit card – you can withdraw funds directly to your Visa branded credit, debit or prepaid card.

Note : Till date you cannot use any Indian Debit Cards (ATM Cards) along with paypal.

If you have any queries, please post them as comments.

SMStweet – Tweet using SMS in India

// January 6th, 2010 // View Comments // Cool Sites, Web World

As you all know I’m a twitter freak, streaming my life live on twitter all the time! One of the craziest thing I do while reading others tweets is to check which twitter client are they using to post the tweets! With a huge number of twitter applications, I have been always curious to know about new and new apps. SMStweet.in is the latest addition to my favorite list of twitter applications. I have been so exited to post about SMStweet, that I’m splitting up the post into two parts. First one is the post you are reading right now and second will be posted soon, an interview with Mayank Sharma, the brain behind SMStweet.

What is smstweet?

SMStweet is a simple service that allows you to tweet using SMS in India.

No longer depend on your web browser or a twitter client. No need to install any software on your phone or use Internet on your phone. No need to pay premium rates to your network provider.

Just send an sms at normal rates to tweet your thoughts.

Getting Started :

• Registering your mobile to the service

You will need to register at smstweet before you can start tweeting. There are two ways in which you can register —  via SMS or Online(Using yout twitter account with OAuth )

Send an sms ‘REGISTER <twitter username> <twitter password>’to any of the following nos:

09220092200 (Mumbai)

09243000111 (Bangalore)

Or register online — Visit the site SMStweet.in and register using your twitter account

• Sending Tweets

Start tweeting by sending a message,‘TWT <your message>’ to any of the following nos:

09220092200 (Mumbai)

09243000111 (Bangalore)

Upon successful updation, you’ll be responded with the latest @mention of yours.

How much does it cost?

You pay nothing to use the service. However the nos used by smstweet belongs to Mumbai & Bangalore. If your phone nos belongs to these cities it costs the same as a local sms. However if you live outside of these cities — it costs the same as a national sms. Different providers have various schemes and packs which could make sending an sms cheaper or even free. For example Reliance charges 1p/sms.

How long does it take to post the tweet?

The time it takes to post your tweet depends on two factors. Mainly the time it takes for your sms to arrive at the nos of smstweet and then how fast our application can post your tweet. The second factor is an important one because Twitter does have it’s fail whale moments.

Behind the scenes

SMSTweets was an idea of Mayank before Airtel came and announced its SMS based Twitter support. This application uses SMSGupShup’s platform to receive and respond to users SMSes and Google App-Engine as the server to run.

Design of the site SMStweet.in was done by Rohit Arondekar who is motivated by simplicity in his designs. Rohit and Mayank happened to meet on Twitter

Stay tuned to this blog to know more about SMStweet with an interview with Mayank. Do not forget to Subscribe to my RSS Feeds and follow me on Twitter.

Twitter – What are you doing?

// January 5th, 2010 // View Comments // Cool Sites, Web World

Still wondering what Twitter is all about? Well,Twitter is a microblogging, social networking website which lets you write and read messages of up to 140 characters including all punctuations and spaces.

At Twitter, all you simply have to be doing is to keep answering the question: “WHAT IS HAPPENING?” .The messages, which can’t be more than 140 characters are known as TWEETS. Twitter works equally well from your desktop or mobile phone (m.twitter.com).

Before you get started, you can just try and go to search.twitter.com Then, in the search box, try searching for a company or a few key topics of your interest e.g “blogging” . Check through the result and this will help you get a sense of how you want to engage on Twitter.

So, How Do I Get Started?

To get started, just go to http://twitter.com/signup and click on the SIGN UP link. Signing up for an account takes just a few minutes. To help people recognize and trust your account, fill out your profile (http://twitter.com/account/settings) completely and even include a picture.

Once you complete your registration, you can start TWEETING and FOLLOWING people. To find good people to follow, go to search.twitter.com and type in keywords of your choice. In the search results, you will see list of people related to the keyword you searched for. When you find a good candidate, look under their picture for the FOLLOW button. Click on this and you will start receiving their tweets.

Following somebody means you have agreed to be receiving their tweets. People that follow you (i.e FOLLOWERS) will also be receiving any tweet you post on twitter.

So, What Can I Be Tweeting?

Your tweets, which cannot be more than 140 characters, might be anything which can be tips, links to interesting stuffs (news,article, blogposts, pictures, music downloads) etc People following you will also like it when you say hi, respond to their questions, comments, complaints and jokes.

Any Terms To Familiarize Myself With?

Yes, there are some terms you will need to familiarize yourself with for you to easily understand how twitter works. The major ones are highlighted below:

To FOLLOW somebody is to subscribe to their messages.

A TWEET is an individual message.

A DM or direct message is a private message on Twitter.

RT or RETWEET is to repost a message from somebody else on Twitter

TRENDING TOPICS are the most-discussed terms/topics on Twitter at any given moment.

@username is a public message to or about an individual on Twitter.

A hashtag – the # symbol followed by a term/word and included in tweets  – is a way categorizing all the posts on a topic.

Why Use Twitter?

You can use twitter to:

• To build relationships with people of similar interest with yours.
• To respond to comments and questions from your followers
• To ask questions and learn new things
• To post links to things people would find interesting
• To retweet messages you would like to share
• To respond to customer service issues quickly if you have a business
• To engage in discussion on a public issue or a social cause etc.
• There’s’ lots More…

I think I have provided sufficient information about tweeter. I suggest Stay tuned to my my updates on twitter and don’t forget to tweet this post ! As I have said people use twitter in their own styles, I would love to listen how you are using tweeter in the comment section below

Spin Your Web @ Paanchajanya

// November 7th, 2009 // View Comments // Wordpress

I’m co-coordinating an state level blogging contest in  IEEE GIT Student Chapter’s tech fiest “Paanchajanya“

About Paanchajanya :

From its inception in the year 2006 to its current avatar, IEEE-GIT’s annual inter collegiate state level tech fest Paanchajanya has grown into an event that brings about the best among the technical talent across the state and our neighboring states. Four years old and growing better and more youthful every year, Paanchajanya defines professionalism in organizing and flair in the participation.

Paanchajanya ‘09 will have many eye catching, engaging, yet fun filled technical and non technical events. Everyone from all disciplines and semesters of engineering can participate in this fest that will truly, as its punch line says, unleash prodigies!!

Battle Days : 12th to 14th November 2009

For more details visit : www.Paanchajanya.com

Spin Your Web Contest :

Yes!! Your web page, your world, your ideas. A personal webpage designed, maintained and run by you, full of your ideas. That’s what we look for at Spin Your Web. If you have your own blog, that’s well and good. If you don’t have and want to have a go at it, then start NOW!!

Yes, starting the moment you send us your personal web page/blog’s address, it’ll be monitored as a part of our competition. What is the content of your site, how well are you at presenting it, arranging stuff, interacting with your audience, how popular is your page, what makes your personal space on the internet so different  from the others. All these will go in judging your website.

Rules and Regulations :

1. This is an individual event.
2. All the participants must be registered Paanchajanya delegates.
3. The blog has to be created on www.belgaumpages.com only.
4. Any Paanchajanya ‘09 participant can gain entry into the competition by posting his blog link on the IEEE-GIT forum. The participant also has to mail his blog url to web@paanchajanya.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Particpant has to mention his/her PCH No. in the mail.
5. The participant is free to choose any subject of his / her interest
6. Any content that is explicit or offensive in any way will result in the immediate disqualification from the contest.
7. Links to the official IEEE-GIT website (www.ieeegit.org) and Paanchajanya website (www.paanchajanya.com) have to be provided compulsorily in the form of the respective logo.
8. Participants can add widgets/components that can enhance the functionality of the blog. For example – widgets indicating number of visitors to the website.
9. The participant has to add Google Analytics (www.google.com/analytics) code to their site and provide the event co-ordinators access to the statistics.
10. Blog articles have to be genuinely written by the participant itslef. If duplication is found, it will result in an immediate disqualification.
11. Embedding media content from external sources is permissible provided that a link to the source is made. eg: Embedding YouTube videos.
12. The decision of the judges and coordinators of the event will be final and binding.

Late Date for Submisson of your site : 13th November by 12.00pm

Blog Reviews :

An session is organised to review the submitted sites. The judge will provide you an general review of the sites submitted. He will also provide information of an development of an ideal site. This session is open to all including non registrants !

Date : 14/11/2009

Time : 12.30pm – 1.30pm

Venue : F8 Hall ( Aryabhatta Seminar Hall), GIT, Belgaum

Buddypress Analytics Plugin

// November 7th, 2009 // View Comments // My Works, Software, Wordpress

Here is yet another plugin developed by me for Buddyress with wordpress mu. This plugin works on similar lines to my earlier plugin “BuddyPress Ads”.  For those who don’t know what is buddypress , here is an overview :

” BuddyPress will extend WordPress MU and bring social networking features to a new or existing installation.

BuddyPress is a suite of WordPress plugins and themes, each adding a distinct new feature. BuddyPress contains all the features you’d expect from WordPress but aims to let members socially interact. ”

BuddyPress Analytics Plugin :

This plugin will allow you to use your analytics script with your buddypress site(with wordpress mu) Supports any analytics script including but not limited to Google Analytics. Just replace the analytics code below with your own analytics code.

Google analytics users can just replace the google analytics ID (UA-5834099-9 in the code below) with your google analytics ID.

You can download the plugin here : Download Now !

== Installation ==

The installation is pretty simple as follows :

–> Replace the analytics code in bp-custom.php file with your analytics code.

—> Upload the bp-custom.php into your /wp-content/plugins directory

—> Done !

I hope this plugin will help lot of people like me who where struggling to track their wordpress mu site analytics

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