Sandeep Hegde

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.

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

If you liked my work, please consider some donations, which shall assist my education.

Buddypress Ads Plugin

// November 3rd, 2009 // View Comments // My Works, Wordpress

I was just trying around to monetize my site http://www.belgaumpages.com which runs on wordpress. Since it is an wordpress multi user platform , i could not get a way to place ads on the member blogs easily. Searching for an plugin to do that went in ruin. Finally after months of analysis i found an easy way place ads on buddypress sites. In one way this may not be similar to normal plugins, you can even consider it to be a buddypress hack. 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 Ads Plugin :

This plugin will allow you to publish ads through your buddypress site(with wordpress mu) Supports multiple ad networks including adsense , adbrite and many more. Just replace the ad code below with your own ad code. This is the easiest way to monetize to wordpress mu and buddypress community.

You can download the plugin here : Download Now !

Installation :

–> BuddyPress Admin bar should be enabled site wide.

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

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

—> Done !

I hope this plugin make the tasks of many people who are looking around to monetize budypress site

If you liked my work, please consider some donations, which shall assist my education.

BelgaumPages.com – Get your voice heard…

// August 13th, 2009 // View Comments // Cool Sites, My Works, Web World, Wordpress

Hey friends guess whats new this time….Well well i know what you are thinking,NEW RESTAURANT??,NEW MALL?? so that you can hang around with your friends?? Well…Its even better than that!Its belgaumpages.com.Now you must be thinking whats new about a website. Well i am 100% sure you will be logging on to belgaumpages.com even before you finish reading this article. So hurry!!

Belgaumpages is a networking site custom-made for the people of belgaum unlike any other. You can now get in touch with your old friends,relatives,classmates anyone from anywhere! Whats more,you can now form groups and have discussions on forums and explore belgaum like never before just sitting at home sweet home with your even sweeter computer. Me and my girlie friends are already rating hangouts and hep places to be seen in belgaum. Not your type? Well then you can voice your opinions and be heard on topics like power cuts,bad roads anything…thus making belgaum a poster city.

And for people who hate newspapers just like me;grab the latest news at belgaumpages just like i do.

Are you a die-hard facebook fan? Well,you can access belgaumpages from facebook too!!!

Not excited yet?

Let me drop the bomb,you  can have your own website with sub-domain for free!!!! No jhanjhat of learning  to work on wordpress, just log on to your website address http://yourname.belgaumpages.com and voice your opinions on everything under the sum.BE HEARD! DO THE IN THING NOW! I can see you already registering See you on belgaum pages!!

Article Credit : Shruti Patil