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Sumeet Chawla

  • How to create a site with blog feeds and ads

    Ah.. Now I finally get it hehe.. hmm Well, you can still refer to the simple pie part of Chris's tutorial. Then go to the simple pie website read their documentation, and then just use it to call and display the posts of different websites via …
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  • Apply Background Image to DIv

    I don't think he is referring to an image which can be repeated over a particular axis. He is referring to an image which is of a particular width and height. I think you should refer to that tutorial where Chris resizes a background body image…
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  • How to create a site with blog feeds and ads

    Which part are you referring to? The list of blog posts on the sidebar? If you are then you can display your own blog posts in a list by 1.Either using a plug-in. 2.By coding it in a template.
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  • How to create a site with blog feeds and ads

    Ok, now I understood your question :P Those ads are similar because they get those ads from a site called BuySellAds. To answer your second question i.e. to get blog feeds from other sites, you can use simple pie to do that. But let the master t…
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  • Codepal Redesigned

    Thanks guys :) I improved the navigation bar a bit. The logo is actually a raster image. I am not th at good with the pen tool, so i just rasterized the text and then added shapes to join them together lol. I will redo the whole logo in vector forma…
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  • How to create a site with blog feeds and ads

    There are loads of CMSs/Blogging Softwares available out there which enable you to do that. CSS-Tricks uses Wordpress. Its one of the best ;)
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  • Should I use a CMS or MVC for this project?

    ah ha!! Thanks a ton guys! I totally forgot about wp mu lol.. I read about it while reading the feature details at wpwebhost. Ok, I will look into it further and ask you guys if I face any kind of a problem :) Thanks a ton again :)
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  • [Solved] Float Not Working Properly in IE7

    Ah great ! :) Sorry couldn't reply last night.. I went off to sleep lol but anyway your problem solved now 8-) Admin sir please change the topic header to [SOLVED] :P
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  • [Solved] Float Not Working Properly in IE7

    hmmm can you post the CSS used on those tags also?
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  • Your Pet Peeves

    "Matt" said: I'm poor and Irish. (not really Irish) Lol, am a student and can't even afford the cheapest mac at the moment, leave alone a mac pro :P :) But you are going to get one so be happy hehe. My target is to get one by the…
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  • [Solved] Float Not Working Properly in IE7

    have you tried clearing the float the way Chris taught in one of his tutorials? try something like this. add this div just before your header ends i.e. of the header div where the class clear is defined as .clear{ clear:both; } Sometimes n…
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  • best way to center website?

    yeah, without a particular width the auto centering thing won't work ;)
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  • alittlephotoshop.com

    still no hover effect on the post title :P May be you can just darken the colour on hover.. Simple and cool enough :) All in all the design is really great! Your menu is already a hit so no need to comment on that 8-)
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  • Time-based Design

    I think you can check the user's ip address and then depending on that calculate his time line and then change the theme according to that? Its an idea hehe
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  • Your Pet Peeves

    "Matt" said: Thanks, Chris, absolutely solved my issue. In other news, my Mac Pro comes in Tuesday, so I don't have to work on this (wretchedly old) PowerMac G4 anymore. :D Wow nice man.. I just went to this new apple store today co…
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  • Your Pet Peeves

    I have one more related to photoshop.. Its when I crop with all my tab panes closed... after selecting the area with the crop tool I cannot get my task panes visible again cos that time the tab key doesn't work.. or vise-versa, i.e. the task p…
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  • Do you use a plugin for IP banning spammers in WP?

    and mostly many people have dynamic IP addresses which changes everytime you reconnect your web. I also have it, I think :shock: Gosh, I never checked lol There must be other ways to stop that kind of a spam.. Just google for it ;)
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  • Jump to anchor BUT in middle of page NOT top

    Oh pure html only supports that.. Just put a name to an anchor link at the place where ever you want to jump. In the 'href' of the link which you want to use to move to that location, just put the '#' in the href attribute. for e…
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  • Menu drop down, using div box?

    You should have checked the code for the site using Firebug first :) Anyway, I think what they have done is that the whole drop down is a div which contains a nested unordered list in case of sub menus and just the login box in case of the login dro…
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  • Codepal Redesigned

    Thanks FAQPAL, specially for tweeting about it :) Its not complete yet though.. May be you can suggest me some thing on how to improve the navigation bar? By the way, I got the twitter box inspiration from here. I also got the social icons from th…
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  • [Solved] Speed up load time on wordpress blog

    "leehughes" said:Am such an* idiot!!! lol.. dont blame yourself.. even I never thought of it that we could put the required javascripts in the respected templates rather than including them in the header! Thanks a ton TheDoc! ;)
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  • Should I use a CMS or MVC for this project?

    No I have not but I downloaded it today itself. I got to know about it while researching :) The basic targets of my project are as follows:- 1. The user will basically come to get a website done. 2. After registration and payment, the user will cho…
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  • Best way to build a Wordpress site so it can be moved

    There is some problem with the forums or is it just me? :| I posted a reply here some time back and though I thought it got posted, but it didn't :| [And this is the 2nd time I had to face this problem :( :(] Well, what ever I posted cyberdoc …
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  • IE : text too big !!

    If the IE font is still coming big after fixing all the errors then just create another style sheet for IE and define those text styles, which appear bigger in IE, with a smaller font size. Check using an 'if' statement that if the browser…
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  • What do you call php variables like this: $this->hello

    Well, pHp is quite similar to c / c++ and in c++, the term obj->item is used to access the item of the class of which obj is an object. Don't know if it means the same here in pHP or not.Anyway, I have to brush up my C++ a bit.. been ages si…
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  • Media Temple

    so many host gater ppl inside a media temple post :P Well, I have been planning to get a good host for quite some time now... How's wpwebhost?
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  • IE : text too big !!

    go to the link I gave you, revalidate your site.. and then just scroll down slowly.. All the erors at the respective line numbers will be mentioned in details.. Go through them and keep correcting them.. This way you will learn and solve your proble…
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  • IE : text too big !!

    Well, Your site has around 127 errors. This might be effecting that IE problem you are facing. Go here.. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http: ... omatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 Read all the errors its showing and fix them one by one…
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  • IE : text too big !!

    it could not validate your site for the following reason : Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 561 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the …
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  • IE : text too big !!

    Have you tried validating your code?
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