Monthly Archive for December, 2008

Stripes Theme Preview

I thought I might show some screenshots of my current theme that I am working on.

It’s called Stripes because of the background style. It is a theme that I am matching to my new portfolio design to which I will release in early or late January.

It is widget ready with one sidebar, plenty of plug-ins built in and still tweaking most of them. List of feature will be posted soon. Please note that the screenshots that I have posted below are from a working progress.

Screenshots

Visitors Improves

After being more active my self on writing on my blog and getting my self more recognized out on the Web, the amount of visitors I receive have been increasing dramatically well. I have posted a few images that show on my Google stats. This is all for this month alone. I hope it will increase even more. There is also something very funny to me. I have had a few users look at my website on the PlayStation 3. See image below on the browsers viewing my site.

Also I get mostly Americans looking at my site which I don’t mind but I would like to get more from my location so i will try and do my best in attracting those. That’s it for the moment, Bye.

Instant Language Translation in Window Live Messenger With TBot

Microsoft has apparently just launched a new translator agent for Window Live Messenger that allow users to perform languages translation on the fly. WLM users are now capable of chatting with friends anywhere around the globe that only speaks their tougue.

TBot, is the WLM robot translator that provides machine translations to WLM buddies. It is part of the services offered by http://translator.live.com. TBot might not have the human translation skills but enough to break the barriers of communication.

If you would like to communicate with the new translator bot, just simply add mtbot@hotmail.com to your contact list and start chatting.

Talking to the TBOT

Talking to the TBOT

Here’s 2 ways you can use TBot:

  1. One on one conversations with the bot where it will respond with the
    translation
    . That means, hit enter after typing in a language and TBot will replied with a translated version of your choice.
  2. Invite a friend and each chat in a different language with TBot assisting in
    translation
    .

As far as this article has been written, TBot is able to translate English to/from Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. TBot can handle translation between Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional too.

Have fun!

Blog Descriptions

After viewing many blogs to help me create my first theme for wordpress theme, it came to me that they dont have a discription about there blog / site or at least dont show it. So my question for you all is, do you have a blog discription or not? Please share and tell me what yours says about your blog if you have one.

Mobile Compatible

I have added the mobilepress plugin to allow my readers to be able to view my blog on there mobiles. Having tested it out on my Sony PSP, it is a bit slow at first but once loaded it works just great.

Wordpress 2.7 is Released

New UI, Same Wordpress!

As many of you know who are either Wordpress fans or users, the latest Wordpress is released. Another complete redesign on there UI with a lot of plugins that many people use built in. One problem is that many users still can’t upgrade such as I to the new version until they have been able to get there current Wordpress theme working with the new templates as well as keeping it backward compatible.

Now I have said that I was close to completing my theme, but with the new release now out people who want to use my theme will probably want to be able put on the latest Wordpress that has just released.

Why?

Well for one, every wordpress release has some sort of a security update and people like to stay secure but they don’t like to change there themes that often so having a theme that will constantly work no matter what version they are on is important to the user.

What has changed in the template files?

Not very much but if the code in your templates do not match to the new wordpress coding, you will find that your blog will die and not display everything correctly or not function at all.

So when are you releasing your theme?

Well for people who still want to use versions of Wordpress under 2.7 I will release it in early January hopefully and then by late Febuary, a version for 2.7 and up will be released.

What does that mean for your built-in plugins that you have put into your theme?

It will mean having to test which plugins work and don’t for 2.7 and up and also see which plugins don’t need to included in my theme because Wordpress already has them built in there new code.

Will your theme be easily customizable?

At the moment you will only be able to change the colours, font, background image and the header of theme to something that would suit you. Being able to swith style sheets like K2 theme is not possible at this moment in time but that does not mean I haven’t looked into it.

Can we see a glimpse of the theme?

Very soon, maybe on Christmas Day. :razz:

Blog Problems

I have been having a few blog problems these past few days with my blog and I don’t know why so I made sure that I had the latest version of Wordpress that is stable and disabled any plugins that were not compatible for the version that I have. The problem was that the blog would load as normal and then a second after it would make the page go blank and remove the title of the blog and leave it blank.

Everything seems to be in check now though so I would like to apologise for the inconvience.

You may now come and visit my blog again.

This post can also be read on my LiveJournal thanks to a neet new plugin I have added.




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