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Since the last few weeks I have been seeing some of my facebook friends(girls) posting fruit names as their facebook status
Some had “Strawberry”, some “Pineapple”, some “Litchi” and some had “mango”…… Few months back the women had a similar thing going, posting the colour of the bra they were wearing…. that was to show the support to some Breast Cancer Awareness thing…..!!
After some research I could finally reveal the secret behind the fruit updates. They had spread a message among the girls which goes like this…!!
There is something new to the list ! ( AGAIN ! )
This is meant for “GIRLS” only.
Do not pass on to boys
Keep the following names of the fruits in your statuses to which you belong!!
Strawberry- Deeply in love ?
Lichee- Having a strong crush ^^^^
Cherry-Adore someone’s looks n personality
Chickoo- Hate your ex :/:/
Mango- Happy being single
Apple- Just suffered from a breakup
Pineapple- Hate love
I just received n forwarded !
Forward to your co girls and spread the chain
Well girls just notice one thing….!! Some girl flashed it out and here you go, the whole world knows it…..!! This was supposed to be a girls only thing and men were not supposed to know this….!! That girl proved it right that women can’t keep secrets….. hahaha……..!!
The tie sheet for fifa world cup 2010. The tie-sheet is in excel format and is interactive. It has been made amazingly.
The first sheet is talking about results of group stage, and through it you can control the sheet with many options such like language, sheet is provided with three language, Arabic, English and French, selection of language will change all titles and heads of the work sheet, the other option that you can select your favorite team and it’ll be highlighted by red in the every place in the sheet to can follow it in the sheet, the last option is about the time zone, so you can adjust all matches’ time, there’s a countdown to know how many days, hours and minutes to start first match in the championship.
All what you should do in the sheet, just enter results of each team, automatically the group table will be rearranged based on the new results, the ranking of each team in each group will be determined as follows:
a) Greatest number of points obtained in all group matches;
b) Goal difference in all group matches;
c) Greatest number of goals scored in all group matches
If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings will be determined as follows:
d) Greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
e) Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
f) Greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;
g) Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organizing Committee.
This sheet is designed based on all probabilities which can be happened, but we put another option and as final option in case of the wrong arrangement of the group table or making a drawing of lots, you can make a manual arrangement in the end of all matches of group, you can put from 1 to 4 in the specified cells, but you must enter the four place for each team to work.
In the second sheet, we are moving to stage 2 starting from round of 16, just enter the result round by round, in case of tie games you can just enter the result of the penalty shoots, in the end of the championship, there’s a fantastic surprise in the design for the winner team.
In the third sheet which is the most important sheet in the file, you can play a prediction game with your friends using the sheet, in the previous edition of Euro 2008, it was designed to contain one user’s prediction, but now the file can contain 20 users in one file, all what you should do … enter points system to calculate points for each match and there’re four options which is listed below:
a) Prediction of the exact result of the match
b) Prediction of the case of the match as win or draw
c) Prediction of the exact difference in the result, but the match case should be achieved
d) Prediction of the right score for any team
And the last three options is together equal the first option, in case of not using any option, just put the score as zero value.
Name of each player is written under the player no. and each one put his prediction in his column, and once you enter the results in the first sheet, score of each player will be calculated automatically and the arrangement of the players will be consisted in the ranking table.
The next sheet is showing data for the teams, teams of each group is put in one row, with clarifying no. of played world cups, how many in row and best achievement in the previous world cups.
The next sheet is showing the kits of world cup 2010, we tried to present the new one as we can
The next sheet is showing the stadiums of the championship, and clarifying all data of each stadium, just as its name, its city, capacity, and no. of played matches.
The last sheet is a brief report about the previous world cups but showing the most and important data for each world cup, just as place of playing, period of playing, no. of teams, goals … etc
We tried so much as we can to present this work in the best look more than the last edition and more professional to make it’s more excited and interaction with the championship, whatever mistakes in the design or in the programming of the sheet, it’s shortage of us and nothing is 100% correct.
Download the tie-sheet here.
Fifa World Cup 2010 Tie Sheet (For Microsoft Office Excel 2007)
Fifa World Cup 2010 Tie Sheet (For Microsoft Office Excel – previous versions)
I found a really cool Joomla plugin. Actually, it is a component rather than a plugin. This component helps you to export your joomla database for Worpress. This component creates a XML dump of your sites contents. This XML file is readable and importable by wordpress. This component is important if you want to migrate from Joomla to WordPress. The XML dump will include all your posts, with categories and with all its comments.
You can download the component here. Thanks to the creator of the plugin.
Have fun….!!
At least seven Nepali players including an official were injured in a hotel lift collapse in Dhaka where they recently arrived to participate in the 11th South Asian Games (SAG) on Friday.
They were injured after the elevator they had taken suddenly broke down and fell rapidly from the fourth floor of the Imperial Hotel which is located nearby the Bangabandhu National Stadium where the grand ceremony to officially kick off the eight nations sport extravaganza is taking place today.
The injured players are Gyan Bahadur Shrestha and Gopal Bahadur Shrestha of weight-lifting and Radha Devi Rai, Kalu Man Tamang, Ramesh Magar, Prasuram Chaudhary and Debu Thapa of Judo including official Dhyan Basnet.
They have been taken to the nearby local hospital for treatment. The players are said to be in serious condition.
The chances of medals from Judo has been slimmed by this incident, as there were high hopes of medals from the Nepali Judo players.
Details of the incident is yet to come…!!
Got this on a forwarded email……!! really nice and funny….!!
Friendship is not about “I m sorry “ its about “saale ! terai galti thiyo“
Friendship is not about “I missed u “ it’s about “kahan mareko this, saale”
Friendship is not about “I understand “ its about “sabai taile garda bhayeko ho.. mula“
Friendship is not about “I care for u “ its about “saale talai chodera kaha janchhu ra “
Friendship is not about “I m happy for ur success “its about “la party de ta“
Friendship is not about “I love that girl“ its about “saala izzat gar terai bhauju ho“
Friendship is not about “R u coming for outing tomorrow “ its about “ natak garne haina bholi ghumna jane khurukka“
Friendship is not about “Get well soon “ its about “ yeti raksi dhoke pachi yestai ta hunchha“
Friendship is not about “All the best for ur exam“ its about “ dherai bhayo, switch off garera sut ta malai disturb bhayo“
You must have come across such situations in your website, where google has crawled some pages of your website, but later you moved that page somewhere. You might fear that u’re loosing the leads to your website. You must have seen your website showing 404 (”Page Not Found”) messages.
Well there are some simple things you can do in your Joomla website. You can either create a custom error page(404 page) and then redirect the 404 messages to the custom page or simply redirect it to the homepage.
1. htaccess redirection : You can simply add this code to your .htaccess file
ErrorDocument 404 index.php [to redirect it to your homepage]ErrorDocument 404 /404.php [to redirect it to your custom error page named 404.php]
<meta HTTP-EQUIV=”REFRESH” content=”5; url=/”> [the number 5 is the delay, u can change it]
defined( ‘_JEXEC’ ) or die( ‘Restricted access’ );
header (”Location: /”); exit(); // add this line
Creating a great and targeted PPC (Pay per Click) campaign is only the beginning towards driving traffic, generating leads and increasing conversions. The initial seconds after someone has clicked your ad are the most important towards convincing the visitor that they should stay on your page and navigate through your site. Optimizing a landing page is not just about aesthetics; it also is about understanding the user, his reason for clicking your ad and, of course, relevance and functionality.
1- Identify Visitors:
Before deciding how to optimize your page you must consider what kind of people will be clicking on your page. Start with analyzing who will search for your product or service. Is it something geared towards a younger crowd or older crowd? Are you selling graphic tees or selling life insurance?
Other than a generational demographic consider decision-making styles. When selling fun items people might be more spontaneous in making choices; they don’t want to read a long description. If you’re selling life insurance, the person considering the plan will be more methodical in their choice; in this case, there should be a lot of good information displayed.
2- Create Conversion Paths:
Choosing keywords for a PPC campaign can be a challenge, but always choose keywords a potential customer will use to search for your product and not descriptive words.
Even if the keyword is targeted, it is hard to assume that everyone who typed in the same keyword in the search query want the same results. For example, if you sell mobile phones on your site, consider the common reasons why someone would search for this term. It could be because they want to purchase a phone or maybe they want information and later on wish to consider buying a new phone. If your main objective is to sell a phone, the main call-to-action should be directing the user to purchase a new phone; however, you should also add a secondary call to action that will let the visitor know where they can find more information about phones.
3- Page Functionality
Making visitors jump through hoops to reach the product is not a good idea when trying to optimize a page for functionality. The most ideal and successful option is showing the user what they were searching for on the actual landing page. This technique will increase conversion and reduce bounce rate.
White space and clear call-to-actions work well with most people. The use of white space is a more calming design that is simplified and allows the user to concentrate solely on the call-to-action or product.
To use up less space on the page, consider removing the navigation bar all together. This keeps the visitor focused on the targeted product. Offer the visitor a choice by adding one clean link to the rest of your site where they can see more products or choices.
4- Test, Test, Test:
Successful websites come in different styles, even if they sell the same products. There is no one solid winning formula; two websites can do very well even if they use two different approaches. To come up with your winning formula you must use analytics and testing. Analytics will help give you answers to what needs more adjustment and what already works. You can test everything on the landing page, but testing the call-to-action is a key starting point. Monitoring analytics and testing results closely is an essential ongoing element in any optimization process.
Source : Optimum7
I was looking for a good website that provides good website analysis. Then, as I was going through Daniweb for help, I came across a link that said “Free Website Analysis”. I entered the details of the website I wanted to analyse – www.bestnepalpackage.com
These are the results, I recieved.
SCORE 81 OUT OF 100.
A website grade of 81/100 for bestnepalpackage.com means that of the hundreds of thousands of websites that have previously been evaluated, our algorithm has calculated that this site scores higher than 81% of them in terms of its marketing effectiveness. The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data , website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.
The website bestnepalpackage.com ranks 340,748 of the 1,830,985 websites that have been
ranked so far.
The software gets constantly upgraded and the algorithm enhanced. The number of potential recommendations provided by the tool also increases frequently.
Now let me go through the criteria based on which it analyses the websites.
Optimum7 uses these techniques to analyse the websites. The free analysis is available now….!! You can get it from here
Google maps is a free tool that can have a number of uses for your Joomla website, perhaps most importantly to show your site visitors where you business is located or where local sites of interest might be. Thanks to the developer Mike Reumer….!!
This tutorial goes through the installation of the “Plugin Googlemaps” extension for Joomla 1.5.
Googlemap Plugin is a free extension available for Joomla (1.0 and 1.5) which makes it really easy to add in a Google Map to your Joomla website. Installation only takes a few minutes and the maps can be easily customised to suit your needs. Here is an example of a typical simple map you can add (here I have shown the Royal Palace Museum of Nepal in Kathmandu).
The first step in the installation process is to enable Legacy Mode in Joomla (you only need to do this is you are using Joomla 1.5, if you are running an older version you can skip to the next step). This can be accessed by going to the ‘Plugin Manager’ under ‘Extensions’ in the top navigation bar once you have logged into the backend.
It’s as simple as clicking on ‘enable’ next to ‘System – Legacy’. Once this is done you should see ‘Legacy 1.0′ appear in the top right of your screen.
After downloading Plugin Googlemaps from here, go to ‘Extensions’ then ‘Install/Uninstall’. In the ‘Upload Package File’ select the zip file you have just downloaded and then click on ‘Upload File and Install’.
Once this is done, return to the ‘Plugin Manager’, and you need to enable the ‘Google Maps’ plugin.
In order to use Google Maps, you need an API key for each website you intend to publish the map upon. The API key can be obtained from this page once you agree to the terms and conditions and enter the URL of your website. You then need to copy the long string of numbers and paste them into the ‘Google API Key’ section of the parameters of the plugin. Click on apply and ensure the plugin is enabled. You are now ready to add a map to your site!
The first step to customising your map is of course to set the geographical location that the map shows. This is done by setting the latitude and longitude coordinates within the code that you paste into your content. This can be obtained through Google Earth, however the quickest way to do this is to visit Google Maps and enter the location you want, through an address, postcode or place name. Once the page has finished loading and the correct location is shown, copy and paste the following into your navigation bar of your menu and press enter.
javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));
A window will pop up giving you the latitude and longitude of your desired location. These are the coordinates you need to place into the code.
The map at the top of the page was created by adding in the following code, using the coordinates for Times Square. I have removed the {…} which need to surround the entire section otherwise it would post a map. The paragraphs I have added for formatting reasons also need to be removed. The code can be posted anywhere in the body of your html and once inserted will show up as a map on your page. The whole process is very simple.
mosmap width='500'|height='400'|lat='40.75671'|lon='-73.98646'|zoom='3' | zoomType='Large'|zoomNew='3'|mapType='map'| showMaptype='1'| overview='1'|text='Good web practices'|lang=''
The code is fairly self explanatory in terms of customisation, but a full breakdown of the different parameters can be found here. The best idea is to play with each of the values and reload the map to see how they effect it. There is alot of detailed information on how to add more features to your map, such as directions and route plans on the developer’s site which can be found here.
Having generic directions for your customers is great, but it is a lot more useful for them to be able to plan their route door to door. Using the following code, the plugin will enable users to put in their postcode or address and a new page will load up with full directions on Google Map (remember to add in {…} again!
mosmap address='street, zipcode place,country'|dir='1|lat='40.75671'| lon='-73.98646'|zoom='14'
Please check out the official Google Pluginmaps Website for more examples of the plugin’s use, demos and documentation!
Have fun with Google Maps……..!!
testing the new look of my blog…………..!!
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