Pakzilla » Blogging

How to remove the border of Facebook page like box

Tahir Akram — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:02:12 +0000

The solution is below, how I removed the border of my Pakzilla Facebook like box.

Wrap your IFrame code with a div with an ID


  &width=330&connections=10&stream=false&header=false&height=280" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="320" height="240">

CSS classes for above Div and IFrame

#likebox-frame{
  width:330px;
  height: 260px;
  overflow: hidden;
  position:relative;
}
#likebox-frame iframe{
  overflow:hidden;
  position:relative;
  left:-5px;
  top:-1px;
}

You can adjust the width and height according the space where you want to place the box. What idea I have used, I have hide the border of like box under the styles of the div. There could be other approaches too. But I clicked on this. It’s simple.

Here is my Facebook page like box.

If you like this post, you can like my Facebook page.

Blogging on Pakzilla in year 2011

Tahir Akram — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:31:19 +0000

WordPress.com’s Jetpack published a report of Pakzilla.com blogging for year 2011. Interested facts they are
.

Visitor’s statistics

Blog was viewed about 140,000 times in 2011.
In 2011, there were 25 new posts, that made total posts to 154.
The busiest day of the year was March 1st with 1,114 views. The most popular post that day was An ultimate HTML5 cheatsheet you must have.

Top referring

itoday.wordpress.com
dzone.com
ideaxidea.com
smashingapps.com
facebook.com

Visitor’s location

North America
83% Unites States
11% Canada
South America
48% Brazil
14% Argentina
Africa
35% Egypt
18% South Africa
Asia
45% India
12% Malaysia
8% Pakistan
Europe
18% The United Kingdom
8% Germany
Oceania
77.5% Australia
22% New Zealand

5 reasons I like Bluehost

Tahir Akram — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:08:16 +0000

I was in terrible tension with my previous hosting provider. They down my site often and was having very less responsiveness in support. My account also was having very low bandwidth. So a friend suggested me to evaluate some hosting providers and I selected Bluehost.

Reasons I like Bluehost

Bluehost provide hosting unlimited domains with unlimited space and bandwidth. So it’s worry free thing. You can bring all your website here. And there is no need to pay for every single.
Support. They are awesome in it. I used their live chat support and they were very helpful.
No confusion in selecting a plan for you, because they offer only one plan. And making good in it.
They have good history in web hosting. If you whois some favorite domains, you will notice Bluehost name servers.
I used auto-installer and it works like a charm. Installed WordPress on an addon domain in seconds. (there are other install scripts)

Things you should do when changing your WordPress host

Tahir Akram — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 21:34:39 +0000

Just couple of hours back I changed the hosting service provider of my this WordPress blog. The former service provider was giving me very low bandwidth and that was consumer in the first twenty days of this month. I have not came across any big hassle in shifting to new servers. But I do experienced some things that I wanted to share.

Always have backup

That’s your all investment. And never underestimate their importance. Always take backups of your contents and your database. At any point of time there could be things when you need them badly and you can not access your FTP/DB server. From now onwards I am also going to make this a habit. It always pays well in future.

Taking backup by phpMyAdmin

When I was taking the backup of my database, I noticed phpMyAdmin does not include the script of create database if not exist in the SQL file. You should create a database with the same name that is mentioned in your wp-config.php file. And need to create the same user too. Associating that user with newly created database is the next part and giving that user the privileges (all). After these steps, you are good to import your this SQL backup file to your new server’s phpMyAdmin

The .htaccess file

Some time for permalink settings we do editting in .htaccess files that usually present in the root directory of your server. (if you are not running mydomain.com/blog strtucture, in this case this file will be in blog directory). Take care of this file too when takeing backup. Some FTP browsers does not show this file. So must ensure to copy this file if your have created or it exists. If you never created this, dont bother.

Prevent hot linking of images

You can save your bandwidth by preventing the hotlinking of your image files outside of your blog. People usually do this, when they link your image file on their webpages to save their storage. And they start eating your bandwidth. So with some WordPress plugin you can prevent it. I am looking that plugin. I will update this post when I will find some suitable plugin.

Happy blogging.

Easy way to create your WordPress mobile website

Tahir Akram — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:12:17 +0000

I was thinking if there is any way to optimize wordpress website for mobile browsers. To make Pakzilla mobile website I used WordPress Mobile Pack plugin that automatically detect the user agent and optimized your website according to mobile.

You must try this plugin, for best optimization for mobile web browsers.

Download plugin

You can download WordPress Mobile Pack from here.

Latest market valuation of dotcom giants

Tahir Akram — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:01:07 +0000

A number of dotcom firms are growing rapidly. There founds are getting a good ROI. Let’s have a look on their latest market value. Facebook is having $60 billion and always out of capacity Twitter is on $10 billion. Foursquare that grew 3,400% is having $250 million.

via

Class of 2011: If Social Media Were a High School

Tahir Akram — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:06:26 +0000

What if a social media were a high school. Find out where is your favorite one.

[via]

WordPress app for Nokia is now available

Tahir Akram — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:10:44 +0000

Now you can use WordPress on your Nokia phone. WordPress.org has release an open source S60 app for this. Quite handy application. As I have to use Opera to access my blog. But I hope the experience of using it through app will be great.

You can now post new posts and pages, edit existing content on your blog, manage comments, check stats and more on the go.

You can download app on Nokia Ovi store here.

How to use Facebook Like count button on WordPress

Tahir Akram — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 08:57:33 +0000

Place the following code where ever you want to show the Facebook Like count button on your WordPress blog.

ID)); ?>&layout=box_count&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&font=arial" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:63px;">

Preview

Now a days, I am a WordPress advocate :)

Tahir Akram — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:30:45 +0000

Now a days a lot of my friends catching me about setting up their websites or personal blog. Its really a dotCom fashion. Sounds its become the need of everyone. People are loving to contribute towards Internet. And what I am suggesting is to just start with WordPress.

With my love with in WordPress I am pretty biased with it. Though I am not a big WordPress hacker. But to start a personal or corporate portfolio WordPress is the best option to go. Its agile. What you need to do is to find some suitable theme for you. Get designed your logo and color scheme. Customize your theme. So that it gives the unique look. And your site is ready.