After a few days of work I have decided to put up ContentWise v2 which is based on TechnoBlue’s Style for TripleK2.

In the first version of ContentWise, I had given more important to content and in increasing my pageviews. Infact it worked well and I used to run out of bandwidth easily.

So this time I tried to decrease my pageviews a bit by removing the header navigation I had earlier.

Some of the main changes in ContentWise v2 :

• moved Menu to sidebar
• moved Subscribe buttons to sidebar
• added a post divider
• increased width of Content column
• sidebars on both sides
• tweaked for AdSense
• fixed many bugs
• updated to the latest stable version of K2
• implemented Section targeting
• added rotated Refferal Units on header (not rotated yet)

Note: I am still testing the new design and have not optimized it for IE yet. Since I upgraded to IE 7, I could not check on IE 6.0.

I would like everyone’s opinion on the new design. If you still see the old theme, please clear your browsers cache.

And please do report any bugs you may come across. I would love to hear your suggestions too

Update: I reverted back to the first version of ContentWise. The new design will be back after I fix the problems it has with IE 6.

I provided a screenshot below (click to enlarge) of the new theme for readers who has not seen it in action. Please let me know if you have any suggestions.

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Did you know that you could find the definition of a word using Google? Here’s how you do it – if you would like to find the meaning of a word say ‘blogging’ you could search for define: blogging and Google will show you the definitions of blogging on the Web.

The information is shown from a variety of dictionary related Web sites such as Wikipedia.org, and there’s a link to the full entry for each Web site. Google also provides links to related searches, such as “blogging engine” in this example.

I had learned this trick from a friend but you can find this on About.com.

Update: Other Google Web Search Features can be found here

Popularity Contest, a plugin for WordPress that will help you see which of your posts are most popular, was updated yesterday to version 1.2. The significant changes include:

1. Support for recording page activity
2. Added a [?] link (optional) to explain the ‘Popularity: 27%’ that is displayed
3. Added a hook for other plugins to conditionally change when the popularity % is displayed
4. Use defined variables for options so that they can be defined in other plugins – easier upgrading and no editing required.

Download Popularity Contest

Update: A new version has been released (1.2.1) to fix some bugs in the 1.2 release.

Yesterday I had complained here that Firefox 2 lacks one of my favorite features in Opera- Recently Closed Tabs.

Today, thanks to Forever Geek, I found that Firefox 2 already had that feature!

You can access the recently closed tabs list under the History menu. It gives you the option to re-open tabs you’ve closed while in a particular session. You can also open all recently closed tabs in a new tabbed window. When you close the browser, the list is cleared.

Had you seen this feature in Firefox 2 earlier?

Most of you have heard and tried the popular Firefox Extension – Fasterfox, but have you tried the even better Fastererfox?

Fastererfox is a tweaked version of Fasterfox that allows you to improve your surfing speeds even faster (especially to regularly visited sites) with some new features, contained in a new Tab called “Thrash” which you can find in the options settings.

The 3 new features given by Fastererfox are

1. The ability to force pages to be prefetched, ignoring webmasters attempts to stop Fastererfox
2. A choice of dynamically created pages to cache (ASP, ASP .NET, JSP, STM). Quite often many dynamically written pages are fairly static and can be cached
3. The maximum number of links to preload on current page. This is set to a maximum of 100 by default and can be set to a higher value

Continue reading ‘Firefox Extension: Fastererfox’

JohnTP.com had become 1 year old on October 17th. But I had started blogging in the month of November only, so I am a 1 year old blogger too

Let me share the current status of JohnTP.com with you -

There are currently 402 posts and 2,225 comments, contained within 20 categories. And Akismet has protected this site from 36,124 spam comments.

At present JohnTP.com has about 2,500 to 3000 unique traffic per day and I am quite happy with it and look forward to grow even bigger

You can find my story on how I got into blogging here

What keeps me blogging daily is my readers and their interaction with me through comments and so I would like to thank and encourage you to continue it.

Also spread the word about my site and watch out for more interesting posts. I hope by next year I can double my traffic and meet a lot more bloggers through JohnTP.com

Also to celebrate this blog’s first Birthday, I am going to give it a new theme as soon as possible

I just read on Shivaranjan’s blog that the Firefox extension, Fasterfox, is now compatible with Firefox 2.0.

Firefox fans who must have upgraded to the latest Firefox 2.0 would have been disappointed over the incompatibility of Fasterfox extension. The developer of Fastefox extension has updated it to be compatible with Firefox 2.0.

Earlier I had used MR Tech’s Local Install extension to make Fasterfox compatible with Firefox 2.0, but now an update can fix the problem

For those of you who have not tried Fasterfox yet,

Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.

Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.

Download Fasterfox 2.0

After installing Firefox 2 today, I found that some of my favorite extensions like ImgLikeOpera, Fasterfox and SessionSaver were not compatible with Firefox 2.0.

After searching for a while I found the solution for it from Liew’s Blog- MR Tech’s Local Install extension.

The primary function of MR Tech’s Local Install extension is to provide the tools needed to install and manage extensions and themes locally. It has the function to make old extensions compatible with new Firefox.

After installing the extension, right-click on any incompatible extension and select “Make Compatible” and restart Firefox. That’s it!

I am back…after being offline for more than 1 Week. And I am glad I am finally online. What happened?

It all started after my UPS battery became weak and I needed to replace it. Two days after I gave my UPS for repair I came to know that my UPS battery was an imported one and was not available at my place. The next day I bought a new UPS and found that my PC refused to start. Only today I found that the problem was caused due to overheating. So I cleaned my CPU fan and everything went well.

But my PC problems were not the only reasons that kept me offline for more than a week. I had high fever too

Continue reading ‘I am back’