Jalaj P. Jha

Technical & Miscellaneous Ramblings

Archive for June 2007

CSS Design – Cross browser compatibility

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http://www.sndbx.org has declared a Design Contest for Sandbox theme. If you are unaware of what Sandbox is, then it is a WordPress theme that renders the page as bare text wit no formatting as visible to a casual user, but with a well defined markup which a person with knowledge of CSS can exploit to give the page best looks. This blog, //engtech’s, Lorelle’s and a lot of other blogs on wordpress.com use Sandbox for custom designs.
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June 22, 2007 at 1:30 pm

Domain Name Change Side-effect – It’s Happening

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I moved to jalaj.net on 24th May and am eagerly waiting to see how the blog makes transition in terms of Google PageRank. And the results are visible now in terms of side-effects and the visitors to the blog maximum of whom reached here through Google and other search engines have dropped beyond imagination. The keywords where blog made to top-10 results don’t show anymore near the top.
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June 18, 2007 at 1:03 pm

WordPress.com Vs Blogger.com

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Today I finished preliminary customization of my Custom CSS that powers the Looks of this blog to implement it on a blog hosted with Blogger. And the result is http://hindi.jalaj.net/
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June 14, 2007 at 1:15 pm

It’s 6 months since this blog started

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This day marks the completion of Six months since this blog started. Some stats

Total Posts : 141
Total Views : 28499
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June 12, 2007 at 8:18 am

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Pass Google Verification to use Analytics for your WordPress.com Blog

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After my post on wordpress.com blog passing Google verification for Webmaster Tools, I heard a few voices “Is something like that possible for using Google Analytics?”.
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June 11, 2007 at 12:49 pm

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WordPress : Change Post URL after it’s Published

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One of my post Regular Expressions – A Primer, in the early days of this blog, inadvertently got misspelled. Though I changed the page title, the URL remained the same.

I assume a few Bloggers would reach this page after getting into same problem.
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June 5, 2007 at 1:13 pm

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Which Hindi / Devnagari Unicode font is installed on the system?

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When you view a Hindi page the characters show up in one of the fonts installed on the system. If you have “Mangal” font installed that came bundled with your Operating system you see the page in that font. The same applies when you don’t have any Hindi Unicode font other than “Arial Unicode MS” font or “Raghu” font that came with your MS Office or you downloaded freely from the net respectively. How come the Browsers know which Language font is installed on your system?
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June 5, 2007 at 12:32 pm