The steps are as follows :

1) Close WAMP (if running)
2) Navigate to WAMP\bin\php\(your version of php)\
3) edit php.ini
4) Search for curl, uncomment extension=php_curl.dll
5) Navigate to WAMP\bin\Apache\(your version of apache)\bin\
6) edit php.ini
7) Search for curl, uncomment extension=php_curl.dll
8 ) Save both
9) Restart WAMP

WAMP and PHP’s cURL Windows 7 x64 bit

I came across, yet another, issue with WAMP server (I’m beginning to question the usability of this application.)

Anyhow; the error I received, even after enabling the php_curl.dll extension, was the following:

‘unable to load dynamic library php_curl.dll’

When I checked the Apache error log, I was shown this:

Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘c:/wamp/bin/php/php5.3.13/ext/php_curl.dll’ – The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail. in Unknown on line 0.

The fix was to replace the php_curl.dll file in C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.13\ext with one of the following:

php_curl-5.3.13-nts-VC9-x64.zip
php_curl-5.3.13-VC9-x64.zip
php_curl-5.4.3-nts-VC9-x64.zip
php_curl-5.4.3-VC9-x64.zip

That will solve your Curl issues.
Enjoy!

Website promotion suggests that submitting your site to directories first is more important than submitting to search engines. These two are different in such a way that sites submitted to directories are only approved if it has high quality and useful content, whereas search engines just simply accept submissions of sites or pages. In submitting a website to the directory, make sure that you read and follow the directory’s rules and instructions. Keep in mind that the editors will be very discerning of your web content.

Submitting to search engines definitely helps in website promotion but this takes quite a while, usually around 3-6 months. There are things to consider when submitting to search engines, you must prepare your website. Also, you will need to learn SEO or search engine optimization. You may do this by optimizing your website by improving the elements of web design like loading time, browser compatibility, etc. Another is keyword optimization wherein you make use of appropriate keywords; these would greatly help in your website.

Other website promotion techniques are:

• Link popularity - wherein you let people link your site to theirs. In this way, you can generate more new visitors and at the same time improve your ranking in search engines.

• Write articles – that are useful to your website and let other people publish these like in article directories. You may also opt for email newsletters that include a link to your website. In this way, your subscribers are informed and updated on what’s going on in your website promotion.

• Post to a forum or discussion boards. Forums are greatly increasing their popularity and this is a good way to spread the word about your website promotion.
• In line with posting a forum, you may also want to use a signature file, a text that is appended at the end of your every post.

• Improve website promotion through banner ads displayed in other websites related to your content. But be sure that your ad is well-designed.

• Write a press release – this can definitely help in website promotion. You have to write an article about your website and submit it to different publications and you’ll get new visitors in no time at all!

Now you know what to do, know what you have to avoid as well. One of the common mistakes made is relying on free web hosting service. It’s harder for search engines to detect your website if it is hosted on a free host. If you mean serious business and eyeing it as long-term, then paid web hosting is the way to go. There are some companies that promise to submit your website to thousands of search engines at a very low price, do not be fooled. Majority of these directories and engines have very minimal traffic. Website promotion can be tricky but with good research, you and your business will succeed before you know it.

Source: Free Articles

With this in mind the following 10 tips focus on how to develop your website with your visitors in mind whilst also conducting effective search engine optimization activities.

1. Create Fresh Content.

When you are optimizing your website properly you will see a trend. If you are doing something that benefits your websites visitors then the search engines will reward you for it.
Blogs and forums are effective and easy ways of adding new information to your site on a regular basis. However, if your only purpose of setting up a blog or a forum is for better search engine rankings then there really is no point in doing it. Only add a forum if it contributes something beneficial to your website and if you have the traffic to make it interactive enough for visitors to return to it. And, only add a blog if you have something of interest to say on a regular basis. Once you have your blog and/or forum up-and-running you should optimize them with the same professionalism you do with any other page on your website.

2. Do not think that you can trick Search Engines.

As noted before, “If you are doing something that benefits your websites visitors then the search engines will reward you for it”.
If you try to trick the search engines by hiding keyword phrases, joining link farms, or any other sneaky practice your sites will be removed from the search engines and it will take you a long time to get back in (and you will also have to spend more time cleaning up your website before they will accept you).

3. Offer something unique.

If your website offers something that is unique and interesting to your target market and it is properly optimized (by applying all of the techniques listed above) you will not only rank well within the major search engines, you will also get the added benefit of people linking to your website in forums, blogs, and through other websites which will send your site more visitors and create more inbound links which will help it rank higher.
Remember its human visitors that you are trying to impress, not search engine robots.

4. Select suitable keyword phrases.

This is the single most important thing to do when it comes to optimizing your website for search engines. The words and phrases that your potential customers type into the major search engines are the keywords your site should be using within the specific areas of your webpage (see below; Optimizing your Page Titles and Optimizing your Content). There are a number of useful keyword research tools available on the web such as Word tracker and Keyword Discovery (both offer trial versions).
However, if you want to find out accurate figures of how many people are searching for your targeted keywords per week/month/year run a Google Adwords and/or Overture campaign and you will get extremely accurate figures of search engine traffic whilst (hopefully) generating income that will pay for your research.

5. Optimize all  pages of your website.

Optimizing each webpage is overlooked by so many websites and can be the difference between competing for a highly competitive keyword phrase such as “Irish Hotels” on your home page and competing for a much less competitive keyword phrase such as “Hotels in County Galway” on another relevant landing page. After that they can check out the rest of your website that is all about “Irish Hotels”.

6. Optimizing Titles of your Page.

All of the major search engines have 100’s of different algorithms that compute where your webpage should be listed for different keyword searches. Putting your keywords within the title description tag of your pages is one of the most important SEO techniques and will help your website climb through the rankings and allow your visitors to remember exactly what your page is all about when they save it to their “favorites”.

7. Optimizing Page Content.

It is sometimes very difficult to write content for your website. Not only do you need to put the information you want the visitor to see in front of them in an easy-to-read style, you also have to keep in mind the keywords your page is targeting so that you can rank better within search engines.
One of the best pieces of advice I have come across is to write for your visitors and include the keywords as much as makes sense. Read what you have written out loud to yourself and a few others. If it sounds stupid… lather, rinse, and repeat.

8. Make strategy of an inbound linking.

Submitting your site to website and article directories is a very beneficial way to drive targeted traffic to your website.
Links within these sites not only brings visitors to your website, but search engine “spiders” are easily able find your website and index your pages within their results. If your site doesn’t have a link pointing to it on the World Wide Web the search engines will never find it and you will never see any traffic from Google or the other big ones.

9. Descriptively labeling your links and images.

This technique is both common sense and good practice. Telling your visitors what the link that they are going to click on allows them to know exactly what they are going to be directed to. Saying “click here” is not enough to help them understand what they’re going to find once they click through. Be as descriptive as possible with every text and graphical link on your site. When writing your anchor text and alt attributes you can almost always describe the page you’re pointing to by using its main keyword phrase which is a major factor that search engines take into account when it comes to ranking your web pages.

10. Your site should be spider-friendly.

Your website may look fantastic. You and your web designer may be talented graphic designers who can make Flash and JavaScript dazzle your visitors with a show that would put Michael Flatley and his River Dance to shame. However, if your website contains Flash and Javascript it’s important to know that search engine spiders have difficulty reading this code (or appreciate the effort you put into the design). The way around this is to provide navigation alternatives such as static links and a site map to allow the spiders crawl deep within your website and index the web pages within their results. Overuse of Flash, JavaScript, and images can also lead to your web pages being very slow to download. If these file types are used sparingly your visitors and search engines will appreciate your efforts a lot more.

I put together here a list of shortcuts which proved very useful to me, especially when my projects required more time than I had available. I saved plenty of time working mostly from the keyboard, instead of wandering with the mouse all over the place. If you find it useful, feel free to use it and give me a big smile!

Ctrl + S = save
Ctrl + W = save and exit
Ctrl + Q = exit without saving
Ctrl + O = open file
Ctrl + N = opens a new document
Ctrl + P = print
Ctrl + F = find
Ctrl + H = replace
Ctrl + Z = undo
Ctrl + Y = redo
Ctrl + U = underline the content of the selected cell
Ctrl + B = bold the content of the selected cell
Ctrl + I = italicize the content of the selected cell
Ctrl + A = selects an area which includes all non-blank cells neighbouring the current one
Ctrl + A pressed when the current cell neighbours only with blank cells = select all
Ctrl + C = copy
Ctrl + V = paste (if you press ENTER after the copy of cut commands, is has the same effect)
Ctrl + X = cut
Ctrl + ‘ or Ctrl + D = copy the content of cell above into the current cell
Ctrl + ; = inserts the current date into the current cell
Ctrl + Shift + ; = inserts the time into the current cell
Double click on the edge of a cell within a table = moves the cursor in that direction to the first non blank cell.
F2 = enter the editing mode, with the cursor at the end of the content
Home, pressed in Editing mode = moves cursor at the beginning of the content
Ctrl + PageDown = goes to the next worksheet
Ctrl + PageUp = goes to the previous worksheet
Ctrl + L = creates a list from the data in range
Ctrl + K = insert hyperlink
Ctrl + 1 = opens the format cells dialog box
Ctrl + 7 = toggles off/on the icons menu
Ctrl + 9 = hide current row
Ctrl + 0 = hide current column
Alt + F4 = quit
Shift + right arrow = selects cells to right of the current one
Shift + left arrow = selects cells to right of the current one

Enjoy!

Ctrl + E = align center (current paragraph)
Ctrl + R = align right
Ctrl + L = align left
Ctrl + J = justify
Ctrl + P = print
Ctrl + K = insert hyperlink
Ctrl + F = find
Ctrl + H = replace
Ctrl + G = goto line
Ctrl + Shift + C = copy format
Ctrl + Shift + V = paste format
Ctrl + [ = decrease font size (applied on a selection)
Ctrl + ] = in­­crease font size
Ctrl + Backspace = delete word at the left of current position
Ctrl + Del = delete word at the right of current position
Ctrl + right arrow = moves cursor one word at a time towards right
Ctrl + left arrow = moves cursor one word at a time towards left
Ctrl + Home = go to beginning of document
Ctrl + End = go to end of document
Ctrl + F2 = Print Preview
Ctrl + F4 = Close file
Ctrl + F10 = toggles between full screen and normal view of the current window
Ctrl + F12 = open file
Shift + F3 = toggles between Caps and small letters (works on current word or on selection)

min-width and max-width is very useful command of CSS, whereby you can specify a minimum width for any element. This can be particularly useful for specifying a minimum width for a page.

Unfortunately, this command IE doesn’t understand, so we’ll need to come up with a new way of making this functionality work in this browser.

First, insert a <div> under the <body> tag, as we can’t assign a minimum width to the <body>:
<body>

<div>

Next, we create our CSS commands, to create a minimum width of 600px:

#container

{

min-width: 600px;

width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 600? “600px”: “auto”);

}

The first command is the regular minimum width command; the second is a short JavaScript command that only IE understands. Do note, though, that this command will cause your CSS document to become invalid; you may prefer to insert it into the head of each HTML document to get around this.

You might also want to combine this minimum width with a maximum width:
#container

{

min-width: 600px;

max-width: 1200px;

width:expression(document.body.clientWidth < 600? “600px” : document.body.clientWidth > 1200? “1200px” : “auto”);

}

If you are a blogger, you might want to keep reading this post as I’ll guide you on how to insert post title in a Feedburner email subject.

Go to your own Feed at Google’s Feedburner.

Go to the Publicize tab on the top.

Go to Email Subscriptions from the left menu.

You’ll see an “Email Branding” option on the expanded Email Subscriptions menu. Click on it.

Have a read on how to insert a custom email subject on the Feedburner email page.

Follow the instructions or you can also copy mine from the screenshot below (I use a “Post title – My Blog’s title” but feel free to use whatever you prefer).Previously, you can only put a static text on the email subject, which was quite lame.
Now, you can put the post title dynamically on the Feedburner email subject!

${latestItemTitle} – Ejaz Ahmad

${n} new posts on Ejaz Ahmad

There is also a new option to display a different subject if the email feed has more than 1 email available on the feed. Nifty!

Save and preview your new settings!

To configure the Automatic Login mode, use the following steps:

Open the System Preferences utility.

Click the Accounts icon to open the Accounts pane of the System Preferences window.

Click the Set Auto Login button. The login account sheet will appear. By default, the username of the currently logged in account will be entered. If you want to have the current account logged in automatically, skip to Step 5. If you aren’t logged in as the Administrator, you will have to authenticate yourself before you can make these changes (click the Lock icon, enter an Administrator User Name and Password, and press Return).

Enter the username for the account into which you want to be logged in automatically in the User Name field.

Enter the password for the account that you want to be automatically logged in when the Mac starts up.

When you have entered the user account information, click OK to enable automatic login. When you return to the Accounts pane, you will see the “Log in automatically as username” check box where username is the account you selected in Step 4.

The next time you start or restart your Mac, the account you specified will be automatically logged in and you will move directly to the desktop for that account.

This setting affects only the start or restart sequence. When you log out instead of shutting down or restarting, you will still see the Login window again and will have to log in to resume using the Mac.

To disable automatic login again, uncheck the “Log in automatically as username” check box on the Accounts pane.

In this post, I am listing down the 60+ promotional websites where you can promote your designing and other articles. There are most of sites in which some sites are free and some sites require registration I m going to list down all.

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