How to show-hide sidebar widget

How to make so, that the part of contents would show on the main page and disappeared on associate pages. For example on this blog the section BLOGS is visible only on the main page.

For this You should do the following:

• Open Template -> Edit HTML tab
  
• Set checkbox Expand Widget Templates
• Find bigining of fragment that you are going to hide in the HTML. In this example that is: <b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Blogs' type='HTML'>
• Inser after <b:includable id='main'> the next code:<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'> and </b:if> before </b:includable></b:widget>
• Save template

All code for this example: <b:widget id='HTML1' locked='false' title='Blogs' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>

<h2 class='title'></h2>

<div class='widget-content'>

<data:content/>

</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>

</b:if>

</b:includable>

</b:widget>

There is no necessity more to edit html code at desire to change contents of this widget.

Few steps to Advertise Your Online Business for Free

If you recently decided to start an online business, you’re probably wondering how to advertise it. If you’re a cheapskate like me, you’re probably wondering how you can advertise it for free and still get good results. If this is the case, this is the perfect article for you.

You don’t have to pay one cent to successfully advertise an online business.

As odd as this may seem, my most successful online businesses didn’t get any paid advertising, where as my less successful online businesses did get paid advertising. I’m not sure if this was supposed to be an omen or something, but I found it to be rather peculiar.

The point here is simply that you don’t need to buy advertising in order to have a successful online business. Would it help to buy it? Typically, yes it would. Do you need to buy it? Probably not, unless you’re planning on launching something of a rather high magnitude.

Here are some ways to advertise your online business for free:

1. Automatic link lists, also known as topsites.

Topsites were the first real way that I generated traffic for my online businesses back when I started out. The reason for this is that you get traffic basically instantly. All you have to do is sign up, put your special link code on your website, click on it to send in a vote, and next thing you know you will be listed (as long as there isn’t too much competition). There are plenty of topsites where you will only need one vote to show up on the first or second page, and instantly start receiving traffic. You can start your own topsite and/or find topsites at www.top-site-list.com and a gazillion other places on the web.

2. Link exchanges.

Exchanging links with other quality websites related to yours is a great way to increase traffic, make friends, and increase your pagerank. Just send an email or fill out a provided form to a webmaster you are interested in trading links with, put his link up, and see what happens. Every link you have up on another site will send you more visitors, and further legitimize your website. If you are interested in exchanging links with this blog please click here.

3. Search engines.

Search engines are probably the best way to score a lot of traffic. However, to successfully get a lot of visitors from a search engine for your specific topic is anything but easy. You will have to optimize your site for search engines with the correct meta tags to stand a good chance. Pick as many different and specialized relevant keywords and phrases as you possibly can. As far as I can tell, the more different and ridiculously specific keywords/phrases you have, the more traffic you will get. The reason for this is that the more general terms are fought for tooth and nail by tons of websites. The more specific terms/phrases aren’t fought over much, and can be more easily won over. However, each one of the more specific terms/phrases will not give as much traffic as a more general term/phrase would. To make up for this you need to come up with a ton of the more specific ones.

If you haven’t already submitted your website to the biggest search engine, Google, and you aren’t listed yet (you might want to check first), you can do it here: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

4. Directories

Directories are a great way to easily gain exposure and pagerank. However, they typically don’t provide as much traffic as the other options. There is one directory that may be the exception to the “not as much traffic” rule, and that one is www.dmoz.org. However, getting listed there may not be easy. Dmoz.org (aka The Open Directory Project) is a highly respected hand picked directory of websites. The data is so well respected that Google and many other search engines use it in their results. A listing at Dmoz.org is like a listing in multiple search engines with an extra hint of respect tagged on. Believe me, you most definitely want this. The directory is a non profit volunteer run organization, so there won’t be any paying for listings. You have to earn a listing with quality content and a noticeable website. Good luck.

5. Forums

Using forums to generate traffic is quite nice in the sense that you can join forums on specific topics and know there are a bunch of active users that could very well become active users/visitors for your website. All you need to do is put a link to your website in your signature and post away. Every post you make will have a link to your website. To demonstrate a more extreme version of doing this, if you make a post on every thread of a forum for a year then anytime someone searches for something on the forum they will probably come to a thread with your link on it. I haven’t actually done this “posting on every thread for a year” thing, but the more I think about it if you were to do it on a really big forum it could generate ridiculous traffic. Make sure, however, that your posts aren’t blatant spam. Try to make yours posts as useful and on topic as possible. One extremely popular forum is www.offtopic.com.

6. Social bookmarking websites.

If your business involves any kind of daily updates that include unique content, you can probably use social bookmarking websites to promote it as well. Here is a short list of some good ones for you to join: Digg, Netscape, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Del.icio.us, and Newsvine. Just submit your new content to these websites every day and you will increase your traffic as well as your pagerank. You will also find yourself coming across a lot of interesting material that may take up quite a bit of your time if you get too engrossed in it, so be careful

How to Speed Up Windows XP Shutdown

Windows takes long to Shutdown when third party or Microsoft applications have not properly unload from memory when exiting. Windows will keep trying to completely close them until finally decides that it can't and should shutdown. Even if you find the application causing the problem it may be impossible to do anything about it.

To fix this problem Microsoft released the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service

After the installation open up your services list (Click start, then run and type services.msc, click OK), you should see one new service :

This free utility automatically cleans up user profiles reclaiming resources as soon as a task is finished and prevents you from wait when shutting down Windows XP.

Running the .cmd file contained will force Windows XP to shutdown in few seconds.

You may also need a fast user Log-off or a fast Restart.

How to Speed Up Firefox Page Rendering

Mozilla applications render web pages incrementally - they display what's been received of a page before the entire page has been downloaded. Since the start of a web page normally doesn't have much useful information to display, Mozilla applications will wait a short interval before first rendering a page: by default, Firefox doesn't try to render a web page for 250 milliseconds while it's waiting for data.

If you use about:config to add the Integer preference nglayout.initialpaint.delay, and set the value to 0, Firefox immediately starts to display the page, even without complete data (lower values will make a page initially display more quickly, but will make the page take longer to finish rendering. Higher values will have the opposite effect).

Website Design tips & mistakes

7 Website Design Mistakes to Avoid

1. Not planning your website

Before you start creating your website design, you must know, and be very clear about your purposes and goals for your website.

• Who your website is intended for
• What benefits can your website give to the intended group
• What you want the intended group to do as a result of visiting your website

Only with a well-defined purposes and goals, then you can clearly and directly convey your message to your intended group through your website.
As the saying goes, Planning is the key to success, in everything we do.

2. Using too many colors and font styles

Keep your website design to no more than 3 colors and font styles. Using too many colors and font styles confuse your website visitors.
Think through these:

• How long would a confuse visitor stay in your website?
• What is the chance of this visitor returning to your website?
• Will this visitor recommend your website to his friends?

Your website design has to be pleasant to the eyes of your visitors to keep them surfing in your website.

3. Contact information not placed in an easily seen location

The 100% safe way is to use a ‘contact us’ button. The ‘contact us’ button is used so commonly that hardly any visitor can miss it. Place the ‘contact us’ button on all your web pages. If you are selling, offer your visitors multiple ways to connect to you at their convenience.

• Through phone
• Through email
• Through on-line support
• Your office address

4. Information out of date

When your visitors see any out of date information in your website, it reflects poorly on you. Your website is a direct reflection of you and your credibility. When they see your website as good, they are inclined to trust your website.
Every single bit of information counts. Always update your website promptly whenever information changes. Do not run the risk of losing the trust of your visitors unnecessary.

5. Broken links

Broken link is a hyperlink that leads to web page that does not exist. In most cases when you click a broken link you will see the Error 404 page.
Test-run your website and fix-up any broken links. Thereon, when you do an update to your website, test-check your website to ensure all links works.

6. Orphan pages

Orphan pages are web pages with no links pointing to them.
One quick and easy way to solve this problem is to put a link to ‘Home’ on all your web pages.

7. Slow loading times

Do not overload your website with images and applets. Not only does it slow down your web pages loading time, it turns away your visitors.
Avoid these top 7 annoyances and create a website that will attract visitors and earn income.

How to disable ads on Digg in IE

Disable annoying ads on Digg in internet explorer.