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I do not think u wil see xampp or wamp at software shop becos it's a free software.

If you want XAMPP for Windows, then download it free here: www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

If you want WAMP, then download it free here: www.sourceforge.net/projects/wampserver

Although both XAMPP and WAMP are same, but I recommend you download and install WAMP.

After installing it, just type in localhost on your browser and run it. If wamp interface is opened, then u have successfully installed wamp. If it says cannot connect, then try to start wamp by clicking on the Start button on your pc or laptop and the click on wamp to start it.

All your php files must be saved inside 'www' folder which is found inside 'wamp' folder.

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First, I must thank God for granting me journey mercies. We landed on Monday morning at MMIA safely. It's good to be home.

I must say that Nigeria is stil as mean and rugged as ever. The security agents at d airport were so mean and not even wearing a smiling face for seeing their fellow citizens returning from some far countries. To them, eveybody was a suspect. The trolley was not free. I had to quickly change few dollars I had on me in order to be able to pay 150 naira for something one can use free at other airports abroad. While in a taxi, I found out that lagos is stil as noisy and busy as ever. One reason why I wil never reside in this great city.

Ok. So I have been working on some tutorials, which I wil be making available on this board in due time. First, I want to handle a responsive web design tutorial from scratch. I wil practically walk us through from a blank text editor to a fully responsive website.

I wil start by the weekend. I wil later upload the screenshot of what we will be building.

Google Analytics is pretty simple. Just use your gmail account to login at: http://www.google.com/analytics/

Add a new account and follow all the steps. Then get the javascript code and go to every web page you want to track and paste it. Paste it before the closing body tag. Then save and reupload the affected documents.

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You can as well host with: www.domain.com
They are awesome.

Cheers.

Go to wordpress, download and install this plugin: Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC). Then use it to run a scan on your theme. It will automatically detect malicious script and tell you the location of such script.

Then you need 'JAVASCRIPT: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition'. It will take you from start to finish in javascript programming. Download free pdf here: http://it-ebooks.info/book/416/

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Just keep paying and renewing them.

You may not be able to take down the website. As long as the guy has access to the cpanel. If it's a static html website, then you cant hack it unless you hack the server where the website is hosted, which is not beans. Another thing is to report to his host company. But then you will need a strong reason to prove to them the need to take down the website. They may not take down the website merely because of a misunderstanding between a web developer and his client. The best thing to do is to forget about the website and the guy. When the hosting expires, I do not think he will renew it.

Cool. Google is really doing great in terms of engaging their audience. And do you know they use this kind of design also as a marketing strategy?

Talking about Nairaland, yes, NL should have done something surprising on the home page to mark the Independence celebration. Everybody that visits the home page will be surprised by the new design and will thereby feel the wave of the celebration.

This is important since 90% of Nairaland's members are Nigerians and with the fact the forum's name carries the name of the currency of this great nation.

It's well. We are learning and we are coming up.

Desperate youths are now everywhere. Why?

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Do people still fall to this kind of scam?

Then outsource the job to someone who knows wordpress. However, I will advise you to learn at least one cms. You cannot get big bucks in this industry if u dont know how to develop or at least edit a cms. Most clients now want a website they can do routine updates by themselves. And cms-powered website is the answer. Start learning now.

If he wants something like that, then do something like that for him. It's just a bunch of html and css. The designer used images in a clever way and he has good knowledge of css positioning. If your client wants just a static website that looks like that, then you can achieve that perfectly with just html and css. But if he wants it to be a blog like this one is, then you will have to give him a custom wordpress theme.

Handcrafted means that you will not see a template like that. You will have to do it yourself from scratch.

I dont know what you mean. That blog is a handcrafted wordpress theme.

I think any blog can use it. But it may fit well for fashion or entertainment blog since the template is too stylish.

There are few things you should note. On the home page, the big banner has button that says 'Book Now' but it's not clickable. That is a bad user experience because a user will want to click it since it's a call to action button.

The three small images on the home page should not fade upon hover and they shouldn't have pointer as a cursor. What is the point since the images are not clickable and even if they are clicked, not happens. Then why give a user an impression that something will happen if they click on the images by making the images fade when hovered. The promo image should be saved with png format not gif. It looks oily in the eyes. You should also give it some bottom margin.

The facebook plugin you used is normally used for blogging or news websites not a business or corporate website. Again, i dont see why the pages should have the 7 social media icons asking a user to 'share and enjoy'. Share and enjoy what? Your business website page or a blog post?

Portfolio page is usually done with a screenshot of the web pages you have designed. What you have there is like some bunch of paragraphs, which a user may not be impressed to read. But if he sees a screenshot, he will be enticed to read about a particular screenshot that appeals to him.

When a user is on other pages, the drop down menu doesnt show again. On the web hosting page under the two plans table, why use red color to write about what your business is set to offer as if you are giving a user a warning?

Your logo is not sharp. And the name you used to save it is just funny. It's not good for seo. You shouldn't save a small image as logo with jpg. Use png format in order to get a better quality.

Why will a user have to click on the 'get quote' before he sees the team page, which is even encrypted with a word 'outsource'. About the team should be part of a drop down menu of About us link.

This is your website, there is no point saying, 'designed and coded by myprova.com'.

The website is one of the simplest wordpress themes, and so you must make it to be responsive.

Why make the client partners image a link to your url? There is no point. And it should come last on the web page before footer.

There are few other things, which I dont have time to point out. But overall, you should try to understand about user experience, color theory and aestheticism.

Cheers.

How did you get into the advert contract with them in the first place? What were the terms? Do they run like Adsense? Didn't you have power to discontinue their ads on your website?

There are several ways to market yourself in this web business. If you can write down a well-written simple web design proposal and approach let say 10 small or medium businesses in your area and ask them that you believe in what they are doing and that you want to contribute to the growth of their businesses by offering an affordable web design services to them.

This is something I did here: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/web-promo

I sent a well written and sweet-tongued proposal to as many people as possible. Most of the people are my facebook friends and CtrlShift Studios facebook fans.

I started like this:

"Good news! CtrlShift Studios is currently running a web design promo. We have discovered that your business qualifies to have an online presence. And having said that, we have decided to bring our price down in order to craft an awesome website for you and assist you to go a step ahead your competitors. Here is the plan. We will register the domain name for you. We will design the website for you. We will host the website for you. Then, we will teach you how to manage and maintain your website. All at the cheapest cost. For further details, please check: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/web-promo and get back to us. Thank you."

You can also organise a simple web design training for people. If you get 20 persons and charge them 10k or 20k each person, you will get about 200k or 400k. This will be like a one to two weeks intensive training where you will teach them html, css, basics of php and wordpress. Like what we want to do here: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/web-training

Every web developer should learn at least a CMS. Most clients now want to be able to do routine updates on their websites by themselves. So the day of static html website is going. If you know about two CMSes, you can put together a master class training on CMS for web developers. If you get about 10 persons and charge them 50k each, that will be 500k at the end of the day. Like what we are putting together to do here: http://www.ctrlshiftstudios.com/cms-training

Above all, you must remain passionate and determined. There is money in this industry. You may end up one day getting a web design job for a politician or government agency.

Cheers.

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If the politicians of the far North are not careful, they will not get a president from their area for another 50 years.

There is a lot of irritating noise coming especially from the North-West concerning the need for the presidency to return to the North in 2015. This should be discarded as sound and fury signifying nothing. To talk of the presidency returning to the North is to presume the presidency belongs to the North. It does not! There should be no Northern president of Nigeria for the next fourteen years at the very least. After that, the presidency should not go to the North-West. It should go to the Middle-Belt.

The new PDP
In the last few weeks, we have witnessed a comedy of errors whereby some PDP Governors, mostly Northern, have rebelled from the PDP, formed what they call a new PDP with one central demand: that Goodluck Jonathan should not contest for the presidency in 2015. This makes for good newspaper headlines and little else. It is preposterous to insist that a sitting president should not go for a second-term when he is entitled to do so. Those who are opposed to him should challenge him at the polls if they can. In my opinion, they don’t stand a chance against him and they know it.

This is a Nigerian thing. If you start a business and are successful, your competition does not strive to match or exceed your services. The favoured option is to try to drive you out of business. They will pay the police to close you down. They will go to the babalawo and ask him to terminate you with extreme prejudice. You will come to your office and find a dead chicken on the doormat. What all this says eloquently is that your competition cannot compete with you.

The same goes for the shenanigans of the so-called new PDP. There is nothing new about these jokers. All they have to offer is the same bad news. The reality they don’t want to face is that Goodluck Jonathan is unstoppable as the PDP presidential candidate in 2015. A new PDP candidate does not even have a look-in. Neither does a PDM candidate, which Atiku is apparently reserving as his fall-back position when his shenanigans in the PDP come to nothing.

It sometimes takes Nigerians a long time to face reality and admit defeat. This is the case with Atiku Abubakar. The bitter truth is that, try as he might; Atiku can never be president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The 2015 election will be between Goodluck Jonathan and the APC presidential candidate. The only opportunity that the North has to produce the next president lies in the APC putting forward a Northerner as its presidential candidate. Even then, Goodluck Jonathan must be the odds-on favourite to win. As a rule, sitting African presidents don’t lose elections.

Lame-duck Governors
Politics is a power-game. However, the high jinks of the nPDP are all smoke and mirrors. All but one of these rebel governors is a lame-duck; meaning this is their last term in office. With the sole exception of Abdulfattah Ahmed of Kwara, they have all served two terms as governors and that is the statutory limit. Lame-duck governors have greatly diminished power. Their opponents know they will not have to tolerate them much longer. Lame-duck governors run against the clock. They are soon to be dumped into the dustbin of history. That is the predicament of these loud rebels.

What is pathetic about their situation is actually their central demand. Goodluck Jonathan is at the height of his powers. He is not a lame-duck. He can run for a second term. That gives him enough time to deal with his opponents. It also tells them that they better make peace with him now, or they will be in the wilderness possibly for the next six years. That is a very long time in politics. By that time, at least six of the rebel PDP governors will be politically dead. These politicians facing a bleak future are now demanding that the president relinquish his advantage by making himself a lame-duck like them: declaring that he will not contest for the presidency in 2015. Goodluck Jonathan is certainly not a fool; so that is not going to happen.

This is my prediction. The rebel lame-duck governors have had their fifteen minutes of fame; thanks to the Nigerian news media that hankers after sensational stories. They have made the noise and grabbed the headlines. That is the end of the road for them. They have to come back to Jonathan cap in hand. I repeat, politics is a game of power and, at the moment, Jonathan is sitting pretty. If these lame-duck governors don’t play ball, they will all be handed over to the EFCC if and when Jonathan is returned as president.

I actually believe that is what all this brouhaha is about. These governors want assurances that they will be left in peace to enjoy their booty after their retirement. I don’t believe that assurance should be given either. They have gone about it the wrong way. They should have gone to the president to plea-bargain rather than all this bluster. As it is, the PDP machinery in their states will be taken away from them and that will be it. Who are the people going to follow? Would they join a man who is going to be out of a job as governor within two years, or will they follow a sitting president who is likely to remain president for another six years? It is a no-brainer: Jonathan has all the cards hands down.

Of all the rebel governors, the most pathetic is Rotimi Amaechi. He is from the South-South. Nevertheless, he is demanding that a South-South president should not seek a second-term. Within the framework of Nigeria, that position is not only idiotic, it is politically suicidal. You don’t scuttle a South-South presidency in favour of the North and expect thank you from the people of the South-South. All Amaechi has achieved is to consign himself into future political irrelevance.

Northern political disintegration
There are still more smoke and mirrors. One of these is that the North can determine who will be president of Nigeria. That is all poppycock. If it were true, Buhari would have been elected Nigeria’s president in 2011. He won all the far northern states of Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Sokoto, Yobe, and Zamfara. Nevertheless, he still lost woefully by 10 million votes.

Time was when a Northern candidate was certain of victory by sheer weight of numbers. All that is history now. The North is the only region in Nigeria that no longer exists politically. Thanks to Boko Haram, it is now divided between Moslems and Christians. The Middle Belt now considers itself Middle Belt and not as the North. What is the point of including yourself in the North if all it gets you is to play second-fiddle perpetually to Sokoto, Kano and Katsina? The North is now also divided between the elite and the masses. What is the point of insisting on a Northern president when all it produces are Northern billionaires without appreciable development of the North?

In their insistence on being president of Nigeria yet again, the far north is burning its bridges. The most faithful supporters of the North politically have been the South-South and the South-East. The possibility for such continued support in the future is now being scuttled by the seeming Northern determination to truncate the legitimate second-term bid of a South-South president and to deny the Ibos their rightful claim to the presidency. If the politicians of the far North are not careful, they will not get a president from their area for another 50 years.

Federal character
Nigeria is an agglomeration of peoples of different regions and ethnicity. This must be reflected in the polity. Accordingly, the North should take an extended sabbatical from the presidency. Other regions have tolerated a Northern presidency for 37 out of 53 years, to no great effect. There is nothing to recommend another northern president in the short-term. The last thing Nigeria needs right now is another President Musa Yar’adua with his highfalutin seven-point program.

Northerners are rightfully the apostles of federal character. By the same token, the presidency should reflect the federal character of Nigeria. Goodluck Jonathan is important as the first South-South president. The South-South deserves a second-term according to the principles of federal character.

After 8 years of a South-South presidency, it cannot be said to be the turn of the North again, when the Ibos, a major ethnic group, have only had a head of state for six months. Before we can talk of another Northern presidency, we should have had at least 8 years of an Ibo presidency. If after that, the presidency then moves to the North, it should not go to the traditional northern odd-jobbers. It should go to the Middle Belt for another 8 years.

My advice therefore to the people of the North (especially the North-West) is that they should fasten their seat-belts. They may be in for a long journey in the political wilderness. The way out is not through this nPDP nonsense which is likely to antagonize the rest of the country against them. The predicament of the far North requires greater political dexterity. There is a new realpolitik in Nigeria, and it is not to the advantage of the North.

Zero policy debate
Nigerian elections are peculiar in that there is hardly any policy debate as such. It is all about which region gets the presidency, as opposed to which policies get implemented. In 14 years of PDP presidency, I have yet to discover exactly what the party stands for. Nobody seems to care. Immediately a president is elected, the debate begins on where the next president should come from. 2015 is two years away. Nevertheless, we are already in election-mode. Government money is being saved for the next election. Government money is being looted by the lame-ducks. Everyone is shouting “my turn;” “me-first.” Meanwhile, Nigeria continues to go to the dogs.

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You can easily create that with Wordpress and then install vanilla or bbpress on it to cater for the forum. Then you and your team will be posting quality contents and tutorials on different subjects. There are lots of benefits. Some of them are:

1. You will end contributing something positive in the life of the students.
2. You can monetize the blog by placing adverts.
3. You can create a premium membership only area.
4. You can create a video tutorial or an ebook and sell it for a small amount of money. Digital products are goldmine. They dont finish. Once you produce one, no more. You just send to them through email. It's never going to exhaust because it's electronic.

Cheers.

You may need to paste here the whole url or the codes your advertiser gave to you so that we can see clearly what you are trying to achieve.

The codes above can achieve that. But if you find it difficult tweaking, you may send me the website details to me let me assist you with it.
Cheers.

Would you pls stop this senselessness? You have an idea of a company and up till now, you dont know what name to name your company. What will happen when you start running the company? What will happen when you start getting clients who may require that you brainstorm and help them get ideas that will make their weddings exceptional? We expect you to think and brainstorm with ur team. U hav created this thread before and we gave u some ideas. Even if the names we suggested did not fit it, those names should have given you a clue of what you want. For goodness sake, u ar an entrepreneur and the ceo of this company. We expect you to be smarter than this.

There is a question you need to answer. Right now in the US, are you running your web hosting business as a reseller? If yes, then you can continue with the main company you are with even while establishing in Nigeria. If no, then you must never think of becoming a reseller to a Nigerian web hosting company. Think ahead and dont bend backward.