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Hiyeps: i am having a problem with my blog Rss feed.anytime i like it,it will transfer me to my fb book.i want to connect my blog to my fb page so that any tin i post will be seen on my fb page.....pls i need your help.\
my page www.facebook.com/nikkymi01
my blog; www.nikkymi..com

You can use this service
http://networkedblogs.com

When it comes to online business.
Things you shouldn't do are.

1. Dont pay money in someone's personal account.
2. It shouldn't be a customer to boss conversation.
There should be like a customer service.
3. Don't pay until you have made enquiries about the company.

DaPinkHackeR: Hey guys is any one aware that 000webhost has close activation of hosting sites from Nigeria?

The list was pasted and Nigeria, Romania and one trashy country was listed as countries bound from receiving the confermation email.
I tried to host a site with them about 7-8 months now and still the site is awaiting approval and am just freaked out, any nazuka now is very boring when i host a site some couple of months back it couldn't function normally.

Any list of free hosting sites?

For free hosting I use
Ueuo.com ...it should tell you to click on a page to freewebhostingarea.com or so .

Hello, everyone/webmasters/bloggers/etc.
I'd like to share a thought on something crucial to those who plan to make money online via their websites, either its an e-commerce website or a blog.

I have come up with 10 Things to consider.
When you decide to take a bold step into the cloud.

1. SOLVING AN UNIMPORTANT PROBLEM

If the problem your business solves is
important enough, you won’t even have to
look for customers. Imagine if you had a
cure for hiv, for example.
Businesses fail all the time because they
try to solve a problem nobody really cares
about. If you put your product or idea out
there and nobody buys it, there’s a good
chance you should look for a more important problem, not a bigger audience.

2. LISTEN TO CUSTOMERS
How do you know if the problem you solve is important enough?
Listen to your customers. Really
listen to them as well interact with them.!!
Don’t just listen to the customers who
provide validation. Listen to the ones who
ask for refunds or buy your product but
don’t use it. Listen to the people who tell you they won’t buy, and find out why.Listen to the ones who "critises, but with a solid point".
Don’t just pay lip service to your
customers. You don’t have all the answers,
THEY DO. There’s a reason why
“the customer is always right,”
because without customers you don’t have a business.

3. BE DIFFERENT
In most markets, customers have different
options to choose from. If your business
has competition, you have to give your
potential customers a reason to choose your offering over another.
I see this all the time with new bloggers, you all know this too.
They jump into a popular topic and
ESSENTIALLY MIMIC or COPY WORD FOR WORD what other popular bloggers are already doing. Sometimes I wonder what they think “if it works for them, maybe it will work for me.”
There are about or more than 6million nigerian blogs out there(some not functioning anymore).
You Should think about it from the reader or customer perspective. If they find your
blog, they’ll be asking themselves “why is
this blog worth spending any time on?” You
have to answer that question quickly and
clearly, before they click the back button.
You can’t expect to grow an visitors by
being an INFERIOR VERSION(copy copy version) of some other better known site. Even if your site or product is arguably better than the competition, “better” is subjective.
Instead of SIMPLY TRYING TO BE BETTER,
YOU NEED TO BE DIFFERENT. Then, when
someone asks why your site or product is
worth her attention, your answer will be
objective and easy to understand.

4. CHOOSING A TOPIC OR AREA OF SPECIALTY YOU CARE ABOUT
Whatever you choose to focus your business
on, you’re going to need deep subject KNOWLEDGE, fresh CREATIVITY, and unwavering STAMINA.

There will be competition who cares more
about the topic/specialisation than you do. How can you compete if the gap between your love of a topic/specialisation and your competitors’ is wide?
This doesn’t mean your business has to be
your #1 “passion” or life’s work (most of
people don’t have one single passion in life), but don’t make things impossible by
choosing something you don’t care about.
If you love your topic/specialisation, stamina won’t be an issue. If you love your topic, creativity will flow, and influence will be easier to build.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs.
Ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman

5. START WITH VASTLY RIGHT EXPECTATIONS
This won’t be easy, and it won’t be quick.
Building a successful business is a massive undertaking. You probably can’t do it while traveling the world. If you have a full-time job or a student with little spare time, it will be much, much harder.
If you don't have much time for what your planning on doing, that work might fail.
These are the hard truths that people
rarely talk about. Overnight successes
don’t exist. Your original plan will
probably have to be completely re-written,
maybe multiple times.
Ask yourself: will building this business
still be worth it if it takes years to get
there? What if building the business is
harder and more stressful than your current job?
Talk to some entrepreneurs or someone sensible with wide thinking scope who may have achieved something close to what you want to achieve. Ask them what it really took.
Ask them about stress and timelines and
giving up. Ask them not to sugarcoat it.
Really listen. Then ask yourself if
you’re prepared for your own version
of that.

6. DO NOT THINK WITHOUT ACTING
Not much to say here that isn’t perfectly
summed up in this quote:

"Genius is one percent inspiration,
ninety-nine percent perspiration."
-Thomas Edison

If your ratio of thinking-to-doing is
anything less than 80% doing, think again
do more.

As Chase of fizzle.co says, entrepreneurs have two modes, CEO mode and worker-bee mode. In a one-person business, you have to be both.
Do not spend most of the time thinking of what to implement having dreams, that this would be a good idea,and all you do is sit down and plan with your mouth or head.
Take action!, draw plans out, strategise, think outside the box, if possible create a box outside the box and think outside it.

7. HAVE YOUR PEOPLE AROUND
This is for those that plan to create something bigger than just a blog, sites like or shayo.com.
No one can succeed in business alone. You
need people to make it work. Your customers are people, your suppliers are people, your service providers are people.
Most importantly, you need support from
other entrepreneurs who are at similar
stages as you are, and from others with
more experience.
The more connected you become with other
entrepreneurs, the more normal your quest
becomes. Share your struggles and goals, and review your progress each week. This simple process is so powerful.


8. DO NOT CONFUSE A “blog” WITH “business”
Repeat this: a blog isn’t a business. A blog no be business.
A blog is a beautiful platform for
sharing your ideas, connecting with people
and growing an audience. The same is true
of YouTubing, or any other place you might publish content for FREE.
Giving away free content isn’t a business. It’s a tool for building influence. Don’t count on turning that influence into SPONSORSHIPS or ADVERTISING for Naira. You’ll need a more direct plan for earning an income if you want your blog or to pay off.
That where the idea of advertising/publicising your blog or business to get visitors comes in(watch out for a content on this).


9. KNOW YOUR COMPETITORS.
70% of nigerian that own websites for business or having blogs, have the same category of content on the site.
This then creates room for visitors to pick favourites.
Looking at #2 where it says be different.
If you are different a visitor will always visit your website to know what new content or item you have.

Like now.. Lindaikeji handles entertainment, ogbongeblog handles tech issues, jarushub handles career talks.

People would always visit their sites because they have different contents.

Now NOTE: For those in the same category like entertaiment(for bloggers) or sales(for e-commerce websites), you now have to learn to advertise your products to the public, uniquely and attractively.


10. What would you add to this list?
This is my list with extracts from fizzle.co, from what I hear and see
in the entrepreneurial world.
Is your idea different?
What mistakes do you see new entrepreneurs making?
Please share your thoughts.
You might just help someone avoid a big mistake. If you think this list is helpful, please pass it along!
ThankYou For Reading!

cute shade: did you mean the toning lotion or the perfect tone gentle toning lotion(picture above) thanks

Yeah the perfect tone gentle toning lotion

easrael: I am in the running for the face of Western Union...Please Visit this link and click on Like.....for my picture and their facebook page
God Bless You...

http:///Es9oY5bfde

Try seperating your links..cuz it seems broken when you click on it once

Well iv used the toning lotion before..I ddnt notice much maybe cuz am a guy , but it only maintained my skin color.

And how much are you willing to pay?

Very cool template.

neo_welsh: Compliment of the season, Guru's in the house please help me rate this website. i will appreciate any advice from you guys
thanks
www.studentofnaija.com

Please what hosting service did you use?

By your term encrypting,
Do you mean shortening the link or really encrypting,using an encryption algorithm..??

If you want to shorten the link which changes your regular url to a short one
For example:

example.com/loaded/onepage.html

Using a url shortener would change it to
Something like
/xafsr49

You can use http:// or google url shortener service.

But if you do mean encrypting twitter links..I do not think there's a way to do that
..it all depends on twiTter services.
As of which they naturally shorten weblinks.

Well if you want to learn javascript and your not catching up well with the tutorials on here.

I feel a good place to start is http://w3schools.com
or http://quackit.com

It gives you an option to test the codes, as well you can easily understand.

Well if you want to learn javascript and your not catching up well with the tutorials on here.

I feel a good place to start is w3schools.com
or quackit.com

It gives you an option to test the codes, as well you can easily understand.

mystry: please i need a code that can login users i use php 5.4.16 email: alanemehenry6@gmail.com

Edit to your taste.
It contains a registration/login script.
You could find more online if you just search "Google"

rutchiekens: Err!! Merely looking at d design of d website, u'll know they are nothing to write home about

Well you cannot judge a book by its cover.
Your saying this because the service isn't a popular one like quickteller.

Although the design might be a little off,
And the written contents on it are not captivating enough.

But then it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.

cbrass: Most of those syntax errors u see there where just because I typed it here..I didn't make the mistakes in my script..well what I wll do is force every use that wishes to play the game to eisther use firefox or google chrome and will tell them before hand to allow pop ups before they register to play

Good idea, you can just use a javascript code which would alert/redirect a user when he opens the site using IE, that their browser isn't supported.

cbrass: Yea that's the case..its not triggered by a click event, even if I use a window.open() with onclick it will not show a pop up but I have a code like this:

If($name==true)
{
Echo"<script>window.open("play.php";
}
Else
{
Echo"something";
}
in firefox it asks permission from the user to allow a pop up but IE9 it doesn't even work

Ok, if this is your code or not...or things to look out for because IE9 is some tough browser
1. Make sure there are no spaces in the urls.
2. Make sure there are no trailing commas
3. You also need to close the script tag
</script>
4. Then another thing to check is the browser settings, cuz they also alter the way pop ups happen.
5. Ur Echo statement..
U can't use double columns in double columns.
Echo "<script>window.open('page.php');</script>
And if none of these works... I suggest you find another way to alter your development.
As there's always a way.

cbrass: Not working Bro

Not working Bro

Ok try any of these.
Iv tried some and it worked...

1. <p>Click the button to open a new browser window.</p>

<button onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button>

<script>
function myFunction()
{
window.open("http://www.url.com");
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

2.


<a href="javascript:window.open('http://
google.com');return false;"> open 2 </a>

3.

onclick=window.open("about:blank","newwin"

...There's something you should note.. A pop up will not show if the window.open() is triggered my a click event.

cbrass: Thanks a lot, I hope it doesn't require the user clicking anything before it works? Will try it now

Well just let us know if you encounter any problems

Try this
$('a').on('click.open', function(e)
{ e.preventDefault(); window.open('http://
url.com') });

sunday478: thanks for ur help on both threads, I have tried both, but it kept saying url not found. It always use the Url:Localhost/xampp,
Instead of reading from the localhost folder

Ok uhm, try this...
In your htdocs folder where the script is located, say page.php

Right click on the script, open page with
Any of your preferred browser

Then when it opens, at the url bar, u should see a url like: c:/xampp/htdocs/page.php.
Now clear the c:/ to the htdocs/ and enter localhost/page.php .....and if that doesn't work
.. you should check your apache settings well. Or re-install

sunday478: This is the code.

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Reading From File</title>
</head>

<?php

$DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

$filename = $DOCUMENT_ROOT.'learning php/css/'.'basic_2.txt';

$line_in_file = count(file($filename));

$fp = fopen($filename, 'r'); //this opens the file for reading

for ($ii = 1; $ii <= $line_in_file; $ii++)
{
$line = fgets($fp); //reads one line from the file
$city = trim($line);
}
fclose($fp);

?>
</html>

You omitted a '/' after the $DOCUMENT_ROOT.'Learning'.....

That could be the problem
Use
$DOCUMENT_ROOT.'/learning'.....

If that doesn't still work.
Try back linking manually like this

'../path/to/folder where/basic2.txt'
The ../ means go back once to where the file is
../../ means go back twice to where file is
Or if script is in same folder as d file.
Just use 'learning/php/css/basic2.text'

Hope this helps

sunday478: Hello house, am a newbie, I just install xAmpp on my windows, and move all my projects to htdocs folder, but the the projects are not loading, i don't get to see my Php code in the browser. Instead it is only showing the xampp index page. I am using the downloaded zip page from apachefriends.
Php my admin works.

Well, you might not be linkng to your script directly, have u tried this?
E.g if u have a script title page.php
Enter into your url
localhost/page.php

sunday478: Pls can someone help me, on read a file in PHP and displaying the result, am running on a localhost(AMPPS), when I tried to run the codes, it kept bringing back a warning error, that the file was not found, meanwhile the file and the directory were specified correctly.

Make sure you linked to the file correctly.
And to read the file u can use

File_get_contents("path/to/file.txt";
Depending on the extension .txt or .php or .html

goodnewz4u: Hello Friends,
Please I really need help concerning my Classified Ad Site ,
When I try to Publish the posted ads from the dashboard it returns this message :

Fatal error : Call to undefined function
wp_unslash() in \\boswinfs01\home\users
\web\b1022\ez.kuntravel\likesme\wordpress
\wp-admin\includes\post.php on line 729

Please what do I do to correct this error?
Kind and solution based response is highly appreciated !
Thanks.

Am not a wordpress coder, but when I see an error like that.. It means the function used is not supported, and in your case, the unsupported function is wp_unslash()...check spellings or wordpless manual to be sure..

Ok, make sure you know the file path..
E.g if you have a folder called path and a file called folder.txt.

And a script called script.php in your root
You have to find a way to link to the path folder like this in your script.php

$path = fopen("path/folder.txt", "r" or exit("unable to open file";

Well, looking at your scrambled codes( no offence)..
Your using sessions, cookies and your error reporting is turned off
..
1. Check that the sessions are well connected with the users details from the database..
E.g $_Session['Id'] = $id (from database);

2. If your script is dependent on cookies, I.e if ur saving user information with cookies...
If the browser cookie is not turned on you might be having issues like that.

Also make sure the cookies aren't expiring early wich could be d one logging the user out.


3. Remove the code error_reporting(0)..for now till you are done debugging. because it will not show errors.

4. I can see a part of $online..which uses time... Make sure its not the timing that might be the cause.the " 60" there might be 60seconds or 1hr...

I hope it helps because I can't really understand d code.

cbrass: No its a typo error here. I wrote it correctly in the script but IE9 and google chrome are blocking it even mozila is aksing questions and I need to open a page on a new window

Try this window.open(url,_blank)