Published on
February 1, 2009 in
Miscel.
You couldn’t ask for a better free web host and service provider than the Hyperwebenable. I have tried quite a few options, which include blogging on blogspot, wordpress.com, 110mb, 07x, googlepages and a few more. I was never satisfied with those. Always there was some feature I felt was missing, or limiting what I could do with the web site.
Hyperwebenable has the least of these limitations. They only require you to post about 15 articles every month – not much considering I usally have loads of crap to pen down for future reference. You get a Gb of disk space, no CPU or bandwidth maximas. The only feature that they do not provide is a C – Panel. Uploading files is not possible. Also they insert advertisements into every page – the only drawback of theirs. But I have found a way around it – I use firefox with ad block plus, simple !
As I mentioned, they do not provide you any options to upload files onto their server. Installing a plugin or a theme is done by one of the Plugin Install plugin which they pre-install for the user. However, if any additional file has to be uploaded, you are sure to run into problem.
Recently, I came across Google Friend Connect. I liked the idea and wanted to try it out. But it required me to upload two files in my root directory. All I did was mail the hyperwebenable guys to upload these files into my folder and let me know when done. The very next day I received their mail informing me that the work was done and that I could go ahead and plugin the required codes.
Well, I have added the code for a members display thing. There are more plugins available – a wall comment plugin – which I might add later on.
Published on
January 13, 2009 in
Anu.
To my already mentioned lists of websites (Never The One), I have added a new one. Yes ! I have once again moved my website to a new address.
The last time, I was using the services of Hyperwebenable to host my blog. The only restrictions I had with them was that url could not contain my name, that ads would be displayed on each page and that the site had to generate a certain minimum hits per month. I liked none.
This time around I have settled for a different solution. I have registered a domain with co.cc for free. Since all my ID’s are singh.anuvrat, I decided to have this one as the same. Hence the address singhanuvrat.co.cc.
But they provide you only the domain name. I still had the job of finding a host. Luckily, I found a free host at 07x.net. I have a disk space of 1500 mb, and a monthly bandwidth of 51200 mb. This is more than enough for me. Moreover, if I feel that these restrictions are hampering me, I can very easily move to another host without having to change my domain name. This means that I can continue using singhanuvrat.co.cc for as long as I want to, while changing the host as and when required.
I would however like to purchase my own .com domain sometime in near future, subject to condition that I take up blogging as a serious activity.
Published on
September 27, 2008 in
Anu.
I have a history of moving my web page and changing the theme and design. I have listed here the locations of my previous sites. This one on hyperwebenable.com is the latest and the best one. However, I am yet to find a good theme for this site.
Finally I have moved over from the Amazing Grace design theme to this new theme which has the look and feel of that of a magazine. Its called the WyntonMagazine Theme.
One of the major reason that prompted the change was the appearance of the sidebar on the home page. The home page should focus on the better articles and also allow for a clear navigation, exposing the door to the articles on the blog so that a user can easily jump to posts that are to his liking. The present theme comes close to achieving this.
The first impression that you get are the four highlited posts. These can be easily managed by the blog admin. I can also have a sticky post here without installing any plugin. These four articles are members of two special categories which have actually been hardcoded into the theme.
If you scroll down you’ll find the categories and the latest article of each category. Now the designing is obviously not complete. For now I have added the categories list at the extreme right lower, but it might change to something else – which provides a better navigation possibility – the focus should always be on the user easily finding the articles of his choice.
On the top bar one can see the pages on the first row and the categories on the second row. Another feature of this theme is that the pages do not have any sidebar – gives you lot of space to write your page. The articles though do show the sidebar which has the listing of recent posts, posts of same category, recent comments and all. All these allow the user to discover the elements of the blog easily.
The 404 page has been modified to show posts which match the keywords of the search and also the list of recent posts.
A lot of improvements are in queue and shall be implemented in due course of time. A few of those include ajaxifying the comments and adding the popular posts feature. Also a complete overhaul of the colour scheme has to be done, but that will be the last priority .
Hopefully this design meets all my needs. Otherwise another hunt for a new design will have to be done.
Published on
September 14, 2008 in
Anu.
I have switched my blog host/webpage many times now. None has really satisfied me yet. I started out with googlepages, but that has such minimalistic (did I say minimal, actually none !) features that I could not see myself sticking with it for a long time. I still do have a page there at the id
http://singh.anuvrat.googlepages.com/index.html
Next I discovered 110mb. A host which provided me with php enabled home page. But the journey ended soo afterwards for a couple of reasons. For one, they do not provide mysql for free – its a paid service. Secondly, I forgot my password. And if that was not enough, I cannot now remember what username or email id I had it registered on! Crap, its one of the disadvantages of having multiple id’s and numerous passwords. I have tried almost all possible combinations of the ids and passwords I have used till now (those that I stll remember), but no luck. I actually doubt if I will ever be able to unlock that id. Damn, I have had weird passwords sometimes – the best being a sentence 22 character long terminating with 3 question marks!!!.
http://anuvrat.110mb.com
Now began the search for a new host. At this point I was in Switzerland, working as an intern at EPFL, Lausanne. I got into the habbit of reading a lot of blogs, arbitrarily, and then this idea of having a blog for myself crept into my head. Of the two choices – blogspot and wordpress, I went for wordpress. I feel wordpress is so much better than blogspot. But the wordpress.com blog has barely any features. They provide very few blog templates, you cannot edit the css unless you pay for a css custom upgrade package, cannot install plugins of your choices.
http://anuvrat.wordpress.com
It was a stroke of luck that I came across a host that provided me space on web and agreed to install wordpress. I jumped at the oppurtunity and here I am having my blog hosted outside the wordpress.com domain. I am pretty much satisfied with the new host though sometimes their server goes down and it refuses to log me in. I intend to carry on blogging at this site unless I have resources enough to buy a domain for myself and move my blog permanently over there.
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