{lang: ‘ar’}WordPress updates can either be updated automatically or downloaded and installed. The automatic updates are quick and easy generally and issue arises if there is not sufficient memory In such cases the updates fail with a message similar to the one below Out of memory (allocated 29884416) (tried to allocate 3096504 bytes) Resolution Increasing [...]
Create Layer Mask in GIMP
April 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
{lang: ‘ar’}Overview Layer Mask is used to hide part of or the complete layer from a picture. If a layer is stacked on top of each other, only the top layer is visible. Using a layer mask, you can choose to reveal the layer underneath. The concept of Layer Mask is illustrated using the example [...]
Remove yellow dotted line in GIMP Picture
April 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
{lang: ‘ar’}Introduction If you are working with layers in GIMP, a yellow dotted line is displayed to mark the boundary of the active layer. The dotted line persists even after the image is saved and reopened. Removing the dotted line is shown below Steps To hide the dotted line, click View > Show Layer Boundary [...]
Enter text in pictures using GIMP
April 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
{lang: ‘ar’}Introduction Using layers in a picture makes it convenient to do several tasks such as edit, move, blend and erase. In GIMP, text entered in a picture is created as a layer. This is useful as it enables the text to be selectively edited later if required. This article outlines the steps to insert [...]
Entering text in pictures using Paint.NET
April 9, 2011 By 2 Comments
{lang: ‘ar’}Introduction Using layers in a picture makes it convenient to do several tasks such as edit, move, blend and erase. For details on creating layers in Paint.NET, refer to this article. Similarly, if you are inserting text in a picture, having that as a separate layer will be useful. This article outlines the steps [...]
Creating Layers using Paint.NET
April 5, 2011 By 3 Comments
{lang: ‘ar’}Introduction Layer is an image which is applied on top or beneath another one. Layers make it possible to edit the required section without affecting the entire image. There can be more than one layer in a picture. The concept of layers is outlined in the following example Concept Let us assume that you [...]
Related Articles Plugin for WordPress
March 5, 2011 By 1 Comment
{lang: ‘ar’}To encourage the users to explore other content on your website and to retain their interest for a longer time, it will be useful to suggest related content for an article or blog. There are quite a few third party plugins for WordPress that suggest related content. This website uses Yet Another Related Posts [...]
Amazon S3 / CloudFront for W3 Total Cache
March 5, 2011 By 5 Comments
{lang: ‘ar’}This article explains how to setup Amazon S3 / CloudFront for W3 Total Cache, which is a WordPress plugin for caching. Refer to this article for setting up W3 Total Cache for WordPress. Getting Started Sign up with Amazon.com for their web services Once the account is setup, you will receive an email from [...]
W3 Total Cache for WordPress
February 26, 2011 By 4 Comments
{lang: ‘ar’}W3 Total Cache optimizes website performance by providing page cache, object cache, database cache, browser caching, and by minifying Javascript and CSS files thereby increasing the speed the page is rendered to the users. It also provides integration to Content Delivery Networks (CDN) such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Cloudfront, Rackspace, and even [...]
WordPress
December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
{lang: ‘ar’}WordPress (WP) is a free blogging and website creation software. It is widely used with hundreds of plugins that are available free as well. WordPress is easy to install and as claimed, it takes 5 minutes or less to install on the web server. There is no learning curve and even a user new to web [...]