TechTantra

This is like a dream come true. Given the complexities that PowerPoint presentations have, it is almost impossible to ask for a fully functional powerpoint type functionality in HTML.

BUt things are not as bad. There are a few open source initiatives that are going on in this field. We need to take a close look at a few of these projects that can be used.

For me, you can have a good look at this project called slidy. The best thing is that it is fully functional and is pretty good for starters. I hope you will like the thing and find it useful. We rarely use other people’s scripts.. to be true, never have. This is the only exception. Seriously found it good small and useful for creating very very powerful PowerPoint presentations in HTML that suffice most of the needs. It can be used to create tutorials and presentations alike.

Slidy is a powerpoint presentation initiative taken by w3.org (so it goes to add to the credibility of the work as well)

If you find this powerpoint like presentation in HTML do credit them.

PS: (We have not taken any money for supporting them.)

Upgrading to wordpress 2.6 caused another issue..

The individual posts just did not show!! it showed and error “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria”

The solution is here on this post

But just to illustrate and put it much more simply and clearly..

Do this:

1) Goto this link (Login to your wordpress admin account if needed)

2) Here, at the bottom of this page, you find 2 fields… fill them as shown below!!!

This worked for me
Just in a flash.
I hope it does for u as well

If you are also the one, who just cant login after upgrading your wordpress installation from an older version to version 2.6,

here is the simple solution…

Use ur filemanger (or net2ftp) and locate the file wp-login.php in root directory (main folder) of your wordpress installation.

Goto the line <form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="<?php echo site_url('wp-login.php', 'login_post') ?>" method="post">

and replace it to

<form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="wp-login.php" method="post">

This worked for Me. I hope it does for you as well

Happy blogging

$_SESSION[] not working in Yahoo webhosting.

Sound it might stupid.. but then there are a lot of stupid things about yahoo webhosting

The thing about having a session variable.. Somehow it used to work.. suddenly it no longer did.

our session just did not carry to another page. on yahoo webhosting….

The reason.. believe it or not!!!

You need a ‘tmp’ folder in the root. If you have deleted it by mistake, session will not work :))

Now isnt that real pain.. .but that is how yahoo webhosting is.. 

Happy hosting.

Pre-loading images

The whole pre-loading of images has been such a wanted thing these days.

Here is a very simple trick to preload an image on your webpage… This is just one line!!

<image id=’theimage’ src=’imagesource’ style=’display:none’>

This done, you should use  <script>document.getElementById(’theimage’).style.display=’block’</script> to get the image back

I hope this small solution is very useful to you

You must be so familiar with the fact that the Text-decoration:blink does not work in MS IE (what pain..) And for this, I dont blame IE. This tag was put forcibly by netscape!! (When it was not in the standards!!)

I strongly recommend not to use it unless it is necessary because most users find blink very very annoying and unprofessional. (even I hate it) (See what I am trying to say!)

I have written this post specifically for the people/beginners who start to think that blinking text is a good way to drive attention. It is ok if you are to use it for personal sites. But for websites that need to be used by many many users and is supposed to be formal, it is one sureshot way to say that I am a novice at web development who hasnt learned it from a good place. So my work is basically a piece of trash!!!!!!

If you really want to use something like a blinking text, I would suggest you to go for fade and reappear kind of setting rather than blinking text. I will try to put some link on how to get the fade and reappear text. Or even my own version of it. Of course that will need javascript and would be tough (impossible?) without it. (unless u use a gif image kind of thing!)

Underline Text in HTML

How do we Underline a word or characters or even a paragraph in an HTML file!!!

This is again very very simple and standard. There is a direct way using style sheets.

Just add this style to the tag or DIV to overline the word in HTML….

<div style=’text-decoration:underline’>Word to Strike Out</div>

That this will look Underlined like:

Of course, You might also want to know how to (Draw a line over text) OverLine characters in HTML and Strike text Out. There is one more thing, Blinking text.

All these are controlled by the ‘text-decoration’ property of style.

I hope that this tutorial/ small tip was of use to you

Strike Out/Cross Out Text in HTML

How do we Strike Out a word or characters or even a paragraph in an HTML file!!!

To be true, this is again very very simple and standard. There is a direct way using style sheets.

Just add this style to the tag or DIV to overline the word in HTML….

<div style=’text-decoration:line-through’>Word to Strike Out</div>

What this will look crossed Out like:

Of course, You might also want to know how to (Draw a line over text) OverLine characters in HTML and underline text in HTML. There is one more thing, Blinking text.

All these are controlled by the ‘text-decoration’ property of style.

I hope that this tutorial/ small tip was of use to you

Overline in HTML

Well, the last post was overlining a word in MSWORD. How do we do the same Overlining of a word or characters in an HTML file!!!

To be true this is far more easier. Actually there is a direct way using style sheets.

Just add this style to the tag or DIV to overline the word in HTML….

<div style=’text-decoration:overline’>Word to overline</div>

What this will look like is here:

Of course, You might also want to know how to strike out characters in HTML and underline them. There is one more thing, Blinking text.

All these are controlled by the ‘text-decoration’ property of style.

I hope that this tutorial/ small tip was of use to you

Overline In MSWORD (Microsoft Word 2000,2003,2007)

Well we all know how simple it is to under line text in a MS word document. But for some strange reason, overline is not such a straight forward thing to do

There are 3 simple (?) steps to doing it

1. Press control + F9 (This will insert a set of curly braces) (this is command+F9 on a Mac)
2. inside these braces type “EQ \x \to(text to overline)” without the quotes.
3. staying inside the braces Press shift + F9

The Output with the overline will look like:

This might sound so stupid and tough.. but this is very straightforward once you know how to do it

That is how you will make a line over a part of MS Word document. So bad there is no direct method to do it :((

Still I hope this has solved your trouble