If you are planning to update, please make sure to backup before you press the button, and then go to wp-config.php to delete the 2 lines below

define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Hope this help.

I joined bucks4banners.net exactly a month ago, I could have told you by then but I wanted to try it out to see whether it works, and today’s payment proved it.

So how does it work? Simple, as long as you own a domain.

bucks4banners pays you £5 a month, yeah, is in Pound Sterling, NOT US dollar, for you to place 3 banners on your site.

Another good thing to note is that upon an approved sign-up, you will receive £10.00 credited to your account. You can receive payments in the form of vouchers from their partners such as Amazon or Paypal which you need to select the cash option on your details section.

Here is an overview of how it works:

• Enter your contact information
• Indicate which 3 pages you wish to display the adverts on
• Within 72 hours they will provide you with your advertising banner and code if approved
• Place these on to your site

In another word, you’ll get £70 (including the £10 upon sign up) a year for displaying 3 banners on your site, what could be simpler than this?

If you afraid that the banners will spoil your website’s overall design, don’t worry, you can place the banner at any archive pages. For my blog, I choose my main page and 2 most hits archive pages to place the banner because I want to give courtesy for something I got paid.

I’ve made the effort to try it, and proved that it works. So what are you hesitate for? It only takes you less than 5 minutes to complete the whole process.

Join now to Earn Credit for your Website!

I am now working on a new wordpress theme, hoping to release it for download by end of July. It is a new challenge as I am creating it from scratch.

The main layout is 70% complete, and it should be finished by end of this week. Next, I will be doing the graphic design, font styling and coloring bits, finger cross.

This is how my desktop looked like, just 10 minutes before I went to bed last night, it was full of even more windows earlier.

Note: very large image, you’ve been warned

This is what keep me busy after work.

The French theme designer, Ghyslain ARMAND had came out with a few really nice themes, there are currently 4 themes available for download.

Check it out.

Live design begun!

It is a simple design but definitely not an easy job (read: for me) to do. It looks very much what you are seeing now, except you won’t get the flash on top ;).

I am planning to work harder on it, hopefully to list it on major wordpress theme websites for more people to download. I also hope in near future, I will design personalized wordpress theme on request, of course base on the main release theme, to generate some cash to pay off my bills.

Click on the ’simplicity’ button above to download.

Hope you’ll love it.

Version 0.9 has fixed all the known bugs, therefore this is an stable version of K2.

Though I just redesign my blog few days ago, but as soon as I learnt that the new version is released, I started to redesign my blog again base on the new one.

I now present you my new design.

There are many changes in this 0.9 version, it is certainly one of the most advance wordpress theme available.

So, do not hesitate, go ahead and download the latest K2, if you have any problems, K2 forum is there to help.

Wondering how I did that? It is fairly simple, all you need is a script call Lightbox JS installed.

So what is Lightbox JS?

Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

You can see some examples in my blog history and my first site job, or for the lazy ones, click on the thumbnails below.

So how to install and use it?

To set up:
Include lightbox.js in your header.

Eg:
< script type="text/javascript" src="lightbox.js">

To use it:
Add rel=”lightbox” attribute to any link tag to activate the lightbox.

Eg:
1. For single image
< a href="images url here" rel=”lightbox” title=”your caption”>image #1

2. For images in sequence
< a href="images url here" rel=”lightbox”{groupname} title=”your caption”>image #1

That’s it, simple as ABC.

For further information, please go to Lokesh Dhakar ’s Lightbox 2