2010, Google Caffeine & Load times of Directory scripts
- December 21st, 2009 by | Posted in News 2 Comments »I’m subscribed to SitePro News Newsletter which often updates me on the small things happening online, with their top webmaster headlines, & breaking blog news items, under the main content!
Today i got an article tagged “Why 2010 Will Be A White Knuckle Ride For Web Marketers” and a talk about how 2010 just may playout for web marketers. Also how Google is changing, and how according to Matt Cutts, Caffeine just might take into consideration site Load times!
With so much talk about various directory scripts on DigitalPoint Forums, I just wanted to test out the various scripts available on the shelf, on how good their load times are?
I wanted to share the results with you; Also I’m using 56K connection to calculate load time per Kb, though other connections will increase or decrease correspondingly.
Do you think site loading time be seen as a ranking factor, & should directory script writers be worried? Share your thoughts here.
The tool I’m using here, is a famous online tool found here: Websiteoptimization.com
Dir.vc – Web Directory Competition – Win $100 USD
- October 13th, 2009 by | Posted in General No Comments »EDIT: Am really sorry to all who participated, but i caught the viral and was on bed rest for the last week or two, so this got delayed. i would work something out and make this competition a success soon.
The Dir.vc Web Directory Competition for Directory owners
Dir.vc welcomes you to its first Web Directory Competition – Let the Gamez Begin!!!
If you are a member of any webmaster forums, please feel free to make a post about the contest. The directory competition is open for all directory owners. You may have a niche directory or a general directory, your all invited! I will ensure that this competition has full transparency.
Following are the Rules of the game, and all are requested to follow them. Read the rest of this entry »
Show phpLD web directory in Wordpress!
- September 29th, 2009 by | Posted in phpLD Mods 2 Comments »Around february this year I released a small code of integrating Wordpress into phpLD, which is already there on my directory homepage, works great, and so far I have had a fare feedback on the Mod. Few days ago i saw a thread on DP about showing it the other way around! Showing phpLD on Wordpress homepage.
After an hour of itchy head, i cooked up a mod which does precisely that, and a couple of cool features thrown in. This is a WP plugin, so upgrading wordpress should not worry you!
Features:
1. It is a Wordpress plugin, tested on 2.8.4, so no worries as far as upgrading your wordpress is concerned, …. and you can deactivate the plugin whenever!
2. It has support of phpLD 2.3 and phpLd4.0, … if you have other versions, please contact me and ill cook up things for you. [no extra charge]
with no messy editing, incorporating this plugin is a breaze, and works good, look above on the home page of this blog.
would love to hear feedback from people who have bought it.
Buy & download: Here
Regards,
M.
phpLD – Link renew mod 1.2.0
- March 21st, 2009 by | Posted in phpLD Mods No Comments »a New version of the link Renew mod is being released. with loads of new features and bug fixes.
Features added.
1. There are various times where the Expired date is not set, for example last year the user chose free listing, but this year we chose to close down the free links option. So the links that were free do NOT have a expiry date set, … or a user submitted a Normal link, but did not pay, we liked the site anyhow, but forgot the set the expiry date! Read the rest of this entry »
phpLD – Link Renew mod!
- January 10th, 2009 by | Posted in phpLD Mods 1 Comment »Update: new features have been added and some bugs fixed, please upgrade at the earliest – update
Last Month i realized that many of the links had expired, and weren’t showing up in categories, thereby i was having more empty categories than i should!!! So got some time out to sit down and key in a small renew mod, which sends out my link renew emails for phpLD, and also takes care of renew fee payment via paypal IPN, just like submissions.
I thought I’d release the code if someone else wants it,… the code released is only for phpLD 3.3.0, if you have any other version of phpLD please lemme know and ill cook up something for you.
The Mod:
FEATURES:
BONUS FEATURE: The mod comes preinstalled with Rakchas deeplink mod for 3.3.0!!!
1. 2 Options there, All Expired links / All Links bound to expire in 30 days. so you can view both in diffrent panels, Read the rest of this entry »
the Mobile industry and what lies within it!
- November 5th, 2007 by | Posted in General, phpLD Mods 3 Comments »I for one have always been excited about gadgets and gizmo’s. I remember even in school being the geek among all my friends, walking around with mashed up electronic gadgets or parts there of! a musical keychain with a torch cell, (more battery power bigger sound!) or the electric motor from my toy attached to the wheel of my cycle, and a bulb, (technically the AC motor and DC dynomo have the same construction!, or was that vise-versa!) 
Only thing went wrong was i took commerce in class XI! Well… Now I’m a Geek with the keyboard!
The mobile industry ticks me every time i read anything new about it. I always wanted to make a mobile site. I even purchased few dot mobi domains in the sunrise period at premium rates! but never had the time or the inclination to build on them!
Thanks to phpLD I actually got the platform to build… well a mobile alternate of my site.Boy is the mobile industry huge! with so many manufacturers for handsets and browsers, the complexity increases leaps and bounds!
History
The sudden advent of mobile internet in the middle of 1990’s and no central standards organization, manufacturers like Nokia [Narrow Band Sockets (NBS) and Tagged Text Markup Language (TTML)] and Erricson [Intelligent Terminal Transfer Protocol (ITTP)] came out with their own formats to browse the net; others formats like Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML) by Unwired Planet also came into the scene. But due to hardware dependencies none of the above could be seen as a long term solution. Read the rest of this entry »
Dir.vc web directory in now Mobile Ready!
- September 8th, 2007 by | Posted in News No Comments »Mobile market is an interesting and vast market. Its got more to offer than one can expect, from booking airline tickets, to choosing you travel destinations, to even booking movie tickets! The Mobiles got it all! Mobile internet has grown leaps and bounds, and continuous to grow at a rapid and consistent rate.
Major sites on the net have a WAP version, may it be Google.com, Gmail, Yahoo.com or simply PayPal.com. You name it they have it.
Ganging up on this mobile revolution, Dir.vc is proud to present dir.vc’s WAP directory! Its a directory specifically made for mobile ready sites! These can be viewed using any mobile with internet connectivity or any WAP emulators.
Currently Dir.vc’s WAP directory supports WAP1.0, WAP2.0 and i-mode phones. the program is still BETA.
Come share your site with us, get listed in a new generation of Directories.
M.
WAP Site : http://www.dir.vc/wap/
WAP Directory: http://www.dir.vc/wap-dir/
References:
1. Openmobilealliance.org
2. WAP on Wikipedia
3. .Mobi mtld
4. .Mobi EMulator
5. Opera Mini Mobile Emulator
phpLD – Alternative to EMail listings – Using GMail!
- August 24th, 2007 by | Posted in phpLD Hacks & tweeks! No Comments »Hi,
Last night I was snooping around the net, trying to find a�Word press Mod for “Email this”, did find one, but didnt appeal me as much! as the one i installed also had a comment box there….. thats inviting spam!
Feeling lazy or rather sleepy, i made the old time mailto: tag, thinking ill see this in the morning! …wallah … clicking on that link it took me to GMail compose page instead of opening my outlook!
Not sure whether its the Google Toolbar or GTalk playing mischeif, but it actually makes things so much easier!
I now have that EMail link on my listings,… and my mail server is not taking the beating! 
heres the code for people who wish to use it:
Open link-details.tpl and place this code where you want to:
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<a title="EMail: {$linkdetail.TITLE}" href="mailto:?subject={$linkdetail.TITLE}&body={$linkdetail.URL}">EMail this</a>
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Enjoy!
Regards,
M.
phpld-Create a 404 error page with phpLD2.1.2
- August 22nd, 2007 by | Posted in phpLD Hacks & tweeks! 7 Comments »Hello,
A few days ago IDK.in blog wrote an article about creating 404 error pages in phpLD. Those codes were specifically for phpLD 3.x versions.
Sitting down i wrote a small snippet which would allow phpLD users to create a 404 page with phpLD 2.1.2 also!!!
here goes:
open index.php and find the following code:
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$id = get_category();
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if (!$tpl->is_cached(‘main.tpl’, $id))
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{
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$path = get_path($id);
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Replace the whole block by:
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$id = get_category();
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if($id==0 && strlen(request_uri()) > 2 && request_uri() != ‘/index.php’ && !isset($_REQUEST['q']))
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{
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$path[] = array (‘ID’ => ‘0′, ’TITLE’ => _L(‘404 Page Not Found’), ‘TITLE_URL’ => ”, ‘DESCRIPTION’ => ”);
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$tpl->load_filter(‘output’, ‘trimwhitespace’);
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echo $tpl->fetch(‘page404.tpl’);
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@ exit(0);
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} else if (!$tpl->is_cached(‘main.tpl’, $id)) {
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$path = get_path($id);
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2. create a new file called page404.tpl, and save it in the templates directory, with the following code
page404.tpl:
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{capture name="title"}{l}404 Page not Found{/l} – {/capture}
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{capture assign="in_page_title"}{l}404 Page not Found{/l}{/capture}
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{capture assign="description"}{l}404 Page not Found{/l}{/capture}
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{include file="header.tpl"}
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{include file="top_bar.tpl"}
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{strip}
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<h3 class="box_header">{l}{$in_page_title}{/l}</h3>
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<p class="paddcontent">
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<table class="formPage" style="clear: both; margin-top: 3em" align="center" border="0" width="80%">
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<tr>
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<td class="err">
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<h2>{l}Error: 404 Page not Found{/l}</h2>
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{l}The page you were looking for cannot be found.{/l}</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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{include file="footer.tpl"}
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{/strip}
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upload this to /templates/ directory,
and upload your index.php file and your done!
hope this helps someone
Regards,
M.
Changelog:
24-Aug-07:
1. I got PMs from people having issues on the windows server, so now we use phpLD function “request_uri()”, instead of $_SERVER variable.
2. If someone searches something less than 2 characters in length, it was returning a 404 page, the problem has been fixed above.
