Realising Designs web design Canterbury Kent, Canterbury based web designer Kent, Hosting, Domain names, Graphic Designer, Illustrator and Sketch artist.

If WordPress keeps asking you for your FTP details, you can add them with the following code to your ‘wp-config.php’ file:

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/** FTP connetcion details. */
define('FTP_HOST', 'add_your_ftp_host_here');
define('FTP_USER', 'add_your_ftp_username_here');
define('FTP_PASS', 'add_your_ftp_password_here');

Yudu have the aim of making on-line publishing free and is great for eMagazines, eBooks, eDocuments  and much more.  You can see an example of this great service on the latest Gig Guide edition, complete with page turning software.  Yudu is flexible and free, with many options to a wide range of users.  To see what Yudu can do for you visit their site yudu.com and choose the user that represents you best.

We recently purchased Fluid Mask 3 and have found it a very useful and time-saving tool to have. For masking hair or fur, this tool is great and really simple to use. Below is a five minute cut-out of a dog on a fairly complex background:

Fluid Mask - Original Image

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Here is a useful and free service to create your sitemaps for both submission with Google Webmaster Tools and also to create an HTML sitemap for your human visitors.

You can visit them here: www.xml-sitemaps.com

If you have been to the main Realising Designs site pages, you may have noticed the new chat box in the bottom-left.  This excellent service can be used to help customers get the information they need to buy from you and is provided by Hab.la.  Best of all, it can be delpoyed easily with a little bit of Javascript and customised through your Hab.la account.  Here is a demo video, which should get you started:

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The article section of our site has been undergoing lots of updates recently, including the addition of “Facebook Connect”, allowing you to login and comment via your Facebook login details.  You can try it out with the “Connect” button on the sidebar and above the comments in each post.

We have also now added a Facebook page for Realising Designs, which you can reach from the Facebook icon in the sidebar or here.

If you are looking to connect your WordPress blog to Facebook, here are three useful Plugin links for you:

1. WP-FBConnect plugin, by Facebook
2. Community Facebook Connect Plugin, by Jesse Stay
3. WordPress plugin, by Sociable (some parts of the site are in Spanish)

It was quite tricky in places, but we are now up and running with option 1, the plugin by Facebook.

The former US vice president Al Gore the Alliance for Climate Protection are set to back the launch of .eco domain names with Dot Eco Ltd.

“The .eco initiative, as proposed by Dot Eco LLC, is a unique approach for fundraising for nonprofit environmental organizations such as ours. We are thrilled to be working with Dot Eco LLC to generate funds for our organization and to promote awareness of climate change.”

Cathy Zoi, CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection – www.dotecotld.com

Proceeds from the sale of domains will be funding environmental causes such as climate change.  No-one can deny the importance of protecting our environment and hopefully the response will be a postive one.  One issue may occur if the majority of registrants are companies, charities and indivuduals are themselves environmental campaigners and then the money may go full circle.

FTP programs are used to upload files to your website and this posting will guide you through setting up FileZilla primarily with your Realising Designs hosting (though works for all others too, though some settings may vary).

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We certainly do and think the new version is very good indeed and bow (though slightly shocked) to the dedication of this WordPress fan. Click to view the originals on TwitPic.com.

The Problem

“Web scraping (or Web harvesting, Web data extraction) is a computer technique of extracting information from websites using specially coded software programs” (Wikipedia), which can harvest your whole blog and steal your content. Whilst it may be credited to you on these scraper sites, it will still be indexed by Search Engines and to the ‘novice’ web user might mislead them as their own content. Here is a quick tip that takes minutes to set-up and might help you detect any problems as they arise:

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