Author Archives: Zuberr

How To Convert Your WordPress Blog To An Image Gallery

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The NextGEN Gallery plugin can convert your WordPress blog to a full-fledged Image Gallery in just a few steps.  This one is really good and has a lot of options and features to make you gallery even more powerful.

An interesting feature is that you can easily add watermark image or text to your images. It’s always a good idea to have a little watermark or text that displays your website address on the picture. No matter where someone sees your picture on the web, he or she will know where it originated from.

NextGEN Gallery also easily allows you to add effects when displaying the image. You may even make a slideshow of your best pictures and showcase it on the gallery. Overall, it’s a very cool WordPress plugin if you are going to upload a lot of images/pictures/photos on your blog.

Quick Update About What I Have Been Up To In The Last Few Months

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In short, I have been pretty busy with my new job as a Programmer. But, I’m really loving it, although life has become a tidbit more stressful. I thought I had lost my programming skills, but well, I guess it’s like driving a car. once you learn it and if you love it, you just can’t forget it. :P

So yea, the last few months I haven’t done much other than working and the occasional movies in the weekends. Hopefully, I will start blogging more often once again and write about more interesting topics. Till then… Cheers!!

Connect Your Blog To Social Networking Sites With Social Media Widget

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Almost everyone online is on one or more of the social networking sites out there. If someone says he does not know what Facebook is, the only reason for that would be because he has been living in a cave since the last few years :P . Unlike this caveman, I have profiles on many of these social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Youtube, etc. So, I was looking for an easy way to connect my blog with these social media, and I found this great WordPress plugin – Social Media Widget.

It took me just a few minutes to install the plugin and set it up to show the icons and links to my profile on the various social networks. The icons are available in different styles and sizes. Even though most of the social media sites are supported in the plugin, you can also add a few custom URL of your own. You can see it in action on my sidebar, it looks something like this:

Social Media Links

The Social Media Widget

Go check it out on the WordPress Plugin Directory for a full list of features.

From Self-Employed To Employed Once Again

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After about 1.5 years of being my own boss, I finally signed a contract for a job as a Software Developer yesterday. It was about time! :P . At first, I badly wanted to be self-employed and it worked fine for me, but it’s not something I can do for long term.

Working from home was great at first, but after a while I started getting bored sitting at home all day, and working at hours that most people would normally relax or sleep. Gradually, I was losing the motivation to work, especially because I was doing the same things over and over again for each project.

But now, I’m already beginning to feel like I’m alive again :) . And I’m gonna be programming again, so that’s great. It’s time for me to explore some new horizons, learn some new skills, master my own skills, and above all, to stop sitting on my ass all day at home in front of this screen!!

Did You Notice The New Contact Form?

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I have finally added a contact form to the website. Now readers and clients can use this form to contact me more easily without me having to publish my email address openly. The problem with publishing an email address openly is that it doesn’t take long for spambots to catch your email address and in no time you start receiving all kinds of spam emails. No one likes to have spam in their inbox!!

How did I set up the contact form?

I used Takayuki Miyoshi’s Contact Form 7, which is a free plugin that can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin directory, together with Really Simple CAPTCHA for the CAPTCHA module at the bottom of the form (once again, to reduce spam mails in my inbox). That’s about it actually. And then I called the contact form I created with these plugins on a WordPress page.

Having difficulty setting up the form on your website?

Just use my contact form to get in touch with me and we can work something out. ;)