It’s been a lot many days since the official Wordpress 2.5 was launched. As and when it was available on my webhost’s fantastico upgrades, i as usual, upgraded one blog immediately. Just to see how the thing were with the new version. To my surprise, this update was not just any usual bug fix or something. It’s a total revamping of the script inside out. The login panel, the design panel, everything has been changed. And i was like Wow!!! wordpress is really up to something this time

Anyways, after browsing all the features, trying out all the different things and heavenly satisfied with the new version, i logged in again to al my 5 webhosts and upgraded all the wordpress blogs that i have to the new 2.5 version! Upgrades very pretty neat and all went smoothly. And i was very very happy about the new wordpress.

Now came the next day and i wanted to start a new blog which is somewhat related to MoBikes. Each and every post is bound to have some pics or few of the talked about motorcycles. So i wrote whole of the content, added the tags and all and then checked the add media which was a wonderful thing. All AJAX and very comfortable. I just selected the pic and clicked on upload….and then this bastard comes up….”Crunching” and next thing you know, the image wasn’t uploaded and there is an HTML error. I tried more times with the same process but would that ever do any difference. No… i saw the same errors again. Anyways, i then went to wordpress support forums and searched for the crunching error and no surprises, as i found two long threads already there. One was a useless discussion of PHP with no one making no progress and heading nowhere. So i closed that thread and went to other thread. In that thread the same problem was discussed. The second reply came from a guy with the weblog “D Technology Weblog”. I think it’s a pretty big blog but honestly been there first time. Anyways, this guy gave the solution to add some code to .htaccess file. I did that and yes it certainly fixed the bug! And now again, Wordpress is a beautiful script. You will love the Media Library and the AJAX upload system. I am glad i found the bug fix. Else i would had to downgrade all the 2.5 versions to whichever lower version that worked best.

By the way, here is the code that i added in the .htaccess file on the root.

<ifmodule mod_security.c>
<files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</files>
</ifmodule>

All Credits to D Technology Weblog.

Alright, so i hope you don’t get this error but if you do, then you know what you need to fix that bug. If you still can’t fix it with the above method, then may God help you. And hey, there is another method out there to fix this bug, which actually disables your AJAX upload system. Please do not try that and spoil all the beauty of your wordpress admin panel. Good day!

17th December’2007. That was the actual date, the day when “Blogging” or “Blog” celebrated it’s 10th birthday.

10 years back, of course there did exist, many online journals and message boards, but nothing like blogs were thought of, until one day, “Jorn Barger” coined the term “Weblog” which described the process of “logging the web” as he surfed. Weblog was combination of words “web” and “logs”. But us, the online community in those years, were quick to shorten the word “Weblog” into “blog”. And thus was born what i think most of the internet users, know of, early in their childhood.

It is amazing how, Jorn Barger, in December’1997, started posting comments and links, etc on his website “Robot Wisdom”, thus pioneering the weblog. Today, we all do the same thing. Most of us own a blog and we keep blogging the same way. So let’s give credits to the pioneer himself, who changed the internet world, forever. Thanks Jorn, and Happy Birthday “Blog” or “Weblog” or “Blogging”

Ever since, i decided that i am going to be a Pro at blogging, i have had too many chat sessions with my friends and fellow webmasters regarding the same. I wanted to know as to what i should be doing to make a start. Surprisingly, the top two answers were unanimous. All said:

1. “Content is the King”. Well, no doubts about that.
2. Get a custom design for your blog. A professional one!

Well, i don’t think anyone has any doubts about the first point. Content is the King, and no one can deny that. It’s the very basic thing. But the second point is what made me thought. A custom design for my blog. Well, it wasn’t a problem for sure since i own a web designing company/service. A new design would have been a piece of cake. But what i thought was whether the visitors really look at your design? or they are there for the content you have on your blog?

Well, i think we can’t argue on this topic. Let’s take two sites as example. TechCrunch and JohnChow. TechCrunch has some quality content on the site, but they planned to keep the site as simple as it could be. On the other hand, JohnChow and also ShoeMoney has a great content plus a great design. Maybe, just maybe, the design factor does make a difference.

So what do you think? What makes more impact on your visitor.

• The Content? Design really does not matter.
• Or the content plus the design?

The topic is debateful, however there is absolutely no harm in getting a custom theme for my blog. So i have decided to go for it. The new design is on it’s way and will soon be a part of SharatJaswal.com.

There is no sneak peek previews at the moment for the them. I have approved the design and it’s been coded. Probably, in couple of days, it will be here on my site. And just for remembering how my present theme looked like (for future reference), well, i am going to attach the screenshot along with this post right there at top. Time to get back to my theme development mode…

As many of you know, i ain’t a big or professional blogger. Atleast not yet. I just started this blog. But before i made this blog, i regularly used to visit biggies like ProBlogger and ShoeMoney. I still visit them a lot. But at that time i always wished to do something similar. You know! Making your own blog, writing something cool, people waiting for your useful & informational posts, having lot of fans, etc etc. After then i decided that probably it’s time to stop wishing for such things and get practical. So the i made this blog and started blogging!

After few initial thoughts, it seemed as if i had nothing to blog about. It was because of the fact that i was looking for blogging about the things which i myself wasn’t sure of. So sooner i fell short of ideas and topics on which i could blog about. Seemed like it was end of my blog before it ever started.

But then came, some friendly advices and suggestion from fellow webmasters and bloggers. And i again had somethings to think about. A couple of days later ShoeMoney came up with a great advice on his blog titled “My Blogging Advice To Connect With Your Readers” and things weren’t the same anymore. ShoeMoney gave three basic points for bloggers which helped a big time. They are:

• Don’t Try To Be Something That You’re Not!
• Celebrate Your Weaknesses!
• Learn To Take Criticism!

I guess that was it. I implemented this advice of his on my blogging mind. And everything now just looks wonderful. Whenever i am online, i just log on to my site and write something that i need to. I don’t have to look at other’s website for ideas and hot topics anymore. Blogging has never been more easier for me. All thanks to those three good points from ShoeMoney.

So, do you want to be a professional blogger? It’s easy. Just get these two words in your head. “Get Real” and that’s the bottomline!