All About Blogging: February 2016

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How to use font awesome's social font icons in blogger ?

Admin February 25, 2016

Font icons are used to replace the images in web designing. Its nature is same like the nature of a text or font. All the attributes of a text can be applicable on this icon. Font icon makes your website structure quite attractive and context relevant.

Of course, you also use font icons into your blogger template. However, it consume a little time to load that font icon's script. In fact, font icon works by a css script. While you use a css script that reloads / renders the icons which contain in the .EOT, .SVG or WOFF files. There are many font icon generating script you can find. Among them, I mostly like the font awesome icons because it is very simple and easy to use.

The characteristics of font icons:-

It is a scalable vector icon - Scalable means that you can increase and decrease its size giving its size.
It uses all the attributes of <a></a> tag.
Its weight and size is low; it does not consumes more memory.
It does not take more time to load; it is like a text.

Step 01: Login into your blogger dashboard>>template>>edit html, find the </head> tag and paste the following css link just above it.

Step 02: Now, here are some classes of font awesome that generates the social icons. You just copy the following code accordingly into your blogger template.

To add facebook font icon, use any of the following class code

To add twitter font icon, use any of the following class code

To add google plus icon, use any of the following class code

To add flickr icon, use the following class code

To add pinterest icon, use any of the following class code

To add linkedIn icon, use any of the following class code

To add youtube icon, use any of the following class code

To add tumbler icon, use the following code

To add tripadvisor icon, use the following code

In the above list, I have included some more popular social medias' icons. However, you can find many more font icons generated by font awesome from its official github page. If you have any problem while adding the following code, please inform us.

How to install wordpress and make a blog post within few minutes

Admin February 23, 2016

ClaimedCol

Hello friends, are you looking to start blogging ?
Do you want to express your feelings and experience?
Do you want to provide lessons for people?
Are you looking for making money through blogging ?
Are you getting confuse on choosing CMS ?

Don't get confused. I use wordpress and I like all the features of wordpress. It is flexible and easy to use so I always suggest you to use wordpress.... because it is dynamic content management system specially used for blogging.You can get number of plugins to manage your sites or blogs. In this tutorial, I am using localhost to install wordpress, but you also can use online hosting to install wordpress, where you do not have to download wordpress through wordpress.org because many of the hosting service provide already install wordpress installer there which easily install wordpress in few seconds.

So lets start installation of wordpress easily in a few minutes......

First of all just download wordpress through wordpress.org
Just unzip it into the htdocs folder of xampp if you are using xampp. If you are using wamp as your localhost, just unzip wordpress into www folder.
When you unzip the wordpress. Then you have to create a database for your wordpress. It must be done before installation of your wordpress.
To make new database goto localhost/phpmyadmin and create new database name - such as "testwordpress".
Now go to url bar and type localhost/YOUR-WORDPRESS-FOLDER name, then hit enter.
Now you will be prompted to a requirements listed page where you make remember of 5 things and they are database name, database username, database password, host and prefix.
If you make and know all these 5 things, you go for installation, otherwise you have to find them.
Now in another window, you have to provide site title, username, password etc and click for run install. In a few minutes your wordpress will be installed if you provide all the correct information.
Then login to your dashboard which seems as shown in below figure.

When installation goes completed, you have to login into wordpress dashboard to post where you can get post and page two option to write content. Write a post and click on publish to make a new blog.

Wordpress Admin Panel

Some unusual demerits of using of frameworks in programming

Admin February 22, 2016

ClaimedCol

Using of framework making programmers lazy

Programming Frameworks

I never deny the goodness of use of MVC architecture in programming field. However, I am always against the use of frameworks to bring MVC architecture in your apps. Of course, using of frameworks provide number of advantages while doing coding. It saves the coding time, which also makes easy to build apps. But you have to know some unusual demerits of using of frameworks which completely destroys and makes your apps clumsy. Nowadays, many programmer or html/css designers, they use frameworks for the simplicity in working. But they even do not know a simple core coding of any programming language.

You may think using of framework is better than doing core coding, but I don't think it is good to use framework. Here are some malfunctions of using of frameworks:-

1) Too much unnecessary codes

If you have used either of frameworks like laravel, codeigniter, cakephp (PHP) or spring (Java) or bootstap (HTML/CSS), you can understand how much unnecessary codes, you have to apply for a simple task or apps.

2) You may forget the core coding techniques
When you use frameworks, most of the core coding techniques are not used here, you may forget core coding in that particular programming language. Suppose, you are a php programmer, you uses wordpress framework to build a website or cake php to build a php application, then you must follow their coding syntax ditto. Hence you will be decreasing your creation ability.

3) Slow Application

The another unusual and most important demerits of using of frame is consuming of too much time for loading of application since it uses too much unnecessary codes which also must be loaded first along with your apps codes.

4) More Threats of Hacking

Most programmers use frameworks for easy coding, easy MVC architecture and fast apps development. Therefore it has high threat of attack of hackers because they properly know the coding techniques, flow of your application's codes and also the weakness of your apps. In some cases of use of bootstrap, you can steal the whole website. Because you properly know that the site is using bootstrap. So you do not have to be worry about the css and jquery which are using in that website.

5) Deficiency of programmers creation ability

Using of Frameworks in programming decrease the new creation of programmers. It is one of the most considerable shortcoming of framework use. Programmers mostly waste their time in the following of coding syntax of frameworks. They mostly forget to use their own creation.

Therefore, I only suggest to use frameworks to those programmer who properly know about the use of frameworks. Programming Frameworks are actually for huge projects/application which consume lots of time and money. Frameworks shorten the codes that is why you must use framework if you are doing a project which demands highly core coding.