Month: October 2006

Hellraiser Box for Linux

This is a port of the Hellraiser box to Qt / KDE / Kdevelop on SUSE 10.1.

Box_Open_2

 

To run the program, use fileroller to unpack the file in a directory and then run the program. The image files must be in the same directory as the program. The instructions are essentially the same as for the Windows Version.

Hellraiser Lament Box Program

The sources are provided here. They are built using KDevelop 3.3.5 and Qt.
Hellraiser Lament Box Sources
There are links in the debug and optimize src directories that point back to the images in the src directory. These may have to be remade after you unpack the archive since links are not relative.

Update: Find the programs on SourceForge.

Enjoy. 😀

Google Sitemaps for Coppermine

Google has help and services for Webmasters. Among the things they provide and encourage are sitemaps. However, it’s not as complex as it all seems. WordPress and coppermine, and many other CMSs have scripts that generate these sitemaps. There are tools that run from your computer too, but these can’t know the internal structure of the site database, and so they are inefficient or don’t work for dynamic sites like WordPress and Coppermine.

With over 2000 images in my photo site, it seemed useful to generate a Google Sitemap for the Coppermine gallery. After some searching a plug-in turned up in the Coppermine Forums.

This plug-in is fairly primitive and when I tried it, it failed with an error on Google. Google produced an error about the first URI produced by the script. Also, the entire sitemap was produced as one single line, so error messages or looking at the sitemap with an editor were not user friendly.

I have repaired the script and you can find the new version by the link below. It is advertised to work for CPG 1.2.x, 1.3.x and 1.4.x. For more information, read the forum post above.

To use the script, unzip and upload it to the base coppermine directory on your site and then activate it from the browser with a URL like: http://www.yourdomain.com/cpg144/sitemap.php

Then visit the Google Webmasters Site,

  1. create an account, or log in with your google email account,
  2. add your site, using the Coppermine base directory, and
  3. then verify your site using one of the methods provided and finally
  4. point to your sitemap to tell google about it.

Here is the fixed script.

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Sitemaps for better searching with Google

Google has help and services for Webmasters. Among the things they provide and encourage are sitemaps. However, it’s not as complex as it all seems. WordPress and coppermine, and many other CMSs have scripts that generate these sitemaps. There are tools that run from your computer too, but these can’t know the internal structure of the site database, and so they are inefficient or don’t work for dynamic sites like WordPress and Coppermine.

Sitemaps tell google about the content of sites that have dynamic content. You can find out more about services for Webmasters at google. You will need to log into an account to see these pages, but accounts are free.

You will want to look at this page to find plugins or programs to build sitemaps for your site. For example, there is a plugin for WordPress to build sitemaps – WordPress Sitemap Plug-in.

There is also a php file to build sitemaps for Coppermine.

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Outsource to Oregon

Outsource Your Web Service and Support to Oregon

Costs are high in major metro areas of the US, but here on the South Coast of Oregon, living is easier and the rates are much cheaper. Perhaps you should consider outsourcing building and maintaining a state of the art website to Oregon.

We specialize in building websites based on php / MySql platforms such as WordPress, Coppermine and SimpleMachines Forums. We also have experience with Joomla, PostNuke and other environments.

We can build your personal or small business website, customize your website to use your business logos or design a look just for you. If you want to sell directly from your website, we can hook you into Paypal with a simple point and click for a small number of items, or set up a shopping basket in a high performance hosting site.

Here are some examples of small business websites that we have done:

BrentWood Home Inspections

Lynda Cole Harp and Flute Music

This site is built and maintained with WordPress and a custom theme.
Our Coppermine Photo gallery shows how scalable and flexible a personal or professional photo gallery can be.
SMF is a state of the art, php / MySQL based forum for discussions or software support.

We are not limited to these tools and environments. Our centers of expertise are any php / MySQL based website, and many hoster based Point of Sale environments.

Our rates vary from as low as $40 / hour.

Contact us to discuss your requirements and how we can help: Email or phone (541) 888 4262