Work...work....work :(

Missed all the previous months postings...was really into some hefty schedules and want to continue this passion forward ;) Not in a mood for a pretty lengthy post now....but yes will be back shortly after a small hibernation ;)

Knowing CSS based Javascript dropdown more closer than before

Hi all, It took me so long to write this piece of blog. Busy with some personal issues and official work, this month is turning out to be a pretty hectic and troublesome for me. But there are also something to be happy about. The gud thing is that ive been learning some new things and they are really gonna be handy for me in the future. Of those i would be sharing a professional experience here now :) Pretty lately im involved in a project that demands me of some site development profile and that too in a language that i hated the most once upon a time in my beginning of career - oh yeah im talking about the scripting language JS :) Javascript is the talk of the town for me for the last couple of weeks... Now coming to the technical point, a CSS based javascript dropdown is the topic of the day. Have been researching on the various options and got zeroed into a dropdown suggested by a senior fellow designer. The script is from 'Suckerfish' and this was pretty much we were luking for. Now the implementation of this one is the challenge placed before me and right now im in the process of implementing it into the application interface of our project. This menu is basically based on a UL LI css list menu and the javascript makes use of the same to display it as a dropdown menu using the ID and by attaching relevant events to the page while loading. There is an important thing that needs to be kept in mind, while using such dropdowns in extensive projects with numerous menu items. Sicne these sort of menus make use of the cpu memory by attaching the events, using such menus in projects with lots of menu items may prove fatal some times. The more the menu items the more will be the cpu usage while loading. So, going with scripts that attaches very less no. of events are preferable. Suckerfish is such a menu component that can come handy for such situations. Will post more technical details once im done with this task of implementing this menu in my application interface.

My WP down for the moment :(

With some hectic work and frequent visit to my home, i was kept at bay from the blogging phobia for almost a month now. Wordpress blog of mine is down at the moment as i there are some server maintenance going on. Hoping to return with a loads of new informative and interesting stuff :) Hang on my friends !

Moving from blogger to Wordpress !

Having setup my wordpress account, now it is time to transfer all the posts here in blogger to WP. Thats wat im after all these days. After googling the topic i found out some interesting topics and im sharing them here... Backing up blogger posts

• Backup Your Posts - Bloggers Blogsend allows each of my blog posts to be automatically sent to my email address. So I have a back up of all my posts as individual emails. You can further create folders in your email account (as in Yahoo Mail) or apply labels (in Gmail), and create filters such that such emails can be collected in one place.
• Back up your entire blogger blog - Bloggers provides detailed instructions to create a single file with all your posts which you may publish and then copy to your own computer for use as desired. Remember to save a copy of your existing template in a file on your computer as you will need to have it at hand after this process is completed. This is good for a one time backup, but is cumbersome to do if you back up very frequently. Also you might mess up some setting and disbale your blog is not done right.
• Try third party back up tools - like the HTTrack Web site copier for Windows users and Webgrabber for Mac users. Each of these applications will create a fully working, interlinked local copy of your blog for browsing offline and easily allow you to back up. Remember it will take considerable time and internet bandwidth if you have a huge blog.

Transferring content from blogger to WP Settings in Blogger I just ensured that some settings were inspired from different feedbacks I read elsewhere. Before doing anything, back up your Blogger blog first.

Click Formatting and change the Timestamp Format to be mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM (the first choice in the dropdown menu). Click Archiving and set Archive Frequency to ‘monthly’ These settings are already set in Blogger by default. I already had these settings in my blog anyway, so effectively I made no change my Blogger settings.

Settings in WP Login into Wordpress. Go to Import. Click on Blogger - “Import posts and comments from a Blogger account”. Fill in your blogger username and password.

It will list all your blogger blogs as you see on the Blogger dashboard. Click on the blog you want to move to Wordpress. And the Import will start automatically. Time taken will depend on how large your blog is. It took me a 2-3 minutes for a 1000 posts.

Remember, do not stop, reload or restart while the process is going on. It seems at times that the importing process is stuck, but it is continuing in the background. After all is done, it will tell you it is done and you can ‘Move on”…

If for some reason things get stuck, you can “reset the importer”. View your new Wordpress blog manage and see all your posts and comments are imported.

If you install Wordpress in a subdirectory instead of the root of your domain, read all about hosting Wordpress in an alternative directory.