Yesterday, I upgraded my browser to IE9 and quite liked the updates from Microsoft in IE9 they have done many good and major updates. I opened my own website in IE9 browser to check if the alignments are been properly or i need to spend any time on it.
I found that theme has been very well fitted in IE9 but i surprised to see that all titles of my posts and widgets in sidebar has been disappeared. They are using Cufon to display custom fonts. I searched regarding on internet but there is not much support.
Since have slight idea about Jquery in my couple of projects I doubted about it.
I downloaded latest Cufon Jquery from their official website. Took backup of current Cufon jquery and uploaded this new one and magic works.
Hope it would help other Slimmity users across globe.

Websites trend:

People are now-a-days more keen to have their blogs and personal websites to share what they want with different colorful pictures describing their stories at their best. Nevertheless, they also want to share them on their favorite social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It is an implausible way which could help your online content to get shared with hundred of thousands of other websites. You can also have your content pasted on different communal media online websites to get utmost publicity. Now-a-days different widgets are seen shared by the people on their blogs and private websites yet to be made public. Actually, the pasting of social sharing clicks, links and information sources provide you a much simpler way to share what you want to.

Website building using Word Press:

If you concentrate in a sure imaginative place or knowledge then why aren’t you giving out it to the world? You should do that if you have some great innovative ideas or have some nice technical or aesthetic knowledge. This would help you to earn more money and also to build up your status in your area of expertise. If you are no thinking that how come you can share your innovative ideas and knowledge with other peoples than the answer would be simple that is creating niche websites.

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Today, I happened to upgrade my website from version 3.0 to latest version by using wordpress’s Auto upgrade procedure. I have clicked on auto upgrade and it went quite well. The site was functioning very smoothly. Suddenly i got an email from one of my reader’s that the home page slider is broken also there are some more issues.

I had various doubts but did not thought of wordpress upgrade would have caused this. I have turned off some plugins to check if there is any conflicts happening. I tried de-registering wordpress JQuery but the problem remains. Then i looked into some php files of the theme.

I checked the file named “template-home.php” and went to the part of it where it was fetching data from database. Finally came to know that WordPress has some changes in their data fetching system to which i need to match my theme.

I have modified my theme like this to match the upgraded wordpress,

1. Open “template-home.php” in any of your favorite editor.
2. Look for the following lines
   $category = get_option('sf_portfolio_category');
3. Change it to
   $category = sf_get_category_id(get_option('sf_portfolio_category'));
4. Look for the following lines
   $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts='.$slide_count.'&category_name='.$category);
5. Change it to
   $my_query = new WP_Query('showposts='.$slide_count.'&cat='.$category);

The slider is back on its feet and rolling like before. Hope some of these research would help some theme users out there.

One of the more common issues with embedding a flash object on your home page (or any page for that matter) is that if it is near the navigation and you have CSS drop-down menus, then you may find your drop-down menu getting lost behind the flash object. If you haven’t dealt with this before it can feel like a nightmare, but fortunately it’s a pretty easy fix.

The Problem: You have a CSS based drop-down menu in your navigation and a flash element near it the menus may get “hidden” behind the flash object.

The Solution: Set the z-index of the div holding the flash to 1 and the z-index of the div holding the nav to 2.

In the flash element:

Look for the flash <object> tag and add the following code:

<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”>

You’ll want to insert this code right below the <param name=”quality” value=”high”> tag and include the code wmode=”transparent” in the flash <embed> tag .

Well there is a special motive behind writtng this post 2:45 AM in the night. As i am very much glad that i saved my laptop from a biiig trouble and thereby causing me to wait for support guys to get it repaired and pay for the support some 1000 bucks i guess.

Now the story begins, Day was 15th August everyone was celebrating independance day out there and we were having holiday in college(Normally they wont give but thanks to Swine Flu) It provided us a nice holiday of about 4 days. So i was thinking of formatting my laptop because of lot viruses thanks to BGIMS computer lab (Virus house) grrrr…..!!!

So started with the procedure, went on normally put in cd Windows Vista (provided by Dell : God bless them). Went on smoothly but later on i found that after installing my windows there was some unpartitioned space which was not showing up in explorer. So first thing came to my mind was Partition magic ( This software i used long back to format and partition my old computer.) Now here the trouble starts. The software first said that it was compatible with Windows Vista but later it gave some error to me and then asked for restart. I restarted my laptop and nightmare came to me as Windows Famous “BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH”.

I kept it cool restarted windows with again taking boot from windows Vista CD. But this time it was not allowing me to format the existing partition.This night mare was really getting into my nerves now.Then came a very sad news about expiry of my relative and had to spend entire 16th with the family and forgot about the laptop.

When came back home on 17th evening i again started working on it. So it was not allowing me to format. I called up my vendor, He said he will come and look at it. He did not show up. He wud have normally take it to service centre and reformatted it with some magic that i would not have came across.

Since a software engineer if i gave up infront of this issue then It would have been an insult of my degree so i decided to do anything to make it work again. So i first went on google (As all engineers do..) and searched for the error code that my laptop was giving me. The error was  with code “ 0×8004240f ” . Many results came up some pointing towards microsofts website but visiting each link results in same forum entry, same replies and NO SOLUTION.

Luckily i find one webpage at Tech Pavan which discussing exactly same issue as mine. He has shared his experience and would be solution for this problem. Also stated to use it your own risk. So i took it and did what it mentioned over there.But not much of success.

Now i had lost my recovery disk also in the entire hard drive formatting and now the laptop was not starting only saying “bootmgr is missing” this was getting worse. I again searched some wierd query in google that how to install vista on clean hard drive and miracle happened. I came across this webpage telling about “Dell’s utility partitioning tool” and i followed the instructions there. And suddenly hard drive appeared on the windows instalation screen. This was magic for me as hard drive was not showing up when i was trying to install Windows and now suddenly it appears. I went on doing partiotions and installed Vista on my laptop and all drivers provided by Dell. This is best thing i found during my experince about Dell that is why it is famous for and now i have experienced it.

Ok enough now it is already 3:15 AM in night and got to go to college tomorrow morning. I shared my experience for those who may also have this kind of nightmare. So good night guys and have fun!!!