I Have Returned, And I am Armed!

Hey everyone, thanks for waiting, for all this time, I know its been too long, but I have finally got it together. Well most of it. So From now on, I will be posting more regular, and guess what, I have awesome articles coming up, so get ready :)

Once again, thanks for waiting on HavocDynamics :) WE <3 You!

Something Happened

I do not know what has happened. All I know is that something is wrong with me. I may ramble on this supposedly education about web design blogs, a little too much, but I have come to realize something new. Something that I haven’t realized before. I haven’t been me.

I know that I should be updating and doing my work, and making videos and music. Building games and programming.

In the past year. I have done nothing. My skill level has only gone up a little, like 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

I think I get it now. Maybe we’ll see.

Marketing Your Blog – Using Facebook Developers Social plugins

As the years pass us by, we see new and newer methods of web promotion, some more successful than others. There are also hundreds of sites that pop up on a daily basis, but go down on a daily basis. We can do everything to promote our content, we use Youtube, MySpace, viral marketing and the others, but we just aren’t bringing in the subscribers/traffic. We’re going to have to change that if we intend on making money in this vast internet. The answer to getting out there? Facebook.

Yep you heard it again. It seems everybody who’s anybody is on Facebook, hell even HavocDynamics Is On Facebook. Yes I’m sure that you have figured out how to make a ‘Like’ Page for your blog/website, and you have suggested it to all of your friends. But is this the limit of using Facebook? Nope. Not by a long shot. Let’s Dive into Facebook’s diverse field of options for promotion via Facebook.

1. The Like Button

There’s even an App (Plugin ;) ) for that. Using the many plugins that WordPress has to offer you can easily integrate this into your site. This allows you to Like individual pages/articles on your blog, sending it to all of that person’s friends. The more Likes an article has the more people will see it. At least they see a link.

2. The Activity Feed

The Activity feed shows you the most recent activity for the site, what the users have been sharing, view, Liking etc. You can select to split the box in half and show the users friends who are current performing actions on facebook.

3. Recommendations Box

It also shows the current user recommendations from within your site. It shows the most liked, and recommends new articles to read. A nifty feature that keeps users browsing your site.

4. The Like Box

This shows an Activity Feed for your page, and it allows users to Like your page. Just Like HavocDynamics on the sidebar.

5. The Login Box

This allows the user to sign up for your site, and shows the users friends who already signed up.

6. Friendpile

This shows the friends of the users who have signed up.

7. Comment Box

Allows users to comment using their facebook profiles.

8. The Live Stream Box

The Live Stream Box works best when you are running a real-time event, like live streaming video for concerts, speeches, or webcasts, live Web chats, webinars, massively multiplayer games.

You can use the Javascript SDK to enable all this on your site, without having to copy and paste code.

You can integrate many of these into your site to produce an amazing interactive site. That is the goal. The more interactive your site is, the more you will have users staying on your site and page.

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Review

Dreamweaver CS5 Running On Windows 7

Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Dreamweaver, in my opinion has always been the leader in Web design/development. Its sleek design and massive array of features have made it the premier software for web designers, coders and developers. The Latest release from Adobe, Dreamweaver CS5, part of the Creative Suite 5, is no exception. A back-end upgrade to its predecessor CS4. New visible features as well as some intense code has made CS5 a dream.

To begin with, Dreamweaver CS5, has an improved GUI (Graphical User Interface), the ability to switch between menu interfaces for easy access. It has three distinct menu styles, ensuring you can feel comfortable with its GUI.

Dreamweaver CS5 also features a brand-new browser. Yes, a browser. This browser has all the common, back, forward etc. buttons. Why is a Browser found in Dreamweaver? Its all to increase productivity, this view allows you to view your page in Live mode, with several Browser mimic so you can see how your site will look on Mozilla FireFox, Internet Explorer and Safari to name a few. This will allow you to produce cross-browser themes/templates.

Dreamweaver CS5 also allows you to dynamically edit PHP files you have running on a sever. IN addition to being able to turn PHP ‘off’. IF you are running Content Management systems such as WordPress, Drupal etc. Dreamweaver allows you to edit the files and view the result instantaneously, granted that you have set up the CMS and the sever inside of Dreamweaver CS5.

Overall Dreamweaver CS5 is more amazing than ever. With new extensions being released everyday, this Dreamweaver will keep you on your toes.

WordPress 3.0

Yep, Its here, now what is the glorious new update? It seems that WordPress 3 has a greater potential, now that WordPres MU has been integrated. The vast majority of upgrades/updates are basically code updates, i.e Under the hood tweaks.

WordPress is a bit slower, as no more Google Gears are employed. But there are many new features which make up for it. The New Theme Twenty Ten, is also a cool theme, it employs all the new features of WordPress 3.

These are just some of the updates included in WordPress 3.

General

  • Check required php and mysql versions in the update and notify if the server environment does not meet those requirements
  • New wp_login_form() provides a simple login form for use anywhere
  • New WordPress logo for admin header
  • Place “Search Engines Blocked” mini-alert in the wp-admin header to prevent people from accidentally delisting themselves
  • Remove ‘Turbo’ link from admin header and remove Turbo section from the Tools->Tools panel
  • Renamed various menu items, for example Posts->Edit becomes Posts->Posts, and Links->Edit becomes Links->Links, and so on
  • Revised administration menu icons
  • Revised Gray Admin Color Scheme
  • Revised information in readme.html file
  • Show login form upon email-sent for recover/reset passwords

Dashboard

  • Add link so user can visit Dashboard after core upgrade
  • Move Tools->Upgrade menu option to Dashboard->Updates and overhaul of user interface so themes, plugins, and core upgrades under one panel
  • New menu management (navigation) via Menus option under Appearances Menu (#11817)
  • Password nag for newly registered users
  • Split Right Now widget into Content | Discussion

Posts

  • Allow for removing all tags in quick edit
  • Allow themes to style the visual editor with editor-style.css file, using add_editor_style() function
  • Enable custom taxonomy UI for pages as well as for posts
  • Improved revision comparison user interface
  • Shortlinks enabled, but still requires a plugin or theme support to fully realize this feature
  • Added capital_P_dangit() filter to change ‘WordPress‘ to ‘WordPress‘.

Media

  • Add FunnyOrDie.com oEmbed support
  • Allow Deletion of Media Alt text
  • Change Media UI labels from “Post Thumbnails” to “Featured Image”
  • Cleanup of the edit media screen
  • Don’t let “Crunching” overlap image name while uploading
  • Optimize scan for lost attachments
  • Support for additional file type extensions (Changesets 12581 and 13349)

Links

  • Order link categories by name, not count, on Add New/Edit Link page

Comments

  • Add additional columns to the Posts Comments view
  • Allow configuration of number of comments to display Recent Comments dashboard module
  • Block comments for future posts and password protected posts (when password not provided)
  • Change to comments UI to show when a comment is replying to another, and link to the parent comment

Appearance

  • Add meta_value_num and meta_key ordering for WP_Query to allow natural numeric ordering of results
  • Add filter to get_avatar() to allow avatars for custom comment types
  • Allow Tab indenting, Shift-Tab (outdenting), and multi-line tabbing, in theme editor
  • Allow the Tag Cloud Widget to support non-tag taxonomies
  • Allow theme background customization via new Background panel under Appearance menu
  • New template file, front-page.php, for the front page of a site
  • New template file, single-{post_type}.php, for Custom Post Types
  • New template files, author-{nicename}.php, and author-{id}.php, for author specific templates
  • New template files, taxonomy.php, taxonomy-{taxonomy}.php and taxonomy-{taxonomy}-{term}.php for Custom Taxonomies
  • Style tweaks to theme editor
  • Tab interface for Manage Themes and Install Themes in Appearance->Themes panel
  • Improved child theme support; child theme use is highly encouraged and as described in the Child Themes article, very simple to accomplish
  • New comment_form() that outputs a complete commenting form for use within a theme template
  • The Default (Kubrick), and Classic themes, are no longer included in the WordPress distribution, but are available in the Theme repository

Plugins

  • Add Details and Install Now action links under each plugin listed in Install Plugins
  • Allow Tab indenting, Shift-Tab (outdenting), and multi-line tabbing, in plugin editor
  • Upgrade plugins in bulk from the Plugins->Installed panel (#11542)
  • When deleting plugins, check for uninstall hooks, and warn of data deletion

Tools

  • Add tag-to-category and category-to-tag converters to the Tools panel, add tag-to-category converter links to Posts->Post Tags panel
  • Clean up OPML link export script
  • Expanded filter criteria in Administration > Tools > Export panel
  • Import WordPress fixes notices, attachments, and users
  • Removed Turbo menu item, but because Turbo files weren’t removed, Turbo may still work
  • All importers moved to the plugin repository (e.g. WordPress Importer)

Users

  • Allow “No role for this blog” to be chosen in Users->Add New panel
  • Added update_core, list_users, remove_users, add_users, promote_users, edit_theme_options, delete_themes and export Capabilities

Settings

  • Removed Settings->Miscellaneous admin menu, moved uploads settings to Settings->Media panel
  • Revise Settings->General panel, change “Blog” reference to “Site”
  • Revise Gray Admin Color Scheme

Install Process

  • Choose username and password during installation rather than using ‘admin
  • Show “Log In” button on install.php when “Already Installed”
  • Automatic generation of Security Keys during installation
  • Validate table_prefix in wp-config.php generator
  • Standardize information in wp-config-sample.php

Multisite

  • New Tools->Network panel to ‘install’ mulitsite/network ability, and is available only if WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE is defined in wp-config.php
  • New Super Admin menu with Admin, Sites, Users, Themes, Options, Update, sub-menus (available only if is_multisite() && is_super_admin() )
  • New Dashboard->My Sites panel
  • New Tools->Delete Site panel
  • Configure a Network (multisite/WPMU) using wp-config.php file
  • Terminology changes regarding Sites, Blogs, Networks

Vishal Is Back!

So after a massive hiatus, Vishal and HavocDynamics is Back!! And things are going to go get better!

After a few months of intense studies, my exams are now over. It was some seriously hard exams, but I think…. I think I did well. Anyways it will be another month before I get the results, until then, I will be updating HavocDynamics, AnimeAwaken and my other sites.

Portfolio

Well it is rather empty, I intend to fix that in the coming months. So If you would like a website/theme etc. built please feel free to drop me a line @ Our FaceBook Page.

HavocDynamics | Promote Your Page Too

Believe me guys there’s a lot to come in the near future, this time I can promise you that. So Stick around, there’s alot to learn and alot to gain.

Thanks For Staying with HavocDynamics For The Past Years, I Thank You, my Friends.

Talking About Havoc….HavocDynamics!

Hey readers! Thanks alot for still sticking with HavocDynamics its trying times. It has been quite diffcult for me in these past months. Between school, life and well everything else, I have been slacking off quite badly. There’s talk about WordPress 3.0 and I am very out of it.

I will be restarting HavocDynamics, whilst unsure of it schedule or anything like that, but Please bear with me. I assure you, your stay at HavocDynamics will be enjoyable.

I thank all of previous Subscribers and Readers, And welcome all new ones. If you have any complaints, questions or need help feel free to leave a comment. Feel Free to share all of the article with your friends and their friends. I thank you all greatly :)

- Vishal

I’m Back!

Yes Guys I am finally back! After that break, I am Ready! To take back what is mine! My Life!! Get ready, becuase this year will be filled with projects, themes, guides, how-to’s and so much more !!

AS you guys know, I am not very experinced when it comes to life, I recently have learned that there alot of things that I take for granted, for one, my confidence, I am confident in the online world, yet I am not in the real world. :( This saddens me.

But I will have to make due with it. So I hope you guys will join me as I get ready to write CXC in May/June and as I attempt to make your blogging life much easier :)

Going On A Much Needed Break – Till February 2010

Unfortunately I must go away for this period :( With my CXC exams coming up in January, (Time Table Here). I have to ensure I get full Grade 1′s and distinctions, these exams are important as I will need them to work  for the rest of my life. I sit these exams privately in January but I will write it again in May/June as a school student (ie not privately, but though the school).

If you see the Time Table you would also see it ending on January 19th, I am taking the rest of the month to finish off labs and SBAs (School-Based Assessments).

I thank all of you all who are subscribed, please stay subscribed.

I will be returning ever so often to post theme’s and templates, nothing major but its better than nothing at all.

Thanks again for all of your wonderful support :) You guys rock.