Author: Deepa Govind

Deepa Govind is a work from home professional since 2007, and prefers to call herself as a Homepreneur®. She is a Zoologist by education, Blogger by hobby, Freelance Virtual Assistant by chance, and Homepreneur® by transition So you see...Things pan out differently, So be brave and explore. Keep the better ones, best is yet to come
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Web-Feeds .. A Pre-requisite towards understanding Yahoo Pipes

Many must have been seeing news snippets regarding Yahoo-pipes in the blogs that you pass by.. more adventurous souls would have googled and would have tried to gather information regarding this and try to figure out what this hype is all about..
Here is a Pictorial represntation of how effectively you can use yahoo pipes in your blog

  1. Definition of Web-Feed
    Web feed is a Document that contains information regarding the content of the respective URL
  2. What is the purpose of web-feed?
    With the number of websites/ blogs growing everyday.. its practically impossible to visit each one of them just to check if there is an update on your favourite story..so what the end-user (reader of the website) does is..He subscribes to the feed of the particular website/ blog
  3. Real-Life Example of using Web-Feeds
    Most of us use our post feeds and comment feeds to display our RecentPosts(5) and RecentComments(5) in our sidebar.. For those who don’t know..
    POST FEED – http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
    CONTENT FEED – http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss
  4. How does Subscribing help me?
    If there is an update.. you get an alert in your mailbox–If there is no update.. then you can rest in peace..and need not worry about missing the latest news
  5. Web-feed…an XML document
    Web Feed as I said earlier are XML-documents. So they are developed to be read by machines (machine-readable) than by humans..(humanly-readable)By doing this.. when the feed is directly viewed in the browser ..Its only natural that you are not able to make head-or-tail out of it
  6. How is Web-feed being read
    This is done with the help of applications like FeedBurner, FeedReader, GoogleReader etc…
    ie..once you subscribe to a feed ( or give the URL).. these applications ( machine-reads) reads the XML document( web-feed) and displays them in a more readable format (HTML document) in the browser
  7. Feed Aggregation
    Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as aggregation.
  8. Yahoo Pipes – A Feed Aggregator
    Yahoo Pipes is a Web-Application by Yahoo… That allows the users to create their own aggregation of feeds without any sort of coding. Yahoo Pipes uses a Graphical-User-Interface allowing users to Drag-Drop controls

Source:- Wikipedia

From Deepa’s Template Tips

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Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother’s Day by Mindbliss

Hush..shh..Hush..shh..my darling,
Rush…for the dreams call out to you.
    Fresh..you shall be..when you dream,
    Refresh..it’ll be..when you sleep on your dreams.
    Trash..your fears…for they cloak your goals,
    Push..your limits…and seek those heights.
Hush..shh..Hush..shh..my darling,
Rush…for the dreams call out to you.

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Customising Calendar Archive

By now I am sure mostyou have started using phydeaux’s Calendar Archive in their blog..He has indeed given us a great tool .The dull blogger archive is replaced with more vibrant clanedar archive

I am sure some of you would have gone a step further and modified the calender style sheet to modify he appreatence of the calender to match your blog’s color scheme.

If you want to perform such a customisation…and really dont know how to go about it..then all you have to do is just follw the instructions ..drop in your comment help shall come to you

In the Picture below I have marked certain areas in the calendar with refrence to its code in the stylesheet

  1. #bcaption
  2. #bcaption select
  3. td.highlightCell
    This is responsible for the cells(dates) which have posts in them
  4. td.filledCell
  5. table#bcNavigation
  6. table#bcalendar thead tr th
    This is responsible for the display of the days of the week
  7. ul#calendarUl li
    This is responsible for the display of the posts (of selected month) as lists

It is my guess that the basic customisation works with adding some background color for the dates – days – title etc..this can be done in a very simple manner

You may add Background color by adding background-color:COLOR to the respective block of the code
Say.. you want to add the background as pink in the area marked #bcaption..Then your code will look something like this
#bcaption
{border:1px outset #000;
background-color:pink;
padding:2px;
margin-left:0;
margin-right:0;
margin-top:10px;
margin-bottom:0
}
You may also use the hexadecimal color code to get the color of your choice…background-color:#ffc0ff;

Once the month is selected the posts made during that month is displayed as list…You may want to add a picture to appear near those titles in the list (See my Calender archive.. you will see picture)

You can also do this all you need to do is

  1. Choose a picture that you would like to display

    2. The width and height of the picture must NOT exceed 16*16px

  2. Upload the picture to a common fileserver..like googlepages

  3. Add the <img src=”URL_of the picture“/> to the ul#calendarUl li

From Deepa’s Template Tips

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My Pillow

My Pillow by Priya

While snuggling and cuddling onto me
You crave and cry on deepest desires
You smile and beam over days events
You clutch and rock to & fro
…………..mulling over a nascent thought
You sigh and sleep off to meet the day
While snuggling and cuddling onto me

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Bonded

Bonded by Priya

The bond we choose to choose
The bond we choose to remain
The bond we choose to stand by
The bond beyond formal plesantaries
The bond beyond informal acts
The bond beyond all inhibitions
The bond that goes on..and..on..
Even when words loose pace in time

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