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How to use Google Web Fonts

Myo Kyaw Htun — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:46:28 +0000

It is really considered to be painful when it comes to design the website with the custom type faces. Web designers and developers are limited to use web safe fonts when specifying the type faces to make the site support in all OS platforms. Thanks to the modern web browsers, you can now use and embed the custom type faces in your website. There are many web font services out there that allow you to embed both commercial and free fonts. I’m going to cover Google web fonts in this post.

Google Web fonts

Google web fonts is a free service from Google that allows you to embed the fonts which are available in Google web fonts. To use google web fonts, please follow the steps.

Step 1

go to http://www.google.com/webfonts and click “start choosing fonts”.

Step 2

There are number of free fonts available in Google web fonts. You can filter by type faces, thickness, slant and width if you want. Select the fonts by clicking add to collection button. After you select the fonts, you can now click ‘use’. Using of too many font faces can slow down your site loading. Please use it wisely.

Step 3

Select the html link tag code that you found in next page and insert the code before head tag element. In order to use the font, you must have to apply the font family in your css file.

Sample HTML





Google Web Font testing






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How to change database engine of many Mysql tables

Myo Kyaw Htun — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:22:29 +0000

For some reasons, you have to change the default engine of your mysql database tables to another engine. For example, MyISAM to InnoDB. MySql allows us to change by using command line and if you’re using phpMyAdmin, you just need a few clicks.

ALTER TABLE tablename ENGINE = InnoDB

But the problem is that MySQL doesn’t allow us to use ALTER for so many tables at once. Thinking about you have more than 300 tables in your database. You have to type again and again until you reach the last table in your database. Here is a solution that you can do with PHP if you’re using MySQL with PHP.

$sq = mysql_connect("localhost","root","root");
$db = mysql_select_db("yourdb"); // your db
$rs = mysql_query("SHOW TABLES");

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($rs)){
 $k=mysql_query("ALTER TABLE {$row[0]} ENGINE = INNODB");
}

I think I don’t need to go deeper to explain for this very simple code. First and second lines are trying to connect to your MySQL server and database. Third line executes the query to list the tables in your database. And loop until it reach at the end of the record. The record $rs carries the list of your table names and array zero index of each record ($row) has the table name.

Turn your photo into Pencil Painting

Myo Kyaw Htun — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:37:18 +0000

My brother wrote a very simple Photoshop tutorial that can turn your photo into pencil drawing using Photoshop. Click for more detail.

Changing Password in WordPress

Myo Kyaw Htun — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:42:38 +0000

It is really important that you should change your password immediately when you logged in your wordpress panel for this first time after fresh installation of your WordPress. To change your password, click admin link next to “Howdy” text message in upper right corner of your WordPress panel Or type yourblogaddress.com/wp-admin/profile.php in browser address bar.

You can change Color scheme of your admin panel, First name, Last name, Nickname, Display name which is used for author name is blog post, contact information, etc in Profile section. This is a WordPress newbie series. I will keep posting like this tutorial in future.

Web Search Strategies in Plain English

Myo Kyaw Htun — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:39:11 +0000

Videos from Common Craft show make us easier to understand the complex technology by explaining with screenshots and simple English. Some of the videos such as Rss in Plain English, Blogs in Plain English and Twitter in Plain English are really noticeable. Now they released the new video Web Search Strategies in Plain English that explains about searching in web. It is worth the watch.

Tilt-shift Fake Photography

Myo Kyaw Htun — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:34:33 +0000

The method of Tilt-shift is to focus on a single part of the photo and shift (blur) the other area. I am a huge fan of Tilt-shift and have been learning for a while. Tilt-shit lenses are too expensive for me and of course, I don’t have a professional camera too. But we can get the tilt shift photo with the help of Photoshop. There are so many Tilt-shift tutorials using Photoshop out there and we can learn and create our own ones. See the Tilt-shift photos below which I did in last week.

Tilt-shift photos

Tilt-shift resources

Overview of WordPress Admin panel

Myo Kyaw Htun — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:23:51 +0000

After successful logged in your wordpress, you’ll see the wordpress dashboard. WordPress Dashboard includes Write, Manage, Design and Comments panel.

Write

Write panel where you can write new post, page and link (blogroll).

Manage

Manage panel where you can manage posts, pages, categories, Tags, Media, Importing posts from wordpress xml file or other blogging system.

Design

Design panel where you can change or edit your themes uploaded in your server under wp-content/themes folder.

Comments

Comments panel where you can handle all the comments such as deleting, editing and marking comments as spam for your posts.

The rest are Setting, Plugins and Users. WordPress dashboard displays all the information like Recent comments, Incoming link, News feed from WordPress Development blog, popular plugins from WordPress plugin directory and other wordpress news.

Installing WordPress on Windows

Myo Kyaw Htun — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:00:21 +0000

In my last post, I explained how to install Apache, php and mysql on windows using Appserv. Now I’ll explain how to install wordpress.

Download WordPress

First, download the zip from wordpress Download page. http://www.wordpress.org/download/

Then create a folder and named it wordpress or weblog whatever under c:\appserv\www. Unzip the file which you download from wordpress site, into that folder. WordPress folder contains wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes and many other php files.

Creating database for wordpress

Type the address http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ in browser. You’ll see phpMyAdmin database administration panel.

Create a database name “wordpress” or whatever. This database will be used in WordPress installation.

Installing WordPress

Now it’s time to install wordpress, type http://localhost/wordpress in your browser.

I use wordpress because i created a wordpress folder under c:\appserv\www. You have to use your folder name

You’ll see wordpress installation page. Click ‘create a wp-config.php file through a web interface‘.

You’ll never see this page after wordpress has been successfully installed.

Click Let’s go

Click ‘Submit‘.

Before you click ‘Submit‘ be sure to check database name which you created in phpMyAdmin see above step ‘Creating Database‘. Normally, database user name is ‘root‘ and password that you set in Appserv installation. Database host, just leave it if you’re testing in your machine.

Click ‘run the install‘

Click ‘First Step‘

Click Continue to Second Step

Installation finished

This is a final state of wordpress installation. WordPress installation will give you a username and it’ password. Mark it down!!!

WordPress generate a random password. If you forgot it, you have to delete the wordpress table, need to install. So be careful.

Now, you can login to your very first wordpress blog. Click wp-login.php. Next time, use this address. http://localhost/[wordpress folder]/wp-login.php

Installing Appserv on Windows

Myo Kyaw Htun — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:25:08 +0000

Installing Apache Web Server, php and MySQL individually on Windows is not easy task. Because it might takes long time time to make so many configurations to work well such as editing in .ini setting, httpd.conf and many services and extensions used by Apache, php and MySql.

Appserv

Appserv includes Apache, php, MySQL and phpMyAdmin in one package and you can install in a minute without make any configuration.
Let’s get started.

Check the version history from Appserv.
download the latest stable released Appserv windows installer version from SourceForget.net.

Installing Appserv

Run the Appserv setup (.exe) file which you downloaded.

Before you install Appserv package make sure that you stop IIS if you has installed IIS in your machine because only one web server can run in single machine.

You’ll see Welcome Message, click ‘Next’.
You’ll see License Agreement, click ‘Next’
Choose the installation directory, c:\appserv as default. Click “Next”.
Select the applications you wish to install, all of four services checked as default. Click ‘Next’.
Enter the Apache web server information. Normally, you can put whatever you want. In Web Server Name, you can put “www.example.com” or something like this. Administrator’s Email Address, put your email address or “me@example.com”.
Enter password for Mysql root user, enter a password which is easier to remember when you login to mysql database as root.
You’ll see installation progress.
Start Apache web server and Mysql service. Click “Finished”.

Remember that I’m using Appserv 2.5.9 in this post.

Using another package called XAMPP

Michael Sync covered the post about installation Apache server, php, mysql and phpMyAdmin using XAMPP package. He aslo explained how to install wordpress in that post.