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I have made a tentative decision to go into the domain name business! I found this great domain websitetheme.com and its available for sale. The great thing about this domain is that it includes two keywords "website" and "theme" related to website design and development. It is also a short and easy to remember dot com. This domain is an excellent address for a website design house or a website themes dealer. If you are interested in purchasing this domain just make an offer through the contact form. Please note that the minimum offer is US$150.00.

A good website is easy to navigate from one page to the next and an easy to navigate website will make the following clear to the user:

• Which page he is currently viewing, i.e. where he currently "is" in your website
• What pages he can view

Furthermore, you want to be able to save time and effort in coding your website while also ensuring that your site can be easily modified and updated.This is an ideal situation in which to use PHP server side scripting to dynamically generate the links.

In this post I present code that will generate links grouped under different sub-headings. It will apply a special style to the navigation bar entry for the page that the user is currently viewing.

File Transfer Protocol is a set of rules by which files can be transferred between computers. An FTP client such as filezilla is used to upload and download files from remote servers. I use FTP to upload files onto my website host's webserver. I was on the lookout for a free FTP program. I had heard a lot about this program and so I decided to try it out.

Filezilla is an open source program. Filezilla's site manager can store connection details for a number of ftp sites. You can even organize ftp sites into different folders. It remembers the passwords too. Filezilla automatically detects the file type and sets the correct transfer mode. It has two panes for local files and remote files. You can drag a file from your local directory to the remote directory view or vice versa. In my opinion filezilla compares well to the commercial program wsftp. However it does have its disadvantages. Its a bit of a hefty download at more than 3MB.

The filezilla homepage is here. You can download it here.

This is my second theme for the serendipity blog engine. Its got a shiny banner graphic and comes in three colours.

Changing colours

By default the theme is in blue but you can change it to red or green as well. The first step is to enable smarty templating for the categories plugin using the "configure plugins" option in serendipity administration. If you don't do this the xml feed icon for categories will not appear correctly. If you have s9y 1.1 you can easily change the theme's colours using the "manage styles" option in the administrator interface. A few other options are also available for users of this version of s9y.

If you are using an older version of s9y then you will have to edit the index.tpl file in the theme folder to effect colour changes. In this file just add or at line 35 where it says Close this wrapper div at line 64 by adding a

Update 30 July : I have fixed a number of bugs in the latest release of this theme including entry preview in firefox and other modern browsers.

You can download the theme here.

I visited Lahore and Murree on vacation recently. My sister took some pictures of the shahi qila or fort of Lahore and the mosque built inside it.


The size of the shahi Qila cannot be truly appreciated in these pictures. It is truly massive with the minarets towering high. Compare the minaret in the picture above with the houses in the background to get an idea of its height.

The mosque's domes are huge and imposing. Inside the mosque there are large open spaces underneath the domes. Indeed these magnificient buildings say a lot about the glory days of Lahore.