We have designed our first Drupal theme for free download. This is a tableless CSS multi-column design with a green touch. The style file is annotated so it is very easy to modify to your own use.

To download the drupal theme, go to our theme download site www.osweb2themes.com

We have designed a sophisticated Wordpress CMS for one of our clients. The site is www.quantumconsulting.org. In this site, we created a static home page and a page link to the blog post. The blog link has a pretty permalink http://www.quantumconsulting.org/blog. Besides that, we also incorporated a newsletter contact form on the front page.

You may be interested in how we create a page link to the blog posts with such a nice permalink. Here is our step-by-step method:

Wordpress 2.6 is released on the 15 July. Over the last few days, I have updated the WP to version 2.6 for most of my clients. Version 2.6 is actually not a major revision as compared to version 2.5. The backend still looks pretty much the same. Among the new features of Wordpress 2.6, the key one is the “Turbo” which allows users to cache common files like stylesheets and scripts to their own computers. This can significantly speed up loading and operation times of Wordpress. Turbo is actually leveraging on Google Gear technology that allows for Firefox to “pre-cache” pages and speed up access. To enable Gears in your new WordPress 2.6 installation, click on the Turbo link in the upper right corner of your WordPress admin.

For updating the Wordpress, it is recommended to use the automatic update plugin. The plugin follows obediently the recommended 5 steps upgrade protocol.

One of my clients has asked me to embed web traffic stats on his website. Generally, I monitor the web traffic using Google analytics or stats script provided by the web hosting. However, these do not allow me to embed the stats on the website. After googling, I found this amazing open source web analytic software, PIWIK, that allow one to embed stats data and charts on the website. The software is a mimic of Google analytic but it is free and open source. PiWik is almost comprehensive as Google analytics. Some of the key features of PiWik are: