Embedding video files in your webpage

Video plays an important role for attracting website visitors for your website. You can grab attention of visitors if you have video presentation for your products/services which would tell more about your product in more clear way as compare to text. Visual impact is much more powerful, if possible try to use videos for your products on your website. You should check if your webhosting service provider allow videos to be hosted on their servers. You can use http streaming strategy if you want to get videos on your site. You can embed video file within your webpage. If you  are planning to use Windows Media Files as your video files then you  use following code for embedding it within your webpage so that your video file would be displayed within your webpage.

Note :  you need to provide proper video file name which you have created and uploaded on your web hosting account in place of “videofilename.wmv” in below code.

CODE : –
<OBJECT ID=”MediaPlayer” WIDTH=”192″ HEIGHT=”190″ CLASSID=”CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95″
STANDBY=”Loading Windows Media Player components…” TYPE=”application/x-oleobject”>
<PARAM NAME=”FileName” VALUE=”videofilename.wmv”>
<PARAM name=”ShowControls” VALUE=”true”>
<param name=”ShowStatusBar” value=”false”>
<PARAM name=”ShowDisplay” VALUE=”false”>
<PARAM name=”autostart” VALUE=”false”>
<EMBED TYPE=”application/x-mplayer2″ src=”videofilename.wmv” NAME=”MediaPlayer”
WIDTH=”192″ HEIGHT=”190″ ShowControls=”1″ ShowStatusBar=”0″ ShowDisplay=”0″ autostart=”0″> </EMBED>
</OBJECT>


You can customized Windows Media player which would appear on your webpage to some extent; such as you have option to show the playback controls, status indicator, etc.
Make sure you should have enough Diskspace and bandwidth, high configuration server if you expect huge traffic for your video site.

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This post was written by on October 24, 2008

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Reset WordPress admin password using cPanel

You have wordpress blog and for some reason you want to reset admin password of it. You can do so easily using your control panel cpanel. Your webhosting service  provider will provide you cpanel as webhosting control panel using which you can easily manage all aspect of your hosting account. cPanel includes a very useful tool called phpMyAdmin which is used to mange your databases so if you want to reset password for your blog then most convenient way is through phpMyAdmin databases management tool.
You need to login to your control panel cPanel >> MySQL Databases section, scroll down and click on phpMyAdmin link or
Goto cPanel >> Databases>>phpMyAdmin


After you got in phpMySQL you have to select Wordpress dataases from the drop-down list, you will get all batabase tables, now open SQL tab and just fire following SQL query in it.
UPDATE `wp_users` SET `user_pass` = MD5( ‘new_password_here’ ) WHERE `wp_users`.`user_login` = “admin_username”;
new_password_here” -  your new password goes here
admin_username” – the username for which you are updating password shouls be used here.
Just click on GO button and you have updated/reset password for Admin/user for yoru WordPresss Blog. If everything goes fine you can login to your WordPrress blog using new password.

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This post was written by on October 23, 2008

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cPanel Drupal Hosting

Every reputed webhosting service provider will support Drupal hosting, if you are using Drupal CMS for developing your website then you should check if your preferred webhost support this CMS on their servers. linux hosting plan as PHP-MySQL is perfect combination on Linux hosting plans. You will be offered with cPanel as your webhosting control panel where you will be having Fantastico as addon within your cPanel. You can install Drupal or other CMS using Fantastico addon of your cpanel. Installing Drupal is very simple and is just a single click operation through Fantastico. Using cpanel you can manage your website hosting account and can easily manage databases and other stuffs of your drupal application.
You can consider Drupal as one of the leading content management systems (CMS) available free of cost as its open source CMS which is written in PHP programming language. It have many powerful features and have easy management tools which can be used for managing, developing your website. If you are planning to publish small websites, blogs or major community websites you can consider Drupal as your website development application. Drupal CMS have builtin tools which are very useful for developing small or large corporate website.


Using Drupal you can create Community web portals,Social Networking sites,E-commerce applications ,Personal web sites or blogs etc very easily though you don’t have much technical web-programming knowledge. Drupal is very easy to install and can be operated even if you are newbie in website development. You can have Search engine friendly URLs which would help you for better ranking in Google, you can have multiple categories, can easily implement search function within your site which will help your website visitor to browse your site deeper. You can create a webforum, blog, wiki or any other website as per your requirement using Drupal CMS thus Drupal is getting more popularity and is widely used.
Thus if you are planning to use Drupal you need to get a reliable website hosting service provider who will offer you Drupal hosting package.

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This post was written by on October 22, 2008

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