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Dreamhost Contest Winner

June 4th, 2009 by Naman Bagga | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, General, Web D

The Dreamhost contest on my blog has come to a premature end. Actually, I'm going to Udaipur tomorrow so I've decided to end the contest at 2359 hours on 3rd June 2009.

The contest was a big success with participants from all parts of the world became a part of it. I had publicized about this contest on SocialSpark through a Cost per click opportunity (Review coming soon). It helped to spread the buzz about the contest and extended the contest participation beyond my friends.

I had a tough time deciding a random method to chose the winner of the contest. In the end I decided to use the good old lucky draw method. I decided to write the names of all participants on paper chits. The number of chits for each participants was decided on the basis of the number of times they tweeted the message. If a participant tweeted once, he had 1 chit with his name written on it. If the participant tweeted 2 to 5 times, he gets 2 chits and if a participant had tweeted more than 5 times, he gets 3 chits.

It was time for the lucky draw. I randomly picked up a chit and the winner is [drumroll]-

Indigoanalysis


Anupum Pant
known as indigoanalysis on twitter has won the Dreamhost contest. Congratulations!

For the rest of the participants, thank you for participating in the contest and making it a big success. There had to be just one winner so better luck next time. Sooner or later you will manage to get web hosting.

PS- Bits of information that don't deserve a separate post-
Just Host, rated as the best blog host by many rating sites is offering an unlimited hosting plan at just $2.95/month. Just use the coupon code "50OFF" to avail the price. Personally, I prefer world's largest host- GoDaddy which has moderately priced hosting plans.

Twitter Friendly Links

May 18th, 2009 by Naman Bagga | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, Tech Talk

URL shortening services like tr.im, bit.ly and TinyURL face downtime very often and the short URLs look ugly. Ever wondered how good it could be to have a URL shortening service using your own domain? The Twitter Friendly Links Plugin does exactly that. It creates short URLs for your posts which you can fully customize according to your preferences. It is also compatible with the Twitter Tools plugin which you can use to integrate your blog with twitter.

I'm yet to test the Twitter Friendly Links integration with Twitter Tools. Once I publish this post, I'll confirm if it works.

PS-It works! I'm switching from Twitme to Twitter Tools just because it has support for Twitter Friendly Links.

Quickpress 1.5.1

May 17th, 2009 by Naman Bagga | No Comments | Filed in Blogging, General, Tech Talk

Recently my theme Quickpress 1.4.1 got upgraded to version 1.5.1. I decided to upgrade my theme. I tried using the automatic upgrade feature but the install failed due to some reason. I used one-click install to install the new version of the theme. I made all the custom additions and activated the new version of the theme.

The new theme is much better than the last version. It has a green navbar at the top(as you can see if you are reading this on my blog) which adds to the colors. The sidebars also have bits of green added. Also, a background has been added to the posts. There's a different background color for sticky posts. It is fully wordpress 2.7 compatible. The theme looks more complete now.

One thing I love about the theme is the RSS feed icon on the top left. I had to do a bit of editing with it as its position was fixed and it made navigation very slow on my blog. I edited the CSS stylesheet and changed the position to absolute. Navigation was much better now. But I needed the RSS icon to stay on the top left and move with scrolling. I used the Floating Menu javascript to give it its current form. There are no problems with the theme now. The floating RSS icon not only looks much better than an icon fixed at the top left of the page but also performs better.

Contest: Free Dreamhost hosting for two years!

May 17th, 2009 by Naman Bagga | 50 Comments | Filed in Blogging, General, Tech Talk

Recently, I won a free Dreamhost hosting account for two years through Ankur's contest. I don't really need hosting at the moment so I've decided to give away the hosting account in a contest similar to Ankur's contest. The hosting account is worth $215 approximately. This contest is for Twitter users so if you are not a Twitter user, Sign up for Twitter.

Here's how you can participate in the contest and win web hosting for two years-

1. Follow me on Twitter.
2. Tweet this message from your twitter account, exactly as its given here: Follow @namanb and tweet to win free web hosting for two years! RT to win. Visit http://namanb.com/p458 for more details.
3. Leave a comment on this blog post. Your comment should have the link to the tweet from your account containing the message I mentioned above. This will be used to verify whether you’re following me, and have tweeted the message. You can get this direct link to your tweet by clicking on the ‘about X minutes / X hours ago’ text beneath your tweet.
Also mention how you came to know about the contest in the comment.
4. You can enter the contest multiple times, but you need to tweet again to re-enter.
5. I will chose a winner at random.
6. The contest ends at 2359 hours on 3rd June 2009.

I am the judge of this competition, my decision is final and I may change the contest rules or cancel the contest any time for any reason.

PS- This contest is open for everyone, there are no restrictions.

PPS- The last date for the contest has been updated to 3rd June 2009.

PPPS- The winner of the contest has been announced on this post.

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