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Create your wordpress blog offline

How many times have you made changes to your website that might not work that could cause an inconvenience to anybody that is trying to view your website? Well if you are using wordpress you usually edit your website online, and as soon as you save it the changes will take effect on your live website, this can be a nightmare because it could mess up the appearance of your website and cause your visitors to become confused on where everything is.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could simply test these changes before putting them into action on the live web for everyone to see. Well now you can, i was looking around the internet a few days ago and found out a way of installing wordpress locally on your own computer, this means you can make as many changes as you want to your website and it will not effect your live website, therefore making the ease of visitors to your site more comfortable, then when you are ready you can simply upload your changes to your live website.

Ok so in order to setup wordpress locally on your computer this is what you have to do:

1. First download the latest version of wordpress, here
2. Then go here and download XAMPP Lite
3. When the download is complete extract it to the root of your hard-drive e.g: C:\
4. When the extraction is complete go to C:\xampplite and click on setup_xampp.bat
5. Then click on xampp-control and start Apache and Mysql
6. Then open up your browser and go to http://localhost/ then choose your preferred language on the left column
7. Then click phpMyAdmin from the tools section in the left column
8. type: wordpress into the create new database section then select utf8_unicode_ci then click create, that is the XAMPP setup complete now
9. Unzip the wordpress folder you downloaded into the folder: C:\xampplite\htdocs
10. Then browse to the folder wordpress in C:\xampplite\htdocs then you should see a file called wp-config-sample.php open it up in a text editor such as notepad or textpad then replace the default values with these:
    

    // ** MySQL settings ** //
    define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
    define(’DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
    define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password (needs to be empty, just for local install)
    define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

11. Then save the file as wp-config.php in the same folder as wp-config-sample.php
12. Then open your browser and type in http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php
    Then follow the instructions and that’s it enjoy!

Have a look at the video below, i made it to show you how to do the above in case you had trouble doing it, i added some music so it wont seem so long!

Original instructions source: Geeksaresexy

The Flaws Release New Single

Local band The Flaws from Co Monaghan have just released there new single ‘Out tonight’.  Check out the video below for the new single. The Song is hitting the radio stations now so tune in to have a listen  You can find the flaws at www.theflaws.com and at www.myspace.com/theflawsmusic

Youtube Beta!

Yep that’s right Youtube have now begun to go into the stages of beta testing. Lately you may have noticed a few slight changes here and there on youtube, a lot of downtime on the servers amongst other things, this is due to Youtube upgrading itself. Youtube has brought out some nice new features over the past few weeks. They have upgraded the surrounding’s of the video box when watching a video which makes it look more dynamic and in my opinion it makes it look better. Another thing that Youtube have updated is after you log into your account you no longer get redirected back to the front page with your subscription updates in a small box you now get redirected to a totally different page which looks a bit plain looking and i do not really like this new update i think they could do with reverting this update back.

However its not all bad, Youtube have just released today there new beta testing of there new video player. I think it looks great, have a look at the picture below to see the new video player(left), Old video player is on the right.

I think that they decided to finally upgrade there video player because over the past while they have being allowing a higher-quality version of videos to be displayed. i think that with this new player it will load there videos faster and also display them clearer than there old video player.

I think its great that Youtube are finally getting around to upgrading there service, i think these few upgrades are just a taste of what else Youtube have to come. Hopefully Youtube will upgrade there audio quality to output more Bass sound as most videos require it. I have also just found out that Youtube have upgraded there upload video file size limit, you used to only be allowed to upload 100mb per video and a maximum length of 10 minutes which gave a poor quality video, however now they have increased the file size limit from 100 mb to 1024mb (1GB) and video length still remains the same at 10 minutes, this will no doubt be the beginning of High Definition videos on Youtube.