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Cara Merubah Currency pada Virtuemart secara Manual

Singkat saja, lagi-lagi ini adalah catatan yang penting agar bisa dilihat kembali jika ingin membuat website dengan memanfaatkan Virtuemart.

Problem Currency

Default Currency: Rupiah

Input Currency: Dollar

Bagaimana caranya edit Currency Rate secara manual? Jadi harga Rupiah yang tampil bisa sesuai dengan yang kita mau.

Pada Joomla/Virtuemart Currency Rate diupdate secara otomatis dan berdasarkan pada mata uang Euro. Karena melalui dua kali pengkonfersian terkadang harga yang muncul tidak sesuai dengan yang kita inginkan.

Berikut adalah cara memperbaikinya agar Currency Rate bisa kita atur secara manual:

• Pada public_html buka folder cache
• Temukan daily.xml — buka dan edit
• Ubah Euro terhadap USD menjadi 1 — Kemudian Euro terhadap IDR menjadi rate “yang kau kehendaki”
• Agar tidak berubah-ubah terus setiap hari, maka ubah permission file daily.xml menjadi 644

Silahkan praktek dan buktikan.

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Mengganti Iklan Layanan Masyarakat Google Adsene

Pada website atau blog berbahasa Indonesia, sering kali iklan google adsense yang muncul adalah melulu iklan layanan masyarakat. Kita tidak dapat penghasilan dari iklan semacam ini, dan penampilan dari situs pun kurang enak dipandang. Untuk saya pribadi, saya lebih suka yang muncul adalah iklan adsense dengan bentuk gambar.

Oke, tidak dapat penghasilan dari google adsense tidak apa, mungkin kamu punya website lain atau barang dagangan yang ingin dipromosikan, atau hanya sekedar ingin mempercantik website dengan gambar-gambar? Bagusnya google adsense memberikan opsi untuk menampilkan iklan pribadi atau gambar tertentu sesuai dengan keinginan kita masing-masing. Kita hanya perlu menyesuaikan ukuran banner yang akan ditampilkan saja.

Pertama, siapkan banner sesuai dengan ukuran iklan google adsese, 120 x 600 / 160 x 600 / 250 x 250 / dll. Bisa berupa gambar atau tulisan. Silahkan buat banner dengan alat apa saja yang kamu kuasai, kemudian upload ke hosting.

Kedua, banner yang sudah jadi tersebut dapat ditampilkan hanya sebagai gambar saja ataupun sebagai gambar yang dapat di klik dan mengarah ke suatu situs tertentu.

• Jika hanya sebagai gambar. Pada google adsene bikin iklan baru atau edit iklan yang sudah ada. Pada saat itu kamu akan melihat bagian MORE OPTIONS yang berisi 3 pilihan: Show public service ads, Show non-Google ads from another URL, Fill space with a solid color. Jika hanya ingin menampilkan gambar saja pilih pilihan yang kedua, maka akan muncul baris isian kosong yang harus diisikan dengan URL dari banner yang kamu buat tadi. Misal: http://domainkamu.com/banner.gif
• Jika ingin banner dapat di klik dan mengarah ke website tertentu. Pada notepad bikin kode html. Buka notepad dan ketik seperti ini <a href=”http://domainkamu.com” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://domainkamu.com/banner.gif”></a> kemudian save dengan format .html, selanjutnya upload html dan banner ke hosting. Kemudian sama seperti diatas, pilih pilihan kedua dan isikan dengan URL html yang sudah kamu buat barusan. Misal: http://domainkamu.com/iklanku.html

Cara apapun yang kamu pilih, kemudian klik save dan tunggu 10 menit maka iklan buatan sendiri akan muncul.

Dengan cara ini maka iklan layanan masyarakat digantikan dengan iklan buatan pribadi. Gunakan untuk mempromosikan situs kamu yang lain atau hanya untuk sekedar mempercantik situs.

Selamat mencoba.

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Cara Membuat dan Menambahkan/Mengganti Favicon pada Wordpress

Favicon merupakan salah satu identitas untuk pengunjung dapat mengenali website kita. Tiap-tiap website memiliki favicon yang unik dan berbeda sesuai dengan keinginan pemilik-nya masing-masing.

Bagi yang belum tau apa itu favicon, lihat gambar berikut:

Favicon adalah gambar yang kecil itu.

Bagaimana cara  membuat favicon:

1. Pertama-tama design dulu gambar yang ingin dijadikan favicon, dan pastikan bentuknya adalah square alias kotak alias panjang dan lebarnya sama.
2. Kemudian berkunjunglah ke website-website yang menyedakan jasa favicon generator gratis. Misalnya: chami.com
3. Jika gambar sudah terbentuk maka selanjutnya adalah Download FavIcon Package kemudian upload ke root folder dengan menggunakan ftp ataupun file manager. “Sebelum upload filenya di-unzip dulu”

Cara memasukan favicon-nya ada dijelaskan pada file readme yang datang bersama favicon. Namun walaupun begitu tetap akan saya copy paste disini:

Buka dan edit file header.php yang biasanya terletak pada folder template/themes yang kita gunakan. Selanjutnya ikuti instruksi dalam bahasa inggris seperti dibawah ini.

Installing FavIcon from Pics Download Package

Installing the favicon with animation.

• Upload favicon.ico and animated_favicon1.gif to the root of your web folder.
• Add the following HTML code to your web page, in between <head> and </head> tags:

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico” >
<link rel=”icon” type=”image/gif” href=”animated_favicon1.gif” >

Installing the favicon without animation

• Upload favicon.ico to the root of your web folder.
• Add the following HTML code to your web page, in between <head> and </head> tags:

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico” >

Save file header.php dan refresh website kamu.

Note: Jika ingin merubah gambar favicon cukup dengan me-replace favicon yang lama dengan yang baru.

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Make Money using Blog

You have created a blog and your blog is dedicated to a niche industry. Have you ever thought that the blog could make money for you? We would look here in this article, ways and means, to make money blogging. Lets first have a look at what are the prerequisites for a blog needed to make money:

1. Blog needs to be dedicated to a niche market.
2. Updated regularly.
3. Enough back links (Don’t worry for it. Directory submission would be enough to begin with)
4. Good blog host or application (blogger, Xanga or typepad recommended), and
5. High quality articles or news items supported with images.

Get the above criteria in place and Hurrah… You are ready to make money blogging.

Top 5 Ways to Make Money Blogging
Lets now take a look at top 5 ways using which you could make money blogging:

• Google Adsense. Google Adsense delivers text and image ads to the authorized websites/blogs depending on the content of the website. Small code is required to be pasted at proper locations on a webpage and Google automatically recognizes the page. Google shares the revenue it gets from the advertisers whenever a visitor clicks on these ads.

Google bills advertisers on price per click basis (PPC). Advertisers are required to pay only when any visitor clicks on their ads. They bid against each other for the keywords in order to receive better placement and thus prices for each keyword differ from one another. It is better to choose keywords for your blog which pays high $ per click.

• Amazon. Amazon Associate program is another important way to make money blogging. The Amazon Associate program gives opportunity to website/blog publishers to promote any product from its inventory by adding a predefined code to their website/blog, which, when clicked by a visitor, takes them to the relevant product page. Once the visitor buys the product, the blog owner will be compensated with a commission.

• Blogads. You can use Blogads as an effective tool to have a better control over the advertisers in your blogs. You can analyze and compare your profits with any one of your online agencies. Blogads can be simply specified as an advertising service used for the web logs or blogs. From the total money generated by Blogads, it retains 20% of it and the remaining money is paid to you through PayPal or checks.
  • Alternative Services:
    • Crispads is another useful network focused on the blogs. You can put your advertisements in their blogs using Crispads. You can move through their RSS/ATOM feeds that help in generating revenues.
    • Tagword – It is similar to Blogads. It makes you select the ads and their price.

Users can place their text-based ads in the site within minutes and the ads will be displayed instantly on the website.

• Affiliate Programs. Your affiliate programs can help you earn a lot of money for selected products and services. Lot of websites offers you to become affiliate members. These affiliate programs can provide a better reach and an in-depth exposure to the products. The commissions for the sales differ according to the quality of the product, sales and marketing strategy involved. You can gather information related to the commissions by looking into the catalogues of Link Share and Commission junctions.

• Text Links. Text links has emerged out to be the best form of moneymaking source that you can use instead of cluttering or crowding the page with ads. You don’t have to make these text links prominent within your website. This link can act as an extra value to your site and will also help to promote the rankings of other sites. In most of the cases you will find these text links placed in the bottom of the web pages. The best part of this strategy is that the publishers send and accept links as the market continues to grow.

[Matt Bacak]

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Disable AVG Anti Virus

Ada kalanya ketika kita sedang melakukan instalasi pada suatu aplikasi tetentu satu atau beberapa file dianggap sebagai virus oleh AVG Anti Virus kita, padahal sebenarnya bukan.

Agar dapat melakukan instalasi secara sempurna maka kita mau tidak mau harus me-non aktifkan sementara AVG Anti Virus. Caranya:

• Buka AVG Anti Virus, klik 2x pada lambang AVG di pojok kanan bawah.
• Setelah terbuka, temukan Resident Shield. Resident Shield sekarang statusnya adalah aktif, tujuan kita adalah me-non aktifkannya. Klik 2x Resident Shield.
• Remove tanda centang pada Resident Shield active. Kemudian Save Change.

Pada tahap ini Resident Shield sudah tidak aktif dan kita dapat melakukan install dengan normal. Setelah install selesai Resident Shield harus diaktifkan kembali untuk menjaga dari virus-virus yang tidak diinginkan.

Selamat mencoba.

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Build Free and High Quality Targeted Traffic

So you need high quality free targeted traffic to your website and you’re not sure how to get it? The first and most important way is no secret. Don’t click away once I tell you the first thing you need to do is to generate traffic because I’m going to tell you why.

You MUST post articles. Each article that I have previously posted that directed back to my first free niche site generated 300 high quality free targeted traffic each month. Now let me show you how to use this information. You have one topic and article. You choose a long tale keyword title and submit this original content to Ezine for approval. Remember that you must submit high quality, original and unique content. This isn’t that hard and it cost you no money. Next you take the same topic, choose a new long tale keyword title, spin the content of the original article so that it stays unique and original. Now you submit this one to another top rated ezine. Repeat the process and submit to yet another top rated ezine. You have basically taken one topic and turned it into 3 articles and 3 keyword searches. For 30 mins of work you have generated ~900 high quality free targeted visitors to your site each and every month until you take the articles down. This will continue each and every month. Repeat the process until you are getting the amount of traffic you want.

Just to give you and idea of the impact. If you spend 5 hours a week on this just for one month, you will generate 1000 high quality free targeted visitors to your site per day. Not just for the month that you did the work, but each and every month even if you do nothing else.

**Remember that each submission must be unique and original content. You should not cut and paste the same article to all three ezines**

[Chad Joiner]

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Create Blog Using Blogger

It takes only a few minutes and is easy to setup your own weblog using the Blogger weblog system.  By completing only three simple steps, creating an account, naming your blog and choosing a template, you too can join the thousands of people now blogging on the web. Here’s a detailed step-by-step guide to help to get you started using Blogger.

1. Go to Blogger.com and click on the arrow that says “Create Your Blog Now.”  You’ll be asked to create a username and choose a password that you’ll use to access your Blogger account;  choose a display name that will be used to sign your posts (e.g., moody mom, bloggerx, etc.) and provide an email address. You’ll also be asked to check a box indicating that you accept Blogger’s Terms of Service . Then click on “Continue” to go to the next screen.
2. On the next screen to name your blog (e.g., The Blog Report, Myrah’s Insanity Report, etc.), you can choose any name you wish. After you choose your blog title, you need to choose your URL address. This is the web address that people can click to access your blog. Again, as long as it’s not taken, you can choose any address you want. Remember, the shorter and easier to spell the better it will be for people to remember.  Also, remember that many thousands of people use Blogger to host their weblog and it may take you a while to find a web address that hasn’t already been taken. Finally, for security purposes, you’ll need to provide word verification by typing in the box the word that is displayed above the box on the screen.  Then,  click “Continue” to move to next screen.
3. On the next screen, you’ll need to choose a template for your blog. This is the design of your blog, what your blog will look like to visitors. Blogger provides 12 different templates to choose from. Pick your favorite. You can change the look of your blog at a later time by choosing a different Blogger template or using of the hundreds of free templates that are available across the Internet.  After you choose your template, click “Continue.”  Blogger will begin creating your blog.
4. Once it’s created, click on “Start Posting” and write your first post for the world to see. Click on “Publish Post” and Blogger will tell you it is publishing your post. Then click on the “View Blog” tab and you’ll find that you’re officially a member of the blogging world.

by: Matt Bacak

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