Converting a flash ad to an animated gif ad

The 728×90 banner displayed above is a flash ad run from our ad server. Not shown with this theme. [13 March 2010]

See this other site on how the same ad displays after converting it to an animated gif and run from the same ad server.

NOTE: If another ad is displayed on the other site when you open it, kindly refresh the page until the Australia Post Western Union ad displays.

The conversion did not cause any loss in quality.

Testing PicApp

60th Anniversary Of Berlin Airlift

BERLIN – MAY 12: A special Berlin Airlift ring of Gail S. Halvorsen, veteran of the US Air Force is seen during the ceremony for the 60th anniversary at Tempelhof airport on May 12, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. US, British and French veterans joined today to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift which sustained 2 million citizens of West Berlin with food and fuel for almost a year after Soviet Union blocked Western force’s road and rail access to the city, known as the Berlin Blockade. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images). Copyright 2009 Getty Images. All rights reserved.

Testing a slideshow

Tested a slideshow reated at slide.com. Does not show???

Testing an embed code for PicApp images

Diaghilev - Post Scriptum International Arts Festival brings to close

Image Info: ITAR-TASS 71: ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA. OCTOBER 20, 2009. A scene from the ballet “Russian seasons” performed a gala concert of ‘Diaghilev – Post Scriptum’ International Arts Festival marking the 100th anniversary of Diaghilev’s ‘Ballets Russes’. (Photo ITAR-TASS/ Yuri Belinsky)

This is a test post to embed a PicApp code using the following options:

1. Selected the pic from the Editorial default image list

2. Image size 450 x 278

3. Align none

Shades of Blue temporarily gracing this site, testing banner ads

Testing Shades of Blue theme on this site for a client.

Also testing a 728×90 leaderboard.

Updated: Oct 8, 2009 11:00am – Fixed banner ads. To run until next replacement.

Experimenting with WordPress.com blogs

Since about 9 nine months or so, we have ventured into testing WordPress-specific themes and plugins. Most of our testings have been focused on self-hosted WordPress installs.

Some of our friends with blogs hosted by WordPress.com have requested if we can extend the same tests to their sites. Because we are very nice, ehem, :-) , we created blogs at WordPress.com and here are some of them:

Working and WordPress-ing – Tutorials and other goodies

When on the road – Quick and dirty notes from a mobile phone

WORKPAPERS – Focused on accounting and business

Upgrading to WordPress 2.8.3

With the deprecation of WordPress 2.0.x, we thought we experiment upgrading our version of WordPress inside the dashboard instead of our usual route of upgrading with Fantastico in our server control panel.

After clicking the “Upgrade Automatically” button and entering our FTP details, we never expected the upgrade to finish at all. It was not as fast as upgrading using Fantastico.

If someone would ask us if we would upgrade our WordPress version inside the Dashboard, we would say, no. But we are glad we are now happily running the latest version of WordPress in our experimental site.

So far, we cannot find any much difference from version 2.7.1 at least in looks and feel. But as announced in the WordPress blog, the focus of WP 2.8.3 is more on security enhancements.

We will provide our comments on this latest version as we progress.