Piwik is a downloadable, open source (GPL licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages… and so much more.
Piwik is a very good alternative to other website tracking and counter programs as it is self hosted and maintained. As well as the table and data is also collected in one’s own database.
Piwik requires PHP 5.0 and MySQL to function. The tables and graphs are created as Flash (.swf) files.
Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone who has web-space that meets the requirements can download and use Vanilla for free!
Vanilla runs on MySQL and PHP. It is a very weight (386 KB only!) and compact yet powerful forum creating and managing platform. It is easy to use and maintain once installed.
Its features include RSS 2.0/ATOM feeds of Discussions, Categories and the whole forum. It has an inbuilt WYSIWYG editor for comments and discussions. Various different add-ons and themes are also available for it.
I am introducing a new feature in my website called ‘Anunay’s Chat‘ where the visitors can chat with me whenever I am available online. This feature is a crude AJAX and JQuery based chat interface. It saves the chat logs as a (X)HTML file that can be deleted. It runs on PHP and does not require MySQL to function.
The styling of the chat interface is done by CSS. The files needed for the system are very compact and it fits into about 7 KB. The source is attached at the bottom of the article. (I love Open Source.)
Today, I will show you how to use the ‘Permalinks’ feature in Wordpress. ‘Permalinks’ stand for Permanent Links to your posts. This feature can well be configured using the Permalinks Settings Option. It can be used to create a new URL structure, minimal or fancy looking or maybe a whacky word can be formed in the URL itself.
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink.
To configure the Permalinks goto the Permalink Box under the Settings tab. Go through. You will encounter a page displaying various permalink types including the default one for you to choose.
%year%
The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004
%monthnum%
Month of the year, for example 05
%day%
Day of the month, for example 28
%hour%
Hour of the day, for example 15
%minute%
Minute of the hour, for example 43
%second%
Second of the minute, for example 33
%postname%
A sanitized version of the title of the post.
%post_id%
The unique ID # of the post, for example 423
%category%
A sanitized version of the category name.
%tag%
A sanitized version of the tag name.
%author%
A sanitized version of the author name.
You can use the above mentioned snippets to create your own Permalinks. You may even try cool ones like,
/its%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/its123/
/shownumber%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/shownumber123/
/this/is/number/%post_id%/ >> will give you something like >> http://domain.tld/this/is/number/123
You can also create many cool and trendy custom Permalinks as you like.
Do Not Forget to post your cool and wacky Permalink as a comment. (Claim Bragging Rights!)
Gelato is self hosted CMS for those who want both flexibility and design in their work. It is a specially designed CMS for tumblelogs. It provides a nice framework for tumblelogs and is very easy to install. It runs on PHP and MySQL. It can also import RSS/Atom feeds as well as Twitter and Last.Fm feeds.
The Gelato project is open source (you can use and change the original source code freely). You can browse the source code, request features, read the wiki and use the forum from the Gelato home at Google code or you can contact the authors.
The post formats found on gelato include photos, video, audio, links, quotes and dialogues.
gelato CMS created by Pedro Santana.
Gelato is ideal for posting images, text, music or videos.
CMS.txt is a free, open-source, 6kb content management system which allows you to easily manage web pages. CMS.txt presently boasts a simple theme and templating system which can also be used to implement color schemes. Currently, CMS.txt fully supports PHP and HTML files with the ability to use <!– COMMENT TAGS –> for additional functionality.
CMS.txt is a very small content management which can be used to create simple websites and the maintenance procedure is fairly simple once the site is setup. The PHP file in the CMS draws site contents from a simple text file named CMS.txt placed on the server. This file can be edited for changing the content of the site.
The CMS package comes with 8 preloaded themes, which can be used for building a simple, compact and clean web layout. Other themes can also be developed as per the requirement.
CMS.txt runs on PHP and does not require MySQL or any other technology.
