Reference Links

1. XPath Syntax

2. XML Path Language (XPath)

3. XPath Examples .NET Framework 4

4. Introduction to using XPath in JavaScript

5. An XPath implementation for ActionScript 3.0.

6. PHP XPath Tutorial

7. jQuery XPath Selectors

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jQuery files

<link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

Simple datepicker

$("#datepicker").datepicker();

Disable all dates till today

// get the current date
var date = new Date();
var m = date.getMonth(), d = date.getDate(), y = date.getFullYear();

// Disable all dates till today
$('#datepicker2').datepicker({
		minDate: new Date(y, m, d),
		dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yy',
});

Disable all dates from today

// Disable all dates from today
$('#datepicker3').datepicker({
		maxDate: new Date(y, m, d),
		dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yy',
});

Disable all weekends

// Disable all weekends
$('#datepicker4').datepicker({
		dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yy',
		beforeShowDay: $.datepicker.noWeekends
});

Disable a list of dates

// Disable a list of dates
var disabledDays = ["9-21-2010", "9-24-2010", "9-27-2010", "9-28-2010", "9-3-2010", "9-17-2010", "9-2-2010", "9-3-2010", "9-4-2010", "9-5-2010"];
function disableAllTheseDays(date) {
	var m = date.getMonth(), d = date.getDate(), y = date.getFullYear();
	for (i = 0; i < disabledDays.length; i++) {
		if($.inArray((m+1) + '-' + d + '-' + y,disabledDays) != -1) {
			return [false];
		}
	}
	return [true];
}
$('#datepicker5').datepicker({
		dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yy',
		beforeShowDay: disableAllTheseDays
});

Enable a list of dates

// Enable a list of dates
var enabledDays = ["9-21-2010", "9-24-2010", "9-27-2010", "9-28-2010", "9-3-2010", "9-17-2010", "9-2-2010", "9-3-2010", "9-4-2010", "9-5-2010"];
function enableAllTheseDays(date) {
	var m = date.getMonth(), d = date.getDate(), y = date.getFullYear();
	for (i = 0; i < enabledDays.length; i++) {
		if($.inArray((m+1) + '-' + d + '-' + y,enabledDays) != -1) {
			return [true];
		}
	}
	return [false];
}
$('#datepicker6').datepicker({
		dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yy',
		beforeShowDay: enableAllTheseDays
});

Disable a range of dates

// Disable a range of dates
var disabledDaysRange = [["9-1-2010 to 9-6-2010", "9-10-2010 to 9-15-2010", "10-27-2010 to 10-30-2010"], '9-17-2010'];
function disableRangeOfDays(d) {
	for(var i = 0; i < disabledDaysRange.length; i++) {
		if($.isArray(disabledDaysRange[i])) {
			for(var j = 0; j < disabledDaysRange[i].length; j++) {
				var r = disabledDaysRange[i][j].split(" to ");
				r[0] = r[0].split("-");
				r[1] = r[1].split("-");
				if(new Date(r[0][2], (r[0][0]-1), r[0][1]) <= d && d <= new Date(r[1][2], (r[1][0]-1), r[1][1])) {
					return [false];
				}
			}
		}else{
			if(((d.getMonth()+1) + '-' + d.getDate() + '-' + d.getFullYear()) == disabledDaysRange[i]) {
				return [false];
			}
		}
	}
	return [true];
}
$('#datepicker7').datepicker({
		dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yy',
		beforeShowDay: disableRangeOfDays
});

Enable a range of dates

// Enable a range of dates
var disabledDaysRange = [["9-1-2010 to 9-6-2010", "9-10-2010 to 9-15-2010", "10-27-2010 to 10-30-2010"], '9-17-2010'];
function disableRangeOfDays(d) {
	for(var i = 0; i < disabledDaysRange.length; i++) {
		if($.isArray(disabledDaysRange[i])) {
			for(var j = 0; j < disabledDaysRange[i].length; j++) {
				var r = disabledDaysRange[i][j].split(" to ");
				r[0] = r[0].split("-");
				r[1] = r[1].split("-");
				if(new Date(r[0][2], (r[0][0]-1), r[0][1]) <= d && d <= new Date(r[1][2], (r[1][0]-1), r[1][1])) {
					return [true];
				}
			}
		}else{
			if(((d.getMonth()+1) + '-' + d.getDate() + '-' + d.getFullYear()) == disabledDaysRange[i]) {
				return [true];
			}
		}
	}
	return [false];
}

$('#datepicker8').datepicker({
		dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yy',
		beforeShowDay: disableRangeOfDays
});

Enable only Friday

// Enable only Friday
$("#datepicker9").datepicker({
	dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy',
	minDate: 1,
	beforeShowDay: enableFirday
});
// Custom function to enable friday only in jquery calender
function enableFirday(date) {
	var day = date.getDay();
	return [(day == 5), ''];
}

Note: All the above function works well with the dateformat mm-dd-yy. But you can change the values in the function mainly in this line (m+1) + ‘-’ + d + ‘-’ + y. Replace the – with your char usage the same dateformat in all the arrays and functions. Have fun

• Multicolumn Layout
• Rounded Corners
• Web Fonts
• Text Wrapping
• Text Stroke
• Transitions
• 2d Transforms
• Animations
• Gradients
• Selectors

And you can find other HTML5 resources

• HTML5 Readiness – visual timeline of HTML5 feature support.
• Dive into HTML5 – learn HTML5 and have fun reading a book at the same time.
• Modernizr – JavaScript library for feature detection and control fallback cases of HTML5.

1. All in One SEO Pack

The WordPress itself is Optimize the contents for search engines. But while using All in One SEO Pack you will get much control over the SEO. In this you can change the meta-data, descriptions, titles and set the index/follow of each pages or views with in the All in One SEO Pack plugin settings page.

Download » All in One SEO Pack

2. WP-PageNavi

By default there is no pagination support for the WordPress. So WP-PageNavi is one of the best plugin for WordPress Pagination.  Check the Screens for the settings page and its output.  You need to place php code inside the theme files.

Download » WP-PageNavi

3. WordPress Related Posts

WordPress Related Posts Plugin will generate a related posts via WordPress tags, and add the related posts to feed. Insert the <?php wp_related_posts(); ?> code inside your theme file, where ever you want to show the related posts.

4. Upcoming Posts Widget

It is better to let your readers know exactly what and when you will post something.
Features 1. Help you to show cheduled posts or drafts. 2. Configure in the widget: the number of posts; show the excerpt; the time format; a specific category. 3. Make your own style by editing ucp.css and ucp_widget.php files.

Download » Upcoming Posts Widget

5. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. You can generate the sitemap xml from the plugin’s settings page.

Download » Google XML Sitemaps

6. WPtouch iPhone Theme

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Opera Mini, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm mobile devices. The admin panel allows you to customize many aspects of its appearance, and deliver a fast, user-friendly and stylish version of your site to iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm visitors, without modifying a single bit of code (or affecting) your regular desktop theme.

Download » WPtouch iPhone Theme

7. Sociable

Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!

Download » Sociable

8. FeedBurner Widget

FeedBurner Widget is very simple sidebar widget plugin to easy customize and display your FeedBurner subscribers stats button.

Download » FeedBurner Widget

9. Count Per Day

It counts 1 visit per IP per day. So any reload of the page don’t increment the counter.  Features: Count reads and visitors,  shows reads per page, shows visitors today, yesterday, last week, last months and other statistics on dashboard, shows country of your visitors

Download » Count Per Day

10. NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.

Features
* Templates : You can add custom templates for your theme.
* Media RSS feed : Add the Cooliris Effect to your gallery
* Role settings : Each gallery has a author
* AJAX based thumbnail generator : No more server limitation during the batch process
* Copy/Move : Copy or move images between galleries etc…etc.

Download » NextGEN Gallery

Enjoy Blogging

But you’re stuck. How do you work out if your cool idea has legs? How do you get it off the ground? Where should you begin?

Work Out What You’d Love to Do

Firstly, if you’re going to start an online business, don’t just pick something that you think will make a lot of money. Yes, it’s very cheap to get an online business up and running – but there’ll be a big cost in terms of your time.

Find something that you’d really enjoy doing. Perhaps you love creating images and designs, and you want to offer illustration services. Maybe you’re a keen writer, and you want to write for blogs. You might love making jewellery and want to find somewhere to sell it online. Whatever it is, make sure it’s something you genuinely love.

Get a Website

Frankly, you can’t start an online business without a website! You should get a domain name (ideally ending in .com – or whatever your country’s extension is, for example .co.uk for the UK, or .ca for Canada).

Consider having a blog: the more pages on your site, the more traffic you’ll get from search engines – and a blog is an easy and fun way to keep adding content to your website.

I use Dreamhost for all my websites – they provide lots of space, a free domain name and loads of other features like shopping carts and blog software that you can install with just one click. If you register with them and put in the code “aliventures”, you’ll get a second free domain name (very handy if you ever want to grow your business and branch out into a different area!)

Put information on your website about what services or products you offer. Make it very clear what you and your business are all about: be careful not to make assumptions about how much your potential clients will know. Having a page of Frequently Asked Questions can help convert prospects into customers and clients.

Learn From the Experts

There is a lot of advice out there about online businesses – and it can be very hard to separate the good stuff from the rubbish! Well-reviewed books can help, but the problem with these is that they’re already a couple of years out of date by the time they hit the shelves – and the online business world is evolving fast.

The best resource I’ve come across for anyone going into online business is Naomi Dunford’s very highly regarded Online Business School: you can read about it on my Starting Online Businesses website. It’s been an invaluable tool to help me grow my freelancing and add extra streams of income to my business activities.

Article Source: EzineArticles.com

Sample XML Document

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<books>
<category name="Programming">
<title>
<name>Professional JavaScript For Web Developers</name>
<author>Nicholas C. Zakas</author>
<isbn>ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-7908-0</isbn>
</title>
<title>
<name>Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5</name>
<author>Hasin Hayder</author>
<isbn>ISBN 978-1-847192-56-1</isbn>
</title>
</category>
</books>

Here, the 1st line is called XML Declaration, 2nd line <books> is the Parent Node of this sample XML. 3rd line <category> is Child Node and name is an Attribute Name and Programming is the value of that attribute. <title> is the Child Node of the <category>. This is only sample pattern of parent child relation. Hope you understood the very basic structure of the XML.

Okey, Now you just refresh the terms Parent Node, Child Node, Attributes, Attributes name, Attributes value etc in your mind.

Now we can quickly jump into the ActionScript coding for XML Read/Write operations. In ActionScript 3.0 the XML class contains methods and properties for working with XML objects.

Write XML inside actionscript code.

ActionScript 3.0

var books:XML = <books>
<category name="Programming">
<title>
<name>Professional JavaScript For Web Developers</name>
<author>Nicholas C. Zakas</author>
<isbn>ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-7908-0</isbn>
</title>
<title>
<name>Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5</name>
<author>Hasin Hayder</author>
<isbn>ISBN 978-1-847192-56-1</isbn>
</title>
</category>
</books>

trace(books);

Output

How to read node properties.

length property

For XML objects, this method always returns the integer 1. The length() method of the XMLList class returns a value of 1 for an XMLList object that contains only one value.

From the above example

trace("books.length() => " + books.length());
trace("books.category.length() => " + books.category.length());
trace("books.category.title.length() => " + books.category.title.length());

Output

Read Attribute value

To read the attribute information of a particular node, two methods are there.
1. Using the ‘@’ symbol to locate an attribute on a XML Object.
2. Using of attribute(“attributeName”) function.
See the Example:

trace("books.category.@['name']  => " + books.category.@['name']);
trace("books.category.@name      => " + books.category.@name);
trace('books.category.attribute("name") => ' + books.category.attribute("name"));

Output

Read the values of childNode(s)

trace("books.category.title[0].name   => " + books.category.title[0].name);
trace("books.category.title[0].author => " + books.category.title[0].author);
trace("books.category.title[1].name   => " + books.category.title[1].name);
trace("books.category.title[1].author => " + books.category.title[0].author);

These are the basic and commonly used methods when working with XML in ActionScript 3.0. Read the following posts for more details of XML and ActionScript 3.0.

Related Topics
1 . Load External XML File
2. Adding Nodes to XML Object
3. Delete a node from XML Object

If it isn’t – or if you’re not sure – then you need to take action. Here are three steps to help you make massive improvements to your small business’s website:

Step 1: Watch Someone Use Your Website

Invite a friend over, someone who’s never used your website before. Try to find someone who will be about as web-savvy as your target audience. For example, if you sell second-hand computer equipment, your audience will probably be quite competent and knowledgeable.

Sit your friend in front of the computer and open up the site. Tell them to simply navigate around the site for a few minutes. As they’re doing so, make a note of:

• What seems to catch their eye?
• Is there anything that they get confused by?
• Do they quickly click a link and end up off your site altogether?

After a few minutes have gone by, ask them to stop and give them some questions:

• What did you think the site was about when you first saw it?
• What do you think now?
• Do you understand what I’m selling?
• What would make you more inclined to buy it?
• Did anything on the site confuse you?

Step 2: Get a Professional Critique

Make any changes which you decide on after asking a friend or two to look through your site. Then, if you can afford it, get a professional website critique. There are a number of people and organisations who offer this: I recommend the Men with Pens, who regularly provide “drive-by” critiques on their blog.

Before paying for a critique, ask to see testimonials from previous customers, and samples of previous critiques. Don’t be tempted to go with the cheapest option available – poor-quality information could end up making your site worse.

Step 3: Think From Your Client’s Perspective

Take a look at your website with fresh eyes. Try to see it in the way that a potential client would. Ask yourself whether it would make you want to buy.

Are your services and products clearly explained? Do you have an FAQ page that lays any niggles or doubts to rest, to prevent the prospect from putting off buying? Is there an enticing sale or special offer running? Are your contact details clearly available – including your phone number? (You’ll usually find that people don’t phone, but it makes them more confident to see that you’ve made this available – they know you’re not some fly-by-night company.)

When I was learning to think about my business from the client’s perspective, I found a huge amount of useful advice on this (and loads of other topics!) in an online course called Online Business School, by the well-known small business guru Naomi Dunford. You can read more about it on my site here: Starting Online Business.

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