It turned out to be easier that I thought to create a website in Arabic. Even if you have a WordPress site in English and want to convert it into Arabic is not a big deal, assuming that the theme you are using will support it.

The key is making following 2 changes to your site:
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I have been watching TV and listening to radio stations that ran stories to pay tribute to Apple’s Steve Jobs. Jobs was well known for being behind the iMac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad.

I haven’t heard any mention of NeXT systems… After Job’s resignation from Apple 1985, he build the NeXT Computer which became a high end computer for Universities and later corporations.
It is worth mentioning that engineers at Cern Laboratory who build the first website on the internet chose the NeXT System as a platform for their website.
You can read more about it and visit the first webpage on the internet here.

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Q: Hope u can advise me please…I have installed WordPress from Fantastico in Host Gator – and I was wondering if I should upgrade.

It gives me this option in the WordPress Admin Dashboard.

I haven’t done anything to it yet – its standard and I’m just trying to learn everything about it.

Just not sure if I should click the upgrade automatically button – so before I did, I thought I should ask?
Thanks for your help
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Many of us connect with friends through FaceBook, but did you ever connect through meetup? I did a while ago and was not aware of the history behind it.
Today on the 10th anniversary, I received an email from Scott Heiferman (Co-Founder & CEO of Meetup). He wrote the story of Meetup which was launched 9 months after 9/11. The full story is published here on kurzweilai.net.

I encourage you to read it.

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It’s been a little while, since WordPress upgraded to 3.2 and now even 3.2.1 is out. I have already upgraded a good number of websites with no issues so far.

First double check that your hosting provider has PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL database version 5.0 or higher. Those are now the minimum requirements for the new version of WordPress 3.2. Don’t worry, most major hosting providers have already upgraded. If you are not sure, just contact your hosting provider to double check.

My 2 favorite features:
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I knew about the Sliding Door Image menu from the sliding doors wordpress theme. I like the theme design layout, but don’t like dark background in general. So, I was thinking of using the theme and change the background color and the font colors, basically reversing the colors to begin with.

The easiest way to use the menu, if you wish to customize your blog, is to use it with the Atahualpa WordPress theme. I found this post to be very helpful in showing how to integrate this menu with the theme. Also, don’t forget to check out what some readers posted. Some did very nice designs using this menu.

The sliding door menu is based on mootools, a javascript framework  which you can download separately, if you wish to install it and try it out.

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If you’ve been blogging for a while, you might have noticed or maybe are bothered that the archives list is getting too large. Every month a new entry is added and it will keep growing as you publish more posts. I have seen some blog themes implement a drop-down for the archive listing, but I found it difficult to scroll with the mouse when the list is too large. Another option is to list all the archives in a separate page. I like this options as only interested visitors can see, instead of everyone seeing it whether they want or not. Also it saves a lot of space on your webpage that you can use to display anything else of your liking. There is a plugin that will help you organizing all you archives in one page: SRG Clean Archives plugin.

It is simple to install and caches the archive content, so it’s loads faster. You can see it in action here, and since I don’t write so much… I made a simple change to not display the date of the post.

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WordPress version 3.0.4 is out and is rated as “critical”, meaning you should make the effort to upgrade. I know this is a short notice before the year-end, but if you have a recent version, the upgrade should go seamless.

This is a security upgrade that should protect your site against Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities (XSS). I know it has been not too long ago, since WordPress came with a major release 3.0. Usually following a major release come multiple smaller release fixes to bring the major release to a stable state.

Remember to have a backup first and then simply go to you dashboard and click on the link to update.

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I found Atahualpa when looking for a WordPress theme. What is really unique about it, is the flexibility of customizing the layout of the site appearance from the admin interface. The developers of this theme put a lot of effort in allowing you to customize every detail of the page from the header to the sidebars to the footer.
You can even from the admin interface add a couple of plugins that I consider very important in any blog, print and mail a post.
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Are you confused on how some features work under cPanel, or do you want to take advantage of some features that you were not aware of before.

Tdothost.com has now over 400 tutorials that you can access from the main webpage. These cover the most popular topics, but should you need any further help, please contact me.

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