What is Snap Preview Anywhere? Snap Preview Anywhere enables anyone visiting your site to get a glimpse of what other sites you’re linking to, without having to leave your site. By rolling over any link, the user gets a visual preview of the site without having to go there, thus eliminating wasted “trips” to linked sites.
My testing in WordPress:
I record down a number of great Wordpress themes I found recently. It is for sharing and future reference.
I did not go to here to record what I read and learned for more than one month, since I was quite busy in my day job as well as busy building a number of new websites in my spare time. Here is the first one that I would like to share as it is almost done.
Hong Kong University Departments (Chinese Name: 香港各大學學系)
I used the WordPress engine, together with the WordPress plugin Ultimate Tag Warrior and the WordPress theme Blog.txt, to build a website that furnishes a crsip overview of Hong Kong university education. The website records 215 academic departments of 7 Hong Kong universities, and tags each departments with appropriate labels. It also provides links to all academic departments of Hong Kong universities, and directs users to some relevant web search and information about them.
Yes, I used WordPress blogging engine not to blog, but to provide a directory service in a different and interesting way. The following lists useful materials that I read during the website development.
Since I used WordPress engine doing nothing about blogging, I also empty the WordPress Update Services so that the website would not automatically notify any site update services when I inputted data into the database.
Having getting my feet wet with WordPress, I am now quite familiar with it.
I know the rough figures about current world population (~ 6.5 billion), China population (~ 1.3 billion), and Hong Kong population (~ 6.9 million). I also know that human babies were born every second. Likewise, there are people passed away every day. However, the following websites can give me a deeper and real feeling about those statistics about human population.
It presents data for the population births and deaths by country. The data was collected since January 1, 2005 and new births and deaths are checked for every two seconds. I don’t know exactly how they can do it, but it gives me a real feeling that people are dying every second and babies are born every second. For example, I can calculate that in Hong Kong there are about 132 births and 113 deaths per day since 2005.
This website can give you various prospects about human population. To quote a few: population is very weakly related to land area; More children are born each year in Africa than are born in the Americas, all of Europe and Japan put together; In Uganda and Niger half the population is under 15 years old; In Italy, Spain and Japan only 14% of the population are children aged under 15.
This website presents rank order in population of 238 countries or regions. China comes frst and India second. Hong Kong SAR (special administrative region of China) ranks 100. The website also provides various background information about each countries in the Earth.
I write this post in response to a query from my friend Herman on my post: Put a tag cloud in a WordPress post with ZoomClouds. (more…)
With ZoomClouds you can easily create a tag cloud that represents the contents of a RSS feed. ZoomClouds first intakes the RSS feed you gave, fetchs the content, and generates the tag cloud using both Yahoo! Content Analysis API as well as a custom ZoomClouds content analysis tool.
ZoomClouds then provides with a necessary CSS code and Javascript code for you to place the tag cloud in your website or weblog. The following shows you an example that I got based on the RSS feed of this weblog. The tag cloud that you see at that moment is based only on the feed content at that time.