Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium!

Well, I agree I still do not have too much in this site. But I have other sites that keep me very busy. Well, lets come back to the point! After spending almost 3 years in web “publishing” now I am thinking about web “designing” myself and I sure think I need at least Dream Weaver CS3!! It is expensive, however probably worth spending the money. Well, I am probably going for the Creative Suite Design Premium or Standard as I will get a bundle of must required softwares. Here is small description of the software below from ADOBE
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/design/

AdobeĀ® Creative SuiteĀ® 3 Design Premium software is the designer’s dream toolkit for print, web, and mobile publishing. It combines all-new versions of essential tools for producing everything from professional page layouts to rich interactive experiences in a unified, intuitive environment.

Now my question is where to buy this? Who is offering the best price? I got little confused (as well as excited) when I found that some OEM software group is selling Dreamweaver CS3 just under 100 USD! They have acustomer support phone number, email, support desk - means looks like a stable company. However, while I check www.about.com for OEM softwares I found that use OEM softwares are NOT LEGAL.

So guys, Help me.

Point me to a good place to buy the software. I need it!

Blank Page in Wordpress 2.5.1 while trying to view individual posts!

Blank Page in Wordpress 2.5.1 while trying to view individual posts!

It seems that I am running into various wordpress problems these days! Thank god that I am able to find somehow too! All of my sites use wordpress and I try to keep all sites upto date. The most recent problem I faced is having a “Blank Page” while trying to view the individual posts. I am using the xplosive theme , which is really nice and clean theme and I have been using this for a long time. Recently for last two days I noticed that nobody left any comments in my blog. Also I further noticed that my adsense revenue dropped almost 50% than usual. However it took me for a while to understand that I was having a problem. Simply because when I try to open the home page at http://calcuttaglobalchat.net everything is loading fine. Just by accident I tried to check one of my post today and found a Blank page!! I tried to open other posts and had the same problem! I searched in google, wordpress forum but could not find the answer. So, I asked for help from my server providers. They replied this:

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Thank you for your email.

Please get back to us with the exact steps to recreate the issue from our end so that we can assist you further.

If you have any other problems or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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I had no idea how to “recreate” the issue! I thought what to do next. Then for whatever reason I changed the theme. Now I see that the posts were loading fine. So, I went one step further, downloaded the theme again and re-uploaded the “single.php” file that controls the display of your single post content. Guess what? It solved my problem. Now all of my posts are loading fine. I am hoping to see some comments tomorrow!

Though I am not exactly sure the source of the problem, but I am guessing it was due to some “code” modifications that I made to the “single.php” file for some plugin use.

I don’t know if my little story might help, but it is worth trying the same if you face the problem.

Good luck!

Comments disappeared from Wordpress? Solution

I don’t know how did that happen, but yesterday I noticed all of the comments were vanished from one of my wordpress blog : Calcutta Tube.
I Panicked, as I should, and then tried to search google to see if anybody else had the same trouble. I found few cases for older version of wordpress. Such as for wordpress 2.3, the solution for “disappeard comments” are given by Steve Ferson. I found that David Perkinson had the same problem but he mentioned that it was related to some plugin issue. He thought “google analytics” was the problem plugin for “disappearing comments”. Well I do not have “Google Analytics” installed in my blog, so what is the solution. I checked all plugins to make sure they are “up to date”. Updated few plugins that we not up to date. But still the problem remained. So, I did the most useful thing that I should have done in the first place.

I have Cpanel installed in my server. So, my trick is useful if you have Cpanel or you know how to repair your database!

Log on to your cpanel and you should see something like the image below. Click on the “MySQL Databases”. It will list all the databases you are using in your site.

MYSQL database

Browse to the database that you are using for your wordpress. Then click on repair. There are three buttons next to each databases - Delete, Check and Repair. Do not click on “delete” even by mistake!

Hopefully it will solve your problem. It did for my blog!

Repair Database

Enjoy Blogging now!