New Weggis.net, WordPress, WP Widgets

Thursday, July 6, 2006 @ 2:43 pm by Sofie Hofmann

Finally, I was able to revise Weggis.net Web site. The look is not really different from the old web design. I just improved it a little bit. I changed all the pages from HTML to XHTML and PHP but then realized that I’d better integrate it with WordPress.

I integrated my own coded XHTML and PHP pages with WordPress. I redirected HTML pages to the new pages. Weggis.net is now more interactive. I just designed my own theme based on the original site.

I installed the latest version of WordPress 2.0.3 and also used WordPress Widgets. The Widgets make the sidebar easy to tweak. If what you want is not included in the original zip file, just download that particular Widget Plugin, upload it at the Plugins folder and activate it. Once activated, you’ll see the Sidebar Widgets along with the Themes, Theme Editor at the Site Admin Presentation. If the Widget Plugin is not activated, then you will not see any change at the Site Admin Presentation.

I started revising it last week, exactly seven days ago. So I was quite busy for the past few days. But even before that, I was already quite busy then. I was busy revising my other websites and doing the donation pages of Green Cross Switzerland.

Speaking of Green Cross Switzerland, we haven’t finalized the donation pages yet. I’m still waiting for the English, Italian and French translations as the pages were done in German language.

Yesterday, I updated Green Cross Switzerland Media pages regarding the 1st National Nuclear Dialogue in Moscow on July 3-4, 2006. The Nuclear and Disarmament Experts emphasize the importance of the demilitarization of the materials and weapons of mass destruction.

The National Nuclear Dialogue was held 10 days before the 2006 G8 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia where efforts of the G8 led “Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction” will be highly prioritized.

Read the reports in German and French languages at the website of Green Cross Switzerland for more information.

XHTML, PHP, WordPress, YM, Yahoo! 360

Wednesday, June 21, 2006 @ 6:28 pm by Sofie Hofmann

Today, I changed the codes of my web design site, Sehdi.com – Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International, from XHTML to PHP. I enhanced the index page with rotating images of my web designs with URL links and added the Latest Blog Posts, and so if you are regularly visiting my site, you will know right away if I updated my blog. I redirected the HTML pages to PHP pages using .htaccess. Then, I upgraded my sehdi.com blog from WordPress 1.5 to WordPress 2.0.3. Everything seems to be working fine.

That’s what good about WordPress, it’s not difficult to understand so you can configure it easily.

Yesterday, I revised the PHP codes of the donation pages of Green Cross Switzerland. I just need the translation of the German version to English, French and Italian languages, then everything will be in place and Green Cross Switzerland will finally be able to receive donations online through its site.

On other matters, Yahoo improved its Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.

According to Yahoo! 360 Team:

Yahoo! Messenger & Yahoo! 360° Working Together

The new version of Yahoo! Messenger has a great new feature called “plug-ins.”

Plug-ins are free, mini-applications that can be easily added to Yahoo! Messenger with Voice so that Messenger becomes more personal and interactive for you.

There’s a Yahoo! 360° plug-in on Messenger that lets you do some pretty cool stuff. You can read updates from your friends, see if you have new blog comments, and even write a blast or a blog entry – all from within Yahoo! Messenger.

Last night, I downloaded and installed the new beta version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (BETA) (8.0.0.505) with MyYahoo Module (7.5.0.1).

The new version is ok except for the Yahoo! Toolbar and Yahoo! Browser Services which are no longer optional if you want to install it or not. But you can uninstall the Yahoo! Toolbar if you don’t like it at all. (Updated on June 22, 2006 at 11:49 pm regarding the phrase that I just erased, see my next blog entry)

How do you uninstall it? It’s easy, just locate the “Edit” button, which appears like a pencil, click it and you will see “Uninstall” almost at the bottom. Just click it and the Yahoo! Toolbar is gone.

For more information, read the following at the Yahoo! Toolbar Help.

How do I remove Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer?

How do I remove Yahoo! Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox?

If you decide to install the new version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice but don’t want the Yahoo! Toolbar, you just uninstall the toolbar after installing the new YM beta version.

That’s all and good luck!

Green Cross Donation Page

Thursday, June 8, 2006 @ 9:13 pm by Sofie Hofmann

I finally finished the online donation pages of Green Cross Switzerland. I was configuring those pages day and night for more than a week before I left for the Philippines on April 16, 2006 but I was not able to finish them. For a week now, I started configuring them again and finally was able to finish them today. Thanks goodness, they’re finished!

I uploaded the pages and they’re actually available in 4 languages but still have to be checked by Green Cross Switzerland. If everything is ok, then Green Cross can now receive donations using credit card via Internet.

I also updated the media pages, the press releases are only available in German and French languages. In 2005, even without the online donation pages, Green Cross received donations in the amount of 6.7M Swiss Francs, a 26 percent increase from the previous year. Considering what Green Cross Switzerland had been doing for the past few years, I’m quite happy for those people responsible for it. To add to that, end of the year 2005, Green Cross Switzerland had 31,500 members. They need that kind of support. They deserved it.

Regarding the other sites, I decided to discontinue the guest book of my personal website, SofieHofmann.com, as well as the guest book of Pandan.gov.ph, the Official Website of the Municipality of Pandan, Antique, Philippines because of spams. I thought of upgrading to a higher version but I decided not to do it. Spammers will always find a way to spam the guest books.

Pagtatap Foundation

Thursday, February 2, 2006 @ 2:20 pm by Sofie Hofmann

I finally uploaded the pages of the new web design of Pagtatap Foundation. I finished redesigning the website few weeks ago but didn’t upload them right away. Its guest book, site map and photo gallery are not yet available. I’m still thinking if I have to transfer the pictures from Pandan Antique Homepage. The problem with the free hosted site, the bandwidth is so limited that if a lot of people viewed the pictures and the bandwidth allowed for the month was used up, others will not be able to view the pictures anymore. Well, I’ll just have to find a way.

Pagtatap Foundation

I also updated the site of Green Cross Switzerland and added some photos at the Swiss Big Game Fishing but I didn’t write about it before we left for vacation on January 03, 2006. I hope to be able to post our vacation photos soon. I will post it here anyway if I have updated our personal website at SofieHofmann.com.

Launching SofieHofmann.com!

Saturday, December 17, 2005 @ 11:45 pm by Sofie Hofmann

SofieHofmann.com is now online!

SofieHofmann.com is my latest web design. It is actually our personal website. It took me a while before I got satisfied with the design. It took me, more or less 8 weeks to finish this website. It could have been faster, but I kept on changing the web design. Well, here it is!

The truth is, we have a free homepage, geocities.com/sofiehofmann, and it’s been years that I told myself that I need to revise that free homepage. I no longer like the design of that site. Our personal homepage is actually not my priority. I ‘d rather revise my other pages about Pandan, Antique than revise our personal site but I think I owe it to ourselves to have a nice personal website. If I could make a nice web design for Pandan, Antique, why not for us. It would be nice sharing something to my relatives and friends especially those I haven’t seen for several years.

SofieHofmann.com replaces geocities.com/sofiehofmann free homepage. SofieHofmann.com/blog replaces sofiehofmann.blogspot.com. It’s not completely finished yet since I still have to add more pictures at the Travel section. I still need to scan a lot of pictures. Why scan? Well, some of those photos were taken when we were still using a non-digital camera. Even if that camera was worth 1,000 thousand pesos only when Hub bought it, I was able to take a lot of nice photos with that camera. I really like that camera but it gave up. Ops, I’m digressing…

Anyway, I’ve written what I want to say. I think this is all for now. I just would like to let you all know that SofieHofmann.com is now online.

I hope you’ll enjoy surfing and viewing our personal website. I will definitely write it in my blog if I have added some pictures. Just keep on checking our personal website, SofieHofmann.com especially SofieHofmann.com Blog.

Ok, Ciao! Have fun and have a wonderful day!

Pandan.gov.ph, Web Contest Finalist

Thursday, December 15, 2005 @ 2:38 am by Sofie Hofmann

I updated the Official Website of the Municipality of Pandan, Antique, Philippines, several days ago. It was really exciting. Pandan.gov.ph is one of the 5 finalists at the “2005 LGU Website Contest”. I was like a kid giggling and jumping when I told the good news to my husband. You can read the news at www.pandan.gov.ph.

I installed a new guestbook and I even modified it so it will look like the other pages of www.pandan.gov.ph. I also reinstalled the web forum but a newer version. Even if I did a back-up of the database of the old one, I was not able to reconfigure it. I lost all the names of those who registered already, so it’s back to square one. I hope you’ll register again and let us make use of the web forum of the site.

I also installed a simple site search. When I say simple, it is really simple. If you view the search page of the www.pandan.gov.ph you will be able to read my tips there. It’s not perfect but it could somehow help you. Try it out so you know how it functions. Just don’t search the words like bugang river, malumpati, municipality and the menu words because it will give you unnecessary results. As I see it, when you search malumpati, it seems like it’s also giving you the search result for municipality. That’s just one of the shortcomings of this simple site search.

Don’t worry, sooner or later, if the other pages have been indexed by either google, msn or yahoo, I will probably use their site search but for the meantime, this one will suffice.

Well, that’s all for now. Have a wonderful day!

I have been signing out with that phrase today. I guess, it reflects that I had a wonderful day today. I feel like singing and dancing just like when I told Hub that good news, but it’s already past midnight here so I’d better go to bed now. Tomorrow is another wonderful day and I’m looking forward to it! Ciao!!!

Green Cross and Pandan-Antique.com

Sunday, October 9, 2005 @ 2:34 pm by Sofie Hofmann

I finished redesigning www.pandan-antique.com few days ago but still was refining it up to this day. Now it’s all ok. You’ll still be able to view the old design at www.sehdi.com/pandan or www.pandan-antique.8m.com. The design is finished but the content is not completely done yet. I still have a lot to add to that site but I’ll do it slowly.

I would like to have a directory at www.pandan-antique.com just like what I did at www.pandan.8k.com but of course the web design would be different. The web design of www.pandan.8k.com is so outdated. My, my… I have not been able to update the Pandan Site Directory and hope to include such at Pandan-Antique.com Philippines Website.

I also just finished updating the site of Green Cross Switzerland. I just added the following text:

In German at http://www.greencross.ch/de/organisation/stiftungsrat.html
Der Stiftungsrat arbeitet vollumfänglich ehrenamtlich und erhält entsprechend keine Entschägungen.

In French at http://www.greencross.ch/fr/organisation/conseil.html
Le conseil de fondation de Green Cross Suisse est totalement bénévole et ne perçoit donc aucune indemnité.

In Italian at http://www.greencross.ch/it/organizzazione/consiglio.html
Il Consiglio di Fondazione di Green Cross Svizzera lavora a titolo onorifico e non percepisce percio’ alcuna indennità.

In English at http://www.greencross.ch/en/organization/board.html
The Green Cross Switzerland Board Members work completely in voluntary, honorary functions and accordingly receive no remuneration for their work.

I especially copied those sentences in 4 languages. I may not be a fan of any politician but once in a while I admire them for such things.