1on40.com: suspended?

by Khaled on April 8th, 2008

A short time after my first blog post about 1on40 entitled 1on40: does it really get you to be number 1 in google? I am again writing about this “miraculous”  SEO service.  I tried  to check their site today  and it was suspended. All I saw was a suspended account from PowWeb hosting. I thought “was it due to illegal activities? was it reported as scam?”… Then few minutes later the 1on40 site came back! so it was probably due to unpaid hosting bill? not very professional in my opinion. Anyway, almost 15 days after I’ve submitted that old site of mine I am not noticing any changes yet. We’re not close to the end of the announced 120 days though…
To be continued…

Smooth and fast upgrade to WordPress 2.5

by Khaled on March 30th, 2008

Upgrading to the new version of WordPress (2.5) was easy and smooth and without hassles or problems of any kind. I’m also loving the new administration interface and all in all I’m very pleased with it. WordPress is now more flexible customizable and extensible and yet easier to use. The design of the new customizable dashboard is just lovely… In fact this new version was designed by Jeffry Zeldman’s Happy Cog (and of course built by Automattic). Definitely a milestone is reached with this version. Everyday I’m more and more convinced that WordPress is the best blogging option around! At least this is true for me and for many others (did you know that WordPress powers around 0.8% of the whole web?).

More info here.

I’m Here

by Khaled on August 22nd, 2007

Hey guys! This is just to let you know I’m still here… I’ve just came back from summer vacations in Sicily! and that I’m really busy doing a lot of stuff here and there… I hope I’ll start blogging here some time soon… Stay tuned and BTW thanks for everyone who contacted me to ask about my absence…I really appreciated that…

Promotion to Design Team Advisor at SitePoint

by Khaled on March 24th, 2007

After being a Design team Mentor at SitePoint for the last 9 months I was promoted yesterday to the position of Design Team Advisor.

And of course I have a new shiny badge:

The anouncement thread can be read here.

This is a huge honor for me to be an Advisor in the biggest Web designers and developers community on the net! if you don’t know about SitePoint yet then you’re missing a huge thing! SitePoint has more than 166,790 members from all over the world! If you want to know more about SitePoint then look here.

BreedSoftware: Beta launch

by Khaled on December 19th, 2006

Today we’re launching our new project called BreedSoftware. The company specializes in developing software and games for the Microsoft Windows platform (not only the desktop Windows platform but also the Windows Mobile platform for Pocket PCs). Currently, BreedSoftware markets various products ranging from website development utilities to intellectual games. BreedSoftware is committed to provide high-performance, and cost effective software products such as text editors, PHP editors as well as high-quality games for our customers.
Visit the website.

My FireFox Add-ons

by Khaled on December 7th, 2006

I was asked so many times about the add-ons fro Mozilla FireFox I am using. I’ve always given different variable answers due to the fact I was actually shifting from an add-on to another or dropping some they no longer work on the newer Firefox versions (like screengrab for instance). For now I think I have a nice collection of add-ons to use with my Firefox 2.0 installation. So here’s the full list:

I will update the list once I have some changes in it. See the pic on flickr! Enjoy these great FireFox plug-ins.

Pink’d!

by Khaled on December 6th, 2006

Well I’ve tweaked the look of the blog’s theme. It is obvious, I’ve added a touch of pink. Pink seems to be a color that’s widely used in the modern Web 2.0ish sites and web applications. So why not a touch of pink in ‘No relation’? Moreover Pink looks nice, trendy and slick with lime green… So I took the plunge and tweaked my CSS and my graphics.

Something else that’s new on ‘No relation’ is that I’ve added a “current project” box to the sidebar, this is powered by the lightbox JS V2. Nifty! Also this we’ll let see what I am working on right now, and for the moment it is BreedSoftware Project. BreedSoftware will hopefully be launched within few days.

I’ve also added a Flickr powered Photo gallery to the blog in which you will find some personal pics, some Photo Manipulations with Photoshop (old Dark Art for the 2003 and 2004 year) and some old Projects that I had the permission to post publicly unlike most of the others.

So that’s all! I hope you like the changes…