We have just finished a wonderful WordPress site at MULTIDOTS. Though it’s not been live yet. The learning or rather would say interesting part of that project is to use a custom fonts on menu. You must be thinking what is interesting in it? Allow me to describe it. Well, as per requirement we had to use a custom font on Menu Navigation for Post Title. The font was “Lettera” that we had to use on post titles. Now challenging part is here. As Post title could by anything almost dynamic. So, creating image for each title and then to use was not going to help. The font is also something which is rare on client machine. Here is the interesting part and something I have written this post for. To overcome this problem our client has suggested us to use Cufon - an online font embedding service. The WOW feature about this service is you can use almost any type of your unique font and style in your web application in case of dynamic text too. You can style any text in any font and it’s hassle free and quite easy too. There is no need to create images for each text. No need to even bother about whether fonts will be installed on viewers machine or not. Let me explain how easy it is

1. Load your browser Tab on – http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
2. Upload the font you want to use in your website, project or page.
3. Choose different options as per your need.
4. At the end you will get a JavaScript for your font.
5. Save the file on your server and link that JS file on the page where you want to use your custom fonts. If you are going to use it on all the pages put it some where on header file or whatever is common for your site.
6. Also link this JS file in your script section – http://cufon.shoqolate.com/js/cufon-yui.js
7. That’s it you are done and ready to use. Just follow the instruction on this page on different way you can embed on your page – http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon/usage

You can check out a live sample of what I am talking about. I have used Kety Berry font on sentence below. I am sure this font is not installed in your machine still you can read it better.

I love chocolate!

OpenInviter - Contact Grabbing Solution for PHP

We were looking for some good contact grabbing solution to implement on few of our projects. We did lots of analysis on paid, free ware and open source tool for this. Our need was very specific.

• Stable
• Priority : Open Source , Free Ware, Paid
• Should cover almost all the possible Popular Email Provider and Social Networking Site.
• Should have integrated Email sending feature for selected user.
• Must be in PHP Language.
• Easy to install, configure and customize.
• Should have an upgrade option whenever there is any change on Contact Grabbing Logic.
• Well documentation, nimble support and rich technical resources.

After doing good search on web and analyzing different contact grabbing, finally we decided to go with OpenInviter. We found it almost close to our needs. We have successfully setup and configured it on our development server. We have started to implement it on our projects.  OpenInviter has separate package/plug-in/module for other CMS and open sources. Which I haven’t tried yet. But looks like it should simple vanilla.

Kudos to Hitesh for finding this wonderful contact grabbing tool.

Do you know any other Contact Grabbing tool which is best? Let’s share.

We had a fantastic Tapori Day at MULTIDOTS on 28th February 2010. It had a lots of fun and fear as well.

Everyone came up with unbelievable getup. Simply superb act and appearance by everyone. Aslam, Narendra, Jimit and Chirag was looking like a real tapories and horrible too. Have a look at this album. Don’t mess with them, they are dangerous.

At MULTIDOTS, we do pray to our God everyday before we start our works. The interesting thing about the prayer is we don’t pray for ourselves but we do for others. Just before we start to pray, we decide for whom we pray today. It could be any person, event or anything. We have prayed for many peoples, problems and events so far. Here is the list we prayed for.

• For our parents.
• For India on India-Srilanka match, for our team.
• For Gautam’s love, for safety of people living on coastal area at the time of Phyan.
• For all the handicap people in this world.
• For Tim’s baby ( our client ).
• For Vandemataram song conflict.
• For Ashok’s recovery when he was not feeling well.
• My ex-colleague Jignisha was expired so we prayed to give her peace and strength to her family.
• For newly joined employee – Hitesh.
• For success of JOGS Event.
• For people we met on JOGS event.
• For Megha – my friend on her birthday.
• Team prayed for my quick recovery when I was sick.
• For Curt – our client on his birthday.
• For Nicholas on his project demonstration.
• For newly wedded couples.
• For Drew our client – when we knew he was not feeling well.
• For my brother and bhabhi on their marriage anniversary.
• For our ( Me and Aslam ) entrance exam on International Business Management study at Ahmedabad Management Association.
• For all our clients.
• For our friends.
• For Juniyas to come out from his problems.
• For our beloved ones.

Actually, list is quite long and I forget some of them. But I will keep updating this list.

I am thankful to Juniyas for bringing such a great idea. Yes, generally we do pray for ourselves most of the time. But it’s even a great feeling when you do pray for others. I am thankful to my team as well who are doing this noble pray everyday at MULTIDOTS.

JOGS – Joy Of Giving Sunday

In my last post I have written about an event. The event was JOGS. It’s a great pleasure to inform you that we have successfully executed the event. Many friends had supported to make this event possible. Here is the some brief and snaps of this event.

We have decided to execute a pilot event first rather a big one. So, we had not done any big efforts to make this event huge. We had started to speak with our friends and neighbors. Idea was will buy foods and statinery and will get the old clothes from our neighbors and friends. Many of our friends and friend’s of friends has contributed to this event.

Many many thanks to Shailesh Joshi, Prashant Sachaniya, Naresh Kakkad, Viral Pathak (for giving his bike), Juniyas Bhagat (Provided Cloths), Yogendra Rathod (for his Digital Camera ), Hitesh Parmar, Ashok Chauhan, Kaushik Baroliya, Gautam Lakum, Aslam Multani, Jimit Shah, Hitesh Anjara, Prashant Patel, MULTIDOTS and all the people who had contributed their clothes and provided best wishes for this event. We had collected Rs. 2100 as donation for this event. We purchased foods and stationery from this money.

So it was Sunday Morning, we had everything ready and everyone was quite excited to make this possible. Everyone gathered at MULTIDOTS office at by 8:30 AM. We prayed for everything good for this event. At 9:00 AM we started to march. We had decided will go to Nalsarovar via Bavala and will carry out this charity on villages on the way. It was a great bike riding fun for me as well as I am quite crazy about driving. Around  10:00 AM, we were on a small village. We had distributed foods, clothes and stationery on that village.

After that we started to move. We reached at another village at 11:00 AM. There is a huge temple in this village. We made ourselves fresh and invited small kids around the temple for a movie and computer education. Kids enjoyed that lot, it was a great fun. We had also distributed foods and stationery to kids and clothes to their parents.

Now it was time to reach at “Nalsarovar” as everyone was quite hungry. We drove our bikes above 80km/hour it was a crazy time but had a fun too. We reached at 12:00 to Nalsarovar. We parked our vehicles. There is some regular arrangement of lunch at “Nalsarovar”. People at lake front offer unlimited lunch at Rs.50 on their small hut. We decided to enjoy it. We also agreed to take a ride around lake on boats after lunch. After visiting a small island and beautiful birds on lake we were ready to back at 3:00 PM.

As per our plan, we choose another route this time. It was for “Sanand”. We found many poor people and needy pupils on the way. We were moving forward and giving clothes, foods and stationery to villagers on the way. Finally at 5:00 we all reached to Sanand and everything we had to distribute was over. Around by 7:00 we all came to Ahemedabad.

It was a great Joy of giving for all of us and huge fun too.

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