Here you go it’s done, see how it will look on your blog.

As we want to display announcement, so here just select the ‘Default Style’ as ‘Plain’, Now in configuration code simply insert the following code

<h2>Announcement</h2>
<p>Welcome to my blog, this is announcement area here you will see latest notes, competitions information. Keep watching</p>

see the below screen shot that how it will be.

Let me explain it, ‘h2′ is a HTML heading tag, there are so many others and it starts from ‘h1′. Here I have used ‘h1′ is mainly used for blog titles and using more ‘h1′ confuse search engines and break your SEO. The second tag is ‘p’ which is used for paragraph so it simply put the enclosed text in paragraph.

see how it will look

Note: This plugin inherits all the CSS style sheet from the current WordPress theme so the look may vary as according to theme. Don’t worry in coming tutorials I will discuss how you can override it as per your need.

First configure the adsense in Google adsense panel as per your requirement and then copy the code for your adsense. Now select ‘Media’ as ‘Default Style’ in plugin’s configuration panel and paste the code in ‘Custom Code’, you are done.

Below is the screen-shot, how it may look on your blog.

Twitter is a Social Networking site like Orkut, Facebook, hi5. It can be taken as a Web SMS and you can use this as a status update tool, like you can write what are you doing? or anything which you have liked but the challenge is that you have only 140 character’s to say.

Your updates will be seen by all your followers and it will be also visible on your profile page as per your twitter account Settings (depends on ‘public’ or ‘private’). Twitter provides real time updates; means as soon as you tweet anything, it will updated across the twitter site. Considering all of the features twitter is known as ‘ Micro Blogging Website ‘.

You can create a Free Twitter account at http://twitter.com

Twitter terminology

Here is some of the terms related to twitter.

Tweet – What you have written as your latest update in twitter.
Follow – You can follow anyone and you will be able to see his/her tweets on your twitter home page.
Followers – The people those are following you, they can also see your updates on their twitter homepage.
List – List is a way to organize, you can group your followers accordingly.
Retweet – If you liked others  tweet and you also want to tweet the same then Retweet it.
For example – ‘A’ has tweeted ” I like the movie 2012“, then if you ‘Retweet’ then your status will also be updated with same phrase and your followers will see that you have retweeted ‘A’.
HashTags – Hash tags in twitter are very cool thing, in simple words it is a way to locate a specific topic on twitter. If you have used ‘Hashtags’ then it makes easy for others to search it. For example if you are tweeting anything related to Google then you can use #google in your tweet and twitter will put it on the search page of #google as might be others are also tweeting it.
Trending Topics – Trending topic are the popular topics on twitter, it means that so many people are tweeting about that specific topics

How to use Twitter

Twitter provides a very clean interface which is very simple to use. You can create your profile and twitter will provide you a unique web address ; which you can distribute to let your friends know about your twitter profile and they can follow you. It will be like http://twitter.com/username. Whatever you will tweet, it will be visible on your twitter page. Don’t worry you can make your tweets private under ‘Settings’.

Our twitter page is http://twitter.com/rcanblog.

Now if you want to write something specific to any other twitter user, use ‘@’ sign before his/her username. For example if you want to write anything to us use @rcanblog and we will be able to locate it.

How to share Video, Images or siteurl on twitter

As twitter give only 140 character’s, it is  same like 160 character’s in sms . Twitter reserves 20 character’s for your username. So what if you want to share a video or site link as it may become hard for you to share.

For this you need to use url shortner services like http://bit.ly or http://tr.im, simply put your long url there and it will short it for you which you can use at twitter. Whenever anyone clicks, it will be redirected to original page.

Final words

There are lots of twitter application available which can make your life more easy on twitter, have a look on http://twitter.com/downloads

Here we go now you are ready to use twitter, feel free to ask anything using comments.

Use this plugin to increase your blog’s advertisement scope and make more money with your Wordpress blog or let your visitors know about any latest happening by announcements or video’s.

So here I am writing tutorial series on how to use WordPress FrontPageBanner plugin.

In this part I am discussing, How to install this plugin on your self hosted Wordpress blog.

1. Download the plugin from here and upload the directory ‘wp-frontpagebanner’ to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or install the plugin directly with the ‘Install’ function in the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Here the Installation of the plugin completed, now you need to configure the plugin to work for you.

Now you will see a newly added menu ‘FPB Settings’ in your WordPress admin panel [below Screen-shot], this is the configuration menu for this plugin,where you can insert your custom code.

In the next part of this tutorial I will discuss about the basic configuration of Wordpress FrontPageBanner plugin.

Our first goal is to provide great contents. In upcoming weeks we will write tutorials on Web designing including PhP, Html, Css, Ajax and we will also cover some CMS like Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla. We will also cover a bit of graphics designing, SEO, Wordpress theme etc.

We are setting a goal of $100 by Google adsense till January 2010, right now we have average 100 unique visitors a day. So let see how we will do it. We will also look for some other monetizing opportunities.

Please convey your best wishes by comments and suggest us how can we make it!