I’ve finally launched a beta release of my free web service Miosota, which is a PHP based domain expiry reminder service. Its been a personal project done in my spare time that has stretched for almost a year. In case you were wondering, Miosota is the spanish name for Myosotis aka forget-me-not plant.

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I’ve just revived an old b2evolution skin, in fact its one of my favourites, the l33t gray skin. The original skin was by Tara Chen, thanks for the great skin Tara!

It was much more tedious than expected converting a 1.0 skin into 2.0, well with my first b2evo skin anyway. Had expected it to be pretty effortless with the new widgets system and was expecting something like a Smarty template. I suppose it’ll get there eventually.

Check out results at Kon’s blog.

You can also download the theme here. It is free to download, modify and use, and I would very much appreciate if you left my credits intact.

If you need instructions on how to install a new skin on b2evolution, check out their skins page

François has written an Adsense plugin for b2evolution for conveniently inserting Google Ads via the insertion of an Adsense tag.

This approach allows one to manually and simply drop [ adsense: ] tags throughout the post which will be automatically rendered as Google Ads.

Here is a method I found to add them on a more global level rather than manually adding in the post. You can also configure them based on each skin’s color scheme and dimensions.

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