Easy Origami Box Step 1: Fold a Blintz Base. This is a commonly used base in origami so we’ve made a separate page of instructions for it.

Easy Origami Box Step 2: Open up the paper.

Easy Origami Box Step 3: Fold in the 4 corners as indicated below.

Easy Origami Box Step 4: We’re going to fold the 4 corners in once again.

Easy Origami Box Step 5: FLIP paper over.

Easy Origami Box Step 6: Rotate paper slightly so that you see a square. Now fold both the top and bottom halves to the center. Crease well and unfold.

Easy Origami Box Step 7: Fold both the right and left sides to meet in the center.

Easy Origami Box Step 8: Now bring the top flap over from the right to the left.

Easy Origami Box Step 9: Fold the top and bottom right corners on the diagonal as shown below.

Easy Origami Box Step 10: Now bring both flaps over from the left to the right.

Easy Origami Box Step 11: This time, we’ll fold in the top and bottom left corners on the diagonal as shown below.

Easy Origami Box Step 12: Now bring only the top flap over from the right to the left.

Easy Origami Box Step 13: Here comes the fun part….shaping our origami box! Pry open the paper with your fingers.

Straighten the sides and like magic, you have your easy origami box!

This origami ninja star is a modular origami. You make 4 of the same basic unit, then attach them without using any glue or tape.

Origami Ninja Star Step 1: Start with 2 pieces of square origami paper color sides down. You can use the same color if you want. I use 2 different colors so that it’s easier to see.

Origami Ninja Star Step 2: Fold them in half. This is called a book fold. Crease well and unfold.

Origami Ninja Star Step 3: Fold both halves of each paper to meet the center crease. This is called a cupboard fold.

Origami Ninja Star Step 4: OK, we will now fold each paper in half along the vertical axis.

Origami Ninja Star Step 5: Fold them in half along the horizontal axis. Crease and unfold.

Origami Ninja Star Step 6: We now need to fold on the dash lines as shown below. Notice that the folds are now opposite of one another.

Origami Ninja Star Step 7: Let’s fold the top parts first. Fold along the diagonal so that the edges line up and you form a triangle.

Origami Ninja Star Step 8: Let’s now fold the bottom parts.

This is what you should have now:

Origami Ninja Star Step 9: We now need to make 4 folds as shown by the dash lines below.

Origami Ninja Star Step 10: Let’s fold the left (purple) one first. Bring the top half over to the right and crease well. Bring the bottom half over to the left. The dash lines show where the crease should be.

Origami Ninja Star Step 11: Let’s work on the yellow one now. The yellow is opposite from the purple. So, let’s fold the top half over to the left and the bottom half over to the right. Crease where the dash lines are in the picture below.

Origami Ninja Star Step 12: OK, Now flip the purple one only.

Origami Ninja Star Step 13: Now rotate the yellow one 90 degrees counter clockwise so that it’s like in the picture below.

Origami Ninja Star Step 14: Now place the yellow paper on top of the purple like so.

Origami Ninja Star Step 15: OK, now comes the somewhat tricky part. We will fold the purple over on both ends and fit them under the yellow paper.

See the white dash lines? Fold the top triangle over on the white dash line and fit the tip under the yellow flap. Fold the bottom triangle over on the white dash line and fit the tip under the yellow flap.

Follow the photos below.

Origami Ninja Star Step 16: FLIP Paper over and this is what you should see.

Origami Ninja Star Step 17: We will now fold the yellow tips over and fit them under the purple flap. It will be a snug fit!

Origami Ninja Star Step 18: FLIP paper over. After all your hard work, this is your origami ninja star! You can now start throwing it…just not at people!

This is one popular origami and we’ve photos to prove it! Check out the many photos we’ve received from readers who’ve folded this origami ninja stars!

However, the written records for the period are limited, so it is unknown whether origami first started in China or Japan.

However, no one will dispute that Japan developed origami to a very high art form.

Most origami instructions were passed on by oral tradition.

The oldest known written document about Japanese origami, the Senbazuru Orikata (“How to Fold One Thousand Cranes”), surfaced in 1797.

The first works of original modern origami (in the 1950′s) are due to the master Yoshizawa Akira.

It is also known that the Arab world was making paper in the eight century, and the Moors brought paper folding to Spain in the twelfth century.

Paper folding or papiroflexia subsequently became very popular in Spain and South America.

The kindergarten movement in Germany (introduced around 1835 by Friedrich Froebel) included paper folding.

Paper folding was a popular children’s hobby in the England of Queen Victoria, as evidenced by a couple of John Tunnel’s illustrations for Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, featuring two simple origami hats.

While origami is often considered a children’s pastime in the West, its long history in Japan has enmeshed it in the cultural identity.

References:

1) Origami: A Brief History of the Ancient Art of Paperfolding, by Joseph Wu.

2) Origami Origins (from the General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin)

3) Two Miscellaneous Collections of Jottings on the History of Origami, by David Lister

Next insert your finger in one of the pockets in the square base.

Move the pocket around to the front, then flatten and crease it.

This classic origami move is known as the squash fold.

Photo below shows one of the squash folds completed.  Now perform the squash fold three more times…

…until the piece has the diamond shape shown below.

Next fold and unfold the corners as shown, to make creasemarks.

Next comes another classic origami move, the petal fold.

The next photo shows the completed petal fold.

Now perform the petal fold three more times (on the other three faces of the diamond), to create the origami frog base.

Fold the frog base down the centerline as shown.  Then fold the lower edges of one layer into the centerline.

Now fold edge A to edge B as shown by the arrow.

The perform the previous three steps again, 3 more times, until the piece looks like below right.

Now it’s time to turn the tadpole into a frog!

I like to pre-crease the leg, then use reverse folds to create the two front legs (reverse folds are explained here).

Now use reverse folds to stretch the back legs.

Apply reverse folds again, twice each on the front and back pairs of legs, as shown in the photos below.

Now you’ll need to blow where shown, to inflate the frog’s body.

You can make the frog hop for short distances by pressing on the rear of the body, then sliding your finger off onto the table:

O-ribit-gami!

Check out the many origami frog photos that have been submitted by our readers!

Make a valley fold along one diagonal:

Now fold corners A and B up to corner C:

Now fold the edge BD onto the edge DE:

Repeat on the other side:

Place your finger in one of the outer pockets, and make a squash fold as shown in the next three (3) photos:

Repeat the squash fold on the other side:

Now fold down corners F and G as shown:

Fold the outer flaps is half as shown:

Next, we need to glue the two surfaces shown together. We used glue dots, but regular white glue will do just fine.

After applying the glue, fold the surface together as shown, and hold in place till the glue dries.

Now make four (4) more of these pieces. Glue them all together, and you have an origami kusudama flower!

Check out the origami kusudama flower as folded and submitted by our readers!

1) A dedicated or virtual server running CentOS or Red Hat EL 5.x. CentOS 6.x is not currently supported.
2) At least 256 MB of RAM (enough to run Yum).
3) At least 2 GB of free disk space for Kloxo and related services.
4) If you partitioned your disks manually, make sure you have a large /tmp. Kloxo uses /tmp to create and store backups temporarily and the process will fail if there is not enough space.

You have to disable SELinux by editing /etc/sysconfig/selinux and changing the line to selinux=disabled. This will keep SELinux from being enabled on your server next boot.

Then you must run the following command as root to disable SELinux for the current session:

# su - root
# setenforce 0

If you are unsure this procedure worked, you can run /usr/sbin/sestatus to check its status. Failure to correctly disable SELinux will render your Kloxo install useless and an OS reload may be required to properly reinstall it.
Also, make sure the ports 7778/tcp and 7777/tcp are open in your server firewall or you won’t be able to connect to Kloxo web panel when the install completes.

Kloxo installation consists of downloading kloxo-installer.sh from download.lxcenter.org and executing it as root. The script will present you with a few questions and sometimes ask for a password (enter your root password).

If you don’t have MySQL server already installed, you must run:

# su - root
# yum install -y wget
# wget http://download.lxcenter.org/download/kloxo/production/kloxo-installer.sh

To install as Master (Default Single Server):

# sh ./kloxo-installer.sh --type=master

To install as Slave:

# sh ./kloxo-installer.sh --type=slave

If you already have MySQL installed and set a root password, you must run:

# su - root
# yum install -y wget
# wget http://download.lxcenter.org/download/kloxo/production/kloxo-installer.sh
# sh ./kloxo-installer.sh --type=<master/slave> --db-rootpassword=PASSWORD

Once kloxo is installed, you can connect to http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:7778 and you will be presented with a login screen. Login as admin with password admin and once you are in, Kloxo will ask you to change the default password to a secure one.

Packages installed initially¹:

¹ You are able to switch services after install at the web panel. Apache/Lighttpd; BIND/djbdns; spamassassin/bogofilter; etc.

If you cannot connect to you Kloxo Control Panel, please check if Kloxo is running and your server firewall is not blocking access to ports 7777/tcp and 7778/tcp. You may temporarily disable it by running /etc/init.d/iptables stop and if that is the cause you may be interested in the firewall script example contributed by Kloxo users.

If you still cannot access your panel, go to our forums at http://forum.lxcenter.org and request help (you may want attach the file /root/kloxo-install/kloxo-linux/kloxo_install.log for easier troubleshooting).

1) Keep in mind that Kloxo will not manage your server firewall (iptables rules). For that, you may want to install third-party firewall management scripts such as CSF (cache) or APF (cache) and its complements to detect and block threats like brute-force attacks and unauthorized processes and users.
2) If you are not familiar with the command line (shell), you might want to try Webmin (cache) for basic system administration tasks. It should not conflict with Kloxo as long as you avoid managing the services listed before with it.
3) Kloxo will never update your OS (CentOS/Red Hat) automatically. It’s up to you to monitor security bulletins for your Operating System and update as necessary.
4) Kloxo will never update itself by default. You can set Auto-Update? Kloxo within the GUI. The Auto update will run at the 10th day each month and you as “Admin” will be notified by email. To update manualy, click the Update home button from the web panel OR run on the shell (as root) /script/upcp. At the web panel, you are presented with release notes that describe what’s changed in the newer versions so you can act at your own discretion.

here is the syntax for the Switch statment;

switch($var)
{
case “1″:
echo”it is one”;
break;
case “2″:
echo”it is Two”;
break;
case “3″:
echo”it is Three”;
break;
default:
echo “defaul Value “;
break;
}

1. Check if $_POST['action'] is set before using it. For example:

if (!isset($_POST['action']))
{
//If not isset -> set with dumy value
$_POST['action'] = “undefine”;
}

2. Suppress Notice warnings

Notice warnings could be suppressed by changing the error_reporting variable in your PHP.ini. error_reporting could be set to show all errors except those for notices and coding standards warnings: error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

The same is accomplished by adding the following line in your php page:

<?php error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE); ?>

The title tag determines the name of a web page. Title tags are mostly visible in Google and in the browser.

Google
The page title Google shows is a page’s title tag. The same goes for Bing.

Browser
The title tag appears in the browser title bar and the browser tabs. When you add a page to your favorites or when you share a page via social media, the title tag is what apppears as the page title.

Is the title tag important?

You bet it is. The title tag is one of the most important things to get right if you want to do well in Google. It’s not the only thing but if you neglect your title tags you’re making it very hard on yourself.

Tips for a good title tag

1. Use no more than 66 characters

• Search engines only show a limited number of characters of the title tag. Google shows the first 66 characters. After that, it simply adds an ellipsis (…). If you want your title tags to look professional, don’t use more than 66 characters.
• Short titles are easier to read than long ones.
• The less words there are in your title tag, the more value Google attributes to each word. As a consequence, it’s easier for a keyword to score well in a title tag of 4 words than it is in a title tag of 8 words. This is called keyword density.

2. Make sure your title tag accurately describes your page

• The title tag should contain the keyword you want to score with for that page.
• Make sure you use that keyword somewhere on the page itself.
• Use a keyword your visitors use. It’s nice to do well in Google but if it’s with a word nobody uses it’s not really going to do you any good.

3. Think about what you want the page to do

• Make sure the title tag and content of the page correspond with the reasons people visit that page.
  ‘Netbooks: reviews of the fastest models’ will appeal to a different audience and create different expectations than ‘Cheap netbooks’.

4. Put the keyword first

• Google reportedly attributes more value to the first word in a title tag than the last one.
• Jakob Nielsen’s research shows that the first 11 characters determine whether someone continues to read on or not.

5. Don’t forget to mention your brand name

• Putting your brand name in the title tag isn’t all that important if you’re a small company. But if you’re one of the leading players in your field, it’s a good idea to mention your brand name in your title tags.
• Wa advise most companies to put their brand name last. Only on your homepage should your brand name be first.
• If you’re an absolute top brand that the majority of people knows and trusts, it can be interesting to start your title tags with your brand name.

6. Separate your brand name from the page title

• Use a vertical dash (|) or hyphen (-) to separate your brand name from the actual page title.

7. Write attractive title tags

• If you stuff the title tag full of keywords, you’ll probably score well in Google. But it will make your title tag unattractive and people won’t click on it. So you’re kind of missing the point.
• For a lot of people, the title tag is their first introduction to your brand. Make sure you make a good first impression.
• Your web page’s title tag appears in a list with other search results. Make sure it stands out.

8. Unique for every page

• Each page of your web site should have a unique title tag. If you can’t decide what a page is really about, how is Google supposed to know?

How can you adapt your title tags?

That depends on your website. Hopefully, you’re using a content management system (CMS) that lets you adapt the title tag of every page manually.

If you’re choosing a new CMS, make sure it allows you to do that. If you want to do well in Google, it’s vital.

More tips?

Do you have some more tips for good title tags? Feel free to add them in the comments section.