New Smilies

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

Just updated some new smilies to my blog…I like smilies…but I don’t like the one that WP supplied.

Here’s mine…

smilies smilies
:) :lol:
:D :oops:
:( :cry:
:o :evil:
8O :twisted:
:? :roll:
8) :!:
:x :?:
:P :idea:
:| :arrow:
;) :mrgreen:

Now I can smile more often…

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Statistics

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

I installed WordPress.com Stats few weeks ago, it is an official blog statistics software by Wordpress, which I find it easy to install and use.

It is good to know how busy or popular your blog is, by studying the statistics.

Here’s the statistic of my blog for the last one week…average around 100 visitors per day…hmm…quite low. :P Anyway, that’s not my purpose of blogging (just want to have a place to release some of my thought from the little brain).

statistics.jpg

I got quite addicted to blog recently…thinking of starting a forum to discuss about blog (installing, features sharing, promoting…etc.). However, no time for it at the moment…and the burden is going to be quite a lot maintaining a site…so let’s keep it aside first. :P

(Got another project in mind at the moment…)

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BlogMalaysia - Update

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

Just did some update to BlogMalaysia.com.

There are around 0~3 new bloggers sign up to BlogMalaysia.com daily. Yeah, sometimes it is 0… :P

I noticed that some bloggers are using reciprocal link of BlogMalaysia.com at their website, which is good. However, the previous reciprocal link is just text of BlogMalaysia.com, which is hard to notice…not so presentable…so I did some modification and added the below codes today:

The above codes will show the reciprocal link and picture below:BlogMalaysia.com

So…what do you think? Better huh? :D

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博客界最伟大的一篇文章

Posted on February 7th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

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BlogMalaysia.com

Posted on January 31st, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

I relaunched BlogMalaysia.com last week, after a database corruption and lost over hundred of entries in BlogMalaysia.com.

What is BlogMalaysia.com?

It is a website that list out all the URL address of bloggers in Malaysia. More like a yellowpages.

After the relaunched, I reconfigure the system to allow only registered members to post links. Why register? By registering an account at BlogMalaysia, member can later login to edit the Links if there is any changes to the descriptions or new URL of your blog. Without registration, this cannot be done and can’t be edited by the blog owner. In long run, this is a better way than having blog owners contacting me each time they want to change or edit their blog information.

It has been a week + since I relaunched the site…so far there are 13 members/links registered. Almost like one new member a day…hmm…not as fast as I would have hope for.

I have been promoting BlogMalaysia.com at PhotoMalaysia.com and ShaShinKi.com, these two websites have many visitors daily. I have thought of using paid advertising to promote the site…but it is a bit burden for me at the moment…so will let BlogMalaysia.com grows by its own for the time-being… :)

If you have a blog and are reading this…do head over to BlogMalaysia.com and register your blog there. It is Free and it promote your sites to more visitors and audience without having you to pay a cent. :)

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BlogMalaysia.com - Malaysia Bloggers Directory!

Posted on January 12th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

BlogMalaysia.com - Malaysia Bloggers Directory!

What’s the hottest thing on planet now?

Yeah…blogging…

A new phrase in the late of 20 century, so very popular now in the 21st century.

What is blog? It is more like a diary, a personal webspace to post one’s thought and sharing. Blog becomes so popular with the boom of internet and many free blog space given out by big companies (eg. Google).

For those who have their own domain, the most popular free blog management software out there is probably Wordpress. Yes, free but so feature rich! Yes, I am using Wordpress for my blog as well. It manages my blog nicely, and the new version has some simple but practical WYSIWYG features for me to type my blog entry sufficiently.

Now…back to the title of this post - BlogMalaysia.com!

blogmalaysia-com.jpg

I got this domain from Brian (founder of PhotoMalaysia.com) last year, after Brian decided to discontinue free blog offering and let the domain expired. The domain was registered by Brian in July 2004, and was expired on July 2007. Brian has to pay a little extra money to renew the expired domain after it expired (US$10 or US$15 penalty?) and renew with one year fee (US$8.99) to get back the domain, and later transfer it to me. For me to receive the domain at my registra, I have to add another year of subscription. Of course I paid all the suspenses. For me it is still very cheap to get a nice domain name. Quite impossible to register such domain name again nowadays, as most are already grabbed by others. :P

So, what am I going to do with the domain? My personal blog? Nah…I don’t want to use that domain name as my personal blog. I actually plan to make a Malaysia Blog Database or Directory, with as many Malaysians blog URL as possible. I found a nice software for the project, and found a nice template design for it…but not as perfect as I hoped. Modification and study structure of the software are a must, if you want your site to be unique and looks good, you need to pour in your effort.

I did a basic design for it few months ago…and try to gather as many bloggers info as possible to key into the database. But one thing I knew, I can’t survive like this. I don’t want to key in the info myself, I want bloggers to come and register their URL themselves at BlogMalaysia.com!

How? Honestly I have no idea. It is hard to promote a new site…very hard actually. Online forums will definitely not allow me to promote BlogMalaysia.com for free, and I do not have a budget for advertisement (maybe I shall find some budget for advertisement…). :(

Today, since I was quite free and have the mood (most importantly), I revisited BlogMalaysia.com and did some changes to the template design. Below are some of the improvements that I have done in the last couple of hours (yeah, learn something new too):

  • Edited site preview with previews from new source (previous girafa preview is no longer available).
  • Make site preview image clickable to the actual URL. I have wanted this feature since day 1, but don’t know how to do it. Today I manage to solve it out myself. :)
  • Make Latest Links clickable to the actual URL. Was having problem previously with broken links.
  • Added favicon.
  • Added little “http://ecmalaysia.com/links/templates/Atman/images/arrow_right.gif” mark to each line in the right sidebar. This makes the side bar easier to view and click.

I shall think of what to add next…if you have any suggestion, feel free to comment. :)

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