Hello guys :)
For those who have been trying to visit this site and keep getting 404/403 error, I kindly apologize for failing to put up a notice that this site is being transferred across hosting account. I’m still hosted by the same reliable provider, IPServerOne though, just that I am combining my domains into one single account, so ease the administration and management.
If you guys noticed any errors/glitches, please let me know yeah?
I’m tired of my Green Theme for now, and I’m not motivated in any way to make myself a new one. I’m sick of the old blue one as well. So after a random browsing through tons and tons of Wordpress themes out there, I find that durable fits my taste.
This theme interferes with my Lightbox (the one that fades the page to black and centers the image when you click on thumbnail) script, so I disable it for the time being.
p/s: Oh, I didn’t know this theme contains AJAX implementation until after a while!
p/s(2): Yeah my Green dude is gone from the corner. Don’t sweat it :p
In order to lessen the clutter and make my home page tidier (and make it faster to load - although this is not a big concern), I have moved the links to various other blogs in the ‘Links & Archives‘ section (it is also added to the top navigation bar above).
This also allows me to add alot more links, as I don’t have to worry about the sheer amount might clutter the home page. If there’s any further improvements that you guys think will make it better, do let me know, okay?
Note: If you want to learn how to troubleshoot layer positioning bugs, you can skip to the last part of this post.
Made some changes to the layout a little bit. I'm not keen in changing to a totally new layout, because I kind of like this one so much, as it is very practical. Removed the annoying images in the AdSense around this site. It works really well, but I just felt annoyed with it, so I removed it for the time being. I have also added another column to the sidebar, so I don't have a super-long sidebar in order to fit all the stuffs that I need to. Should be able to see the sidebar's contents without needing to scroll down much. Removed the plane icons on the header, and reduced the big margin on the left to zilch, so that I can have wider space for the postings (since it is already compromised by the wide sidebar).
As always, every time I changed the layout, it ALWAYS failed on Internet Explorer a.k.a IE. I shouldn't be bothered because I love Firefox, but I pity my readers because still quite a lot of them are using IE. The bug doesn't cause any readability problems, but it made the sidebar once again shift to the bottom, take a look (click on the image to enlarge it) at the screenshot.
Maybe I need to stay at home and fiddle a lot more with the margins. Last time I had this similar problem but I managed to fix it with some margin adjustments, but it took me the whole night.
I am using the Negative Margin approach. If anybody have any solution (hopefully permanent) to my IE Miseries, please let me know!
Small Update @ 14:59 2006.07.11
New Features
Most of the new addons are administrative tools, however, I have two new features for the visitors:
Post subscription - Yes now you can opt to subscribe to any post you like, so if anybody commented on the post, you will get the comments as well!
(Probably) Related Post - Now, a list of possibly related post (based on keywords) is listed down underneath the current open post. Who knows some of them might be handy :)
Small Update @ 00:12 2006.07.12
I got the site working in IE. Some mis-resized image is pushing the sidebar to the left, hence bringing it down. However, now another problem occured. In Firefox, the page seems to scroll to the side, even though when nothing visible is there. I've put borders at all possible DIVs and elements, but I couldn't figure out why the empty space appears.
If anybody can tell me what I did wrong, I would be appreciated. I'll pimp your site!
Small Update @ 00:30 2006.07.12
I've managed to figure out what's the culprit that causes my page to scroll sideways in both Firefox and Opera. It is the header image DIV! I don't know for what ever reason it suddenly decided to have a full 100% width, and with the initial 45px margin I placed on it, results an extra 45px space on the right of the page instead.
How did I finally manage to figure it out? There's a cute trick you can use to troubleshoot your layer and positioning bugs should you couldn't figure it out. At the end of your Style Sheets (CSS) file, place the following line:
... and then reload your page, you should be seeing something like this:
click on the thumbnail above to enlarge the picture
After the quick fix in the CSS, my page finally appears like this:
Looks okay now isn't it? Don't forget to remove that magical CSS code from your Style Sheets!
In the beginning, everybody knows that a SPAM is a canned beef. Shortly after the Internet boom, people is looking at SPAM as a bad thing - mainly useless and annoying items floating around the net - for no real reason. I mentioned 'item' instead of 'e-mail' because, nowadays, anything can technically be 'SPAM'ed. Anything really, from e-mails, sms, and advertisement spams, to the blog comment spams, forum post spams, and many more. Name any messaging/discussion/blogging engine and you'll get SPAM. Free of charge.
Comment Spamming in the blogging world is not really new. I've had once (if any of you remember my baddie.net's old blog) been spammed hundreds every single day. So the moment I've installed this blog on this domain, the very first thing I do is to install the Anti-Spam plugin for WordPress. My favorite one is Akismet. Luckily, the amount of the comment spam I'm getting nowadays is far less (perhaps because this site is not as much linked), but the amount is still annoying. My average 15 days period of spam would be around 100-150:
Why do these people do it? Well or various reasons - think of it like a bimbo (male or female, whichever suits your naughty thoughts) by the roadside, shouting, yelling, waving and pasting their posters all over the street, shop, road, vehicle or even people, simply to promote themselves and to make alot more people aware of their existence.
Similarly, these sites uses automatic scripts to crawl from blogs to blogs and post some comments on these blogs - usually containing alot of URLs linking back to their site. By doing so, the search engines everywhere will notice that a lot of other sites seemingly linking back to their site, thus boosting their ranking in the search engine.
How do they look like? Let me show some examples:
There's practically no way to stop these people from doing such thing. Thus you now seeing alot of websites requires you to input some form of 'code' which is given via an image - and often the image have distorted letters, so that any 'smart' spamming engine could not spam on their sites. Yeah it's rather annoying, but people asked for it.
More reading:
WikiPedia's Comment Spam Article
WikiPedia's Spam (Electronic) Article - details about PageRank systems used by search engines such as Google, and why this system somewhat promotes comment spamming
Last time when I had my site hosted at host-dot.com, I installed gravatar, then once I moved to blogsome.com, being a totally free (and commercial) blogging platform, the ability to play around with their Wordpress installation is gone - due to the risk of security to their servers.
Now that I have total control over the domain, I've installed gravatar once again!
What the heck is Gravatar anyways?
To put it in a really simple term, "Gravatar" means "Globally Recognized Avatar".
So what's so good about it?
It's not something that would save your life if anything, but if you've been participating in various discussion boards (forums) everywhere, you will notice that you can specify/upload your avatar in order to graphically represent your posts. The idea is the same - except that when you post on a Gravatar-enabled site, the avatar that you've uploaded into Gravatar will be displayed. Should you feel like changing your avatar, just logon to Gravatar and change it - and all your avatars in all those gravatar-enabled websites will be changed too!
Neat, isn't it?
How does it work? How come I have a gravatar, but I keep getting "?" images?
Gravatar needs one thing to know which avatar to show - your email address. Keep note that in order to have your gravatar image properly shown, you need to input the exact email address you used to sign up with gravatar when posting comments here. Don't worry, the email will never ever be displayed, sold, spammed or added to any weird mailing list. It is only used to two purpose - validating your comments, and enabling your gravatar
I have the correct email address but yet it doesn't show!
I only enable gravatar that have been labeled "R" and below. You can read about their rating system. I don't want explicit images being used here.
Feel free to ask should you guys have anymore questions :)
Yes I know some of you are tired of me keep moving my blog around. However, this time it would be pretty much permanent, as I technically own this domain now (yes, kucing-kelabu.com) - about the name, maybe one day I will post about how it come around!
Sadly, I am unable to import the comments without jeopardizing the whole post structure of this forum (yet). So, till I figure out how to do that safely, all comments are gone! (only from the posts, but I still have the comments somewhere safe).
Once again, welcome to my new home!
I’m a little worked up today, so I guess I’d spend my active brain activities somewhere I’ve been neglecting - THIS site! I know, I know you can’t see anything different about it - but hey! It now works in Internet Explorer (*FINALLY*) - right after I discovered about the “Negative Margin” trick, thanks to Alistapart.com.
Now, I can relax. Just will be happy too, right Just? :D
Note: Previously this site can load properly in IE, but somehow you can’t seem to be able to click on anything on the sidebar. I’m guessing probably the content layer is being evil and blocks the clicks to the sidebar layer, which is at the back. I love CSS - it’s so unpredictably predictable - especially if Internet Explorer is added to the equation. nuff said.
Note 2 : I've found a page that listed all known IE CSS bugs and their workarounds!
