So I tinker and make website, and then do personal blogs about it
Welcome to my web site and blogs! Have you been thinking about how to make your own web site and wondering how to go about doing it? Building a web site is not all that difficult. You don't have to be a technical whizz to create a nifty looking web site. It's all about choosing the right web hosting company and using the right software to run and maintain a web site. Your web site can be your own personal Wordpress websites blog or you could run an ezine, a forum site or even an online photography sites.
Though this a personal website which I use it for blogging; I also use it to test out various web site software scripts for example for CMS (content management system) I've tested out the Wordpress, Joomla, Mambo, Drupal and Postnuke installations; I've also tested out the forum software like phpbb and SMF; I have installed, uninstalled so many times until Google and other search engines may be going bonkers to list and delist this site web URLs. To create a simple website is not too difficult especially if the web hosting company you sign up provides the right tools for doing it. Once the web site is up and ready, how you want to run it, and use it is a bigger challenge than setting it up!
First things first, before you can set up a web site you need a web hosting company and a domain name. So read up this article below or jump headlong into signing up with a web hosting company.
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And of course, I'm just having fun with this web site of mine, and if you want to see what I'm fiddling about with it, do feel free to browse around and check out some of the CMS installation and see if it is something you like to have for your own web site. And of course you could hang around and just read my blog build using Wordpress in this website.
Below here is an RSS feed of Jan's Blogs About Life for your preview. Happy browsing! And if you are ready to start web site, do sign up with any of the above and come back often for tips on how to make your own web site, tweaking it and making it do what you want it to do!
Cheers!
Jan.
Social Websites: You are who you know
When using social websites like Facebook, Twitter, etc, usually we try not to divulge too much information. After all there are unscrupulous shenanigans out to phish information that you publicly display. Identity theft is pretty dangerous for you. You may try to protect yourself by limiting the number of information available, but now researchers have [...]
Posted on 12 March 2010 | 11:13 pm
Star Two Rage featured bloggers
The Star Two Rage section is more for the youth, twenty-something who likes to blog. Some of their featured Malaysian bloggers including the super blogger like Kenny Sia and several others. Ok, intriguing. So where do I stand as far as all this bloggers go? Blogging may be all the rage these days especially in the [...]
Posted on 11 March 2010 | 5:24 am
Office Outlook Hang or slow startup problem
It happened to me once a long time ago, and my colleagues, and now my brother-in-law’s Microsoft Office Outlook also hang or having extremely slow startup. This is what happens when you don’t archive or backup your email correspondence and let your main outlook.pst file burgeon into one big fat file! So now what? You can’t [...]
Posted on 11 March 2010 | 12:16 am
Online Bookmarks
I’m using a lot of the online bookmark apps provided by the search engines like Google and Yahoo. I also a Delicious account for social bookmarking as well as trying out Google Chrome and Opera synchronized bookmarks. I’m all for using online bookmarks as it has one great advantage over using the browser’s bookmarking ability in that it is rather permanent in comparison and especially useful if
Posted on 22 February 2010 | 8:36 pm
Palm mobile to Wordpress blog post using u*blog and Cellspin
All this while I have been using Six Apart Vox for mobile blogging from my Palm Centro. The interface is good but I would very much prefer to blog directly to my Wordpress blog from my Palm Centro. The current method to post from Palm Centro to a Wordpress blog would be by email. This method [...]
Posted on 19 February 2010 | 10:38 am
borders at curve damansara
borders @ curve Uploaded by www.cellspin.net My various test post: U*blog test post Another U*blog test post Palm to Wordpress posting Cellspin test posting Cellspin photo test post, borders at Curve Damansara Palm mobile to Wordpress blog post using U*blog and Cellspin
Posted on 18 February 2010 | 6:17 am
cellspin test posting
Cellspin test posting. this palm app can do with some improvement. Wish it has a draft save as well a list of post that was done. Vox pretty in that however cellspin is used not only to post into its own site but to do crossposting to othersites as well. My various test post: U*blog test post Another [...]
Posted on 18 February 2010 | 5:17 am
sushi tei tropicana city
having my lunch here at sushi tei tropicana city. they still consider this whole week as chinese new year and thus no set lunch. I guess many people still on leave. there’s lots of people here for lunch. sushi tei japanese restaurant is pretty popular as their portion are more than most japanese restaurants provide. and [...]
Posted on 17 February 2010 | 10:58 pm
palm to wordpress posting
this u*blog may be dated and may not be the best way to blog from a palm mobile device to wordpress posting. the alternative is to use cellspin which is of course more advance than u*blog. however there is trade off, yes their app is free of charge but there is cost to your blog [...]
Posted on 16 February 2010 | 2:45 am
another u*blog test post
this is another u*blog test post from my palm centro to my wordpress website personal blogs about website. u*blog is rather dated (24.4.2005) n there is no new updates since then. it is rather unstable n I couldn’t get the attachment to work. I don’t know what settings I messed it with and it kept [...]
Posted on 15 February 2010 | 11:31 pm
this is u*blog test post
this is a u*blog test post. checking out alternate method of posting to my blog. My various test post: U*blog test post Another U*blog test post Palm to Wordpress posting Cellspin test posting Cellspin photo test post, borders at Curve Damansara Palm mobile to Wordpress blog post using U*blog and Cellspin
Posted on 14 February 2010 | 8:05 am
Social Websites Repost
This is a test post just to see where my post will go. I have linked up most of my social websites and string them up so that when I post somewhere upstream like this blog it should repost to several place and finally end up on Twitter and Facebook. Mind you this wasn't easy, I have to draw out a map and line them up so that I won't get double posting in Twitter, Facebook or any of the other
Posted on 10 February 2010 | 7:30 am
BookCrossing
This is fun, BookCrossing. Who would have thought that leaving your books in out in the wild and let somebody else pick it up, read it, and hopefully they would leave a little note behind in your BookCrossing account. It started out way back in 2001 when Ron and his wife Kaori were admiring PhotoTag.org [...]
Posted on 29 January 2010 | 5:40 am
Remove and Get Rid of Feedproxy in Feedburner
I noticed that some of my RSS feeds from Feedburner have the feedproxy.google.com domain and a long squiggly URL. I would like to remove and get rid of the feedproxy in my feedburner feeds and would much prefer to have the URL with my own domain and the webpage URL link. I also noticed that [...]
Posted on 28 January 2010 | 1:41 am
Exabytes Webhosting HELM control panel alias bug
When choosing a webhosting solution like Exabytes, IPserveron, Bluehost or Bravenet, when you build your website, the control panel of the webhost that you choose will determine the usability. Of course the simpler your website that you make, there will be less impact if the control panel is buggy. However if you need to do [...]
Posted on 27 January 2010 | 8:46 pm
Dell Inspiron Mini 10v Netbook Review
Recently I just got the Dell Inspiron Mini 10v and some of my friends asked how it was. I have been thinking about getting a netbook for awhile. Sure I got my laptop, the Dell Inspiron 1501 about 2-1/2 years ago. With its big 15.4″ screen it was quite a dead weight to carry around. [...]
Posted on 26 January 2010 | 2:28 am
No to Internet Explorer
Ever have a tough time trying to convince your friends and family to abandon IE (Internet Explorer)? Well now the French and German government is recommending their citizen to switch to non-IE browser. Apparently IE6 has a major vulnerability in which "Internet Explorer can be caused to allow remote code execution." In fact the same vulnerability exists in IE7 and IE8 too.If there is a time to
Posted on 19 January 2010 | 1:46 am
Wordpress Websites
Wordpress is one of the most popular software app. You can find many Wordpress websites just about anywhere. Even I myself am using Wordpress for my blogging and website creation. It is very versatile.If you want to build a free website using Wordpress, you can get one at Wordpress.com and sign up for an account there. However using a free website in Wordpress.com may not be the best option. Ok,
Posted on 4 January 2010 | 9:43 pm
Wordpress vs Blogger
Which should you use? Wordpress vs Blogger. And when I say Wordpress as in self hosted Wordpress not the free hosted one at Wordpress.com. So maybe this comparison may not be so good, because Blogger/Blogspot is free hosted. So maybe the comparison should be self hosted blog vs free hosted blog.Anyway, I am using both self hosted Wordpress and Google Blogger/Blogspot. Both has their pros and cons
Posted on 29 December 2009 | 7:52 pm
Windows 7 vs Vista
Windows 7 vs Vista, my evaluation so far My Windows 7 evaluation so far, between Windows 7 vs Vista, well the interface looks a little sleeker. Changes were made of course to make the Windows 7 feels newer and different from Windows Vista. I’m still playing with it and trying to understand some of the differences. [...]
Posted on 29 December 2009 | 7:28 pm
Buddy Press
This is an interesting open source software from Wordpress, the Buddy Press which is a little like a multi-purpose, social website like software that you can build a free website for blogging and running a forum and groups. Well open source software is free. Your cost is the time to install and explore the software and see if it is what you like or fit in to your website strategy.While looking
Posted on 28 December 2009 | 9:25 pm
Finally upgrade to Windows 7
Windows 7 is out in the market for some time now. And from what has been reviewed, it seems to be very popular and much more user friendly than Windows Vista. So without much ado, it was time for me to upgrade to Windows 7, well at least for my laptop and give it a [...]
Posted on 28 December 2009 | 8:43 pm
Hardening Wordpress website is a must!
Earlier this year, one of my friends Wordpress website and Drupal website was hacked. Both of them were running a travel website and their site was stuff full of web spam with links to dubious website selling dubious products. Appears this was no isolated incident and I have come across forums where some person websites [...]
Posted on 1 December 2009 | 7:37 am
Good plugins for bbPress
After digging around online for awhile, I finally settle on a few plugins for bbPress than does a good job at weeding out web spammers. Sheesh, these people really cause a load of headache for any would be webmasters, fortunately there are many tools created by very smart programmers to weed out these bad people online.I finally found some good plugins for my bbPress that could do just what I
Posted on 14 November 2009 | 2:57 am
Akismet for punBB
I have been looking around for a good forum application to build a website forum. When building a forum website, one of the most important criteria for me is the banishment of spam. This is a headache just for about every webmaster who attempt to build a website forum. I have installed several forum apps into my website just to study its interface, ease of use, etc. All I did was put in one
Posted on 13 November 2009 | 9:44 pm
HTML extension vs PHP, ASP, SHTML, PHTML, etc
I have been curious, whether a HTML extension (or HTM extension for that matter) would do as well in a search engine as compared with extension that ended up in PHP, ASP, SHTML, PHTML, etc, etc. Of course each extension has its own usefulness. HTML was started pretty long ago for use with web browsing. HTML [...]
Posted on 12 November 2009 | 12:53 am
Wordtracker is still Free
Ya, ya. My mistake. Wordtracker Free Keyword tool is still free. The other day when they plonked in an email promoting their free trial for seven days of their full version mislead to think that they were shutting off their Wordtracker Free Keyword Tool.You can still find it here:Wordtracker Free Keyword ToolFor those who don't know, keywords are what people key-in in the search box when they
Posted on 9 November 2009 | 6:02 pm
The Importance of business information
Business information is rather important in any job or transaction. The role of business intelligence is very important not just for survival of business but also for the day to day business negotiation and transaction. And when there is a lack of vital information available, misjudgement can occur and can be very costly to the [...]
Posted on 3 November 2009 | 8:43 pm
This website of mine is a mess!
This website of mine is a big mess! You can't see it from the public viewpoint, but in the back end, it total crazy! I guess experimenting with the various SQL database software and trying out PHP script here and there, not to mention trying out the SHTMLs and PHPs extension by doing a quick hack and a little tweak there and breaking up the code into several includes ....I doubt I will be able to
Posted on 30 October 2009 | 1:06 am
Wordtracker is no longer free
Well I guess it has to lose its free wordtracker services. It was good while it was free although only giving the demand side of things. I guess eventually it found that being the only free keyword checking tool around, Wordtracker.com decided that it can make more money by closing its free services. Which is real sad. I still have my good old Site Build It brainstorming tool which is actually
Posted on 27 October 2009 | 7:41 pm
Cat Behaviour
There is no fixed rule on cat behaviour. Each cat that I had was pretty individualistic although you might spot some similarity. And between a stray-in-the-wild cats versus that of a domesticated house cat, again there will be differences in their cat behaviour as well. Having had 4 house cats, I could give some general cat [...]
Posted on 22 October 2009 | 3:37 am
USAF F-16 Thunderbirds and RMAF Sukhoi airshow
This wasn’t a chance to be missed! USAF F-16 Thunderbirds are coming to Kuala Lumpur for an aerial display, plus of course our very own local Malaysian RMAF Sukhoi jet in the opening act! So it was a must see! Despite the traffic jam leading to the airbase plus I didn’t know where exactly is the [...]
Posted on 7 October 2009 | 2:06 am
Simplepie
I have been using Simplepie for some time. It is great for streaming RSS feeds into your web page. A great way to stream information around when you build your own website.So what is Simplepie? It is a PHP script that you can install in your web host and configure it to get RSS feeds not only from other website and also from within your website. It also a good way to re-feed the various website
Posted on 29 September 2009 | 11:09 pm
How Can I Convert a CD to an MP3
“How can I convert a CD to an MP3 format?” Actually it is a very easy process. There are many ways to convert audio CD into MP3 and there isn’t any shortage of free software to do it. If you plan to use your Windows Media Player that came with Microsoft, then just too bad because [...]
Posted on 6 September 2009 | 12:10 pm
Calico Cats
Guess who came a calling? Not any cat but a calico cats variety. It was strange cat behaviour but I believe this calico cat must have been previously owned by someone. It was walking around my house backyard and making loud meowing. If I didn’t know better, it was looking for a home and shelter. [...]
Posted on 6 September 2009 | 11:09 am
Durian Malaysia
Durian Malaysia, the king of fruits. Everybody loves them and many are repulsed by the offensive smell. But once they overcome the strong aroma and get the courage to try it, mmm…, that’s it, they are hooked! There are so many varieties of durian in Malaysia. So many that I’m not sure which is which. Sometimes [...]
Posted on 3 September 2009 | 7:58 pm
Free antivirus software
Best things in life are free. And so is free antivirus software. You could save a couple of bucks using freebies like this. Of course if you need a more comprehensive solution, this might not be so good. If you are good in administering your computer and very cautious in downloading stuff from the internet, such free anti-virus software is probably good enough.However in an office environment
Posted on 31 August 2009 | 11:20 pm
Cure for H1N1?
Will this cure for H1N1 work? No idea. But no harm trying. Also I can’t verify the source except that it came in through my inbox mail from a friend (who may have received from a friend, of a friend, well, you know how chain mail works). Miracle for H1N1 patient (Real Experience) TO ALL FRIENDS JUST [...]
Posted on 16 August 2009 | 10:43 pm
Build a free web site pitfalls
Geocities - there goes another free web site service.The problem when you build a free web site using free website services like Geocities, you are at their mercy. After all, you are using their services for free, so what's more could you ask for if they decided they no longer want to run the free service anymore.And recently Yahoo has made a lot of changes to make themselves more competitive
Posted on 14 July 2009 | 9:55 pm
Flock a better browser experience than Firefox
I decided to give Flock browser a try and see what it is like. Turn out to be rather interesting. I had a much better browsing experience than Firefox despite the fact that Flock is based on the same Mozilla Firefox engine.Flock is meant to be useful for those who log in frequently to their social web sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, MSN Live, Delicious, etc. Since I have almost all
Posted on 27 May 2009 | 6:47 am
Build a Free Web Site with Webs
Webs.com was formerly Freewebs.com. You can build a free web site here too! They have been around since 2001, longer than Yola but not as long as Bravenet. They use a free web site builder to make your own web site. It's free, so I sign up just to have a look see. So here's my URL JanLeow.Webs.com. Because they use the provided free web site builder, I'm stuck with their choices of free web site
Posted on 18 May 2009 | 10:41 pm
IE vs Firefox, Opera, Chrome browsers
Internet Explorer is still bloated and slow as ever. And it is very telling. Just open your Gmail account and click on any inbox entry. It takes 5 long seconds for the message to open. It takes just as long to return to the Inbox list. In comparison, Firefox, Opera and Chrome takes only an instant. I couldn't even start counting the seconds (you know, one thousand one, one thousand two, etc to
Posted on 6 May 2009 | 9:21 pm
Twitter for Palm - MoTwit
Can't have enough of Twittering? Own a Palm mobile phone like Centro, Treo or something like that? Then give this freeware app a try! It's call MoTwit (formerly known as TreoTwit). Useful for those who own a Palm mobile phone and wanted to twit using mobile phone but not residing in US, UK, India or Sweden. Actually you can SMS but the cost would be very expensive since it will become an
Posted on 4 May 2009 | 5:54 am
Build a free web site with Yola
Build a free web site using Yola. So what is it? Well, free web site hosting is good for those who do not wish to pay out of the pocket. So I decided to sign up and see what's it all about, after all it is free! This site is fairly new, so don't bank on it just yet. They still need to work out their monetizing model to support their freebie. It they can't find a way to generate income, they will
Posted on 30 April 2009 | 8:20 pm
Windows 7 RC is free! For awhile anyway.
Microsoft is releasing a preview version of Windows 7 RC (release candidate) which you can use until it expires in June 2010. That means about 13 months free usage from current date (May 2008). PC World reported that this is the longest trial usage ever given by Microsoft. The Vista trial usage was given about 7 months usage from release till its expiry in June 2007. Once it expired Windows Vista
Posted on 30 April 2009 | 8:06 pm
Format FAT32 big partition using Linux
I was attempting to format big partition size >100GB for a FAT32 file system for the WD My Passport portable hard disk. Turn out to be very tedious because the FAT32 format utility provided by Western Digital could not work in Windows Vista. So I tried to find alternative way, but to no avail, until...There is limit to the FAT32 partition on your hard disk. It cannot exceed more than 32GB. To
Posted on 27 April 2009 | 10:01 am
Expandable Post
Finally it was done. It wasn't too difficult to understand and implement expandable post in Google Blogger. Now the post functions just like those Wordpress websites. ie the front page will show a teaser of paragraph, if the visitors likes it, can click the "Read More" link to expand the the teaser to a full post for further reading.Now the frontpage don't have to be a looooong page of many posts
Posted on 24 April 2009 | 12:56 am
Can always use this like Twitter
I can always use this blogger like Twitter minus the 140 character limit. Instead of calling it micro blogging, just call it mini blogging! Plus you can tag it to and with more options! Yeah!
Posted on 21 April 2009 | 10:00 am
Got to figure this out
Rfwk has done it, guess I will have to figure it out. Blogger can't break long post with the use of breakers like <!--break--> or <!--more--> such as those used by Wordpress or Drupal. Instead it needs special hacking using either CSS or JavaScript. Since this need time to figure it out, will do it later.
Posted on 21 April 2009 | 9:30 am
Make, build a free web site
Make, create and build a free web site using available free web hosting online.
Posted on 20 April 2009 | 10:00 am
Comment spoilers
Lately I get a few bad mouth comments in my blogs and various other sites. I don't know whether it is the stress of the current economic downturn or it is just a coincidence of bat attitude people passing by my web site and deciding to leave bad unconstructive criticism.Perhaps I myself am also having a bad mood or something because usually I just shrug my shoulders and leave those distasteful
Posted on 17 April 2009 | 1:06 am
Links and Anchors in your web site
Creating links and anchors when you make your own web site
Posted on 14 March 2009 | 8:00 am
Adding images to your web site
Adding images to your web site will spice up your information content, especially useful if you are running a travel destinations related web site.
Posted on 27 February 2009 | 8:00 am
More HTML text formatting
More HTML text formatting, like tag attributes to control and format the HTML codes
Posted on 26 February 2009 | 9:00 am
Internet Marketing Secrets? What is SEO?
Internet marketing secret, SEO: How to increase web site traffic when you make your own web site.
Posted on 24 February 2009 | 5:25 pm
Wordpress websites
Make your own Wordpress websites using Bluehost Fantastico autoinstalls or Simple Scripts
Posted on 23 February 2009 | 4:02 pm
The first web page - the index file
Your first web page, the index.html file
Posted on 22 February 2009 | 3:02 pm
How I made my web site
How I got started to make my own web site
Posted on 15 February 2009 | 8:02 am
Learning HTML text formatting
Learning the HTML text formatting. What are the essential HTML tags to learn.
Posted on 8 February 2009 | 1:02 am
Build your web site page by page or use open source software?
Which way do you want to build your web site? Page by page or use CMS / open source software
Posted on 19 January 2009 | 12:01 pm
Looking around your web hosting account
After signing up with your web hosting company. Look around and get familirize with your hosting account and get to know its features.
Posted on 15 January 2009 | 8:00 am
Web Hosting - what to look out for
No two web hosting company is the same. Each has their own features and pricing. Of course cheap web hosting saves money but not always the best idea.
Posted on 11 January 2009 | 6:00 pm
Getting started to make your own web site
Getting started to make your own web site. What do you need to create web site? Domain name and web hosting company
Posted on 5 January 2009 | 5:30 pm
Make Your Own Web Site Introduction
Introduction to make your own web site
Posted on 3 January 2009 | 6:04 pm
Make your own web site
Make your own web site for fun and profit
Posted on 31 December 2008 | 6:00 pm
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