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Show that you are proud to be a Malaysian by having this logo on your twitter profile. This is just some new website that I just stumble upon, and created a profile for all Malaysian who twits. If you have any cause that you would like to support you can create your own at Twibbon. Offline, I am always supporting only one charity which is Good Samaritan Home in Klang, that is the home for orphan and kids from broken family.

If you have none, join my cause and have this logo display on your Twitter profile picture. This is another great little twitter application that is pretty neat.

Get this twibbon on your twitter profile. for Malaysia!

I had no choice to change to another theme quickly as my previous wordpress theme, Forte is actually not compatible with the latest wordpress 2.8 but I did not notice as I was too busy and had no time to even update this blog. Basically all comments are disabled, even though I have enable them in all my posts in post level and also settings.

Thanks to Lee who contacted me about this issue, I had to quickly change the theme as my troubleshooting shows that it is the problem with the theme and I could not identify the part of the code having problem, even having to replace the comment.php file with the wordpress default file does not work either.

I believe this new theme is working fine and I am pretty happy with the look, it is actually a magazine theme that I have edit it to look like a blog again. The only cons about this theme is the footer that is encrypted because they are affraid that we delete the credit to the theme developer. Anyhow I do not do that, previous footer stay intact for the whole priod, but having the footer I could add my stats there whereby the processing is done later, and visitor will not notice the lags.

I have spend quite some time trying to make a new theme for my personal photoblog. It is a blog focusing a lot in my new hobby, photography. I am trying to make time for this new hobby of mine after I got my first DSLR, Nikon D90, it is just simply beautiful.

Got the idea of using only one rotating picture on my front page, but I do not want to keep it empty like other photoblog. Blog post only appears on the right sidebar. Due to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and navigation, I keep the category, my tweets and blogroll right at the bottom of the page so that they are not too obstructive.

Site: http://www.adiwong.com

From my previous post about my Wordpress journey, I have been selected, that was actually the easy part. Now the hard part is to win the voting system that I am way behind. Vote for me here.

So here is my giveback if I win the contest, yes, I will contribute back if you could help me out here. I will make a Wordpress MU website for Malaysian whereby people could start their blog for free (I think I will get a .my domain to give a better localize url).

Then I will use USD100 for contests to giveaway as a promotion of this new community to make sure for its success. Not to mention the time that I am doing to devote here.

Also I will give out USD20 to a random person who voted for me and commented here. (yes, I can’t track them but if I win, I don’t mind giving, so comment on this post and continue to vote for me in your office, home, laptop, friend’s computer…wherever you can vote)

Then, I will give USD20 for a lucky blogger who posted a link to this post to support me in this contest. You can write a long post or a short post, and it is up to you.

Lastly, I will also share another USD20 for a lucky twitter who retweet my post for supporting me. You could copy the phrase below for simplicity or write anything that include @8dee

RT @8dee Give support and Vote for Riceblogger.com at http://bit.ly/3ya2Ew

Then the last tiny bits will be left for me any my family to enjoy a good meal.

All this will be given if I were to win the 1st prize. I am trying to aim big but if I do make it to other prizes, I will still try to contribute in a smaller amount. So vote for me here. (it takes less than 5 secs to do this)

Recently I bought myself a Nikon D90 Kit, and this is my new hobby when I am not in front of my computer. To publish my amateur photography, I have decided to use my change my personal blog into a Photoblog. I have did some research for free Wordpress Theme for Photographer and found this five great theme.

Grace Photoblog Theme (Demo : Download)

This is a simple designed photographer theme that have a 900px rotating picture in front. Very nice size and method to present your photos.

Monotone (Demo : Download)

This theme changes width accordingly to your picture width and it also changes the background color to give a different look for each visitors.

Fullscreen (Demo : Download)

This is simply cool. Mouse over the picture and you will get what I mean. It is not Free yet, but they claimed that it will be given away free soon, so signup and wait.

Reflection (Demo : Download)

Create a reflection on all your photos with the help of YABP photoblog software.

Photo Blog Wordpress Theme (Demo : Download)

It gives you picture a great deal of focus, mouse over the picture and you see the description. Also click on the blog info to get the archive, blogroll, pages and category.

Bonus: Zack 990 (Demo : Download) – Found it last minute

This gives your pictures collection a very organize way to browse. Few method of displaying pictures as you can see from the screenshot below.

If you are a photographer and would like some wordpress theme that would enhance your picture layout, this is definitely for you. This theme are also suitable for videographer blog. The best thing is that they are free.

If you are a web designer or especially a rookie web designer (like me), you are sure to get into a situation whereby you are stuck because all the colours you picked does not matched. All you need is just a main theme colour, enter it to the RGB section on the bottom right towards the circle colour chart.

This is an example of the website screenshot. It is definitely very useful for designing logo, websites, name cards, and I guess every design work if you are not good at colour matching. It is a great help for me as I have used them for quite a while before they moved to this new domain.

Remember to click on the sample design, of light design or dark design. You can get a picture of how the matching of colours without guessing them.

Not to forget that you can also save your design, like my above design is using orange as the main colour. You get the colour scheme here.

Website: Color Scheme Design

As always, whoever pay us more we like them right? This is partially true because Google Adsense is still my highest earner. Previously I did started well with Kontera but income slips to cents/day altough traffic does increases and I felt trap because my earning is at $50.00+ but the payout is only at $100.

Chitika is a totatly different advertisements system, a little similar to amazon ads and having some inteligent to detect the source of the traffic from search engine by showing relating products or services. Chitika is pretty fair because they do not appear if there is no related ads and if the traffic is coming from non-paying region, the advertisements does not appear as well.

The ads look like this but they have quite a lot of different sizes and different type of advertisements that you could do try out on your blog.

Best of all, minimum payout is only $10.00  (via paypal) and $50.00 (via Check). I am using paypal because I could use them to purchase domain and pay hosting easily. Anyway there is method to withdraw from Paypal if the money starts piling up in Paypal. Payment is okay, one month after you accumulated the trashold (USD10 if you are using paypal).

So far, Chitika is not earning as much as Kontera as I have receives my first payment from Kontera, but Chitika was only installed one one of my blog and Kontera is actually installed on 2. With this rate, I am sure that Chitika will pickup pretty quickly.

If you are a blogger who wants to earn some small money for domain and hosting, you should check out Chitika.

p/s This is my personal Chitika Review, you have have a different experience.

My Top 100 Malaysia Blogs list is now 2 months old and I have ran the updating script on Monday night. This is actually my second time updating the list and it seems pretty succesful. There is a chance that it fails to pick up the latest ranking from Technorati or Alexa ranking. In this case, it will use back its previous ranking. But I will try to update it as often as possible like every 2 weeks so that the data are updated (meaning at worst, the data is 2 weeks back).

Chinese Blogs

I have also included 2 first Chinese blog since their rankings are simply great. Unfortunately I could not display them in Chinese Character due to the database setting (I think) and I am trying to figure out methods I could change this. Duller and Xiawa.my are the two chinese blogs.

Other Rankings

I have receives request for other matrix to be included and currently my concentration is on google Page Rank to be included. This is given priority to others and will move on after that. Thanks to all who requested but note that each different ranking have different API to comply in order to get the information, and I will need to study them.

This list will constantly be updated base on the latest ranking, therefore it is quite accurate to say that these blogs definitely are very influential and are popular amongs Malaysian or even overseas visitors.

My first Facebook Pages was actually created by accident. It ended up pretty good as a method to do Marketing via Facebook. The main reason is that you could collect fans and admin them over at the page. Rather than creating a whole new facebook profile, whereby you will need to have a saperate login.

Publicise Feeds

With pages, your feeds are published at the page where user login. This is also the page where everyone tries to keep up with their friends status update. As you can see from the screenshot below.

Message to all fan with just one click

Compare to having another profile, you will need to type the username one by one. What if you have more than 100 friends, or if you have 1000 friends. Are you going to send one by one? With pages, you can just send message to all fan.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

On top of all that, your page is indexed by Google. Search for Malaysia Classifieds Listing, you will see my page third on Google. And it actually have a PageRank with it too (although mine is not high).

I believe the three reason on top is more than enough to have you creating your very first Facebook Page and to market your website right after this.

I have actually succesfully done this by making a Malaysia Classifieds Facebook Page whereby friends could add them as Fan. (you should too if you want classifieds updates on your facebook). So far, I had 147 fan, which is not bad, and I will be expecting more to join. So here is how you can make your own Facebook Page.

Go to Application on the bottom left corner, look for “Ads and Pages”

Click Pages

Then you will come to a blank pages if you have not created one before, click on the “Create Page” on top right corner. Then you continue with the name of your pages.

Now you have you own Facebook Pages. But you are not done yet, because you want to use it to market your feed. And here is how you can add your feed into Facebook Page. Look for the Edit Page on the left panel below the image.

Scroll down, then look for notes, click edit.

Here is the magic that will import your rss feeds into your facebook pages.

You should know the rest after this, there is only 2 steps left, one to write your feed and another to confirm.

It is recommended to at least include some information on your facebook page, also a picture would be decent too.

I have just stumble upon a website selling their “Twitter Profit House” kit, that claims that you could make money twittering. Personally I have not tried it and will not be interested to try it because I strongly believe that it is mainly spaming others. With twitter, we could batch follow and batch unfollow, meaning that you can easily expand your follower to five figures with minimal time and minimal efforts. This is the reason I recomended Tweet Later, so that you can control who you are following, and even block those who are annoying.

This make money twittering website looks pretty professional and it even has the linke “As seen and trusted on…” CNBC, USA Today, CNN and abc.

If you are wondering how other twitter users direct message you when you follow them, it is because there is an automated method to do this. I found this website TweetLater, which is great in managing new followers. I would say that it is a must have for all twitter users.

Their features include:-

• Direct Message New Follower
• Posting Future Tweets
• Vet New Followers – control if you should follow back base on updates/followers/twit image
• Or you can do Auto Follow features
• Manage multiple twitter accounts
• Keyword Alert via Email
• Also some nifty paid service – but the free version is already superb

I have used it for a few months now and I am pretty satisfied with the controls I get on my twitter. This is the best Twitter Application so far compare to those I compiled some a year ago on Twitter Application.

Website: Tweet Later

Also, remember to follow @8dee