BlogBeginners.com

BlogCatalog - Submission Declined

2009-05-19T02:38:00.001+08:00

A lesson worth learning

Well, I thought I was doing the right thing, but I ended up learning a priceless lesson. You know how the saying goes; "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Guess I've made a mistake. I didn't listened to the wise old man's words of wisdom.

This blog here was formerly known as Web Directory, a sub-dormain with Blogger. Then I changed it to BlogBeginners.com after I bought a brand new domain name at GoDaddy, something that I should have done when I started blogging many moons ago. With a new domain name, I've to start all over again when it Page Rank fall back to zero! It's okay, after all these while I've learned a thing or two about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and I'm sure I can bring this blog back to it former PR4.

Anyway, that's not what this post is all about. Back to BlogCatalog, I thought I wanna make it easier for my readers and especially to my followers that Web Directory has changed to BlogBeginners.com.

After filling up the new information (as you can see on the image below), I submitted the form expecting to receive an answer after 48 hours.

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Less than 12 hours later, I received an email from BlogCatalog telling me;

Dear ArahMan7,

Thank you for submitting your blog BlogBeginners.com (http://www.blogbeginners.com/) to BlogCatalog.

Unfortunately upon reviewing your blog we are unable to grant it access to the directory.

The most common reasons for not getting into Blog Catalog are:

We could not verify ownership of your blog.
A link back, widget or meta-tag is required to verify site ownership. visit: http://www.blogcatalog.com/buttons for more information.

The URL you submitted is not a blog.

The URL you submitted is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam.

Your blog is brand new and/or doesn't have enough content to make it truly valuable.
If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings.

Your blog contains pornographic material.

At the time of review your blog was unavailable or there was a typo in your submission URL.
Please make sure the URL submitted is correct and accessible

If you believe this to be a mistake, you can login to Blog Catalog ( http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/manage_blog.html ) and change anything which may have caused it to get declined. After updating your blog, it will be put back into the submission queue.

If you have any questions/comments/suggestions/ideas please feel free to contact us.

Thanks,
BlogCatalog

Yeah, I believed there was definitely a very BIG mistake! Come on, this blog (when it was known as Web Directory) has been approved by BlogCatalog's admin and I was submitting the same old blog with it new name and new url. Okay, let's go back and run through the list maybe I did leave something behind;

We could not verify ownership of your blog.
A link back, widget or meta-tag is required to verify site ownership. visit: http://www.blogcatalog.com/buttons for more information. - ok, got a widget on the sidebar

The URL you submitted is not a blog. - gee, this IS a blog!

The URL you submitted is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam. - gotcha, wrong on both counts!

Your blog is brand new and/or doesn't have enough content to make it truly valuable.
If this is the case, please resubmit after you have made more postings. - wrong again! This blog is an antique.

Your blog contains pornographic material. - you gotta be kidding! This blog ain't no porno.

At the time of review your blog was unavailable or there was a typo in your submission URL.
Please make sure the URL submitted is correct and accessible. - Definitely NO typo!

Alright, everything was in order and checked to be correct. Not wasting anymore time, I login to my account and resubmitted the same old blog with the same old information that I submitted earlier. Let see how BlogCatalog took the submission?

Updates: Your blog (BlogBeginners.com) has been reviewed and your updates have been approved.

That's great. It didn't took long before BlogCatalog approved my submission (before I could finished this post, hehehe!). Anyway, now you can add me as a friend and follow any of my blogs on BlogCatalog.

See ya' and take care.

Comment Form Placement

2009-01-27T05:16:00.001+08:00

Embedded Below Post

Horey! This is my first post for eBlog Templates. Hehehe! I can see that you're scratching your head now. Oh well, please refer to my last post, Making Border Lines Disappear to know what I'm talking about. Read about it on the first paragraph, "on a happier note".

On Dilectio Blogger template's post iclfan was asking about inline comment not working on his Blog*Spot.

Before I proceed any further, here is a little tip which I'm sure you will find useful. That's will be the case if you take it in a positive ways. Whenever you wanna ask a question in any forums or leaving a comment or two on any site, please stay calms and give as many infos as you can about your problems.

Believe me, it works both ways. Your questions will be answered promptly and to the point, the way you wants it to be answered. And those many Bloggers who gonna answer your questions will not be wasting their times trying to figure out what do you mean actually? In a bad case scenario, your questions might not be getting any answers! Leaving you high and dry wondering why you're not getting any responds?

You know, I've been there done that too. I can still remember many many moons ago when I noticed the upper half of my post suddenly turned into reds! As if I'm using red fonts. Guess I was panic-stricken. All of a sudden I started opening new threads on all the forums that I registered asking the same question without any relevant information. And now I'm giving back the same words of wisdom that I've received many many moons ago.

Ok now back to the main topic. In the middle of last year, Blog*Spot in their infinite wisdom has decided to give her users inline comments! It's exactly (not 100%) like the comments used on WordPress where at the end of every post there will be a comment form. Yay, something every Blog*Spot users have been waiting for!

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So, how do you make it to work?

It's very easy to do if you're using Blogger default templates. All you've to do is to go to the Blogger in Draft. After signing in with your username and password, you will be taken to your Dashboard. From there you go to Settings --> Comments --> Comment Form Placement. Then check on Embedded below post button. Voila! Now you're the owner of an Inline Comment, ;-)

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For others who are using customized templates (like the one iclfan is using now, a Dilectio blogger template), first you do like I did - see above. After saving it, go to your blog and see whether the inline comment is in place or not?

If not, this is what I do on my own template. Before you touch anything, please backup your template. If anything goes wrong or suddenly your XML codes decided to jump or dance around, you have a backup template to turn to.

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Alright, this is what you have to do. From your Dashboard (assuming you've already login to your Blogger's account), go to Layout --> Edit HTML --> Expand Widget Templates. Then you search for this string of codes,

<p class='comment-footer'>
<a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a>
</p>

After you've found it, please change the whole string of codes with the one below;

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<p class='comment-footer'> <b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'> <b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/> <b:else/> <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a> </b:if> </b:if> </p>

That's it. Last but not least, save your template.

But please remember, your template may be tweaked differently. Basically, that was the line of code I have to add to make the inline comment form to appear on my blogs.

That's all for now. I hope you enjoy the tutorial as much as I do.

Making Border Lines Disappear

2009-01-20T16:04:00.002+08:00

Douglas Bowman's Rounders4

On a happier note - January 17, 2009: David the BlogMaster of eBlog Templates has given his permission for me to answer his reader's problems either on the comment column itself (if the answer is short) or do a post like this one (if the answer needed space to explain). Thank you David for the trust given. I shall give my best services and hopefully I shall not disappoint you and your readers, David.

And here come my sales pitch: If you wanna use a premium Blogger templates, please use this link (also available on this blog left sidebar), to get your Blogger Premium Templates or click this link to get Revolution Church Premium Blogger templates. Cheap, cheap one you know!

Last night I received a personal message (PM) on my usual haunt at CARI Forum. It was from Ardamia (her nickname used on CARI Forum) asking me how to make the border's lines on her blog disappeared? At first I thought of answering her inquiry at a later date coz I got my hands full with my own on-going projects as an Internet Marketer. Yeah, yeah I know, but a Blogger gotta eat too, right? Anyway, that's for another post. Just remind me and I shall tell you about making money online one of these days.

So, as the story goes I went to her blog to have a look-see what it is all about? I noticed that she's using a Douglas Bowman's Rounder4 Template, one of the many Blog*Spot default templates. Within seconds I already got the answer for her, but it got me wondering. On the message she did mentioned before coming to me, she did asked around but nobody can help her...

I see that you're curious too. You wanna know the answer? Wait! Before I proceed any further let's do a little bit of history first. Yeah, I know. It's one of my favourite subjects too. OK, ok, I shall make it short but first, did you know who is Douglas Bowman?

Douglas Bowman is also the creator behind the many default Blogger's templates that many of you are using today. I guess he is still working with the giant search engine, Google as you can read on his StopDesign May 27th, 2006 log entry.

Before - Ardamia's blog using Douglas Bowman's Rounders 4 template with border lines

Right, back to the main subject. Like I said earlier, to solve her problem all I gotta do was to find all the image URL that made up the border lines. After going through her template, I found ten image URL for her to delete. The ten images that I suggested for her to delete were as follow,

http://www.blogblog.com/rounders4/corners_cap_bot.gif

http://www.blogblog.com/rounders4/corners_prof_bot.gif

http://www.blogblog.com/rounders4/corners_side_top.gif

http://www.blogblog.com/rounders4/rails_main.gif

http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders4/corners_main_bot.gif

http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders4/corners_main_top.gif

http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders4/corners_side_bot.gif

http://www1.blogblog.com/rounders4/rails_side.gif

http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders4/corners_cap_top.gif

http://www2.blogblog.com/rounders4/corners_prof_top.gif

After she had done deleting the above image, she got a blog the way she wanted it displayed - without any border's lines as you can see below;

After - Aku...Kau...Dia awesome looked without any border line

Before I take my leave, here's a tip for you fellow Bloggers. Not all lines including borders are created by HTML. I guess that's why they cannot solve Ardamia's problem because they were looking for HTML codes! I hope you will take it in a positive way. I'm not trying to belittle anybody here or to brag. It's a very common mistake made even by a very season Blogger. Hopefully with this tip it will make your job easier when helping others with the same problem.

As it is, a case in common was on my last post, Menubar on Blogger Template. The menubar I used on Baby Nurin's Sebuah Kehidupan was an image! Same thing, you won't find any HTML for the menubar on her template because of the said reason.

Last but not least, if you're a FireFox user, please download Web Developer 1.1.6 a FireFox add-ons. It has helped me a lot in solving template problems including my own. If you're wondering how I can get the answer so fast, that's my secret weapon!

See you guys/gals later on another useful information's post to experience the best Blogger's support locally.

Menubar On Blogger Template

2009-01-14T15:05:00.001+08:00

Tutorial

Not so long ago, I received an email from a new found friend on CARI Forum. On CARI she's affectionately known as "Baby Nurin". She had a little problem with her menubar and requested to create a new menubar for her blog at Sebuah Kehidupan.

I guess she's a BlogMaster to several blogs, but on this particular blog Sebuah Kehidupan. she tells her readers about her daily perfect and beautiful life. A typical ups and downs of a married Malay lady's life in Johore. There was a short post in particular that struck me deep into my heart. She was telling about the current economic crisis and how it affected her life when her Hubby got fired!

Enough of that. Back to the main subject. Before I proceed any further, let me explain what is a menubar? Menubar or navigation (bar, button - take your pick) usually located below the header on most blogs. It is where you listed certain links for easier navigation purposes. As you can see on this blog I've listed only four items (links) on the right side of the menubar. They're;

'Home' - default URL for this blog,

'Flag-ship' - my main blog, My Journey To Recovery

'Profile' - default profile on Blogger and

'eMail Me' - as the words imply, click on the link if you wanna get in touch with me.

Well, for Baby Nurin before asking for my help, she had tried her best to create a menubar on her own, but the end-result was not up to her expectation as you can see on the image shown below;

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When I had a looked on her blog's template, I noticed that her string of codes had not enough command to create a perfect beautiful menubar. So with her permission, I decided to do a little bit of experiments on her blog's template. After tweaking here and there I finally was able to create a menubar that passed her spec(ification).Positive comments can also provide valuable feedback and what is sometimes more important, encouragement to let you know that your efforts are appreciated and worthwhile.
Thank you Baby for your kind words.

For those who are reading this tutorial, please bear in mind that not all Blogger's templates are compatible to the string of codes that I'm about to show you in a minute. Certain alterations has to be made for it to work correctly. One more thing, I shall not be held responsible for whatever reasons if the codes used causes explosions on your lappy or desktop. And neither do I be held responsible for any hissing sound or smoke emanated from your beloved PC, hehehe! Do so at your own risk, **wink**

Before we do any major hacking, please backup your template and download the image below and host it on your favourite hosting site like PhotoBucket and the like. Keep the image's url in a safe place 'coz we gonna need it later.

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Done that? Alright, here's goes;

From your Dashboard click on to your Layout

Then click on Edit HTML tab

This gonna be the first part

(Without clicking 'Expand Widget Templates') Find the following Code ]]></b:skin>

Copy and paste the following string of codes before ]]></b:skin>

#menubar {
background: #000000 url('Complete image URL');
width: 950px;
height: 30px;
color: #FFFFFF;
margin: 0px auto 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

.menubarleft {
width: 450px;
float: left;
font-family: Times New Roman, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: right;
margin: 0px;
padding: 6px 0px 0px 10px;
}

.menubarleft li {
display: inline;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

.menubarleft ul {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

.menubarleft ul li a {
font-family: Times New Roman, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #FFFFFF;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px;
text-decoration: uppercase;
}

And we come to the second part. Now you can click 'Expand Widget Templates'. I know you've been wanting to do that all along. Now is your chance. Go ahead, click it, hehehe!

Done it? Now please find the following string of codes;

Copy and paste the following string of codes below the above codes;

<div id='menubar'>
<div class='menubarleft'>
<ul>
<li class='selected'><a href='http://norlieza82.blogspot.com'>HOME</a></li>
<li><a href='http://norlieza82.fotopages.com'>MY FOTOPAGES</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.friendster.com/norlieza82l'>MY FRIENDSTER</a></li>
</ul>

That's it. Preview your blog and if you're satisfied with your works, save your template. And don't forget to give yourself a pat for a job well done.

Below is the image after it was done correctly.

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Well, that's it for today. I hope you enjoy the tutorial as much as I do helping Baby Nurin creating a new menubar for her blog.

*A candle loses nothing by sharing its flame.

Solving 'Dilectio' BloggerTemplate

2008-12-27T12:56:00.005+08:00

Dilectio Template

Latest updates: David, BlogMaster of eBlog Templates has acknowledged this post and he has already fixed the problem so that future Bloggers who gonna download Dilectio Template will not have such problem. Thank you David from the bottom of my heart.

Updates: As a way to say 'Thank You' the said blogger has published a post with my name on it. You heard me right. No hyperlink, just my name. Well, I guess it's the thought that really counts. At least he has the courtesy to say thank you and I accept it heartily.

Elena Gafita, the creative mind behind Design Disease team, has designed a number of free WordPress themes as the Smashing WordPress Theme they (SmashingMagazine) released as a present for their readers during their One-Year-Anniversary in September ’07. Satisfied with her works, they’ve contacted Elena and asked her if it’s possible to design another Wordpress theme for their readers. And of course Elena agreed heartily.

After discussing the details of the design and the main aims Smashing Magazine wanted to achieve, Elena started to do her magic. The result is a fresh, clean, user-friendly and playful Wordpress theme “Dilectio” — a smashing Christmas present for Smashing Magazine readers.”

And now Blog*Spot users are able to use and download this amazing template thanks to the works of Francisco of Blog and Web. You're able to download it here and here.

Dilectio template for Blog*Spot user is also available to download on eBlog Templates.

Text-Wrap Problem

A forummer at CARI, was having a problem with his Dilectio Template. It has got to do with some text-wrap script making all images on his blog uncontrollable, making words to wrap around the images as you can see on the image below.

He doesn't want that looked. He wanted the images to look like this - see image below;

I guess he was busy with his day-time job and has no time to look at the template to fix the problem. So he posted it on CARI Forum giving others the chance to prove their understanding of HTML, XHTML's script.

I took the challenge hoping I can solve his problem. I've never used Dilectio template's before. So I downloaded Dilectio template and uploaded it on my test blog. All through the night I've been working on it, tweaking the script here and there. At last, at two AM, "Eureka, I found it!"

This is what I do. Login to your Blogger account and you will be taken to your Dashboard --->Layout --->Edit HTML and searched for this line of code (see below) and deleted the red coloured line of scripts.

A word of caution, before you do anything please backup your template. I couldn't emphasis the importance of that small gesture.

/postcontentliicotr2.png) no-repeat left top; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px; color:#63565f; }
.post-body blockquote { padding: 10px; margin: 0px; color:#993366; background: #eaf7ff;}
.post-body blockquote p { font-size: 12px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; line-height: 15px;}
.post-body blockquote li { padding: 2px 0px 2px 15px; list-style-type: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;}
.post-body blockquote a { color:#336699;}
.post-body blockquote a:visited { color:#336699;}
.post-body blockquote a:hover { color:#000033;}

/**/ * html .post-body p img {} /* */
.post-body p img { max-width: 420px;}
.post-body p img { width:expression(this.width > 420 ? "420px" : this.width); }
.post-body img { margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; border:solid 1px #495b6b;}

.PostHead small {display:block; font-size:11px; font-weight:bold; line-height:14px; margin:0px; padding:0px; }

/**/ * html #fecha { left: -70px;} /**/

#fecha { padding: 0px; margin: 0px; position: absolute; left: -15px; top: 3px; background: url(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh92/eblogtemplates/dilectio/PostTimeBkg.gif) no-repeat; height: 71px; width: 67px; text-align: center; color:#fff; }

#fecha strong { display: block; line-height: 9px; font-family: 'Verdana';}

That's all for now until we meet again on another useful information's post.

Oops! Before I take my leave I would like to credit to this fine Blogger Hackers from whom I learned a lot about hacking Blogger's templates. Annie of BlogU, Johann of Beautiful Beta, Ramani of Hackosphere, to name a few.

But there's one girl who claimed I did learned something from her too, telling the world about it in her blog and in some forums. Sorry, her link not worth mentioning, but unwittingly she has given a great many linky loves to Web Direction, a blog full of useful information. I doubt if she had known about it. What? No, she's not local.

I'm Baaack!

2008-12-24T11:27:00.000+08:00

Busy, Busy, and Very Busy

It has been quite some times since my last post. I know many of my faithful readers has been wondering where the hell have I been? I was around, alive and kicking!

Nowadays, what I like doing best is going/browsing/surfing through every forums I could find. Reading their threads, posts and whenever possible I would dispensed the limited knowledge that I have.

One of the favourite forum that I attended was our own local one, CARI Forum. For my oversea readers, 'CARI' is the Malay word for 'SEARCH'. Aptly named for a forum. A place to search for useful information, just like this blog where many useful information are gathered.

CARI Default Logo

The One I Created Long Long Time Ago

Lately I was actively involved with a fellow forummer (is there such a word?) called reone. This fella (still don't know his/her gender) wanted to create a blog under Blog*Spot platform. He/she has a very interesting niche. His/her niche is about 'Crystal' making. If you're into crystal and wanted to buy crystal in bulk, you can visit his/her blog (still in the early stage of construction) at ReeWanCrystal. On his/her blog, there are also other links that you will find interesting. Head over there now to find out.

I was told one of the ways (SEOwise) to promote your blog or website is through forum. Yeah, I admit that's true. During my early blogging days (still going strong after two years plus), I was actively involved with forum. Locally and abroad. But not now. After blogging for quite some times, I feel now is the time I repay back all the kindness that I received during the early days, helping my friends (on forum mostly) solving their problems.

It has never been my top priority to promote my blogs at forum. I guess it has dropped to second or maybe to third place. Nowadays, my main intention is to share the little bit of knowledge about blogging especially about Blog*Spot. My dearest wife always said, "The more you give, the more you get."

And I truly believed her. Ever since I adopted that policy, my fortune changes dramatically. My income with AdSense and other 'Making Money Online' applications increases. I'm grateful and thanks Allah swt for the blessing He bestowed on me. Alhamdulillah.

But there is one thing in particular that displeases me greatly. During my experiences with forums one thing that I hate was when someone opened up a new thread asking for some help and after a few posts later, he/she wrote, "You all think you're clever, huh? I've already solved it" or in some other words to that effect! I've thought of giving him/her a piece of my mind, but then I think he/she's not worth it. I don't know about others, but that's the last I gonna post on his/her thread.

Well, what do you learned today? I sincerely believe that there are still many good people out there who are really helping other bloggers. And I also believed that there are a few who would do everything in his/her power to drop you down. I happened to know someone who would make your account with PayPal or ClickBank (among others) terminated because of sheer jealousy!

See you when I see you, guys/gals. Greetings and lots of love from Kuale Kangsor.

p/s For my readers who are celebrating Christmas, Merry Christmas to ya' all.

Trackback Blogging

2008-06-28T22:46:00.000+08:00

Ezine Article

Website promotion is lifting away from the amateur website builder and fast becoming a system where only the professionals or the very lucky few can build sufficient quality related site links to your site in a quick time. The problem being that people who design websites now have to encompass the ability to produce not just a well optimized site, but a site that will attract good quality links.

For some people link building is a very slow methodical process and it takes a long time to establish your website as an authority on your particular niche. What you need is to be able to find and post to all the relevant websites and blogs that are related to your niche. The ideal situation would be to have a program the works by searching the web for blogs on your subject.

Blogs are everywhere now and some carry a substantial page rank by having a program that collects the information about all the appropriate blogs on your subject by looking in the likes of blogger, yahoo and msn and then you can sort out the required blogs via page rank or relevance and then post to these then that would be exceptional. At the moment there is only one package that I know that provides this exceptional service that is trackback spider. This program allows the user to set up specific keyword databases of blogs and then sort them and then post to them using a posting service. This program is able to provide a good rate of quality back links to your site at a rapid rate.

By providing good links to your site you can quickly establish a keyword and anchor text domination of your niche. This provides you with the ability to generate significant income from being able to dominate a search engine for your niche and then to reap the benefits of a top ranking website. Trackback spider also allows you to post internal links from your website.

By posting your internal links from your site you can effectively encourage the website spiders to come and index all of your web pages quicker. By having all your web pages spidered you are significantly increasing your web presence and traffic. Trackback spider also pings all the blogs it posts to therefore encouraging lots of spiders to all the blogs all over the web that they have been updated and there is fresh content that requires their attention.

Trackback spider allows you to add lots of variations of anchor text and it's these anchor text keywords which will allow you to dominate your niche. By creating lots of good anchor text to your site on high page rank sites produce an uplifting effect on your website traffic. Trackback spider allows you to target either high page rank websites or closely related websites which will become more significant as search engines evolve.

I find that this is one of the most essential tools within the webmasters arsenal and I find that it is an extremely useful for being able to produce good links to my websites and produce good links for my clients that require both SEO and link building. Trackback spider is the key tool in my web strategy and I can only suggest check out it's features and ability to lift your website from the bottom to the top by steady progress of good quality link building and automatic pinging.

© 2008 Andy Bolton 39 Liverpool,
Hot Air Balloons

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Andy_Bolton

Andy Bolton - EzineArticles Expert Author

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ClickBank In Malaysia

2008-04-26T17:46:00.006+08:00

Wonderful News For Malaysia

I received an email from Mr. Wong Vun Choh @ Mr. Steven Wong telling me that now ClickBank has finally accepted Malaysian to register with them.

For those who don't know what's ClickBank, here is the short version to explain what's ClickBank taken from their website;

ClickBank is the Internet's largest digital marketplace, where thousands of the web's most popular products are sold every day. Whether you're looking to buy, sell, or promote digital products, ClickBank is for you.

I was skeptical at first these kind of wonder news had been heard so many times before. But when I tried to register with ClickBank, Malaysia was not listed. I've heard too why Malaysia was not listed with ClickBank but I'm not going to dwell on that.

Immediately I got Mr. Wong's email, I went to sign-up with ClickBank and I was very happy coz the registration went smoothly. Below are a few images to show that I'm a registered member of ClickBank.

Malaysia is now listed with ClickBank

Confirmation Code from ClickBank

My Account with ClickBank

Isn't that a very wonderful news for us Malaysian. For those who want to make money online, I suggest go now, right this minute to sign-up with ClickBank lest they change their policies again as they has done before.

Before I'm off again to settle a few personal matters, here is another wonderful news brought to you by The News Room. Enjoy with your dates, my friends.

Drop Down Label

2008-03-26T23:23:00.006+08:00

How To Create Drop-Down Label?

There was a comment from a fellow blogger on my Flag-Ship. Technoraz was asking how do I changed the label to drop-down menu's style.

I realized the label on both of my blogs were getting longer, and I needed to shorten it. Or else one side of the side-bar will be occupied by labels only. Furthermore I've purposely created only one post per page and I'm afraid the side-bar contents will be longer than the post.

As you well know, labels on Blog*Spot are the same as categories. But, Blog*Spot only supports label as a list of links. Not like Archives which support other options beside a list of links like Drop-down Menu and the Hierarchy type which can be expanded or collapsed.

I assumed that you have already added a page element for labels in your sidebar.

Below, I shall show you how it was done, the drop-down menu for label;

Select the blog you wanted to change in the list and click layout.

Click Edit HTML in the submenu at the top

Before you change anything, look for a link at the top that says Download Full Template. Click it and save the .xml file in a folder where you can remember. This step is very important. We might need to upload it again if anything goes wrong. This .xml file is some sort like a back-up.

Find the following section of code in the template.

<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:title'>
<h2><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>

<ul>
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
<li>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:label.url'>
<data:label.name/>
<b:else/>
<a expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>
</b:if>
(<data:label.count/>)
</li>
</b:loop>
</ul>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

And replaced the tag of codes in red with the following code;

<br />
<select onchange='location=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;'>
<option>Select a label</option>
<b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
<option expr:value='data:label.url'><data:label.name/>
(<data:label.count/>)
</option>
</b:loop>
</select>

After replacing the tag of codes, save the template and voila, you got yourself a drop-down label.

Well, that's it for today. I hope you like it. Before I'm off again, here's a news about a Blogger Shares a Debt-Riddance Secrets which was brought to you by The News Room. Enjoy it and have a good day.

Domain Name at DotSauce

2008-03-21T16:34:00.004+08:00

Get It For FREE

Would you like to have your own domain name? I do, and I shall reveal it specially for Entrecard member on how to get it for FREE! Yeah, I know. I love it too, especially when it's free.

Before I go on any further, let me take this opportunity to tell you about Entrecard? I'm sure many of you know what's an Entrecard, but for those who still don't know (I'm still scratching my head wondering where's you been?), I suggest you read my review about Entrecard on this post, Optimize Your Blog.

One thing I love about Entrecard, is that I'm able to read and meet new Bloggers everyday. And on one occasion, for one whole day, I got myself advertised on John Chow. Only with Entrecard you can get your blog appeared on A-Listed sites, unless you can burn USD400+ to get them review your blog.

Where was I? O yeah, I came upon this wonderful site while doing my round dropping Internet business's card (another name for Entrecard - cool huh?). DotSause[dot]com's owner is Mr. Mark Fulton. DotSauce was launched in April 2007 as a domain name industry magazine. They aim to capture your attention with bold, interesting, informative and useful articles that will keep you coming back for more.

Interestingly, one of their latest project is to offer free domain names and setup help specially for Entrecard members. Mr. Mark Fulton want to help your blog succeed in this fast paced ever-evolving Internet and to take your blog to the next level by offering you free domain names. If you're using free platform such as Blog*Spot like me, WordPress or LiveJournal, you've already half qualified.

According to Mr. Mark Fulton, there are many advantages to use your own domain name. Some of the benefits are listed below;

Benefits of Owning Your Own Domain

Memorability & Usability - A short and sweet domain will bring more repeat visitors and even type in traffic. Your chances of someone typing your Blogspot URL in are slim to none.
Search Rankings - It’s been proven that if you have a related keyword in your domain you will have added benefit to rankings.
Branding - Your domain name is your brand, your calling card, your livelyhood! Building a unique image and name for your blog is essential.
Professionalism - While your blog may rock and have a bunch of subscribers, without your own domain name you lose a bit of credibility. Owning your own .com lets people know you mean business.
Real World Value - A domain name is an investment! The value of a .com domain name has exponentially increased over the years. Now is the time to get one. Many other factors such as blogging will increase value.
Make More Money Online - With your own domain name, opportunities to make money online are open wide. One example will be, you will get more opportunities to write reviews and get paid for it. Advertisers preferred bloggers with their own domain names to write reviews for them.

How does it strike you? Like it so far? Now, now! Hold on! Put back your credit card. Did I say you can get it free? I did?

Yes, it's true. Mr. Mark Fulton would like help you choose a domain, pay for it and assist you in setting it up to point towards your blog. For these services he is only asking for some help to promote DotSauce Magazine in return, as you can see his 125 x 125 ad banner on the sidebar for at least 2 months and also a post about your new domain name mentioning DotSauce Magazine and repost the above list “Benefits of Owning Your Own Domain”.

Ever since I wrote this post, I've been doing lots and lots of brainstorming, searching for suitable domain name for myself should Mr. Fulton accept my application. I know for sure both my names, the short and long version has been taken when I do a search with GoDaddy. I've been thinking of using BloggingTipsWithArahman[dot]com. How about EarningMoneyOnlineWithArahman[dot]com?

NAh, too long. As expected, all the short and good names had been taken, but there's one I like, ArahmanStore[dot]com. Yeah, this domain gonna be my first choice. See, how difficult it is to get domain names nowadays? You better hurry and get your own domain name before there's nothing left for you to choose. Head over to DotSauce Magazine now and get your very own domain name.

Notes: The last entry Make More Money Online for the repost “Benefits of Owning Your Own Domain” is mine. I hope Mr. Mark Fulton will accept that entry. I noticed that you will get more opportunity if you're using your very own domain name.

Before I take my leave, below is a news that got something to do with domain names which was brought to you by The News Room. Enjoy it my friends.

Beware of FanBox!

2008-03-17T09:24:00.007+08:00

Password Scams

I'm sorry. I think I've made a very BIG mistake .Due to my ignorance I've help to spread another password scams. And this time it's from fanbox.com, which is a new incarnation of sms.ac. Read more about it written by The SpamHuntress here, sms.ac abuse.

Let me start from the top. Last night I received an email from fanbox.com, supposedly sent by a friend of mine, Ariffshah. It was a simple email, telling me that Ariffshah has asked me a question! Well, it got me curious (just hope I shall not end up like the cat, eh) and clicked on the link to view the question.

It looked like another social network site like LinkedIn, Plaxo, Facebook, MySpace, and so on. That's why I didn't give much thought about it. Like an idiot I just followed what it told me to do, including giving out my Yahoo's username and password!

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When I woke up this morning, I got a big surprise after opening up my PC. Usually the first thing that I do after opening up my PC was to see my blogs. I was surprise that I got a new post, 'Welcome to FanBox' on My Journey To Recovery. As far as I'm concerned the last post that I did was for ReviewMe. When did I created this post?

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I got quite mad when I realized fanbox.com was responsible for all these. When did I gave out my mail-to-blogger address? This password is suppose to be secret and I used it to post text and images (up to 10MB in size) directly to my blogs.

This is too much. Immediately I canceled my membership with FanBox.com, changed my mail-to-blogger address and changed my Yahoo's username and password. I don't want to get involve with FanBox.com anymore!

I couldn't blame Ariffshah either. Just like me, maybe he thought fanbox.com was another social networking site. I guess by now, fanbox.com has sent emails to those listed on my contact list. I'm very sorry. Please accept my apology. For more reading material, please refer to Steve Riley on Security.

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Before I'm off, I would like to take this opportunity again to please forgive me if you received an email from FanBox.com with my email's address. I know I'm bad. Please forgive me.

My Favicon

2008-03-15T19:11:00.004+08:00

How To Create Your Favicon

Recently I noticed that my favicon on the address box and browser tab (in FireFox) is missing. It was replaced by an empty blank square. Neither were the Blogger's Favicon visible

Here's the part I'm going to tell you a little bit of 'History Lesson'. Nah! You're wrong! It's not a fairy tale, but it began just like one. Okay, here goes:

One upon a time not too long ago when I started my hands on blogging, I've read somewhere about the importance of a favicon. So, I created my own favicon using one of the many favicon creators, My Favatar, which I think exist no more. Thus this post. A ha, by now I'm sure your next question will be, What Is A "Favicon" - And What Use Is It? So please, allow me to explain;

A "favicon" (pronounced “fav-eye-con”) short for "favourites icon" is a tiny image which is displayed in various parts of a web browser. It replaces the default image which a browser displays in the address bar, in the favourites list, on the link bar and so on. In my case as you can see above on your browser tab, it look like this: Yeah yeah, I know. He's cute, lol!

The use of a "favicon" means that you can change this image to anything you want - and this means that your site should stand out from the others in different parts of the browser:

You should know, however, that this can be a bit hit-and-miss and sometimes, even though you have set everything up correctly the favicon may not be displayed especially on Internet Explorer due to some unexplainable bug.

Creating A Favicon

A favicon is an image file of the type ".ico", and it always has the file name "favicon.ico". It is a special type of graphic and not many graphics programs can create .ico files. "The Gimp" is an exception, and you can download this free (but rather quirky) graphics package from The Gimp.

Personally I used my favourite Photo Editor, ACDSee. Even though ACDSee cannot create .ico files, but it still can save the image on My Picture's folder.

As already stated, there are many online favicon creator services on the WWW. You can googled it to find out the many favicon creator services. But as it is, I preferred to create my own .ico image after the collapsed of My Favatar.

To create a favicon image, I used this image. It doesn't matter what size it is, as long as it's square. Once I opened it on my favourite Photo Editor I resized it to 16 x 16 pixels.

You can use most graphics formats. I used a GIF (.gif) for this favicon.

After resizing the image above (you know, the handsomest one!) to 16 x 16 pixel, I saved it in My Picture's folder. Then I went to Ripway, my favourite web hosting and file sharing service. For me, this is the best service to host your images. For a free account you will be allocated 30MB of storage space, and 150 MB of daily downloads. Head over there now and open up a free account. Just tell them, ArahMan7 sent you and I'm sure they gonna treat you well, ;-)

After uploading your favicon's image with Ripway, copy the direct link URL for the favicon's image to your clipboard. Mine will be like this: http://h1.ripway.com/ArahMan7/ArahMan7.ico

Below is the code for your favicon. For Blog*Spot user, after login --> Dashboard --> Page Elements --> Edit HTML. Paste the code into your template between your <head> </head> tag. Preferably at the top.


<link href="http://h1.ripway.com/ArahMan7/ArahMan7.ico" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon">
<link href="http://h1.ripway.com/ArahMan7/ArahMan7Ico.gif" rel="icon" type="image/gif">


Troubleshooting Shortcut Icons

If your favicon doesn’t show up after the above steps, try the following:

Check that your favicon has been uploaded to your correct blog.
Check that your favicon exists by typing in the path of the favicon in your browser like http://h1.ripway.com/ArahMan7/ArahMan7.ico
Check the link tag on the homepage refers to the correct path.

If your favicon still doesn’t show up after the above troubleshooting steps, it may be because your web browser is using some internal caching and the favicon has not been refreshed. To check if your favicon is really there:

Wait a day or so then check your web site again, your web browser should have refreshed its cache by then.
Try viewing your web site using another browser.
Use Internet Explorer and bookmark your web site, the favicon should appear on the next reload of your web site in Internet Explorer.

Below is a guidebook for Republican brought to you by The News Room. Enjoy!

Welcome Pop-Up Message

2008-03-10T11:35:00.000+08:00

JavaScript Tutorial

I received a question from Isskander, one of the moderators with one of the local forum which I occasionally dropped by. Isskandar wanted to know how to create welcome pop-up message for his blog. Unfortunately, I couldn't find his blog or website. You can viewed his question here, Welcome Pop-Up Message.

Welcoming visitors to your website or blog with welcome pop-up message can help leave a friendly impression. Just be careful not to overdo it though. Welcoming them to each page of your website could become very annoying.

Before I answer Isskandar's question, let me tell you a little bit about javascript, THE scripting language of the Web that will be used to create a welcome pop-up message. According to W3 Schools, "JavaScript is used in millions of Web pages to improve the design, validate forms, detect browsers, create cookies, and much more. JavaScript is the most popular scripting language on the internet, and works in all major browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, and Opera."

If you want to learn more about javascript, HTML, and many many more, head over to W3 Schools. Well, you can thanks me later, ;-)

How to make a javascript welcome pop up message box:

Consideration: Nowadays browers are incorporating a popup block which could make the use of web page popups a thing of the past. Your information in popups could now go totally unnoticed.

I'm gonna show you a very simple javascripts use to welcome visitors to your homepage? Here's how you gonna do it!

Drag your cursor over the script below to highlight it. Then press "Ctrl" and "C" on your keyboard at the same time or just right click your mouse to copy it to your clipboard.

I'm gonna use Blog*Spot as an example. After login --> Dashboard --> Page Elements --> Edit HTML. Paste the code into your template after your <head> tag by pressing "Ctrl" and "V" at the same time or simply right click and choose "paste".

Here's the code:

<script> function MYALERT() {
alert(<b>"Welcome to Web Directory, blog full of useful informations. Need help with your blog? Well, I'm here to fulfill your need. Just shoot me an email or call out my name, *ArahMan7* and I shall come running to you! Think ArahMan7, think I need help with my blog"</b>); } MYALERT()
</script>

Legend:

"My Alert" is the name of the function and it can be called whatever you wish.

You can also change the wording .

Whenever your visitors head over to your website or blog, they gonna see this welcome pop up message:

Well, that's it for now. I hope this gonna be useful informations to you my friends, especially to Isskandar.

O ya, one more thing. I tried to implement Pop Up Window on Exit as a way to thanks your visitors when they leave your blog, but I cannot make it work on Blog*Spot. So, it's going back to the drawing board. I shall create another post about it after I fixed it and it's compatible with Blog*Spot.

See you again, and take care.

Here's a story about Google brought to you by The News Room.

SOS, I've Been Attacked!

2008-02-22T15:03:00.004+08:00

错误消息 - WTF???

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! I've been attacked! I repeat, I've been attacked!

As for now, I cannot browse the www using Firefox anymore. Every links I turned to or clicked on will go to this page below.

Thinking aloud in my head, "WTF is going on?"

Then I noticed my homepage on Firefox got China pasted on it as shown in the image below;

Ironically, my Internet Explorer Seven (IE7), was not affected by the invading Chinese's characters. I don't used IE7 much for the obvious reasons as stated in this post, Firefox vs Opera vs Internet Explorer.

I looked up for my IP and I was shocked to learn that I'm now in China, living in a place called Chengdu. The image below I took it with FireShot, in Firefox.

But when I was using IE7, I got the correct IP as shown in the image below. This time I used SnagIt 8 to take the image.

I really missed Firefox with his awesome add-on. And now I'm not able to use GreaseMonkey, Gspace, Web Developer and many many more other add-on in my arsenal.

I'm out of my wits trying to solve these problem. Anybody out there computer experts, please tell me how to get my Firefox back? I'm open to any suggestions.

Flaws in Microsoft?

Join Qassia With Me

2008-02-05T18:23:00.000+08:00

About Qassia

Brand New Social Bookmarking Type Of Site

Here's a ground floor opportunity for you, and it's absolutely free!

Qassia launched on 4 January this year. Its aim is to become another huge store of online information, all contributed by its members.

You can also add your own websites, and the more information you add (known in Qassia as "intel"), the more credits you get, and the higher your websites will rank in its web directory.

There will also be a financial incentive, driven by advertising on each "intel" page - and you get 100% of that revenue.

OK, maybe the concepts take some thinking about, but my advice is to get in now on the ground floor. I'm giving you this info in advance of making an announcement in "Update".

Currently, you can only join through a personal invitation, so here's my invitation to you. Sign up through my Qassia page here:

Qassia - The Intelligence Engine

See you inside!

Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory. What exactly does this mean? It means that Qassia will change your life.

Good stuff your websites will like

At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You'll get unlimited quality backlinks (as opposed to "no-follow" backlinks). You can also add intel. Short for "intelligence", intel is a tidbit of information. Qassia rewards users who add intel in three ways.

1. Backlinks You get one backlink for every piece of intel you add. Every intel will carry a direct backlink to one of your sites. So the more intel you add, the more backlinks you get.

2. Credit When you add intel, you also get credit, in the form of Qassia dollars. Your net worth in Qassia dollars determines how well your websites rank in our directory.

3. Revenue When your intel is displayed, you get 100% of the advertising revenue generated by that page. That is not a typo, by the way: we give you ALL of the gross ad revenue.

This means that website owners have triple incentive to contribute intel. The contributed intel will allow Qassia to become a vast repository of intelligence, with unrivalled original content. And a vast amount of original content draws traffic like honey draws ants.

Sign up through my Qassia page here:

Qassia - The Intelligence Engine

See you inside!

Inside Intel, rather than Intel Inside

Qassia is sometimes confused with sites like Wikipedia, Squidoo, most recently, Google knol. Qassia is fundamentally different from these sites, because Qassia is not about asking people to upload authoritative articles. You don't need to be an egghead at Qassia. You could upload a lengthy academic treatise if you want, by all means, but you can also get away with contributing a hastily scribbled tidbit of information about a person, a company, a place, an event, a thing, or anything you know about.

What we value is intelligence about the people, companies, and places around you. The people and places do not have to be famous, and the intelligence does not have to be earth-shattering.

Here are some examples of intel.

Qassia isn't a wiki. Your intel will not get edited (it will get rated, but not edited). You can write your intel in any tone or style you like. You can write in the first person, and you can write your entire intel without using the shift key.

Sign up through my Qassia page here:

Qassia - The Intelligence Engine

See you inside!

By asking for less, we receive more

We are sometimes asked if it is free to join and use Qassia. That makes us chuckle. Not only is Qassia 100 percent free - we do not even ask for reciprocal links - but, in addition to promoting your websites and discovering stuff, you can also earn real money - very easily and without any hassle. We have the best, most generous, and most reliable ad revenue sharing program on the web. So if you're thusly inclined - and who wouldn't be? - you'll actually get paid for the effort you put in promoting your websites. No hitch, no catch. Now, if that ain't a sweet deal, we don't know what is.

We believe that, only by completely pampering our users and giving more than any other website, and in fact giving more than the users themselves expect, can we attain our goal of becoming the most incredible website the world has ever seen.

Qassia is a new era

Think of the bits and pieces of intel as the gravel which will fill the potholes on the information superhighway. While the Wikipedia and other knowledge repositories are huge, boasting tens of thousands of articles, less than 1 percent of human knowledge has been uploaded to the Internet. At Qassia, we are giving users the incentive and the freedom to add the remaining 99.9 percent.

The vast web of intel created at Qassia will produce more than a useful intelligence engine. The advent of Qassia is a cataclysmic event in the history of the Internet. We are redefining the web experience. Come be part of history and create your free Qassia account now.

Sign up through my Qassia page here:

Qassia - The Intelligence Engine

See you inside!

Advertising on JohnChow [dot] com

2008-01-19T23:53:00.000+08:00

While minding my own business, surfing the Internet, searching and reading whatever posts that caught my fancy, I received a lovely comment from Lankapo. He told me that my Internet business card with Entrecard is now flying high and proud on none other than the genius Internet Marketer, Mr. John Chow.

Frankly, I've forgotten all about it. After looking high and low, I found out that on January 6, 2008 I bidded to advertise on John Chow [dot] com for the amount of 287 Entrecard's credit points. After that, I just forgot all about it until today January 19 2008.

During the early days after joining Entrecard, I was quite active not only just dropping card, but I made it a point to read and leave a comment or two on every blogs that I visited.

Usually, I don't just leave a simple comment and then pasting links all over the comment's text area. Maybe because of that I befriended many awesome bloggers from all over the world wide web. And many of them are still keeping in touch with me.

Then I realized, the more blogs I visited, the more credit points I gained till to the point that it took nearly a hundred credit point to advertise on my blog. Not many Entrecard's members have that kind of credit points especially to the newbies.

From that point onward, I stopped visiting and dropping card. And by doing that, I noticed it took less and less of credit points to advertise on my blog. Due to that I also received many bloggers who want to advertise on mine because it's became more affordable.

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Now let's see how much traffic will John Chow sent to this blog? Do you know how much it cost for John Chow do a review for your blog? How about USD 450 per post? Then do a simple mathematic to count how much does it cost to advertise your 125 x 125 banner on John Chow's per month?

People are willing to pay their arms and legs to get their site or blog featured on John Chow because they know they will get more than they pay once they're featured on his blog. As for me, it just cost 287 credit point to get featured for one day on John Chow [dot] com.

That's it for now. Who knows I shall be able to learn a precious lesson today. The day I was featured for one day on John Chow [dot] com via the power of advertising.

Come and visit my flag ship, My Journey To Recovery to see the power of family gathering in pictures. Enjoy your weekend.

Plagiarism

2008-01-08T06:58:00.000+08:00

Learning to Let It Go

I am a faithful subscriber of Jack Book's feed and his latest post caught my fancy. Frankly, I've stopped coming over to his blog ever since he hired someone else to help him out with his blog day to day operations.

Only lately, it seem that Jack Book himself has published his own posts and I decided to come over and leave a comment or two. I thought of trackbacking this post to his, but I don't see Jack using trackback for his blog.

Yeah, I know. Blog*Spot don't have trackback capability and the nearest Blog*Spot comes up with a trackback is 'Backlinks'. And yes, this is the same trackback like those in WordPress. I have been using trackback for Blogger for quite some times now. The only drawback is that I don't have trackback url. That's mean I can only sent trackback, but I can't received any as I CAN received Backlinks only. Maybe one of these days, JackBook can comes up with the solution. What say you, Jack?

Before I answer a question for a fellow blogger who is having some sort of a problem with his sitemap, I would like to share a little story with all my readers who came here to read this post. Especially to JackBook. Somehow, according to one commenter (on Jack's blog), the other 40% who hated his templates have removed the owner links by putting their own link as though claiming to the WWW that the templates that they're using are of their own creation!

I can't believed it. Can't they see the seriousness of the matter of plagiarism? How could one say at least 10 (only TEN!) people leave the links intact, giving credits to JackBook for his awesome template and hard works! Yes I can understand not all of us are using high speed broadband and it is understandable to take out some animated images if it took longer to upload the templates, but to take out a mere link? Gee... That's pure evil.

Anyway, here's the story. This article was written by Oran Stewart, late of Suite101 and it was published on December 3rd, 2000. Last December 2006, I tried to write to Mr. Oran but failed. Then I sent an email to the WebMaster of Suite101 and I got an answer from Maureen on behalf of the WebMaster. Here's the email dated on Monday, December 18th, 2006 an answer for a published article by the same author, Recovery: Does it have to be a struggle?

Hello Noor: (It suppose to be Noor Azman or just Azman. Better still if she used, ArahMan7. In Malaysia, Noor is a girly name - editor note)

This is not Michele Romano's email address but I'll answer on her behalf.

Seeing as the writer left the Suite in 2001, it is understandable that his email address has changed. I've checked your blog and you have given him the proper credit plus a link to Suite101.

I think it should be fine.

Thanks
Maureen

As I've always mentioned, it has become my habit to write to the author of the article whenever I want to use it on my blog. So, without further ado, here goes:

The Mystery of the Stolen Ladder: Learning to Let it Go
Author: Oran Stewart
Published on: December 3, 2000

It was 1958 and I was in the third grade. We must have been outside for morning recess, and it was probably early in the fall of that year, because I still remember it being warm and sunny outside. It was the first school day for my new white sneakers. Why that is momentous at all is that I can still remember how pissed I was at Chuck, one of my friends then, when he walked up to me and said, “Nice shoes!” Then he stomped on them and got them both dirty, before I had a split second to move or make a protest. I was so angry, frustrated, and felt so betrayed, and it’s a resentment that, obviously, I still have today, almost 45 years later.

You would think that I could have dumped that resentment a long time ago, but I haven’t, though at least today I realize how silly it is to remember it all so well. I mean, it’s not all my fault that we went off to college and careers and I haven’t ran into Chuck since 1971. I know he’s a dentist somewhere.

We all happen to be wronged by some random, annoying events throughout our lives, the lady who cuts into our lane and then tries to make a left turn, or the paperboy who tosses the paper into the little pond next to our front door each morning. And it’s those minor, or major, assaults to our pride that can really get just under our skin at times, especially when we feel we have no recourse or revenge for these supposed wrongdoings. These resentments do seem to gather into our own personal “mental collections” over time, and they probably serve little good for us, because they can build and resurface over and over again in our daily lives, and really sour our days.

Friends and counselors might recommend to us to just “let it go”, that is, to try to resolve these supposed wrong-doings or at least push them aside at times. “Letting it go” can help to take some of the weight off of our backs and thus better enable us to enjoy life as life occurs, contrasted to constantly re-living, day after day, all the harmful things we think we’ve been through.

Last spring was when my son was helping with the high school prom, and he happened to take my ladder to school to use it there. A few days after the prom, he was visibly upset as he came to me to say that one of the other parents mistakenly had taken our ladder home with him. I tried to be nice and forgiving about it, believing that we could simply call up this parent and get him to drop the ladder off here at our house. But as it happened, this parent turned out to be an active alcoholic that we know and we came to realize, after a few phone calls to him, that we weren’t going to get our ladder back without a fight.

Sure, we could go the attorney route or the harassing phone call direction, and we could threaten his wife and kids. Also, we could decide not to do any of those things but still choose to feel angry and sour about the whole thing, which in turn would end up having us punishing ourselves day after day for years to come.

But we’re going to try to let it go: heck, it’s just a ladder after all.

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Syahmi Asyraff's father received error for his blogs in Google Sitemap and has been asking this question for quite some times now. Before I answer the question, here's a little bit of history, where it all started. On July 11 2007, Blogger Buzz published a post dedicated to all FeedBurner's fans/users telling them,

FeedBurner users - we just added a feature for you. Matt's post on the FeedBurner blog explains it more fully, but in short, you can now specify a URL to which Blogger will redirect your feed's traffic. This means you'll no longer have some subscribers getting your Blogger-hosted feed while others get your FeedBurner feed, and your subscriber count should (as a result) be more accurate.

To enable this functionality, visit your blog's Settings | Site Feed page, and enter your feed's address in the "Post Feed Redirect URL" field.

After implementing the above redirect, then two three days later, I found out that I got an ERROR warning on Google sitemap's dashboard. When I clicked for details, I got this:

Line: 2 Invalid XML: too many tags - Too many tags describing this tag.
Line: 2 Incorrect namespace - Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace.

It made me wondered, how come Feedburner wasn't compatible with Google's Blogger services? After all, FeedBurner is now Google's family. Anyway, after searching high and low for some answers, I got the following solution.

I have to delete the old sitemap.
After that, I added new sitemap with atom.xml?redirect=false or/and
I added atom.xml?orderby=updated

That mean, when you added your feed url for the sitemap instead of placing the usual url for example like http://arahman7.blogspot.com/atom.xml Type it like this, http://arahman7.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false or/and like the second example, http://arahman7.blogspot.com/atom.xml?orderby=updated

I used the words or/and in the above sentences because it is sufficient to use only ONE url. But in my case, I've placed both urls for each of my blogs!

Voila! Now my sitemap are free from any errors or warnings. I love to show you the screenshot, but Blogger has acted up strangely. I can't upload any image for now. I hope it won't last long and I can upload my images as usual.

Thank you for your times, my friends.

Disable Right Click

2007-12-16T01:43:00.000+08:00

Red Summer's Request

I'm sorry my friends for not posting as often as possible like before. Frankly, I'm quite busy lately. I'm about to create a new blog with my very own domain name. After buying the domain name, I'm stuck with a dilemma. One side of me would like this new blog to be hosted with Blogger, while the other side of me keep on urging me to move on to other hosting using WordPress. Please, give me some suggestions, my friends. I really need your help right now as I can't make up my mind.

For your informations, as of right now I'm the owner of, not one but two brand new domain names. Actually, I only bought only one for myself and the other one was a gift from a dear friend. I'm gonna post about how I've gotten myself a brand new domain name on my next post. It's a very interesting story. So, stay tune my friends. I'm sure you're not gonna miss this exciting story, are you? Please consider to subscribe to this blog full feed RSS to avoid yourself from missing future useful informations that gonna be published on this blog.

I've bought the said domain name from GoDaddy using the money I earned from both of my blogs. I know it ain't much when compared to those A-listed bloggers, but it is still progressing. Even though it's only a few hundred US Dollar per month, I'm very please and grateful for that. Now I can tell to those who are skeptical about making money online, especially when I said, "I am earning my living from the Internet".

Before I proceed any further, I would like to apologize to those who have sent me their request, asking me questions pertaining Blog*Spot, Blogosphere and many other topics, I shall give my answers on my next coming posts. I beg you, please be patient, it will be answered as soon as possible. For today's post, the request came from the lovely Miss Red Summer.

It so happened that she has been trying to contact me at Cari's forum, a local forum which I actively participate. She even accused me of ignoring her when I didn't reply both her Private Messages (PM). Hey, come on guys. How could I ignored such a pretty girl like Miss Summer? I could have come running, leaving everything behind if I heard she called out my name, ;-)

Anyway, she wanted to know whether I can disable mouse right click's function. To disable right click will prevent spammers especially the guys from stealing her images and photos. I remember when I started blogging, I implemented this disable right click's function on my blogs. Then I realized, even I cannot copy anything on my own blogs to paste on other medium. It was too troublesome, and I deleted the scripts later.

Even though I manage to disable right click on my blogs, there are still ways for the computer savvy spammers to steal my contents, images and whatnot. It will only slow down the unsavvy computer literate, lol!

Okay, without further ado since you asked for it, Miss Summer, you got it. Here's the scripts;

//Simply add the code below to the <BODY> section of your template:

<script language=JavaScript>

</script>

For the purpose of this post, I've implemented the above script of codes on this blog's template. Please try to right click anywhere on this blog. Ha! Ha! Ha! Got'cha!

As a bonus for you Miss Summer, here is another great tool from my favourite WebSite, DynamicDrive. With this tool, you can stop people from hot-linking your images. This is what they have to say;

Disable Hotlinking

This tool generates the appropriate .htaccess code to disable hot linking of common file types from other sites, so only your own domain(s) are allowed to reference/ access them. For example, by disabling hotlinking on .gif files, any site not within the allowed list of domains will get a broken image when they try to reference a .gif file that's on your server.

That's it for now. If you've any trouble with this scripts, shoot me an email. I shall get back to you as soon as possible.

Before I took my leave, here's The News Room bringing you awesome news on your blog. Enjoy it, my friends. Enjoy both scripts and news.

For those who are new here, my other blog which I always referred affectionately as my Flag-Ship can be read here, My Journey To Recovery. This is a PR4 blog which deal mostly about my journey from being a drug addict to recovery.

PQ DVD - PQ Computing Inc

2007-12-08T09:43:00.000+08:00

Create a Talking Photo

Notice: This is not a sponsored post. I've not and will not received any moolah, ka-ching, duit, whatsoever in monetary forms for this post. This is a favour I'm doing for a friend. You know what the wise old men said, "The more you give... " ;-)

Christmas is just round the corner and you've been scratching your head all day long thinking the perfect gifts for your love ones. Look no more. I present you, Talking Photo to be released before Christmas. It convert any photo into a talking character as shown in the demo below. Click on the image to hear what that Italian gonna say, I'm telling you to read... you no unnerstand... ;-)

Great, huh? Head over to PQ Talking Photo now. There are many more Talking Photo demo images for you to view and click. For now, this awesome software requirement only Windows XP/Vista. For Mac user, don't be sad. Mac version will be release early 2008.

I got to tell you, this Talking Photo has many features. It features;

Create animated characters from any photo you want.

Easy to use. With simple mouse clicks, the animation can be generated in a few seconds.

Only one picture is needed to construct a realistic 3D face for animation

Animate any human or animal photos, paintings, drawings or even sketchs.

Automatically match lip movement with voice.

Support any spoken languges: English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Chinese, etc.

Create your talking photo album, live avatars on blogs, funny greeting card, pets talk show, etc.

All those features mentioned above can be used for your blog, photo album, MySpace, Facebook, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Mobile Phone to name a few.

Oh yes, beside Talking Photo, PQ DVD has a wide range of products as you can see below;

Top Recommended Software

Video Converter

DVD Converter

Beside that, you can get special offers for Memory Card Deals, and many more softwares to download for free. Yes, you heard me right, for FREE!

Another Notice: Oh yesss! I just received a very good news. By blogging about it like I'm doing now, you will receive a copy of PQ Talking Photo! ($59.90 value for Free). And so can you. What are you waiting for? Head over to PQ DVD now. You got some blogging to do, my friends. After publishing the post, you can sent an email to Dicky, so that he can sent you a copy of PQ Talking Photo which was valued $59.90 for free before Christmas. Yes, yes, I know. You can thanks me later ;-)

As usual before I took my leave. Let hear it, oops, I mean let read it from The News Room.

Enjoy your weekend.

Hugs Your Feeds

2007-12-04T21:57:00.000+08:00

With rssHugger

It has been about one week ago since I registered with rssHugger. I know you must be dying to know, what's rssHugger?

Well, on their homepage they said:

rssHugger is a new website developed to help bloggers promote their blogs, and to help visitors discover new blogs that write about subjects that the readers are interested in. Through the power of the internet and viral marketing, rssHugger looks to bring blog writers and blog readers closer together. If you own a blog, you can get your own page on rssHugger for 10 years for giving an honest review of the site on your blog. If you want to join rssHugger but do not want to review our site, you can pay a one time review fee of $20. rssHugger will be the first ever quality, spam free, and viral rss directory strictly for bloggers. To learn more about what rss feeds are or how owning an rss page can benefit you; visit the About page.

rssHugger was founded by the dynamic Mr. Collin LaHay, an experienced entrepreneur, search engine optimizer, and internet marketer looking to expand his portfolio. He came up with this unique idea while reading about ShoeMoney.com's $13,000 rss contest for October, in which ShoeMoney was competing with JohnChow.com on who of the two had more new rss subscribers for their blog in a month.
In his own words, Mr. Collin LaHay said;

I developed rssHugger because I have been reading forums for nearly a year now and see that a lot of people write better information on their blogs than the ‘big dogs’, but because they do not have a giant advertising budget, they cannot get anyone to read them. I wanted to create a viral blogging website that brings the good blogs and readers together, getting rid of all the spam and garbage in between.

It is a great idea. For a fact, rssHugger is a unique website that aims to bring bloggers and readers together. rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimization, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the reader. rssHugger aims to help visitors be able to easily find blogs that write about subjects they are interested in. These subjects include: internet marketing, making money online, charity, sports, gambling, and many more. If the visitors find a blog that they had not previously heard about, they can easily add it to their RSS readers or bookmark it.

And there are many benefit to own a blog post as you can read below;

For the blog owners:

Raise awareness of your blog

Send tons of visitors to your blog

Share traffic with the community

Be part of a viral/buzz marketing campaign

Build deep-links for your blog posts to help with search engine optimization

Get new interested RSS subscribers who view your content on a regular basis.

For the visitors:

Find blogs that interest you

Easily subscribe to many blogs

Skim over hundreds of blogs to find what suits you

If you were wondering what is RSS, you can click on the link, What's RSS near the top of the sidebar to read an awesome post by CopyBlogger or you can get more useful informations abour RSS at WhatIsRSS.com.

Last but not least, I've saved the best part at the end. After knowing the idea behind rssHugger and it benefits, it is now free to join rssHugger. Yeah, you hear me right. I said it is now free to join rssHugger due to the popular vote in the community, rssHugger have removed the registration fee! To get a permanent RSS page on rssHugger, all you need to do is write an honest review of the website on your blog. If you do not want to talk about rssHugger on your blog, they do offer an alternative of 20 USD review fee, which ultimately runs down to only $2 per year!

Interestingly, they will manually review all blogs to ensure that rssHugger only hosts quality blogs. Cool, huh?

Now, what are you waiting for? Head over to rssHugger and register. You can thanks me later, ;-)

Below is an interesting news about the launching of EntreWiki - a new Web 2.0 Directory of Business ideas and opportunities brought by The News Room for your reading pleasure.

Have a good day, my friends.

Optimize Your Blog

2007-11-30T15:26:00.000+08:00

With Entrecard

I can't tell you how many times I've talked to Web and BlogMasters who just can't understand why their beautiful, professionally designed blogs aren't generating any revenue -ESPECIALLY when they have a really hot products on their blogs.

Every times I asked how much traffic they're getting and where it's coming from, they just look at me blankly or shake their heads. Maybe they just don't know how to read their traffic stats... or maybe their old traffic stats just aren't working like it suppose to and the number of their visitors remains stagnate.

The thing is, some softwares or applications to get tons of visitors to your blog would have you believe that all you have to do is create a blog and visitors will come to your blog automatically come swarming in to read your awesome posts, like bees to the hive.

Nah! That won't happen! If you want readers to find you, you have to find THEM first, and let them know that you exist, alive and kicking. That's the ONLY way you gonna get THEM to your blogs!

It's sad however, not so many BlogMasters realize that - and after months, or even years of hard work, they finally throw in the towel, give up and abandon their blogs.

Whenever I read or hear that kind of stories... I got to tell you, it just break my heart.

You know, it didn't have to happen that way. There are so many incredibly effective strategies that any BlogMasters can use to open floodgates and unleash tsunami of blogs traffic.

You invest a lot of time and effort, hoping you can get a large volume of niche-oriented, keyword-based posts listed in search engines You're banking on the fact that countless people will visit your blogs and then click on your AdSense or on any other links that will bring in $$$ to your PayPal's account.

In other words, you need traffic because it provides the best possibility for earning substantial income.

So at the end of the day, after so much bloods, sweats, and tears you hear the sweet musical voice coming from your PC telling you, "You got mails." And when you open up your Inbox, you receive emails from TLA with the header, "Publisher Updates - You have made money from Text Link Ads."

You open up another email, this time from ReviewMe telling you that, "Your review has been approved." Then you see, yet another email. This time it's from PayPal. You click on the link to open it, and it said, Dear My Name, This email confirms that you have received a payment of XXX.00 USD from someone (email address). View the details of this transaction online and blah, blah, blah... You know how the rest goes, if you ever received this kind of email from PayPal ;-)

And how about this one? Click on the image to enlarge it. It's aptly called, AdSense in My Mailbox!

Ain't life grand!

Notes: From my experience, I would NEVER received this kind of emails from PPP. Usually they would sit tight on their arse and let your reviews runs and gains free advertisement for at least three long weeks before sending you an email telling you that you've broken one of their ToS or whatever and CANNOT wanna pay you. It's a long story, but I'm gonna tell you about it one of these days. I suggest that you subscribe to this blog full feed RSS so that you won't miss any awesome posts, ever.

You could receive these kind of emails too (but I doubt it will be from PPP). All you have to do is to FIND the right strategies to use... the ones that have proven track records and proven to work. And one of them is by using EntreCard. It’s a networking traffic system that allows you to display your business card web 2.0 style on other blogs as you can see at the top of this blog's sidebar after the Google Search's widget.

So, how does it works? After signing up, you create your own card. You can upload your own 125 x 125 image or use one of the Entrecard templates. You get 1 credit for every card you drop on someone’s blog. It’s like exchanging business cards. That doesn’t mean your card gets displayed on the spot, it just means you let the blogger knows you’ve been to his/her blog. That is, if you drop your card on their blog.

This is my Internet Business card on EntreCard.

To get your card displayed on another bloggers site, you can advertise by “paying” credits on which blog you like your Internet Business card to appear on. The blog owner then approves or rejects your request to advertise. For example, it now cost you 91 credits per day to get your card displayed on John Chow dot com. Yeah, that's right. That John Chow! That price is set by the number of bloggers dropping off their cards at the site per day.

FYI, there are many more famous bloggers listed on EntreCard beside that John Chow. They have John Cow, Shoemoney, Joel Comm and that ArahMan7 just to name a few well known A-listed Blogger ;-)

Today, Friday, November 30th, 2007, my Internet Bussiness Card is up and running on Joan Joyce's I Say. I've bought a place to advertise my Internet Business Card for the price of 2 credits, but the latest news I read you've to pay 8 credits to advertise on her blog. And the beauty of it is that the ads credit system does not cost you anything, you just visit the blogs listed with Entrecard and drop your customized 125 x 125 Internet Business Card in their Entrecard's widget. You can only drop one per day on each blog

I've seen a boost in traffic since I joined two days ago. I know this because most of them are also members on MyBlogLog. So, on MyBlogLog's widget, I see many newcomers. I really not sure whether they're reading anything on my blog, but at least they're dropping in.

The cons about Entrecard are, when the Bloggers especially the new one do the card dropping acts by visiting as many blogs as possible in the shortest possible time in order to collect as many credits and at the same time gaining higher advertising credits on their blog. When they do this card dropping act, I doubt anything was read!

When nothing is read, leaving a comment or two will be non-existent. And I also notice that some Bloggers place their widgets on a very nonstrategic and out of the way places making it impossible to see your card without many scrolling. But the pros are many and it out-weight the cons.

So come on, head over to EntreCard to join up now, and increase traffic to your blog for FREE. Once you sign up and start using Entrecard it all becomes very clear. The main idea is to drive traffic to your blog and at the same time discovering new blogs yourself. I'm seeing and discovering many new blogs that I've never read before.

That's it for now. Let us now read some news brought to you by The News Room. Enjoy.

2007-11-27T07:44:00.000+08:00

Useful Information

I would like to dedicate this post to a very special child, Syahmi Ashraff. She is the daughter of my new found friend, SM Saroni. Head over to her blog now and see a father's love in action. Do whatever you can to help this special child by donating for her education. I'm sure you can bring peace and joys of loving to her.

Updates: I read in my other new found friend, the lovely Red Summer's blog that her beloved mother has passed away. Al-Fatihah.

"Sesungguhnya kami adalah milik Allah dan kepadaNya jua kami akan kembali.

Ya Allah, jadikanlah kitabnya (catitan amalnya) pada tempat yang tinggi dalam syurga dan catitkanlah dia disisi Engkau sebagai salah seorang diantara orang2 yang baik. Gantikanlah olehMu akan dia pada ahlinya yang tinggal.

Ampunilah kami dan dia, wahai Tuhan Penguasa Alam."

Amiiin!

In an email, SM Saroni asked my how to hack "Table of Contents" found on this blog, among other things. Before I proceed any further, let me tell you a bit about Table of Contents, or commonly known as ToC only. In short, Table of Contents are a list of all your published posts. It also show complete with Post Titles, Post Dates and Labels. So, how do I do it? Come on start the music, let's rock and roll...

Step One: Back Up your Template.
This is a very important procedure. After login to your blog -->Dashboard and choose which blog you wanna add ToC --> Template --> Edit HTML and click on the little box beside Expand Widget Templates. Before editing your template, you may want to save a copy of it. Click on Download Full Template and save the XML file in a place where you can easily find it later if your PC suddenly exploded! Just kidding my friend. Just kidding! I usually saved mine in a little XML folder in My Document. Create one if you don't have it.

Step Two: Add Page Element
After clicking the little box beside Expand Widget Templates on Edit HTML search for the <b:section> with id=main. This is the section that holds the Blog posts, if you don't have it yet. Add a line of code as follows;

<b:section class='main' id='main' maxwidgets='2' showaddelement='yes'>

Save the template and click back to Edit Layout.

Note: You can change the number on maxwidgets='2' to any number of your choice if you wanna add more Page Elements on your Blog Post's section. Usually you add the above line of codes after this line;

<div id='main-wrapper'>

Step Three: Add HTML/JavaScripts to your blog.
On Edit Layout, click on Add a Page Element and choose HTML/JavaScripts. Then click on Add To Blog. Add the following codes, leaving the title BLANK - meaning NO title - zilch, nada, zero, empty, elek, tolo!

<div id="toc"></div>

Save your template.

Step Four: Add a Page Element on the sidebar.
After saving, click on Add a Page Element on the sidebar where you gonna place your Table of Contents. Put in ToC or whatever for the title and for the contents add the following codes;

Change BLOGTITLE with the name of your blog. Yes, that's right. And save.

Voila! You got yourself your very own ToC.

Before I'm off to kick some ass, I would like to thanks, Hans of Beautiful Beta for this magnificent hack. I learned a lot from Hans and Annie. They are beautiful people. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.

Here are some news brought to you by the awesome The News Room. And read what Blogging can do to change people lives. Enjoy!

Google AdSense Inside Post

2007-11-22T01:14:00.000+08:00

Useful Information

Yipeee! I've done it again. If you still remember, the main reason I created this blog, was to see whether I can do it again after my flag-ship blog My Journey To Recovery gained a PR4. I wanna make sure that My Journey To Recovery's PR4 was not a fluke coz I put in a lot of efforts, and times to promote it.

Web Directory was introduced to the WWW mainly to the Blogosphere for all to see on June 15th, 2007. With only her second post, SEO, it was already been listed on Google and now after only twenty two posts that has been published so far, I'm proud to announce that Web Directory is now a PR3 blog. Look like she's bound to have beautiful things in her future life.

Right on, enough bragging for now. Here's another useful information for those who has been asking me via emails and the like, how to wrap Google's AdSense in a post? The latest email I received asking this type of question was from Smsaroni, the King of Malaysia's PayPal. Head over to his Website now if you're frustrated with not being able to cash your PayPal funds. And he will show you, not one, but THREE ways to withdraw your PayPal funds WITHOUT spending USD1,000 to open up a US Bank account!

I assume you must have Google AdSense account. Login to your AdSense account and after seeing how much you've earned today (I'm sure AdSense is your main revenue) click on AdSense Setup -> Products and choose “AdSense for Content”.

Then, select “Ad unit” and follow the instructions on picking out the size of ad, color combination, channel and so on and so on, right to the end when AdSense automatically generate HTML codes for you. Copy this code and paste it on Notepad or WordPad or on any editor of your choice.

I know and understand that copying and pasting your AdSense code can sometimes be confusing, especially if you're new to HTML and web design. Have you ever tried to insert the Google AdSense code directly into your Blogger XML Template? I'm sure you have and I'm sure too you've received a big read error notice from Blogger like below;

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.

Ever since Blogger started using XML everything became more strict and standardized. The above error simply mean that AdSense code is not a standardized XML. Before you can copy and paste your AdSense code, you have to parse your AdSense code first. Parse mean you do a slight modification to your AdSense code. All you got to do is change the characters on AdSense code, reds in colour to the blues.

< with <
> with >
" with "

After parsing your AdSense code, it will look like this;

<script type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

To ease your mind if you thought it is against AdSense TOS, here is an email from AdSense;

Thanks for your email. We do permit minor edits to the AdSense code to
allow AdSense to be placed into Blogger.

Please keep in mind that in general, publishers are not allowed to alter
the AdSense ad code for any reason. Once you've generated the ad code in
your AdSense account pages, you may not alter any portion of the code or
manually change the layout of the ads. For instance, publishers may not
alter the ad height variable to mask the Ads by Google moniker.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

Sean
The Google AdSense Team

Step One: Now comes the part that you've been waiting for. Login to your Dashboard. Go to Template -> Edit HTML and click the box next to “Expand Widget Templates”. Before editing your template, you may want to save a copy of it. Click on "Download Full Template". This is your back-up. With a backup, you can easily restore the template to the prior state if your PC explode to kingdom come! Lol, I'm sure it will not come to that. I mean with a backup you can go back to your original template if anything goes wrong.

Step Two: Placing the AdSense code

i) Next to your post

<div style="float:left;">

</div>

<div class='post-body'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> 
</div>

ii) AdSense after your post

<div class='post-body'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> 
</div>

<div></div>

<div class='post-footer'>
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
<span class='post-author'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
<data:top.authorLabel/> <data:post.author/>

Step Three: Preview before saving.

With the above two example, you can manipulate by placing anywhere you want AdSense to be on your blog. To align AdSense with your post, you can add margin or padding on the table where you gonna place AdSense.

That's it for now. Shoot me an email if you need any help. Before closing here's some news brought to you by The News Room. I'm wondering when Google AdSense gonna come to Malaysia? Have a good week my friends.

BloggerwaveDotCom

2007-11-03T13:43:00.000+08:00

To Believe Or Not To Believe

If you still remembered, I did a post about Bloggerwave.com last September 29th and I said many wonderful things about them. But when I login to my PayPal's account recently, I found out that I've yet to receive my USD10 from them.

I tried contacting them by clicking their 'contact us' link but it was a great disappointment for me. First, they have a very bad designed form. In FireFox, most of the form used a white background with white font. I can't see a thing what I've type on them. So, I switched to my faithful Internet Explorer Seven. Now it's better, dark background with white fonts, but when I clicked on the submit button, a pop-up sign appeared telling me to use 'Alphabet Only'.

Dear Bloggers,

We are indeed a relatively new company on the commercial blogging scene, a little more than 7 weeks old now, and we plan stay for years with plans of launching local sites on local languages and other new groundbreaking income generating tools for our growing number bloggers.

The reason behind delayed payments has nothing to do with lack of funding, cash flow problems or similar. We have had problems with clearing our Paypal payment account and have been dragged around until the end of this week where we finally got all issues solved and started paying all of our bloggers.

We will post a newsletter on Friday June 1st 2007 to our entire Bloggerwave community explaining this minor speed bump on the road to making Bloggerwave a leading commercial blogging solutions.

We are always eager to receive new ideas for changes, improvement, correction of errors etc. and any of our Bloggers, advertiser and users are more than welcome to contact me directly on ust@bloggerwave.com for assistance or help.

Best regards,
Bloggerwave

Ulrik Thomsen
CEO

*Comments by Bloggerwave's CEO listed on Mr. Lau's Blog

I tried it several times with and without the alphabet, yet the pop-up sign will not go away. I'm getting bald just by scratching my head wondering what the @#%& does it meant - alphabet only? My email address has numbers on it, so does my home address! They even asked for my phone number, should I type in my phone number using alphabet, and please tell me how the &^%$ am I gonna do that?

'Contact Us' - strike three! You're off!

So I searched back every available emails that Bloggerwave has sent me and I wrote a very long messages telling them about my predicaments, but all of them came back to me undelivered! Even the address in an email that approved the opportunity that I took was not acceptable! It came back undelivered!

Email - red card! Get out!

By this time, I'm getting skeptical. What is going on? I began Googling by typing Bloggerwave and I got about 333,000 results for bloggerwave in 0.31 seconds. I was not surprise when I found out that quite a few Bloggers has the same problems like me. Below are a few which I chose in random;

Have I been Punk'd?

Be Wary of Bloggerwave

Blogger Is A Scam

Bloggerwave Still Has Payment Problems

Next, I tried to find more informations about Bloggerwave with 'Whois' and I found out their administrative and technical contact email address, but unfortunately both my email to Jesper Thomsen and Jesper Svane came back to me undelivered. These is what my faithful email service said in their 'failure notice' email;

I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

I doubt whether Jester are their name, more like a jester to me. I'm sorry for whoever who has signed up because of me, and you're having problems with them now. Anyway before I took my leave, if you are thinking of joining Bloggerwave, do so at your own risk.

Here are some great news brought to you by The News Room.

Firefox vs. Opera vs. Internet Explorer (Pictures)

2007-10-22T01:09:00.000+08:00

Opera the Browser

I'm now using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 on Windows Windows XP. Lately during surfing the Internet, I came across lots of articles/posts telling me how great Opera the browser is. For now, I'm using Internet Explorer 7 too, but Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.8 with Mozilla add-ons is still my favourite.

Before I proceed any further, I wanna make it clear that this is NOT a Sponsored Post. Neither Opera the browser nor Mr. Daniel Goldman the WebMaster of Opera Watch is paying any $Bling-Bling$ to my PayPal's coffer. Just maybe, I can be their representative in Malaysia if I choose Opera as my main browser. I shall create a new blog posting exclusively about Opera in my native tongue, Bahasa Melayu (Malay Language).

I know we Malaysian are not used to any other browser except Mr. Gates' Internet Explorer. Maybe we were born and raise to know only IE. I know because it took me quite sometime to switch to Mozilla Firefox. Even after downloading Firefox, I'm still faithful to my IE. Even now, I still used IE and I can't bring myself to delete IE. Even some of my friends are afraid to use any other browser except Internet Explorer!

And now without further ado, here are some frequent asked questions all that you need to know about Opera, the browser.

About Opera

Q: What is Opera?
A: Opera is one of the most powerful Web browsers around. A Web browser is the program that allows you to view Web pages. Opera is well known for innovation for PC browsers and bringing the full web to mobile phones and devices.

Q: Is Opera free?
A: Absolutely free.

Q: Why should I download a browser? Doesn't my computer already come with one for free?
A: It's about getting more out of the time you spend on the internet. Opera is designed to be much faster than these browsers and gives you powerful features that the default browser lacks. Default browsers like Internet Explorer are also more likely to be subjected to dangerous software such as viruses and spyware.

Q: Will Opera keep me safe from fraudulent websites and malicious hackers?
A: According to Secunia, a respected firm that tracks security in browsers, Opera has the best reputation and track record when it comes to browser security. Keeping our users safe from security vulnerabilities, fraudulent websites, and malicious hackers is a top priority for Opera. Opera is maintained by hundreds of engineers, developers and security experts who are constantly looking to make the browser even safer.

Q: Doesn't Opera copy all of their features from other browsers?
A: Absolutely not. In fact, many of the features that are popular in other browsers today were invented and pioneered by Opera a long time ago. Opera invented the precursor to tabs (in 1994), Page Zoom (1994), was the first browser to block pop-up ads (2000), first to add a Search field in the browser toolbar (2000), Sessions (1996), deleting private data (2000), Mouse Gestures (2000), User JavaScript (2005), BitTorrent support (2005), Widgets (2006), Speed Dial (2007), and much more.

Q: Does Opera support extensions, such as those found in Firefox?
A: Much of the functionality provided through Firefox extensions is already built directly into Opera, so you don't have to download additional extensions in Opera. In addition, Opera is highly customizable and supports all standard plug-ins.

Q: Can I also use Opera on my mobile phone?
A: Yes. And your Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS or almost any connected device and mobile phones. Opera Mobile oftens comes preinstalled from the manufacturers, but if it doesn't you can install Opera Mini which runs on nearly all phones.

Q: This all sounds great, so how do I download Opera?
A: -- Opera on your computer
-- Opera Mini on your phone
-- Opera Mobile on your phone
-- or learn more about Opera at www.opera.com

And here's some comparison between browsers - in pictures!

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