A.P.P.L.E

Not again?! Yea, I’ve decided to change my blog theme. You can see that recently I’m a bit slow in updating this blog as I’ve been thinking of changing my blog theme. If you have been my reader for a while, you should probably know that I will never use a “ready-made” theme without self modification. I will always pick the best layout for my blog and start to mod the images and visual effects (trial and error, of course!).

My little Kuma-Kuma will be helping me to “renovate” my blog.  I would have to take some new photos of my Kuma-Kumas to make a new header image *scratching head, looking for inspiration* My current theme is actually the best modifcation I have done so far (at least for myself, I love my current theme a lot). I feel I need to change it because the code structure behind this theme is not so well-coded by the original author after I changed the width for the main text area.

My blog loads quite slow with this theme, especially the main content and even worse, the blog title. (The blog title and the main text is loaded together as they are in the same chunk of codes)

A little spoiler of my new blog theme:

• It’s gonna be a green theme. Green is good for the eye and it’s the best color to represent apple and Kuma-Kuma (turtle). But my favorite color is blue.
• Relocate widgets. May remove some less benefit widgets and / or adding some great ones.
• A 3 column theme. I used to stick with 3 column and now I’m going back to 3.

Okay…since I’m going to do some changes to my blog interface, do you have any suggestion for my blog improvement? Or content wise, what else do you wish to read more from my blog? Hope to get your feedbacks in the comment.

Thanks ^_^

I notice that recently, my readers just come and go. Is it because there’s nothing interesting going on in this blog? Are you tired of all those $ponsor3d posts? (I do, frankly speaking) I’m trying to squeeze my brain juice to put up something interesting in this blog, almost daily.

If you notice, you can see that I seem “busy” these days that I seldom post nice things here. Well, I ever mentioned that I have many blogs. To ensure every blog is “alive”, I have to keep them update from time to time. I’ve been a bit slow in A.P.P.L.E, that’s because I was updating the other blogs. Today, I would like to list out some posts that I have written in other blogs which I think really worth sharing with all of you here.

For your tech needs:

• Create PDF Files the Easy Way
• End Not Responding Task Automatically in Windows XP
• Delete Undeletable Files in Windows

For your blogging needs:

• Plan Your Scheduled Posts
• Adding Contact Form
• 10 WordPress Wood Theme

For your music needs:

• Mariah Carey: E=MC²
• CDrama: Fated To Love You
• Leona Lewis: Spirit
• YUI: I Loved Yesterday

In fact, you can also check out my Download page from time to time.

Facebook is a very happening social site that you can’t denied. To me, Facebook is a rather complicated social site with lots of things to learn, meet new individuals and of course have fun. It can be addictive if you get along with the community. Since it is a popular site, as a blogger, you must not let go this chance for marketing your blog! Exposing your blog URL in this large community means, higher chance for greater traffic flow.

I used to ignore the participation of Facebook. Now, I’m trying some experiment in increasing my blog traffic. (Page impression increased since participated in Entrecard) So, Facebook is one of the many ways to market your blog. Before that, I will have to find as many friends, especially bloggers, to join my friend network. So, if you have a Facebook account, remember to add me too!

Why I Joined Facebook?

• Connecting to friends/bloggers.
• Promoting my blogs.
• Sharing
• Do you know you can earn real cash through Facebook?

Add me in Facebook!

As the title suggested, have you come across such question? This blog used to have a PR3, but after doing paid post for some time and right after Google update the PR system, this blog become a PR0 blog. A lot of advertising companies do not like PR0 blogs. They will no longer assign tasks to you when your blog got its PR penalized to 0. This is all my experience.

To overcome such problem, some advertising companies have its own way of ranking blogs and still continue to assign tasks to PR0 blogs. So, if you want to have a good PR, then you should stay away from doing paid post. But if you are good in building links, you still have a chance of having a good PR and yet still get paid for blogging.

Money is the root of evil. I always said that I’m underpaid. I really mean it. How much do you think a Bachelor’s degree holder should be paid? Looking at the amount decrease in all my savings accounts really gives me headache. That’s why I continue to let my dear blog suffer from PR lost.

Isn’t it pathetic?

I remember reading a blog post from HongKiat.com about his whole blog being cloned! (Joshua ever mentioned about this issue too, currently his site is down so am unable to look for the exact link.) As the genuine owner, HongKiat was really pissed off. I thought such things only happens to famous blogs, or at least blogs with high traffic.

Clones?

This morning after turning on my computer, I decided to check all my blogs and planned to update most of them. Then I notice a new incoming link. I clicked on it and was totally stunned to see one of my blog posts from Blogging For Novice has been cloned. The content is exactly the SAME, including the images and download links are directly linked to my server.

The only difference is the post title and some sentences that mentioned about WordPress. Read more…