Changing Blog Header Image

This is a reply to Jiamin’s question regarding changing blog header image.

 

“Jiamin:
hehehe really ah? thank you.  i wanted to change my header but i don't know why i cannot upload any photo. those photos i posted on my blog are all through photobucket. that's why sometimes the loading speed is slow. :\”

Just happened that recently i was also trying to change my blog header image too. Then when i clicked on the edit header link at Blogger –> Design tab –> Page Elements there, I don't see any options for me to upload image that i want to put for header.

Blogger –> Design tab –> Page Elements

Configure Header page after clinking on edit header link

Later then I realised that i actually have to click on the “Remove Image” link 1st before i get to see the upload image options. Initially i was also quite reluctant to click on the “Remove Image” link because i worried that i cannot revert back the changes. (I didn't backup my images, that's why i worried… ^_^)

There are 2 choices for the source of the image used for blog header. You can choose to upload an image file from your computer, which will be uploaded to your corresponding Picasa web account. (not sure if there is settings to change to other image hosting server, but at least for my case, its uploaded to my Picasa web account.)

Or you can set to use an image from web. All you need us just the direct URL to the image. Let’s say for example if you have uploaded your blog header image to Photobucket, then this option is for you~ ^_^

Configure Header page after clicking on the “Remove Image” link

But there is actually no need to worry that i cant revert back, because after clicking on the “Remove Image” link, there is still a “Cancel” button at the bottom to discard all changes to the header. I must have worried too much then… lol ^_^

I got my 1st cheque from adBrite~!

Ever since after i was banned from using Google AdSense in year 2008, I have switch over to use adBrite. And today, I have received my 1st cheque from them~!

I login my adBrite and realised that September 2008 was my 1st month of earning (S$0.04 only). And it took me around 2.5 years to accumulate to S$5.02 … ^_^

I guess the amount would be more if I was not banned by Google AdSense :(
For an inactive blogger (one who rarely blog, only 4 blog posts in the year 2010… lol), I personally feels that its really better than nothing… lol ^_^

This S$5.02 has given me the motivation to maybe write more blog posts. Something interesting about what keeps this blog having a constant rate of pageviews everyday, are those blog posts about windows live messenger error, corn and wart.

Let’s take a look at my top 10 blog posts (ignoring those homepage etc. etc.) for the period 1st September 2008 to 31st December 2010 ^_^:

1. Windows Live Messenger Error code: 8e5e0531
2. Corn Underneath My Big Toe
3. It is not Corn! It is Wart!
4. 五月天。五夜天
5. Testing PSU (Power Supply Unit) without using Mainboard
6. Pretty Young Girl Constipation 美少女便秘
7. Good & Evil Pocoyo
8. Backlight Problem of Samsung SGH-I450
9. Cadbury Dairy Milk – Eyebrow Dance
10. Purple or Blue?

Lastly I hereby thanks to all visitors ^_^

How To Attract Nuffnangers’ Attention In 3 Easy Steps

The followings are the 3 easy steps to attract Nuffnangers’ attention:

1. Sign up a Nuffnang account.
2. Go to  Innit.
3. Make an Innit post with an exaggerated title.

If you already have a Nuffnang account, then you can directly proceed to the 3rd step.

It may sound ridiculous… but this is what I did…

My previous post, Nuffnang Innit Website has Bug? has made me to the top of the “Most Popular Post in the last 24 hours” in Innit. Wahahaha~!

Although it only last for a while, but as long as it is still in the top 10, it should bring you some nangs and some amount of traffics to your blog. My Innit post end up at the 2nd place when it was near its 24th hour.

The above shows all the 48 nang-ers and 1 dang-er of my Innit post. Resulting to 47 nangs in total.

But do beware that sometimes, a too over exaggerated title or a misleading title might cause some nuffnangers to dang your Innit post…

Sigh… I was danged for having a misleading title… which I think is not quite true… haha… I would say that the title is just exaggerated but not misleading. Ok ok maybe a little bit too over exaggerated… lol~! But I was lucky that I was danged once only…

So now you have seen how an exaggerated Innit post title will get you a lot of nuffnangers’ attention and nangs. Now lets look at the effect on the amount of traffic to you blog.

 

The number of unique visitors went all the way to 148 when I checked it at around 11pm plus on 21st June 2009. Then this morning I checked the analytics for this week, my unique visitors reached 169 on 21st June 2009~! To me, that is a huge amount of visits in just 1 day.

The picture on the left shows how fast the amount of visits to my blog drops after my post was out of the top 10… It drops at an exponential rate…

So to attract nuffnangers’ attention, all you need to do is to just make your Innit post title exaggerated. Hahaha~! Don’t you agree?

Nuffnang Innit Website has Bug?

After reading her blog saying that she “hacked” into my Nuffnang account, I myself encountered similar things too… Lol

It usually happens when I view a profile of a Nuffnang member who is of the same country as me, Singapore. Not sure if members from other countries have such problem. The following are 2 screenshots showing that I happen to be able to view their email, earnings and the number of visits of the current week.

 

It is a bug right? How can these information be viewed by other members?

If it is not a bug… hmm… Then the only reason that I can think of for it will be for motivation purpose. Maybe it is designed in such a way that we sometimes can randomly see how well or how bad other people are earning. This will motivate those who are still quite far away from their first $50.00 when they see how well other people are earning, and also motivate those who earn a lot to keep up their good work when they see how bad other people are earning. Lol~!

CBox is against BlogExplosion

Have you all ever heard of BlogExplosion? It is a web service which allows you to earn credits by surfing other people’s blog. The credits can then be used to assign traffics to you blog.

I have been trying to use BlogExplosion for quite some time already but my application to add my blog was not approved by their admin. It says that:

However, I don’t remember me putting any auto pop-up script on my blog. But as shown in the following picture, my blog does have pop-up ads. Just that Firefox has blocked the pop-up from coming out.

An advertisement about winning a brand new iPhone 3G... WOW!

So what is it that creates the pop-up ads?! I have Nuffnang, Adbrite and Bidvertiser on my blog displaying ads, are they responsible for the pop-up ads?

Then I came across this forum thread “is CBOX making pop-up auto now?, ur CBOX causing auto pop-up?”

They said that CBox has pop-up ads and they recommended ShoutMix instead. So I went to take a look at both their features to check if it is true that CBox has pop-up ads.

The following 2 pictures are not the complete list of their features. Only those relating to ads are display in the following 2 pictures.

As you can see that both CBox and ShoutMix does not have ads-free feature for basic account. But the difference is that ShoutMix states that they have no pop-up ads. So for that reason, I have to say goodbye my CBox and welcome ShoutMix to my blog.

To play safe, I have also removed the AdBrite Full Page Ads feature from my blog,

This is how a AdBrite Full Page Ads looks like.

Hope this time there won’t be any more problem adding my blog to my BlogExplosion account.

My Brand New Greenish Blog Layout

Woohoo~~~ I think it looks neater than the previous one.

Wahahaha! Last week was my 1 week break a.k.a. Recess week for this semester. Busy doing projects and reports. But still managed to do some sports which I am always lazy to do before this break. Met up with NYC last Tuesday(23/09/2008) at our nearby CC for badminton for an hour. 1st time play there after it was renovated. What? Which CC? Oh its called the 什么 Hen 什么 De 什么 Son one...

Also met up with some same course friends for a sport marathon. 1st we played badminton, then table tennis and lastly basketball. Then after that I still went out to meet my RSAF friends for KTV... what a happening Friday(26/09/2008). Then until now, I can still feel the tiredness. Haiz...








This is the previous layout for comparison purpose. Dont you think the Green one looks neater than the Blue one?

There Goes my AdSense...

No more Ads by Google on my site...

Now lets try NuffNang instead.

Test post using MS Word 2007

Test post using ms word 2007.

Nothing to Do Now...

hahaha!!! now nothing to do so come here blog using email.... lol

Mail-to-Blogger

testing the mail-to-blogger features...

Shifted My GeoCities Posts to Blogger~!

Alright, I have shifted all my posts in My GeoCities page over to Blogger.com, which is a more suitable platform for blogging… lol easier to maintain also i guess… haha ^_^

Testing post

Finally done with the designing of my new appearance here. Took me quite some time doing it, hope it looks nice to whoever is viewing it.

Around 1 more week to endure and I can say bye bye to my army life for the next 4 years! Yes! Why 4 years? Disruption only not ORD... LOL But the feeling is the same, FREEDOM!!!

3 weeks of leaves consecutively, uFooooooooooo~~~~! Shiok man! Have been slacking since 1st of July until now. Gonna go back Air Base to start doing clearance on the coming Monday. Hope everything goes smoothly and ends faster! Yeah!

*older posts imported from http://sg.geocities.com/hlt8888/