Setting Up My Blog Sites

Main Label: Life Update

Ai... It was a tough time for me to set up a blog site that is really different and unique from others. The whole process was much tiring and difficult, and yet at the same time, resourceful and inspiring.

At first, I thought of exploring other blog sites other than blogspot. And I eventually signed up with another blog site. It was a good one though, I especially love the "Page" feature that it offers. I started exploring and experimenting with the blog site only to realize that it does not support JAVA script, and according to them, this is due to security purpose. Okay nevermind. Then I tried with the Tag Box thing which it provides with a third party. But I had problem logging in and registering with the service. I was a little frustrated by that. And I was thinking, "nevermind, I still have the comments feature. I can afford to forgo this Tag Box thing."

And then, I had difficulties in putting music... Arghhhh... Okay, nevermind lor. Then, I started exploring with the HTML, only to realize that I can edit, I can preview, but in order to save my edition, I get to pay for the service~! Oh, my mind was thinking... "so you're letting me to edit HTML for fun is it? To itch my desire ar?" Well, not that I'm being stingy / cheapskate, it is just not for me to pay for a blog site now. I will consider paying for the service provider if the blog site has met all the requirements that I want. But it is just not now for me, being a blog beginner / novice, to start paying for my blog site. Maybe later. But actually, the price isn't that shocking though...

In the end, after much struggles and considerations, I finally turned back to blogspot. At first, I was spending much time in experimenting with the music. Not just because I had problem with the technical codes and stuff, I also had difficulty in choosing a background music when there are so many wonderful musics that I have loved~! Haha... To support my experiments, I also registered with box.net and imeem.com. After a long time of experimenting and considering, in the end I had settled down with a youtube video, featuring a song from my recent favorite movie. So this video functions as my background music as well...

In the process of exploring blog, I had learned some terms, such as CSS, widgets... Wow, it is like a total "start from scratch" for me man. I was so tired every time I explored on these new topics. And for once, I was so tempted to get a course to learn about HTML! But for a little while only... haha... because that's the time I thought that I can use Dreamweaver to do my blog page design. And I do believe that it has HTML provided. There are a lot for me to learn about Dreamweaver (not been using it for years) and HTML. I've decided to put this learning into my To-Do-List.

At one point, I was at a total lost. When I examined myself, I realized that the problem was I did't have a vision or an idea about how my blog site should look like exactly. Without a vision, how can I visualize the work I am going to do? Then I thought that I should have an idea much earlier ago, when I first started my blog? Then that's the moment I realized that the time had past so long that eventually those designs in my head had gone already~! Haha... Sigh... So I was having a time to brainstorming how my blog should look like. Again, I wanted to have a super duper unique site that no one has ever thought of. But I was limited by my IT ability and the time I had spent until now had been more than a week le... I was so tired already.

In conclusion, I decided to settle down with a simple template and then start putting some fancy header ba. After that, I registered with cbox.ws to obtain my tagboard~! Smooth process~! Amen~! And then obtained the Beijing Olympic Countdown Clock from Clocklink.com. Smooth process again~! Praise God~!

Near-finally, it's time to do the header! In the midst of creating the header, was another troublesome story... Sigh... I started with using my laptop and realized that it was so much slower, I was so frustrated until I came out my usual quote regarding my laptop:-

"I thought I am busy until I saw my laptop..."

Well, do you understand the essence of this quote? My laptop was always in busy mode~~~! So I thought of using my desktop. But before using it, I decided to reformat & reinstall the whole thing because the desktop has been in "spoiling" mode for some times already. Therefore, I committed some time to reinstall everything into my desktop. In the process, my video card was giving me problems again. I HAD TO REINSTALL AGAIN. Can you feel the pains of my experience? Well, that's my life. :)

So I reinstalled again, and this time definitely not using the video card anymore. Okay, Thank-God-ly, this time was smooth and I managed to install everything I needed. Whew... A Hallelujah~! Then I started my header design. I always wanted a neon effect. I remembered I did a Birthday card for Ben, my CG member, with the neon effect. It was so beautiful that I almost wanted to make another one for myself~!

But somehow the one that I did, which is the current one, is not up to my expectation. It was still a nice one, but I believe I can further improve on it. But because of the time spent, I then decided to settle this header for now. And will improve on this in the future.

Enough is Enough; Do you have enough?
Everything is NOT Everything; Do you know everything?

Can you understand the essence of the quote? I can't... frankly. It just occurred to me and it sounded "solid", "dynamic" with a bit of "arrogant", and with an "eye-catching", in fact is "mind-catching" effect. To me this phrase will make you think, and think hard. But maybe in the end, you can think of nothing~! Haha... And I do hope that because of this, the header can withstand its "freshness" for a long time. In fact, I do able to explain this quote of mine, but maybe not in perfect understanding... Nevertheless, I will not explain this here and now. Want to let you ponder some more first mah... Haha... :D

I will KIV (Keep in view) for the things that I wanna improve on, such as the header (maybe use Flash to create an animated one), include Counter, improve on the template / design. But as for now, that's it. What you see is what you get. :)