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Wayne Liew — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:28:38 -0000

Some play songs. Is it ugly as well? :lol: I just find it too irritating though...

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iCalvyn — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:52:14 -0000

i hate autoplay media, always bring alot of ugly sound, make me feel unconfortable

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Wayne Liew — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:15:38 -0000

@ Noddegamra
Thanks. I am just trying to pick up those that have been forgotten. :-)

@ pondlife
Cool, I hoped you learnt something here.

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pondlife — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:18:30 -0000

Good points - I'm glad to learn that I'm doing most of them. It's not something that I've focussed on before but I will give it some thought now that you've bought it to my consciousness.

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Noddegamra — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:01:56 -0000

This is a great article. Thankyou.

Some o fthe stuff may seem obvious, but sometimes it can be overlooked and need pointing out. I'm sure many will find this very useful :)

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Wayne Liew — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:42:02 -0000

What web host do you use? Mind to share? It loads slower than average but it's still OK for me. You can still see me lurking around there though. :-)

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KennetH — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:19:02 -0000

My blog...seems like very slow..~

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Wayne Liew — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:14:16 -0000

@ goldfries
I won the battle, but you won the war. :lol:

@ lukxiufung
Yes, their whole week of ads is giving me lesser than the earnings of one day I earned with Advertlets.

@ keeyit
Help telling your friends if you see these ads lurking around their sites.

@ Sean
I am not sure on this. Do you remember they asked you to place a code inside your blog before you can use them? Maybe that will be the tracking code to see where most of your visitors are from. I know what you are thinking, "My blog can't have lots of US visitors?"

Well, I think they have their way, searching out all the Malaysia posts you have is a way. This is why there are investigation going on. Also, everyone can report your blog to PPP.

@ MonkeyWong
Your blog loads fast for me. :-)

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MonkeyWong — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:36:01 -0000

Maybe I should make my blog load faster too...

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Sean — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:15:06 -0000

I really have a big question about hosting location. As you guys know, PPP has segmentized the bloggers into different location. How they are going to determine the blogger's location? By IP address or by blog's hosted location?
Anyone can help on this?

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keeyit — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:14:40 -0000

I agreed with sean, I found that the pop up ads so annoying !

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lukxiufung — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:39:20 -0000

Well, just afraid that they wont gv me any ads if I put it else where but not top :P

I will remove it after I get the payment. Because I am thinking it is not worth to put such banner with only earning RM 1.75 per week with ads. Further, those week I got 5k visits. Last week, they announce to take care of blog with highly foreign visits (US), I got 90% from US. BUT, I got RM 6 only. Very diff with their 1st ads in my blog which is 6 times for this.....they make me look like they are giving good return first to attract you then let you there dying....no offend here :P

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goldfries — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:18:46 -0000

ok. my mistake. I missed out the second part of the sentence. ;)

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Wayne Liew — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:13:35 -0000

@ jayhan
If your popularity shows you that the post is the one getting all the attention, you should listen to it but still, you are open to many other choices like sticking more to Japan and design.

@ lukxiufung
I went to your blog and found that your ad placement are all right. Maybe the Nuffnang banner you can move down a bit, after making yourself your own banner.

@ Kitkat
Thanks for the support! I know you're on of my best readers since I saw you commenting here!

@ goldfries
I hope you don't get my message. :-P Serving my site from the US will make my site loads slow because of the added hops. This is why I am trying to lower the amount of data packets to be sent over the Internet.

Will this help? Can right? Anyway, can't change now since I am already on a one year package. :-)

@ Nicholas
Correct amountof ads is the key. :-)

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Nicholas — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:40:40 -0000

A simple one is sweet. No ads is perfect, but who call me to make money with ads. Feel sorry for reader. HAHA

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goldfries — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:14:09 -0000

Wayne Liew Dot Com is hosted on a US server and to make it loads faster (for Malaysian readers)

Something's not right here. If you want it to load faster for Malaysian readers, it should be hosted locally (in Malaysia la).

Again, you have to understand how The Internet works. When you host it overseas, you're request takes more hops to reach the server and the requested content will take more hops to come back. (Try doing a Traceroute)

Now, ping www.wayneliew.com (US) vs www.goldfries.com (MY)

Pinging goldfries.com [202.71.103.136] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 202.71.103.136: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=58

Pinging wayneliew.com [74.50.10.10] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.50.10.10: bytes=32 time=241ms TTL=49

Another problem with Hosting in the US is (if you and majority of your readers are Malaysian) is that IF there is a severed connection to the US - your readers will have problem loading the page while you have trouble updating. :)

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Kitkat — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:21:23 -0000

Everyday I come here to read and stay for more than 5 minutes!

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lukxiufung — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:04:16 -0000

So, my blog definitely will scare ppl away as there is too many banner :P

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jayhan — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:20:41 -0000

some good points highlighted up there.

That popularity contest plugin is very helpful actually... i found my site's Japan related post getting more views than design related, izzit a sign that i shud write more Jap stuff than Design? i'm trying to balance those two.

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Wayne Liew — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:57:19 -0000

@ yung .

Entertainment. I will try to squeeze out the sense of humour as good as I can. You know, I don't really how to crack jokes but I will try though. :-)

I added the "Read More" because I don't have many things to add into my sidebar and fingers will be tired if my readers need to scroll down and down just to read the posts. As I am posting daily, some readers might miss out post that I posted a day earlier and this is why I tried to shorten my posts.

Never mind, you can voice any suggestions, I need them to be better. Luckily I have someone like you to voice out. A big big thank you! :-)

@ thiamhin
Being simple is great and I like simple blogs with great contents. :-)

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thiamhin — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:52:00 -0000

i tend to make my blog simple...

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yung . — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:43:52 -0000

Wah you grade me as loyal reader, so happy neh! Kakakaa, but as a loyal reader *ehem* I have to be honest. I like your content, they are very informative but sometimes they lack of some "entertainment" sparks. Adding them would make your content even more interesting.

And another thing that annoys me is the "read more" thing. I did blogged about it in one of my post The more I hate and you could read it there.

Hope all these doesn't offend you. I'm just being a bit straight forward. =P Nonetheless, your blog is still one of my fav blogs, keep it up!

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Wayne Liew — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:35:36 -0000

Thanks for pointing out my mistake. The article has been modified. The size and the loading speed of a blog can now be checked with the tool provided. :-)

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goldfries — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:27:12 -0000

Wayne, a little correction here.

The size show in Google is just the size of your HTML text. It's not the TOTAL file-size needed to load your page.

After the browser reads all the HTML, it will then call the required objects such as IMAGE. so your IMG SRC tags could only be less than 1k but the images you load is another thing altogether.

Did you know that this page alone loads about 400kb of information? Try it, just save the page to your desktop and see the total size. :)

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Wayne Liew — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:16:09 -0000

It is acceptable since your sites still loads fast for me. Yes, added to by list. Thanks for reminding. I forgot about it since there are so many bloggers who are aware of it, unless there are just spam blogs. :-)