1. This blog is being redesigned.
2. New sub domains or domains are coming up.
3. The URL structure is not finalized.

If you are kind-hearted, knowledgeable and give me suggestions, I will have rewards for you too. Don't worry, the minimum I could give you are some good keyword back links to your site from my PR3 blog. I'm not rich now so my pocket money is limited. I can make some nice award if what you give change my life.

1. This blog is being redesigned

Everyone who read my blog should know by now that this blog is under re-construction. The design work is totally delegated to Brain Purkiss from PlainBeta.com . For some reasons Brian has not responded to my email for a week already. Brian, if you are reading this I hope that's because you have commitment with college, not because you gave up on my hard requirements .

Brian gave me a sketch 9 days ago. I asked him if I could write a blog post and publish it. He said no. I respect his choice so until his Photoshop file is available I won't publish his progress. What I can say for now is that I like what it look in the sketch.

I hope Brian can code that before this end of month otherwise I will be in big trouble. I don't want to promote my blog only to see people visit it once and run away because it's ugly.

2. New sub domains or domains are coming up

Yes, I might have to buy new domains for each blog. I have a few passions and I want to make separate blog for each. Here I discuss about them.

1. Photos
2. Blogging
3. Web development
4. Computers
5. My life

2.1 Photos

I have too many photos waiting for upload. I have like over 10,000 photos for 2007 and few hundred for the past. I may keep it at photos.binh.name. However I might buy a new domain for that because that's a huge amount of photos and I need proper gallery software. Who would be kind enough to suggest me a perfect photo host and a perfect photo CMS?

Can anyone tell me their favorite photo hosting site? Flickr.com is out of my reach because apparently my ISP blocks it.

2.2 Blogging

I realized that not everyone is a pro blogger. And I realize not a single blog provide everything from A-Z to blogging. And I'm willing to take the challenge to make a blogging site/blog that help people from A-Z. If you want to contribute to my site than I will buy a new domain just for that. Otherwise I keep it at blogging.binh.name . the topics will range from high-technical approach for developers to money making.

2.3 Web development

Another word is Web Design but that's totally incorrect. I'm not a web designer, because that only involve in graphic and layout. I'm a developer from code to layout so I will talk about bottom to top. Especially I'm a SEO oriented developer so my service should be of somewhat unique.

I stumbled a lot of web design company who only provide you with beautiful website but absolutely no visitors at all. I admit I hate that and I would call them b..stards. For instant, I recently visit this of a new Facebook friend's work website Bella Sewing. The design company who did the site surely is some newbie who tried to make big some of money. Web design job for local companies always pay high. Look at that site and I wanted to vomit. He made at least 4 SEO mistakes that I will need to talk about in a separate post.

Brian suggested me to use web.binh.name for this blog and I think that might work. What is your own opinion on this?

While I will write a lot about stuffs like Webpage layout, website structure, ad placement, etc., etc. I might focus more on web programming aspect. I will keep it for broader adience by making use of least technical terms possible.

Does anyone suggest me to write those type of article in another web development site instead? Which is already well established and have many developers as audience and contributers? Like the codeproject.com?

2.5 Computers

I think so far only my Australian friends and my ex-bosses know and accept the fact that I'm a computer expert. I use the term expert and got a few very critism from fellows on Google AdSense Group. Which lead me to think ... what the heck, if I'm not an expert than are you? No, I'm not claiming I'm a better at computers than those guys.

Enough chatter about this topic. I want to emphasize it here because during the period of 7 years studying IT in Australia I was working part time as computer service technician. The term if you don't understand than let me explain, I repaired computers. People who suffer from hard-disk breakdown, graphic card not working, virus, too-slow, dead computer, software error, etc. etc. I have dealt with thousands of those cases. Sometimes I get things done in just 5 minutes, sometimes it take a day and cause me big headache.

Working as a technician was very fun experience and perhaps one of the most useful experience any IT student could get. I can tweak my computer at ease. I use the most useful software. I'm expert in detecting virus without any software.

Of course I won't write about what I did in the past. Instead I will confine them into useful articles and public on my website. My experience can't be described in this one blog post and if you seriously want to learn those real work experiences, you should subscribe to my computers feed as soon as it is out. For now here are some sample: computers tips.

Do you think computers.binh.name or computing.binh.name are good addresses? Should I choose a shorter address. I think I might make a separate domain for this purpose too? What do you recommend?

2.5 My life

Last but not least, I need to write about my personal life, too. I found out I'm very eager in writing about my love life, my travel, my everything so that I can make new friends online and keep my old friends and family members updated.

Who on Facebook would want to read my blog if the first time he visits he sees I'm talking about how to measure webpage's size? Wouldn't they be more interested in knowing what I did since I was a kid to find out our comment interest? Wouldn't they want to see my nice photos, cute dogs, scary snakes, big bears and sometimes my secrets?

What do you think? If what I think is true I definitely need to keep this www.binh.name my personal blog because that's what the domain says. Brian suggest me to put life.binh.name as the subdomain. What do you think about this? If that's the case I thinks diary.binh.name or memories.binh.name might work but they seem to bee too long to type. Of course I'm not going to buy a new domain for my personal blog, that's out of question.

3. The URL structure is not finalized

Uh! I'm feeling ashamed of myself for talking about this URL decision again.

Many bloggers have stripped of the yyyy/mm/dd prefix format for their posts. That works very well because the post look unrelated to time and shorter. I didn't use that because I thought my posts will be blog post and time dependent.

For my personal blog I might keep that date. But for my other 4 professional blogs I think I will strip that out. On the professional blogs I want to write articles not posts. Then that consideration make me think, why not make websites instead of blogs then?

In a comment on Why you should be using a framework, I said WordPress is giving me hard time and I'm considering getting rid of it. The current Category structure makes me feel too limited. I want to write some nice words to describe my categories, not just "Archive for "whatever' category". There are many more issues and I will write another post in relation to this later on.

What's next?

If you are new here, than I guess here is what you should read to learn about my Major Blog Building Considerations. That should give you some extra info about why I am writing this post.

I know this post is rather long. If you read it till this point please also give me some opinions. I will really appreciate your help because this stage is like the bridge to my new level of blogging.

Also... I didn't have enough time to fix my grammer and spelling. If you spot out any mistake please inform me with a comment and I will fix it. Thanks.

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No bull, it's another chance for you to get a free custom WordPress layout. It's another contest. This time its Plainbeta who want to gain so popularity in the blogosphere by giving away his time to design a beautiful theme for the blog that he likes.

5. Your own theme

Well, I tried my best in limited time to find 7 themes to match with the earlier post. Unfortunately there aren't as many out there, so... here end up only 4. Do you have one to share? Please leave some comment here to advertise it and I will include into my article.

Do you notice everything look the same except the URLs? I was able to completely reserve the all data including:

• Posts (Post ID also reserve, so the old links work fine)
• Comments
• Subscriptions to comments
• Widgets
• Plugins (with changes)
• Themes
• Everything else

There were some improvements in the process.

I will write more about the process later on, properly will include a complete guide "How to migrate from WordPress to WordPress MU".

• Problems
• Analysis
• Answers
• Recommendations

Problems

Here is the quote of what Nealey wrote:

Hi Binh,

First I want to thank you for all your help.

I tried to create a blog for my used cars site but found it difficult. I want the blog to have the structure of a web site. Can you have a homepage , and then a link list to the other sections of the blog? I don't like the way posts work. Can you have pages in a blog? If so how? I havn't done any research on these questions myself yet. I think the help centers are useless. I'm going to try looking for answers, but any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Nealey

(Source: http://www.binh.name/?page_id=85#comment-158)

Analysis

I was about to ask Nealey to provide more information so I can provide more accurate help. In this particular case the required details are:

1. The blog URL, to see how it is currently organised.
2. Type of blog platform, to see how it can be organised.

After checking her comment I found out the URL to her blog and hence found out the required information as follow:

1. Blog URL: http://usedcarsunder1000dollars.blogspot.com/
2. Blogging platform: Blogger

Current look:

Since this article is focused on website structure, I will not talk about the AdSense placement on the blog. And because this is hosted by blogspot.com, I will talk in the context of Blogger blog.

Answers

Question: Can you have a homepage, and then a link list to the other sections of the blog?

Answer: Yes, you can make a homepage and sections like a normal website would have.

Blogger still help you structure your blog "like" a website, even though it is under-featured compare to WordPress and other blogging platforms.

In fact, blog is just a sub-type of website that has automatic date-based listing of posts. For that reason blog is much easier to manage. Anyone can write blogs, but not everyone can make websites. That's the beautiful of it and that's why it's taking over ordinary websites.

How to create a custom homepage on Blogger.com Blog

Blogger is not that straight-forward when it comes to create a custom homepage. This is not a typical and easily known process. It could be called a "trick to create custom homepage on Blogger.com".

To create this homepage, you need to create a special post following these steps:

1. Create a post and write it as it is a homepage. It will be used to replace the homepage.
2. Set the post date to a long distance future date. This will make it always stick on top of other posts on the homepage.
3. Do you notice in Blogger dashboard you have a link called Settings? Click on it.
4. In the Settings page click on the Formatting link. You can locate the Settings tab right below the header in between Posting and Template tabs.
5. In the Formatting page, locate the first setting box, you should see something like this: "Show [7] [posts] on the main page". Change that number [7] to[1].

Sum up, If you follow the process and complete the trick, you created a sticky post and display only that post on the homepage. In other words, you created a custom homepage for your blog. Congratulation!

How to link to other sections of the blog

OK, this is straight-forward and require very little technical knowledge. However, it require a little more of deep thinking in English and trials. I myself got confused at first, too. Sometimes the big boys forget the Keep It Simple Stupid principle and they unknowingly cause difficulties for users.

The answer is: using Labels. Why? Label in fact is a word used by Blogger.com to refer to Categories, or Sections. Category is a standard word in the web development world to referring to group of inter-related web pages.

Firstly, in order to have a website structure you need to create categories. How? When you create a new post, try your best to create/select a proper label for it. A proper label should be 1 to 3 commonly used words. Each label suppose to be grouping many posts together. If you create 1 unique label for each post, you failed.

If your blog haven't already display the categories, follow the following steps:

1. Open the Template tab.
2. On the Template page, locate the Add a Page Element link where you want to place the links to your labels (categories).
3. On a pop up window called "Choose New Page Element", locate the Labels element then click ADD TO BLOG.
4. On the "Configure Labels" page you can change the settings for your liking. I recommend changing Title from "Labels" to "Categories" for common understanding.
5. When you are satisfied with the settings, click SAVE CHANGES button to finalize the process.

Congratulation, now you know how to properly create categories for your blog-based website.

Question: I don't like the way posts work. Can you have pages in a blog?

This question is asked before I explained how to create a website structure on blogger.com blog. Now, is it still a valid question? If not, please read more.

Unfortunately you can't create pages on blogger.com. The blogging platforms like Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and many more do let you create pages though.

Recommendations

If you still not satisfied with how blogger.com work, please consider migrate to WordPress.com. If you go for WordPress.com you have 2 options:

1. Get it for free, but can't monetize.
2. Upgrade to premium account and pay so that you can display ads.

I'm using WordPress self-hosted package and it has much more powerful than blogger system. You can also consider to self host your own blog-based website using WordPress. This option give you a lot of flexibility. However it require you to have at least some technical knowledge in order to install and configure it.

Other than those, I'm having my own project in mind that can benefit you. I intend to to help non-technical knowledge people to set up their online business. I may give free help and supports too.

1. Why migrating?
2. What is WordPress MU?
3. Why WordPress MU?

Why migrating?

Many days have passed since I started thinking about URL structuring, website structuring, and multi-blogging. I've been holding back much because I don't want to write off-topic on my niche blog. "Binh dot Name" is pretty much a broad name, there is no "niche" in the name but I write much more about blogging tips than others, so far.

Now, I decide to slow down on writing to concentrate more on improving the quality of the blog in terms of:

1. Focused topics,
2. SEO practices,
3. Design elements,
4. Readership,
5. Link building, and more.

So today I guess is the day I start migrating before it's too late. I need to change the URL structure, too. Currently it's too ugly and cause some pain in analyzing traffics.

What is WordPress MU?

Here is a tip for anyone who doesn't know about WordPress MU. It's a back-end content management system that allow us to write blog. It's much like WordPress, however it allows registered author to create multiple blogs in the form of:

• http://blogname.binh.name, or
• http://binh.name/blogname

Why WordPress MU?

The control panel of WordPress MU is the same... actually more features than on WordPress.com. If you are blogger user, it's similar to that too.

• The user has a main dashboard, which manage the whole site, including blogs.
• Each blog has its own fully featured control panel.

The management is centralized, so management of multiple blogs is very easy.

What do you think?

Should I migrate? Should I not?

Finally I finish the 8 hour overnight work on modifying my blog layout using the Christmas Days theme. Last night I when I logged in to the WordPress control panel I did I quick check on the latest news about WordPress. Out of which was the 20 Nov releases of WordPress theme and plugins.

The New Themes

I found nothing special about the new plugins but found very interesting new themes.

After spending 1 hour testing the demo and on my own blog, I left a comment on that page like this:

• Christmas Days theme is fitting it at absolutely the right time. Cheers everyone. Merry Christmas and see it run on my blog.
• Curved 3-Columns content too small for a 468×60 banner ad.
• FluidFlower is not bad either, unfortunately I’m not a girl
• Genesis is too dark for the eyes.
• Paperback is too simple for a blog.
• PortraitPress is worth a try.
• Skyscraper should not be called a theme.
• WPDesigner is neat and nice.

Agree with me, not? You are always welcomed to leave a comment on my blog

Improvements

So, I really did make the promise come true, I spent the last 8 hours editing this theme to suit my needs. You can notice the following difference than the original theme:

1. The content pane padding has been reduced, allowing the content to span 480px, which can fit a 468x60 banner ad.
2. There is a square 180x150 AdSense block on the sidebar, which look really attractive.
3. There is a 468x60 AdSense text-only banner ad at the bottom of each page, except homepage.
4. The post title has been re-leveled from h2 to h1 (SEO reason)
5. Unnecessary words are removed from the title of archive page (SEO reason).
6. The copyright notice has been fixed to dynamically display the actual blog name from the database, not "BlogName"
7. Many more small fixes but I can't list all here.

What's next?

I thought about making my edition available for downloading right here, but I feel too lame if no one bother taking it. So if you like it, drop a message here request for a download package and I will post it up a.s.a.p.

Blog Update Services

1. http://ping.feedburner.com
2. http://rpc.blogcatalog.com
3. http://1470.net/api/ping
4. http://api.feedster.com/ping
5. http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
6. http://api.moreover.com/ping
7. http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
8. http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
9. http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
10. http://bblog.com/ping.php
11. http://bitacoras.net/ping
12. http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
13. http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
14. http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
15. http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
16. http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
17. http://coreblog.org/ping/
18. http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
19. https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
20. http://ping.amagle.com/
21. http://ping.bitacoras.com
22. http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
23. http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
24. http://ping.blo.gs/
25. http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
26. http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
27. http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
28. http://ping.feedburner.com
29. http://ping.myblog.jp
30. http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
31. http://ping.blogg.de/
32. http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
33. http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
34. http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
35. http://ping.weblogs.se/
36. http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
37. http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
38. http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
39. http://rpc.britblog.com/
40. http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
41. http://rpc.newsgator.com/
42. http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
43. http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
44. http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
45. http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
46. http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
47. http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
48. http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
49. http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
50. http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
51. http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
52. http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
53. http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
54. http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
55. http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
56. http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
57. http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
58. http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
59. http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
60. http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
61. http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
62. http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
63. http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
64. http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
65. http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
66. http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
67. http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
68. http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
69. http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
70. http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
71. http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
72. http://www.zhuaxia.com/rpc/server.php
73. http://www.blogsdominicanos.com/ping/
74. http://www.xianguo.com/xmlrpc/ping.php
75. http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2

Wow, that's a long list. So, what is the benefit from getting it on my blog?

Yes, there is a benefit from reading here, because I got a warning for you. The list is very long and, suppose to be attractive. However, I found out that some services have, or may have the following issues associated with it:

1. Not working anymore
2. Different language than yours
3. Requires sign up
4. Requires backlink prior approval
5. Requires manual approval

What's Next?

Unfortunately I haven't got the time to go through all of them to check. So for now, I just leave the list as it is, and will post update as I check them up.

Beside, it's my Birthday coming, so I should be preparing for it... wow so many things undone.

I started posting my blog entries with WordPress because I felt that's a necessary initiative. However, I strongly need to consider few things.

Website structure

The biggest issue I'm having is the website structure. I'm still wondering whether

1. putting niche topics on separate subdomains, and so using WordPress MU to power my site,
2. or just a single blog like right now with categories as niches.

Technically speaking, WordPress MU is capable of helping me separate the niches pretty well. SEO point of views, the 2nd option is much better, though require some serious initial design.

As for the niches, I have a few expertises and a few hobbies.

My expertises include:

• Software development
• Web development
• Software reviews
• Website reviews
• Reporting

My hobbies include:

• Photography - armature level, mostly common things and discoveries
• Giving opinions - just about anything I my find interested in having a say
• Learning - that's strange, but yes, I like to learn new things, and write about it.

Theme Design

The design is not finalized, yet. The design is a very important factor in retaining readers and building brand image. Hence, I need some serious time off writing and reading to do redesign the theme I chose, which is JustSimple.

URL structure

As you can see, my URL is still in ugly form. Earlier I wrote about the good URL structure choices, but since then haven't got good replies yet. I may need to visit some forum and invite people over for some feedback. Mean while, I still need to keep it like this.

WordPress Plug-ins

I installed and tested many WordPress plugins. So far I am very pleased with those:

• AdSense Manager
• All in One SEO Pack
• Google Analytics
• Google XML Sitemaps
• Inline Posts
• Permalink Redirect
• Post Teaser
• Subscribe To Comments
• wp-cache

The list for all plug-ins are long. Hence, I will keep it for another post summarizing those plug-ins and tell what worth using. The above plug-ins are nice to use, but new ones come out pretty often so they not yet for my permanent usage. For example recently WP Super Cache comes out and claim to take over 10,000 hits without a trouble.

Blog Directories

Yes, I have found out about those blog communities and was so surprise they existed and they really help. Recently as I go along learning, I stumbled on and signed up for the following:

• MyBlogLog.com
• BlogCatalog.com
• BlogFlux.com
• Technorati.com

I'm looking toward signing up on more directories. I will write review about each of them while I go along.

What's Next?

I planned to post about 10 articles a day. But due to those burdens I am delaying the writing. Struggling to start-up something does give much learning experience. I will be sharing my experience as I go along. Stay tuned for my progress on growing this baby "Binh dot Name" which ought to be a giant.

What about your blog? What do you plan with it? How will you achieve your goals?

Good things about JustSimple

This theme, regardless of having only 2 images, 1 for background, and 1 for the RSS feeds, look so elegant and easy on the eyes. As the name suggests, JustSimple is a simple lightweight WordPress theme.

Take a look at the screen-shot below:

This is exactly what I wanted. A simple but good looking theme for fast loading.

Some Problems with JustSimple

This is 800px width on a 1024px wide screen. There is one problem in layout, the whole container is fluid. The smaller the screen, the more the container get narrowed and the height of the page increase. This should be fixed otherwise it look bad when the browser window is resized. Like this:

After all the look and feel, I liked it and I tried it, here is a screen shot of my homepage when using this theme before any modification:

Beside the layout issue the theme also got a bug on it right on the Index page:

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The first argument should be either a string or an integer in D:\Program Files\AppServ\www\binh.name\wp\wp-includes\category-template.php on line 176

The bug was actually found in the index.php file, on line 19. It can be easily fixed by inserting one more condition in the if statement:

• Old: <?php if ( in_category($AsideId) && !is_single() ) : ?>
• New: <?php if ( $AsideId && in_category($AsideId) && !is_single() ) : ?>

Reason (warning, developer stuff) The $AsideId is null causing the in_category call passing a null argument, which throw the exception.

Conclusion

This theme design absolutely exactly perfectly specially is what I really wanted for so long time. You should expect this theme up and running for my Binh's Creative Blog soon. I have spent quite sometime on tweaking it. There still are some more things to do to make it more SEO friendly.

Stay tuned to see when it is implemented and how it look on my site. When completed I will also include a link to download my version of this theme for your own use. If you have some review on this theme, please feel free to post a comment. I will put some do-follow plug-in soon.

This is a temporary decision. I'm still choosing between WordPress and Drupal. I have been collecting information on the various most popular Content Management System (CMS) like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, XOOPS, WordPress and a few more.

Why I chose WordPress?

WordPress may have more limitation than a fully tweaked Drupal site, but for timing reason I have to use it.

The best thing about WordPress that is better than Drupal is that simply work out of the box. I just needed to download a few nice themes and few useful plug-ins and here it goes, running like a pro.

The next best thing about WordPress is that, not because it have so many plug-ins and themes, but the themes are extremely nicer and those expand are easier to find. I especially like the easy-to-view theme snapshots.

I will discuss more about the different CMS choices in another time.

Why not wait for a more stable solution

Basically, I have spent too long as I can recall. It's been about 2 months since I started looking into the first CMS, which was php-Nuke (the thing that tell me what a CMS is like).

Since then, I have been writing my blogs off line in OneNote and keep the files on my computers. I always are waiting to publish those near to a thousand pages I have written. Those written pages are ranging from my life issues to making money and a lot of ideas on self development. I kept on writing while learning the things that I haven't studied at university.

The call to start

The final moment when I started "Oh well! Let's do it instead of day-dreaming about it. Make it live an change it later". I made the decision because I read the Writing Tips on WordPress 's Writing Posts guide. The article suggest that people should 'worry about blog design later':

Blog design matters, but only to an extent. Don’t give up on blogging just because the design isn’t coming up as you’ll like it it to be. Sooner or later, you’ll get around the design problems with ease. But continue writing. Content is what attracts your readers, not just the look of your blog.

(Source http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts)

But still, I'm seriously considering the Drupal as the final solution. I have seen many high-profile Durpal Powered Sites and I really like it. A few things that don't satisfy me are:

• URL alias management,
• Multiple subdomains / domains duplicated content issue,
• URL redirect to alias,
• Lack of nice themes and theme snapshots.

Since it's a long topic, I will create a post discussing about Drupal later on.

Do you like WordPress? Should I keep it permanently or should I change?