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Woho… a new face for my blog. It’s black, it’s simple, it’s about my life (^_^)

Udah jam 8 malem nih, udah niat banget pulang dari kantor. Tapi tiba2 suara ujan di luar menghentikan proses beres2 meja. Yap! Akhirnya duduk lagi, bengong di depan laptop. Masa lanjutin kerja lagi? gak deh, semua aplikasi buat kerja udah di tutup abis. Ngapain ya? Tinggal Firefox ama YM yang masih kebuka nih, hm… ngelirik sekilas ke google toolbar yang nangkring di kanan atas, isenglah jari melantunkan 2 buah kata yang sangat familiar, “sahat tambunan” – Enter deh!

Page 1 tetap seperti biasa, kayanya sih ga banyak perubahan. Namanya orang ga ada kerjaan, iseng2 terus nelusurin page by page nya, sampe, eh… What the???

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I’ve just updated my template with some minor changes. here they are:

1. notice my new header?

2. fix some of the template bug.

3. update content background to white round corner box with drow shadow effect (fix a template bug)

4. move pages link from sidebar to header

5. move search box from sidebar to header

6. add function to show/hide search button automatically

7. add function to set/reset search text automatically

8. add shoutbox to sidebar

9. reorder the sidebar items

10. add hide/show function for some items in sidebar

11. add frog (kocu) image at the bottom of post view

12. tambahin link ke main domain sahat-tambunan.com di header, sebelum pages link

13. hm… udah, kayanya sih itu aja

13 kan? rada maksa dikit gapapalah

Have you ever noticed about movie rating? In Indonesia, people never really concern about this. No one will confirm your age when buying a movie ticket. I’m not sure whether they even aware of movie rating. But that’s not what I like to share anyway. A blogger friend share this tool with me and I find it kinda nice to try. It can explore your sites and rate it with a movie rating. Not important to try, but worth the fun if you have the time Here’s my blog movie rating

I’ve shared about 2 wordpress plugins I use to support photo blogging before. Well, here’s the update, after using Lightbox for some time, I found it really thirst of resource, and was causing heavy load on my blog. I was truly amazed by its work, but I can’t tolerate the load any longer. So I decide to find another solution. Well, looks like I’m not the only one, and even better, someone else has done the slimming process to Lightbox load and came up with Litebox, a much lighter version of Lightbox. Perfect! So next step is to seek for Litebox plugin for Wordpress. Didn’t take much time to find one

I downloaded it, tested it locally and found it worked perfectly. So I installed it to my blog right away. Tada, came up with a small problem. It can’t locate 2 images, the loading and the close button. I checked the source a bit, and found the problem. It was because I’m using static URI, date and name base permalink. The javascript didn’t translate the image location correctly. The fix is simple, open litebox-1.0.js in js folder and seek for this line:

var fileLoadingImage = "wp-content/plugins/gblitebox/images/loading.gif";
var fileBottomNavCloseImage = "wp-content/plugins/gblitebox/images/closelabel.gif";

All I did was added a slash at the beginning of the string so it would look like this:

var fileLoadingImage = "/wp-content/plugins/gblitebox/images/loading.gif";
var fileBottomNavCloseImage = "/wp-content/plugins/gblitebox/images/closelabel.gif";

Very simple fix huh? but I didn’t work it out instantly. I edited the file a few times but uploaded a different file with the same filename from another location. It took me half an hour to realize it phew.

a picture is worth a thousand words

Yes, I’m fully agree to this proverb. And that’s why, starting from now on, I’ll use this blog for my photo blog as well. No, I’m not a photographer, and I’m not planning to be one, either. I don’t even have any digicam (yet). All I have is an old nokia mobile phone with a standard camera (I think it’s still VGA).

I’ve had this thought for some times, but I haven’t got the chance to try it out. It’s hard to decide how would I organize the photos. I was uncertain whether I should put it in a free public photo web as flickr, have my own gallery (like this), make a new photo blog, or just use this one. Well, I’ve finally made up my mind (as you can see), but I soon stumbled in new question. I need plugins to support this. Finding the one suit my needs wasn’t easy, I need to search for some recommended plugins, explore them, see the live demo and finally try them on my local server. There are lots of good plugins with great features! But sometimes, we just don’t need that great features. So, I finally decide the plugins to extend my blog to a photo blog, Lightbox and ImageManager.

Lightbox will serve as the front end image loader, it has great javascript to load your image in layers. ImageManager will serve as the back end image organizer. I can only show you the live demo for lightbox, please click my name: Sahat-Tambunan to see how it works.

Well, did anyone notice some changes in my blog? I’ve added some ads to it. They’re google’s. So, what about these ads? I just wannna share my blogwalking experience a few days ago. It seems to me that many bloggers all around the world is monetizing their blog. Some even make it as their professions. For them, blogging has become more than just… blogging :p I also found that some people has succeed.

My personal perspective, Everyone has the rights to do whatever they like, and some people are so lucky they can earn money at the same time. I believe this goes for blogging as well. But sometimes…, no, perhaps many times, people like to hear other’s success story, and just starting to walk the same path. They aim to earn what they’ve heard. Is this wrong? I think it’s natural, as long you keep it that way. But most people often forget the most important things, the Fun! They failed to notice one of the success key, one of the main factor of success, is to enjoy what they do. Don’t concentrate on making money and miss all the fun.

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