Wednesday, September 19, 2007

While Waiting...

While waiting for some information for my trading blog, I have given it a new widget. It's the calendar widget, I think it's suitable for the journal, so that I can revise my trading by just clicking on the calendar. I got it from a beautiful blog : PurpleMoggy's Blog.

I'm still playing around with the code to see how it's work, i want to make it blend with the template setting.

...and still waiting for my google adsense account to be approve.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

My First Blog Template Editing

I have successfully edited the minima blogger template into 3 column. This blog is my first editing and I have edited the template in my another blog with a little twist of the template. I put the main column on the left row, and the sidebar columns on the right side. In addition, I create another bigger sidebar column on top of these two sidebar column, I named the wrapper as topsidebar. You can see this here.

I feel quite satisfied with the editing yield. Looks nice to me. :)

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Blogger Template Editing

To make my blog looks more interesting and attractive, I have edited my blogger template. I tried some templates which could be found for free in the internet. I found that they are very beautiful and attractive. The problem for me is I am not good at editing especially in the html programming. The templates may look good but hard for me to edit them. So i have to choose some easy template.

I did some search and come across several site that provide ways to edit the template. I searched for 3 columns template so that my blog will have more rooms in to put widgets and some ads. I found several sites that give some useful ways to edit blogger templates. Most of them give some html editing. I edited the Minima templates to 3 column, it is quite easy and simple. I followed the instruction from Tips for New Blogger, they provide a step by step guide to edit the template, very helpful. I feel very comfortable with this theme and feel that I should stick using this template. It is very manageable, clean and reader-friendly. I still continuing to hack this template to see new possible arrangement.

I'll continue visiting other's blog as usual. I still figuring out how to make people visit my blog.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

1st Lesson: Google Adsense

Well, I just looks at other people blogs, I saw they use adsense a lot. I searched the internet for some information on adsense to learn ,more about this. I stumble into two useful websites, first of all is the official adsense blog, Inside Adsense and secondly is Understanding Adsense.

I still reading about adsense. One thing to be note that the most important this is not rush about doing this, google is very strict on their adsense advertisement program, so i have to learn slowly. I heard a lot of people have been banned by google for cheating or other wrong doing on their adsense.

The interesting fact about this program is it will grow slowly, and it will be there in the internet. I use blogger as my host because it is one of the google site, so i think it will be there as long as google exist. The key to succeed is to attract traffic to the our website.

Creating one very high traffic website or a large number of small niche websites requires a whole host of skills which I do not have. I only get these skills by learning, implementing what I've learnt and reflecting on what my implementation has told me.

This is not quick rich or doing thing with no effort. This is hard work, like others. The only differences are it can be done at home and the freedom of time for doing it.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

My 1st Post: How I Got Attracted

My first attraction toward this kind of blogging comes from visiting others blog. I am quite amazed how they have created some (some are hefty) income by blogging. On those time, my mind keeps wondering how do they do it because it looks like an impossible thing to me. Questions come to my mind. Do they sell stuff in their sites? If so, how they do it? This have sparks the interest in me to start doing it for myself. I start digging for it here, digging for it in my own blog. I want to experiment it for myself. I want to explore and experience it myself.

Let search for the answer by starting here. I hope this would be an interesting journey for me. I am zero in this arena, empty. This is my starting line. I realize that there are many hurdle in front of me, but lets just face it.