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Accidentally Found A Niche
Jul 24th
I was so encouraged by myself to use Blogger with custom domain where I plan to write about my findings in my hobby, tastycakeever. It was written in my post before this post. If you wish to read it to make the whole story crystal clear, you can visit the following link. 
Hyphened Domain Versus Other TLDs Domain (This link will open in new tab/window.)
But several days after that(today), I was having a casual conversation with my friend which is not an internet marketeer but more as ordinary internet end user. We are talking about tastycakeever and then he show me a video that was posted on YouTube about our topic. The video was interesting. But that’s not the important thing I want to tell you in this post.
As you know YouTube have two column, one for the video and the other smaller column is for related video and sometimes they put an advertisement by Google there.
Yes, the important findings that I want to share to you guys is about the advertisement that I see there! 
For your information, Google Adsense(the advertisement provider) is the most advance in contextual advertisement where they only show relevant advertisement for that particular individual web page. So that’s mean the advertisement that I saw just now is VERY RELEVANT to tastycakeever!
Wow!
I yelled at the screen when I realize that. The hobby that I never thought to monetize is possible to be my next income stream.
Em… I have to cut this into two part, if you want to read more, please do because I don’t want everything appears on my homepage. I will share what I do next. Please do read the rest of this post to find out what happen.
Upgrade To WordPress 3.0
Jul 5th
I just upgrade this blog to WordPress version 3.0. For all of you that still new to blogging arena, WordPress script is the most user friendly and complete solution for blogging. Beside, WordPress nowadays have changes so much that we can actually call it a Content Management System for blog.
Overall, I did not pay much attention to every updated version that WordPress released to public. I just want to let my self to use the best and the latest version of WordPress so there will be no security issue for my blog.
But in WordPress version 3.0 I found out that they have change the default WordPress theme into a new theme. Well, let’s say goodbye to kubrik then. Kubrik have been the default theme since I use WordPress on version 1.8 and now WordPress have gone through a serious major improvement that it now reach version 3.0
The interface and the default colour scheme for the administration page is almost like you’re using MAC. I’m not a big fan of MAC, in fact I never use MAC. I am a Windows fan boy and I program windows application, never for OSX. But the interface is clean and “easy to eye”. So congratulation to WordPress developer team for all the great works.
I will put their link on my blog roll since now.
WordPress 3.0
Paypal Add To Cart Button Is Not Enough
Feb 19th
I’ve been trying to use the Paypal merchant service. ?The Add To Cart Button. ?It was so simple and all the transaction was handled by Paypal. ?But it lacks of feature where buyers cannot choose the quantity of the item. ?Buyers only can choose how many quantity they want when they want to check out at Paypal cart where Paypal will list all the item and buyers can alter the quantity before clicking the PAY NOW button.
Using this simple solution also lacks of tracking. ?We do not know how much sales for today for example. ?We need to manually find the top seller and other.
For small business with limited of item, this solution is great. ?But for a growing number of product. ?The Paypal Add To Cart Button is just not enough.
Stay with me for later post whether I have find a good solution for this.
Developing An E-commerce Website Using a WordPress
Feb 17th
I have been falling in love with WordPress Content Management System(CMS) since my first year in blogging arena. ?It was and still is a very user friendly CMS to develop a self hosted blog. ?It just not “friendly” to user but also very friendly to Google bots. ?They have been quite a good friend that if you notice, when you do a search using Google search engine, if the result is a blog, 99% of it would be made of WordPress CMS.
I’ve been trying to use Joomla last time but it overwhelmed me with its slow loading even on admin interface, and there’s such things as module, etc which is not user friendly at all. ?But indeed, Joomla have more advance feature than WordPress. ?But the learning curve is hard and boring compare to WordPress which is “direct to the point”.
There’s other CMS called Drupal. ?This CMS is light. ?Fast loading. ?Because it was “empty”. ?The basic default function will not be enough to run a lively blog. ?You need to install or code yourself a nods to add more functionality. ?This CMS is considered a kits compare to WordPress which is Ready To Run.
So today me and my friend decided to setup an E-commerce website for out future business which will be based on printing and design services. ?Let’s see if I can develop an E-commerce website using a WordPress CMS.
Installing MUST HAVE Plugins
Nov 22nd
Plug-in is add on. ?WordPress plug-in obviously bring the meaning it is add on for WordPress script. ?It is undeniable that WordPress blog management system script have a great features and are the most user friendly and most popular and widely used nowadays. ?But, there’s always custom functions that the users wants that do not exist in the original WordPress script. ?This is where other developers create a new separate programs to work a long with WordPress and it was officially encouraged by WordPress. ?Some of the feature was to optimize the blog for optimum level for search engine, some for interaction between the author(s) and the readers or commentators, and some of the feature are to ?tightened the security feature of existing script while some are just for internal administrative task.
This article will represent the MUST HAVE WORDPRESS PLUGINS in my point of view.
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I Can’t Recent Video Plugin
Jun 14th
Just recently, I tried to make a plugin that shows latest video that inserted into custom field.
I am using the code below to grab the value of the assigned custom key.
<?php $video = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Video', true); ?>
But when it attached to dynamic area, it can’t grab the key value.
But when I directly paste the code on home.php, it works!
WordPress 2.8
Jun 11th
Just so suddenly! ?WordPress 2.8 official version was released. ?I notice the update when logging in into my localhost wordpress blog, mean for theme making.
So, I simply click Please update now. and then choose automatic update.
The upgrading process run smoothly and then it run the update database wizard and all done.
The user interface do not change… a lot…
It still like WordPress 2.7 interface.
But in WordPress 2.8, we can decide how many columns we want the widget in our dashboard.
In WordPress 2.8, there are Theme browser, something that functioning like plugin browser that was introduced in WordPress 2.7, just, this is for themes instead for plugins.
Other function, I am not yet find out…
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WordPress 2.8
Firefox Is On Top Rank – Battle of The Browser
Jun 9th
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Top Browser
You can click the image above to enlarge it. ?The image above show statistic data I get from Google analytics on PANGERAN.ORG.
The top ranking browser use by visitors to my website is Firefox! ?With more than 64% users.
It followed by Internet Explorer, but just contributing to around 18% only.
Third place is Google Chrome, my favourite browser because it is so light and fast!
By checking my other websites, I found out that that they have similar browser ranking!
Meaning?
Firefox have won the “Battle of The Browser” so far… 
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