Netmoirs of A Solemn Rover

Concrete5 For Cool Corporatey Sites

There is much talk about Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal being the coolest and the most elite amongst all the CMS packages available in this world. However, I have just discovered not long ago and toyed around with this nifty CMS called 'Concrete5'. It has been around the block for sometime now since 2003 but the recent update in the software put CMS fans on high alert to possibly convert into Concrete5 users abandoning the already fashionable CMS scene. This is because the anticipated stable...

Sand In, Sand Away

A 6 wheel payloader was here today, pouring sand in front of our gate, and made a quick getaway. It was another minor makeover of our house. To be precise, the temporary kitchen floor. Mom & dad will bring in workmen doing cementing and floor levelling next week. It seems like the wheelbarrow will be put into full use again after some time of dormancy. Judging from the size of the payload, it was twice the size that we have used to level the compound behind the house. Upon completion...

Small Web Project Done

Finished working on Canon's EOS Academy microsite today. It is a small scale project that I have been working on for 10 days. This microsite is about EOS Academy course offering where Canon run it's training and coaching programme for DSLR savvy people. My task is to revamp the whole site rewriting whats not readable by search engine to readable ones. Being a 'true organic', this site has no flash. I am not a believer in flash despite the fact that many Malaysian company websites love...

How to Solve Magento Login Issues

I was in the midst of testing Magento as required by a client as my 'offered' expertise in Wordpress and Joomla does not tally with the client's requirement of a solid ecommerce package. Wordpress win hands down for the best experience in blogging with superb SEO capabilities and Joomla excel in being a versatile CMS minus the SEO aspects of it, but both platform does not suit my clients' ecommerce needs. After scouring around for a number of ecommerce packages, I then decided to get down...

Site Upgrade

After long hiatus I have decided to upgrade my Wordpress powered blog from 2.0.10 to 2.2.1. If the site doesn't display well in your screen, please bear with me as I have a lot of backdated posts to be published. *the upgrade is such a pain in the ass.*...

Goin’ 4!

Oh yes yes yes, my page Rank is 4 now! Glad it happen as I was hoping this is not going to be possible as my backlinks are still low. I thought another 2-3 months will only yield results but I really didn't expect that this surprise came earlier than expected. I think the effort that I put in SEO-ing and SE submission that does the trick. Goin 4! Just a quick note - PageRank was calculated based on an equation. All of its inbound links are taken into account for calculation. These are...

Sitescore Ranting

Sitescore, a site that test your site and break the tests to sectional area in terms of SEO-ing. Sitescore is a useful tool coined and engineered by Silktide, a UK SEO company that 'grade' sites, and award badge to them to be 'worn' on their respective sites. For webmasters whether you are bloggers or technopreneurs, Sitescore can give you a deep insight of your site during test and highlight all the flaws down to their code and scripting so ya'll know where to troubleshoot them thus,...

A Facelift & A SEO Rant

Its the time of the year where everything gets a new face lift, and so is my blog. Plus, CNY & V'day is just around the corner, so I am gonna make further revamps based on themed festivities with an easy-to-fit template where any further fiddlings can be performed in a jiffy. In this case I have discarded Wreck Rose, the X'mas version away like morsels on your plate. I have loved Kapikua's designs, which was the original designer of that template originally known as BBRose before I pimp...

2K & SEO-ing

Yesterday, my hits reached the 2000th mark. After few months of being loved, hated, abused, dissed, blogrolled, pimped (thanks Lilian), & stalked, my blog has transcended to another milestone, which was a meaningful transition I should say. Still have lotsa fresh ideas coming & I hope soon I could contribute more quality blentries (blog-entries) to the Malaysian blogosphere/blogdom. P/S: Thanks to Lucia - a political blogger who've just pimped my cartoon - 'Kurang Asem:...

Pinkophobik & A Cause

Atchelli leh I dun relli like pink wan. Cos the color was atrocious. It abuse my senses & my eye-sight. But this time was different, cos somebody asked me to join her in this holy campaign. So at first I tot what was that..so I went to the URL provided & guess what, it was a campaign about breast cancer. Oh well, I understand we guys are just too macho for all this, but think again. If not cos of these 'precious', aren't we guys gonna have difficulties getting sexcited? Think again....