Improving User Portal on Wangjianshuo.com Mar 15, 2008 I have a sub-domain called http://user.wangjianshuo.com. I used that domain to present user contributed content, which is the comment section of my blog. I didn't put too much effort into it yet, so it is pretty simple and may not...
Analysis of Links and Ways to Improve Mar 14, 2008 Date-Based Archive Pages Let me start with the 60 Date-Based Archive Pages, with URL like http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/2003_04.htm As you can see from the next chart, there are about 50 or so links. That is a clear sign of the change I...
How Translate Tool on this Site Works Feb 12, 2008 The Files are Not Actually There In .htaccess file in root folder, I have the following: RewriteRule ^(fr|ja|zh-CN|de|it|ko|pt|es|ar|ru)/.*$ scripts/analytics/translatedoc.php [L] This way, I have the most language supported: fr ja zh-CN de it ko pt es ar ru There are...
Recovery of Fanfan's Blog Dec 2, 2007 FTP to the server and check /cgi-bin/mt/mt.cgi folder. It is a new installation with MovableType 3.2. That was created on Jan 14, 2007. Download mt-config.cgi file to analyze what is the current database. The current DB points to /home/wangjian/public_html/cgi-bin/mt/db...
My Readers are Primarily Older, more Asian, and Male... Nov 7, 2007 This is Quantcast's description of my site: This site reaches approximately 18,009 U.S. monthly uniques. The site appeals to a primarily older, more Asian, slightly male slanted audience.The typical visitor consults US Government Travel Info and frequents Google Groups. Pretty...
AdSense Color Schema Change Oct 14, 2007 You may notice some very small change to the color of the AdSense on the right side of this blog. (I believe most people even didn't notice that). History of AdSense on this Blog Within one week, I will see...
Shanghai Photo Viewer Oct 12, 2007 I added a link to all my individual pages tonight. You may notice that at the end of every entry, there are some photos showing related photos of the topic. Using the Shanghai Photo Viewer, I can easily find latest...
Improved Commenter Page Sep 2, 2007 I have a subdomain http://user.wangjianshuo.com just to hold profiles of users (or commenters). I admit it didn't work so well. Ling mentioned it yesterday. Hi Jian Shuo! Thank you for the medal! Wow! I actually topped the list for this...
How to Add Navigation Menu to MovableType Sep 1, 2007 Have you noticed the change in the header of my blog? Look at this screen shot at the end of this article. Yesterday, I added a global navigational menu to my blog. I love this change very much, and it...
FAQ of This Site Jul 19, 2007 I added a function to automatically locate the most promising articles for the FAQ or frequently searched terms on this site....
How to Setup Websites Outside China Jul 9, 2007 This seems to be a silly question - "how to setup a website OUTSIDE China?" What to do with China when the website is outside China. This is exactly the right answer. However, many (upt o 10) emails asked me...
What is the Most Sticky Topic? Jul 7, 2007 What is the most sticky topic on this site? Or to put the question the other way, what is the keyword that brings a visitor and the visitor stayed on this site for longest time? Using the data from Google...
Find out Bigger Images on this Site May 22, 2007 I often get request to republish my article. Normally, I will give the permission for reprint. However, to send out the original image is a big headache to me. Since most of my images are hosted on flickr, and I...
More AdSense Code on Site May 2, 2007 4 years ago (Oct 22, 2003), I turned on Google AdSense on my blog. Oh! Time passes fast! I didn't realize I have been using Google AdSense for almost 4 years, and that this product has been around for 4...
RSS Changed to Full Text Mar 13, 2007 Maybe it is good news for many readers who rely on RSS to read this blog. I have changed all my RSS feed from excerpt only to full text. That means, no matter what reader you use, from Google Reader,...
Full Text RSS Feed for This Blog? Mar 12, 2007 Cube316 asked whether I want to turn on full text feed for the RSS of my blog. Both excerpt or full text is OK for me. My decision depends on which one my readers' love better. So the question is...
How to Advertise on this Blog? Mar 9, 2007 A friend's friend asked him to ask me (ha ha, weired) how can he put advertisement on my this. He is running an apartment broker service for expats at http://rentome.com/ (disclaimer: I didn't experienced it, and don't know the quality....
Wangjianshuo.com Backup Plan Feb 28, 2007 This blog is my most important digital assert. I cannot imagine what happens when it crashes someday, or I lose all my data. So backup is critical for me - even more critical than my bank account. Here is the...
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Unsubscribe if You Don't Like Newsletters Jul 29, 2006 I posted a mail to Wangjianshuo's Blog Update subscribers (see the newsletter section at the bottom of this page, that is the mail list), to ask people who are not interested in continuing receiving update to unsubscribe from the list....
Wayback to Wangjianshuo's Blog May 17, 2006 Vince's email mentioning Way Back Machine reminds me to check out what Wangjianshuo's Blog looks like three years ago. Here are some snapshots. 2002 2003 2004 2005 4 pages 15 pages 35 pages 23 pages Sep 22, 2002 * Oct...
Comment System is OK Now Sep 26, 2005 I felt strange that there were no new comment after I posted my last comment at 25, 2005 12:55 AM. I thought it may because of weekend. To my surprise, I found the site stopped accepting new comments after that....
Removed my Email from Blog Sep 19, 2005 Today, I removed my email address signiture from every page of my blog. Old footer of individual page in this blog I put on my email into my blog from day one of blogging. I enjoy being interactive with my...
Wangjianshuo's Blog Change Log Sep 11, 2005 23:29 2006-7-31 Project: Remove Google Adsense code from Individual Entry Archive Propose: Increase user experience by providing ad-free browsing on Individual Entry Archive page. Increase Google Adsense revenue to improving overall CTR rate. Success Metrics: Get earning back to 40...
My 17 "OR" Articles Sep 8, 2005 Chedong is my good friend and a search engine expert. He wrote an article on his blog named: 15 OR of Wang Jian Shuo (I found this is 976th article from him already) We discussed two topics I wrote: one...
Comment RSS Feed Mar 2, 2005 From today, you can use the Comment RSS Feed to get notified of new comments posted to this site Comment Feed Add it to your favorite RSS reader now. To reseve bandwidth resources, do not set the refresh interval too...
My Functional Spec Nov 13, 2004 In Micrososft, I have been the training on software development processes for many years. I prompt the use of 3P4S (3 processes + 4 servers) software method - Daily Build process, Source Control process and Bug Tracking process + source...
Homepage Version 3 Nov 7, 2004 Anyone noticed the change of the homepage? It is 3rd major change in the design. I added some key elements that have been requested for a long time, including links, archives, recent comment preview... It is still in beta, which...
PmWiki Reloaded Oct 23, 2004 I reinstalled PmWiki again. This time, the system is not Windows and I followed the instruction on page http://www.pmichaud.com/ref/PmWiki/Setgid to get rid of the Setgid error. Then I need to enable the Chinese support of this Wiki site. This page:...
My Map Has Errors - I Know Oct 17, 2004 I apologize to Mr. Peng who wrote to me to complain that there is an error on my Shanghai Map. He searched for Zhong Shan South Road II and come to my site since mine is the first in the...
Bigger Font is a Failure Oct 9, 2004 Too tired today due to long MSN conversation chat. Just a small piece of note today. It seems the larger font I changed is not a positive move. I saw people suggesting to change it back to original view. I...
Wayback Wangjianshuo's Blog Oct 2, 2004 I didn't remember I have blog interface like this onNov 25, 2002, and I have no idea about the first version of Wangjianshuo's blog like this: Sep 22, 2002. I even have page like this on Mar 27, 2003. All...
Font Changed to Bigger Sep 11, 2004 After the forecast of Upcoming Change in Font Size, I uploaded the new CSS to my web server. I have formed a habbit to link to this CSS file whenever I create a new web page, so the most basic...
Wangjianshuo's BBS Launched Sep 11, 2004 I am cautious to open a BBS on my site. One month ago, I posted: Shall I Open a Shanghai BBS. At that time, I still didn't decide to open one. The major barrier is, I don't think I have...
Upcoming Change in Font Size Sep 10, 2004 I have planned this for a long time, from the first day of this blog till now. I am going to change the current fixed font size (10pt) of this blog to a blog with relative font (100%, 120%...) size....
Shall I Open a Shanghai BBS Aug 10, 2004 Whenever I meet any tough decision related to this site, I turn to my readers to help me. I am thinking of open a BBS to offer visitors another place to raise question. Thus if anyone has any question about...
Change in Global Navigation Jul 17, 2004 This page is just for my personal reference in case one day I want to roll back to the original version. The original version: Home | Life | News | Shanghai | Tech | Travel | WWW | Random |...
Cannot Post Comment on this Site? Jul 15, 2004 Some reader reported that he/she cannot post comment onto this site. They get error message: Comment Submission Error Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: You are not allowed to post comments. Chances are, I have banned your IP...
My Own Web Based RSS Reader Jul 14, 2004 Check my own web based RSS reader. It is based on Feed on Feeds. Let me add more explaination to this test tomorrow. Update: Feed on Feeds is a very nice tool written in PHP. It did some hack on...
Thank God. Links 2.0 Finally Worked May 11, 2004 Thanks to God. After fighting with the "Premature end of script headers" error in Links 2.0 for the whole night, it finally suddenly worked. Before that, it was always 500 Internal Server Error. Now all the links directory and the...
Migrating Scripts Apr 18, 2004 This post is the insider information about the scripts used in this website. It is recorded for my future reference and may serve as inspiring tips for others running the same site. Content of my old /scripts/ folder [ads] -...
Photo Index of My Blog Feb 11, 2004 I have created a photo index of all the pictures shown on this site, so you can check the site by photos. Year of 2003 Year of 2004 I hope you enjoy the pictures I took. It can also be...
Newsletter Switched to Yahoo! Groups Feb 11, 2004 In the following week, I will send out emails to the 300 subscribers of Wangjianshuo's Blog Update to nofity the change of the newsletter. Dear Reader of Wangjianshuo's Blog, I am writing to notify you about the recent changes in...
PmWiki Successfully Installed on Windows 2000 Jan 3, 2004 I finally decided to use PmWiki as my Wiki engine, just like choosing MovableType for my blog. Before choosing PmWiki, I also successfully installed UseModWiki and OpenWikie on my server, and did some research on MediaWiki. OpenWiki are not so...
My Alexa Traffic Ranking Improved Dec 29, 2003 My Alexa web traffic ranking improves. Today, wangjianshuo.com, including both home... and www... is ranked as the 92,392nd largest site in terms of traffic. It is the first time it jumps into top 100,000. Credit: Alexa.com If the trend continues,...
Directory Added Dec 12, 2003 My readers and I suffer greatly from the navigation structure of this website. The two to three years of continuous adding content to the site left hundreds of pages of content with no particular order. The current category feature of...
Why I Added Google Adsense to My Blog Oct 22, 2003 You may discover that from today (Oct 22, 2003), the Google Adsense begin to appear on my website. It is typically a banner like the one shown under the Ad section on this page. Experiment I am just doing experiment...
Usability Improvement May 14, 2003 My readers are telling me that the site is simple and easy to use. Here are some samples: Jian Shuo Wang's blog - SARS and life in China, including photos and interesting conversations. Nice simple design too. -- kim gilmour...
Top Usability Mistakes of Wangjianshuo's Blog May 6, 2003 Since I have plenty of time, I reviewed Jakob Neilson's Top Ten Web-Design Mistake of 2002. I am very interested in usability and even delivered training and speech on usability in some events. I had paid a lot of attention...
Inside Wangjianshuo.com II Mar 25, 2003 I wrote Inside Wangjianshuo.com in Oct 2002. It is more on the operational side - the venders I am using and the architectes of the domains and websites. Recently, I reviewed some very good articles on site building. I'd like...
Fixing and Changing on Wangjianshuo.com Mar 12, 2003 Fixing The PVGBBS has been out of order for about one month. Whenever I click on any of the post, it always report: Untrapped Error: ./sources/display.pl does not return a value from E:\Customer\Wangjianshuo\... This is an annoying error and I...
Inside wangjianshuo.com Oct 20, 2002 Many people have asked me about my servers, my domains and the weblogs. It is brought to my attention again when cuanyu talked with about the same topic this afternoon. I'd like to reveal everything behind the two sites - http://www.wangjianshuo.com and home.wangjianshuo.com.
Web Construction History Sep 30, 2002 Here, I would like to release a construction history log for your reference. As you can see, the site continues its growth since the first page is created back to 11/12/2001. Up to today, this site contains 377 all kinds...
5 Easy Ways to Find Out This Site Sep 30, 2002 Sometime to find a long lost friend is not easy. You don't have his phone number and you forget his email. Maybie it is the situation when you want to contact me after several months or years. To prevent this...