my-alia.com is organizing a contest
here!
1. Write an entry (in your blog) about this contest.. Use your creativity! At the very beginning, I was reluctant to join (
due to certain circumstances). But I saw Zu's name appearing in one site when I was bloghopping from one blog to another. Let me keep that blog name as a secret. It gave me the inspiration to join the contest.
2. Tell us what that you like about my-alia.com (it could be the posts, the widgets.. anything!) I've been a silent reader not to just my-alia.com, but to anywhere in this blogging world. And as usual, I'm the one who love to reserve my comment and leave with no trail.
Parenting is one of my favorite issues as I'm a mother of 3. Eventhough, I blogged less about them but the topic has always been interesting for me to read.
3. Tell us what you don't like about my-alia.com and how to improve our blog! (1) The loading time is slow. What you should do is to
test the loading time of your blog from time to time. The best range is between 100-200k. I have tested my-alia.com and the result is 912.5kb. It's indeed a big file!
To improve your loading time, you can:
1- change your pictures format to PNG file or you can compress them.
2- limit to 3 @ 4 entries within one page. Mine 2 only.
3- let go the unneccessary widgets.
4- you can even consider to change the template. You can select the one with left-side post as it's normal for a page to load the left side first. While waiting for the others to come out, you still can enjoy reading the post without wasting time to wait for others to appear.
I've blogged about this but I'm the one who forgot. No wonder my blog lemau macam kura² jugak. 400++kb! Aiyohh....! After minor adjustment, it has become 287kb now (still heavy!).
TOTAL_SIZE - Warning! The total size of this page is 287645 bytes, which will load in 60.53 seconds on a 56Kbps modem. Consider reducing total page size to less than 100K to achieve sub 20 second response times on 56K connections. Pages over 100K exceed most attention thresholds at 56Kbps, even with feedback. Consider optimizing your site with Website Optimization Secrets, Speed Up Your Site or contacting us about our optimization services.
(2) Second thing to improve your blog is by registering it to the search engine such as Google and Yahoo (and even MSN, but I didn't do this! I also registered mine to Technorati). I found out that this will help you to popular your blog. I give you the reason why:
A surfer from US has searched for the word 'Cerebral palsy, amazing' and amazingly, the Syafiah's blog has turned out to be number 2 in Google index system. Another example today is by searching for 'Baby born limp and floppy'. The Google feed it as number 2 too.


How to register with Google? Follow this step:
1- Go to
http://www.google.com/addurl/.
2- URL --> fill in the blog's URL.
3- Comments --> fill in the keyword regarding the blog's content.
4- Type in the verification word.
5- Click Add URL
6- Done.
Register with Yahoo:
1- Go to
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit (make sure you've a Yahoo account).
2- Fill in the URL (you can add -
http://www.my-alia.com/atom.xml. atom.xml is a feed for blogger/blogspot).
3- Click Add URL.
4. Tell us what you'd like me to write in my-alia.com in the future! I don't have any suggestion to this. Zu's followers are more than enough to tell you that they love to read her posts, meaning that they accept her as the way she is. True?
Cheers....!!
Adeh... penat makcik menulis!