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Ladies and gentlemen, I 'officially' announce that the updates on my site has completed! This update took me almost 3 months to finish. That's pretty long time, since all the updates are on local and I don't focus on this everyday, so sometimes I tend to forget where I stop the last time. Anyway, this update is accompanied by the release of
D's Bloggie v3.1 . Weblog is the main content on my site. So for most of the time, whenever there is a major site update, my D's Bloggie will be updated too, and vice versa.
This site update, like most of the major updates, which heavily involved in backend changes. For database part, I've created 5 new tables, added 21 new columns to existing tables and dropped 5 existing columns. This is not fun, I've to change lines of lines of codes. I've also revised most of the sql queries and remove any duplicate queries. On a full standard page it usually needs around 30 queries, after the tuning, it now requires only around 20 queries =) For search engine optimization (SEO) part, I added 'description' and 'keyword' to the HTML <META> tag. Depending on the page's content, different or custom descriptions and keywords will be used. I'm not sure why Google indexed my main page but not the rest of other pages. I even added new rewrite rules to rewrite all the URLs that points to weblog and shout entries. For example, '
/weblog/100/' will now be rewrote to '
/weblog/100.html'. So I hope this will help abit for Google... although Yahoo has already crawled almost all the pages on my site. That's weird eh ?
Weblog entries are now able to carry multiple tags/categories instead of just a single tag/category. Tag and category is an exchangable term on my site. I've expended from originally 9 categories to 41 categories in this update. The new categories can be arranged into
hierarchy format, which means every category can be a parent category and allowed to have sub categories beneath it. The public is also able to perform a
search on the weblog entries, by matching the entry's title, description and content. The default search mode will be 'exact search', and it's the only search mode available right now. Read my other entry
Stucked with "homemade" search engine for own weblog for more info.
This site update also indicates the starting of the battle between my site and spammers. Now, this site is armed with site-wide banning (IP range, hostname). On top of that, suspicious private message/shouts/comments will not be added. You're free to view my
blacklisted list. For security, CAPTCHA (aka verification code) is used on several new pages as well as extra tracking to strengthen site's security.
For tools section, I added a few new tools. Most of them are for administrative purpose. Only
URL Extract is opened for public. For weather report, I added new weather reports that cover most of the cities/capitals in Australia.
The most noticeable layout changes will be the new logo design and the side navigation menu. The side navigation menu is moved to the right hand side. This is also a part of the SEO, data comes first
On this update, side navigation menu is break down into modules, every page can choose to load the required or preset module instead of displaying all. For example, the shoutbox will only be loaded on the main page's side navigation menu. It will never appear in other pages because it's not needed.
For D's Bloggie part...
What's new in D's Bloggie v3.1
- ! Multibyte-safe parser and related classes since the site's default encoding is changed to UTF-8 (from ISO-8859-1) -- 2006.06.10
- ! Changes on the BBCode parser's rendering/parsing part. Right now using 2 phase parse instead of single phase. 2 phase parsing is a more "clean" way to deal with certain tags like [code], [nobb] etc
- + New [table] tag. This tag is inspired by the Wiki Table using pipe syntax. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table -- 2006.06.12
- + Check the wellformedness of the content -- 2006.06.12
- + Allow dumping the raw structure for specific entry -- 2006.06.12
- + [code] Tag: Rewrote major part for this tag. Syntax changed. New attributes 'lang' 'linenum' 'nojs' 'title'. Now individual code snippet/fragment has their own options to highlight, show line number and etc. All this is done by setting the attributes in the [code] tag instead of controlling via settings of individual blog entry.
- + [url] Tag: Added a new attribute 'external' 'local' 'clean'. Originally needed 4 regex matching (include [lurl] tag), now simplified down to 1 regex matching only
- + [img] Tag: Rewrote almost the whole part for this tag. Syntax changed. Now support flexible attributes such as image position(left,right,center), image size, additional caption, image thumbnail. Inspired from Wikipedia.
- - New [left], [right] tag for text alignment
- - New [bquote] tag for blockquoting
- - New [pre] tag for preformatted text
- - New [ nobb ] tag for disabling bbcode parsing on certain context
- - Dropped [lurl] tag. Use the 'local' attribute in [url] instead
- - Dropped a markup tag that uses regex "===(.+)?==="
- - Added new smiley icons, also dropped/renamed a few ones
- - In this new update, anchor links from an image can be achieved with [img=pic.jpg|link=somewhere.html]. In previous version, this can only be archieved with [link=somwhere.html][img][/img][/link]
- - % WEBLOG % now points to a new folder path to avoid confusion between the virtual rewrote url and actual path
- - Dropped the 'Highlight Coding' option in the create blog page as a result affected by the changes of [code] tag
For more info, checkout
here.
Again, please
report any bugs or weird CSS rendering. You can also
contact me and let me know.
*Update 2006-09-30* Forget to mentioned duplicate sql thing.
At first I'm pretty nervous because I suddenly remembered that I haven't pay the bill and it's going to due... in 1 day time.... 
