Scott Yang's Playground

Agency Fusion’s latest ad campaign, Make My Logo Bigger Cream, where for merely $29.95 you can get not only the Make My Logo Bigger Cream, White Space Eliminator, Starburst Dust, Fluorescentizer, you also get Emotionator that transform your design and website! Funniest ads I have seen for ages, but I think my sites do need [...]

I have been using both ReviewMe and Text-Link-Ads to monetise some of my websites and blogs. However two recent discoveries made me re-consider whether I should continue to go with them. 1. Text-Link-Ads Not Google-able Text-Link-Ads is one of the biggest text-link broker. Site-wide text-links cost my advertisers around $25-$30 greenbacks a month here, and [...]

Yup. You all heard that? Safari, the default web browser on Mac, now also has a Windows version ready to be downloaded. It is a 8MB download without the Quicktime runtime, but still contains useless attachments like Bonjour and Apple software updater, although these are optional and you don’t need to install them. Anyway, the [...]

Instead of going to work like most people do on Mondays, I took a day of leave and skipped work yesterday. Vivian’s ultrasound scan — yeah, that’s much more exciting.

It was on wp-hackers last week, and I have seen it numerous times before. If you are a good design artist, and CSS is your thing, then the best way to promote a website might be by adding links to your freely distributed themes for the content management systems of the day. Here are the [...]

Last night I have posted my very first flash video on the web — and it was Anna sitting there watching, her own video for 2 minutes (which probably would only interest the parents and grand-parents). Anna’s video aside, I was also having fun figuring out getting that video online. There are many ways putting [...]

I have updated Playground to a new WordPress theme. It’s pretty much derived from the old theme, 100% hand coded. These are the things I want from a new theme. Simple one column layout. White background, dark gray fonts, and nothing fancy. Bigger text font. Probably better for those who do not have 20-20 eye [...]

Around this time last year I have signed up with Google AdSense, and implemented on this website. 12 months later — yeah I have made some pocket money with it, but for me it is more of an experience in online marketing, contextual advertising and the whole Internet economics. It was fun. It was rewarding [...]

Thank you all for posting your latitude and longitude for my little FOCUS Map project! However, so far I have only had three account created on the FOCUS website with coordinates filled out, and I myself was one of the three. :( Anyway, here is a little preview of what it looks like now: Basically [...]

Unichurch Together — Extreme Makeover last Sunday, and it was all good. It was fun seeing how each fellowship “impersonates” one another (and how pathetic when we are trying to guess). It was great seeing many brothers and sisters in the same church whom you have never met, because they meet in the evenings but [...]

CSS Reboot 1st May 2006: Day to revamp your blog design and clean up all the hacks. Yeah it is another one of those “everybody sign up and have fun for no real incentive whatsoever”. I was actually thinking about cleaning up the design the other day, but I don’t think I can sneeze out [...]

Since my hard disk died more than a month ago, I have been trying to rescue that dead Western Digit drive using various methods — but so far they all appear to be in vain. Currently I am trying to copy the dead disk to another flesh one using dd_rescue in hope that I can [...]

Well, not new anyway, but just to have fun with 5th of April 2006 being the very first annual CSS naked day where websites everywhere takes their stylesheets off. You probably won’t notice much difference anyway, as my previous style is so “thin” you probably did not notice it.

Via Simon, Andrew Lim wrote in Sydney Anglicans on buzzing your church using a well-designed, well-optimised, well-marketed, and get this — well-monetized church website. If done right, Internet can be a very good ally of Christian churches. With marketer’s cap on, Andrew listed out 3 points.

A List Apart demonstrated how to achieve 3 column fluid layout with main content placed before sidebars in HTML. It actually addressed my issue a few days ago. Might it a try in the next few days.