Tweaking marathon

I had just finished renovating our home at Blogger and not long after that we got our confirmation on our new address at the new Efx2. So, last night I went over to the new place to start another godek godek (tweaking) exercise.

I had used Wordpress before and before I even start, I had already imagine the limitations that I am going to bump into. Unlike Blogger that have lots of flexibilities, Wordpress is somewhat rigid and only allow some standard customizations unless you host it on your own domain.

I really thought that the Wordpress MU where the new Efx2 is built on would be similar to the normal Wordpress but I was wrong. I am not sure about other things that are not there but one of the obvious one is the less number of templates to choose from. Geram aku!

Through out the night and early morning, I tried on all the templates and I could not find any that I really like. I found a few that allow me to customize the header but then I would have problem when I tried to copy our Blogger postings there. After going through the lot I have to settled for one that you can see at BBDP. This is the most flexible template where I can easily copy our Blogger entries to.

On the other hand, Diah, loves to put multi color fonts in her posts and, guess what? The so called "rich text editor" at the new Efx2 does not even support colored fonts. You can change the color of your fonts manually but as soon as you save it, the CSS would overwrite them.

"Sebel banget!", said Diah.

Anyway, for the sake of the community spirit, we would be both at Efx2 and here and wish that the brilliant community leaders together with Keith would come up with all the widgets, gadgets, and whatever stuffs that would make the place unique and fun again. Just like the good old time...

I really missed the recent visitors feature in the old Efx2. That is one cool piece of thing that most people took for granted.

Can we have that back?

Tweaking the blog

I have been tweaking this new blog of ours for the past few days and I think I have got everything that I want up there, for now. If I found new things along the way, then they will be put up here. But for now, that's it! Penat woi!

At the same time, I have been blog-hopping looking for "refugees", referring to Elisa's word describing bloggers that came from the defunct efx2, here and have found a few and linked them up. If your link is not there, let me know and I will put it up.

Anyway, back to the new home. I have got the bear template from Final Sense. Just lucky to find one with bears in it... Bukan senang nak dapat tu.

Put up the shout box from Cbox that has been working well so far. This is a must have so that friends and visitors can leave their marks behind. You know, similar to how some cats love to leave their pee behind...

Built a bulletin board using some HTML codes so that we could remember certain things that we need to do on certain days. It serves as a good reminder since we would be at this blog almost all the time that we are online.

Put up the links to friends using the service from Blogrolling but somehow could not get it to show updated blogs. Tension betul aku! So if there is any expert out there, please give me a hand ya.

Then I went on to add the Recent Comments a.k.a Recent Growls List widget obtained from Blogger Templates so that I know which entry that have been commented on. Since the alert goes to my Honeybunch Diah's mailbox, it would be inconvenient for me to keep on checking her mail so with this, problem is solved.

Then there are those standard stuffs such as, links list, labels and archive which, has become part and parcel of a blog and those things come standard here.

I have also put up a visitor tracker from eXTReMe Tracking so that we would know where our visitors come from just for the fun of it. At the same time I have added a simple counter from Tiny Counter to track the number of knocks on our door.

That's about it! Have fun at our place and please come back. We are open 24 hours daily.