I like those little icons appearing before the URL of a website in the address field of a browser. I’ve just made one (a capital letter A, blue in colour, on a red background) for this blog. Here’s the instructions:

How to display your website logo on the address bar

No entries in this blog for a whole week! This is a record.

I spent the week moving. In real life, I helped my friends Allen and Lily to move to their new apartment over the Mid-Autumn weekend. Their new home has the best view of the Victoria Harbour. I must bring my digital camera and take some photos next time.

On internet, I moved this site to a new hosting company, 0101Host, which offers a MySQL plan at only HK$36.00 per month. The storage size is only 100 megabytes but I think it would be okay, considering the contents of my site are basically text. What I am not sure is the traffic, the monthly limit is only 300 MB. This hosting company also has 24-hour hotline support (but not available on the Mid-Autumn holiday). I am quite satisfied with their service at this moment, but we will see.

For the content management tool, I have switched from Blogger to Movable Type. I am grateful to all the assistance lent to me in the support forum, those guys are really helpful in my implementation of this powerful blogging tool.

My current plan is to migrate my movie reviews page and my photoblog to Movable Type, and then create some static contents like an About page or E-mail form. I will also need to find an attractive stylesheet for the site.

We got “marked as draft”, “change time and date”, “upload file”, “spell check”, “daily archive”, “post template”, “e-mail out blog entries” and “ping weblogs.com” in Blogger.com. So many wonderful features, but I have planned to convert to movable type …

By the way, I’ve just performed a spell check of this post, and the spell check doesn’t even know the word “blog” … I pressed the “Learn” button, but I do not know whether the program on the server side has really learnt the word, or it just left a cookie on my side.

I use the “base” tag to command every link here to open in a new window. I think it’s convenient, because the audience can use my site as an index to browse to other sites.

However, this practice seems to be a bad one, and Mr. Nielsen is not the only one saying that.

I have been playing with the html and css of this site to make it more standard-compliant and accessible. It is not an easy task, especially for a person unfamiliar with html and css like me. So far, the validator complains mostly on the codes rendered by the tagboard, the commenting system and the rss feed producer. I may not have any solution to these non-standard codes, save and except avoiding these wonderful services or changing to movable type (which already incorporates these features).

Speaking of movable type (“mt”), there are a lot of comprehensive articles out there with instructions on how to make the whole site by using mt. I will have to digest the instructions manual of mt and those articles before moving on.

You will notice my sidebar contains a newsfeed of virus alert from Trend Micro, the Taiwanese company which makes the virus scanner PC-cillin. I have tried the feed provided by Symantec, by Trend Micro’s let me treak more of the outlook of the newsfeed, so I pick it.

The worst thing is of course the big logo of Trend Micro, but everything comes with a price.

I will try this alert service for a while and may remove the same if it is of not much use. Meanwhile, I am experimenting with the BlogStreet RSS panel … there are so many things to test …