Blog Updated

Aaaah... it has been a while. Yet I have not written much.

But hey, I still (want to) take blogging quite seriously even after going to university - see, I even updated the blog back-end! (Technically speaking, I upgraded from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 which is not as easy as upgrading Wordpress, for example. Nevertheless there were quite a few fundamentals that I changed -- most notably the input formats and image handling, as technical as they sound.)

The original appearance of the blog did not make it past the upgrade however, so I put up this quite nice theme made by somebody else. Personal touch is waiting for a free slot in my timetable. The former theme was my own creation so nobody would want to upgrade the theme for me. What a lazy dumbass I am... (by the way, I know about The Secret and suggestion but the world is not a perfect place.)

I considered moving to Wordpress actually -- oh, how much it has grown in this past few years -- but it seems to be too much of a hassle. Seriously, Wordpress wins only in simplicity, which I don't need because the blog is already setup well done.

Useless rant about traffic

The statistics for this month is 49 visits per day. Not bad at all for a lazy blogger! :D Most of the visitors come for the high-profile posts I have made (all are listed in the "Popular content" at the bottom of this page). Google has become such a superpower that it delivers an enormously big portion of the traffic: 72%!

Meanwhile due to the technical nature of some of my blog posts, they draw more "techie" people to the website. I can easily see it in browser use: some 67% of the visitor used Mozilla Firefox (go open source!), and there are a handsome proportion for less known browsers (such as Opera, Chrome, Safari, and Konqueror). There is also disproportionate number of Linux users (13%). Considering that Linux marketshare in the world is less than 1%, surely my blog is kind of unique isn't it? ;)

Statistics can be fun, and it is one of the reasons that keeps me blogging :)

Mas Leon, on this page you

Mas Leon,
on this page you have 2 h1 tags. Raven SEO tools score is 100.

Someone suggested that you shouldn't have more than one h1 tag on one page. Based on semantic web-x/html, book chapter, and DOM perspective -- there is only one root. Even, I found some websites rank higher with 2 h1 tags.

What do you think? :)

btw. wordpress has a lot of fun and plugins. :D

I think there can definitely

I think there can definitely be more than one h1 tags in a document. You can say that a h1 tag starts a new "article" within a document, like in my homepage.

Ideally the title of the blog should be in higher hierarchy than h1, but considering that the title of my blog is not high quality keywords-wise, let's just put it in the same level of article headings :)

Website rankings have a lot in it. I personally believe that a simple matter such as the number of h1 tags in a document won't contribute that much towards rankings.

Ya, I guess search engines

Ya, I guess search engines are not that strict. :)

...Ideally the title of the blog should be in higher hierarchy than h1...

h1 is the higher :)
and see this accessibility problem if you use more than one h1 on a web page, related to HTML5 and XHTML 2:
http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2009/headings-in-html-5-and-accessibility/

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