Dear Lowyatians,
First of all, my apologies if I am not allowed to post in this section. Somehow, I really don't know where can I post this topic in this forum. Admins/Mods please move this topic if it is not suitable in this section.

For your information, I have started a free blogging service powered by Wordpress. Feel free to try it, and I appreciate inputs on how to improve this free blogging service

The story begins...
Do you like to blog?

Are you blogging right now with your Blogspot/Blogger/Wretch/Friendster/Livejournal?

Would you like to use a powerful blogging service, where you can:
- Use UNLIMITED storage space?
- Choose a nice theme for your blog out of 80 available themes*?
- Blog by email?
- ... and many other features!

If you answered YES for the above questions, I would like to invite you to try out my latest project: http://www.iblog.la

It is a FREE blogging service, started with the intention to serve Malaysian & Singaporean bloggers.

For your information, IBLOG.LA is still in its beta testing stage. Please feel free to support this project by signing up (and of course use it ) and feel free to report any problems to the support forum.

What are you waiting for? Visit www.iblog.la NOW to reserve your cool "yourname.iblog.la" first before someone else takes it!

Thank you very much for reading this topic and I hope you will enjoy blogging with WWW.IBLOG.LA!


Sincerely,
Michael Foo


* Currently we have only 25 themes BUT I am still working on the theme database to increase the total number of themes to 80!

what will be the given blog url? for example my blog name is "abc". will it be abc.iblog.la?

edit: disregard. found the answer.

anyway, i want to comment that the loading time is very slow

This post has been edited by hoongji: Apr 27 2007, 09:27 PM

Hi hoongji,
Yes, you are right on the URL

Sorry for the slow loading time. Is it because you are using a slower internet connection? I am aware that iblog.la has quite heavy graphic content, which probably hogs your line up loading that page.

Could you please try the forum at:
http://www.iblog.la/forum/

Let me know whether the forum loads slow. If the speed is fine, most likely I need to optimize the graphics.

Else, looks like I need to diagnose whether there's an error with my modified WordpressMU.

Thanks .

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Added on April 27, 2007, 11:02 pmDisabled some useless plugins.

Could anyone please confirm the slow loading time?

Thanks!

ps: All feedbacks are appreciated!

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Added on April 27, 2007, 11:06 pmMore: hoongji, are you trying to access IBLOG.LA from places other than ASEAN countries? For your information, I am hosting IBLOG.LA on a Singapore server as I wish to dedicate this free blogging service to Malaysian & Singaporean.

US server is faster for international audience but for visitors (and of course the blog user) within this region, our Singapore server is still faster than our US servers in Texas.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by michaelfoo: Apr 27 2007, 11:06 PM

i'm accessing from Australia. the main page of IBLOG loads slow because of the picture below the navigation bars. yup, maybe you could optimize the graphics there. the forum is loading fast and fine. no problem.

Dear hoongji,
Ah, the header image.

Alright, I'll be working on this soon. Duh... guess I need to lower the resolution of the pic

Thanks for reporting the problem!

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Added on April 28, 2007, 7:37 amOptimised the header graphics, graphic size decreased from 90KB to 50KB.

Hopefully it does increase a significant loading speed

Thanks!

This post has been edited by michaelfoo: Apr 28 2007, 07:37 AM

I'd just registered... xD As wordpress.com doesn't allow mods... Does your bloghosting allow mods?

Hi,
Afraid not. Due to security reasons, all the WordpressMU powered blogs (inclusive of wordpress.com) do not allow custom-modification.

You can only do that for your own hosted blog.

Sorry for that.

I see, despite the fact that it's disabled, I do think that the skins available currently should be more than enough.

Found a bug in my current skin, eXPeri3nc3.iblog.la

Look at the copyright line, notice the Collegepond.com/a>

This post has been edited by eXPeri3nc3: Apr 29 2007, 06:47 PM

Hi,
This has been done.

In future kindly report any bugs to the iblog.la forum. Not good to use Lowyat forum as support forum

Thanks and enjoy blogging!