Evolution of my life in Technology World
January 27th, 2008 | by winsonlee |I started on registering my own domain at the age of 16. My first domain was mp3planet.ws. During then p2p is yet to be popular and many people download songs off from the website. Webhosting is so expensive during then. I was paying around US14/month. When p2p is around, mp3 website started to lost its popularity. Songs is accessible in a easier manner. Maintaining a large song database is not an easy task. New songs comes out every single day and putting new songs in the website is just too much of work. But during then online advertisement brings great benefit to website. There is company that pays US0.20 for a click on the bannner. Security wasnt that tight and you can practically asked people or friends to click on the banner to put money into your pocket. As I was using dialup during then, IP address for every single click will be different. If you apply to be a online affiliate from the advertising company, you should be familiar with linkshare, befree and CJ during then. There is 101 ways people tried to cheat money out of these advert company. One of the software use was cheatzrus which was created by one of the smart ass people. The software was created using mIRC script. People who knew about the software will join this channel and as all of us have an unique ip address, it will make in such way that people in the channel will goes through the advertising link that you put up. This process is automated where people does not need to be physically clicking on the link. After a while all these advertising company knew about it and they strengthen their security system. That was when the cheatzrus era ended.
The next domain i had was techcommunity.us. Installed xoops script on the server. I was quite fascinated with the script. So I decided to just had a webserver and play around with the script. It is an online community script where you can install different kinda of plugin to suit your needs. After that, there is when I had winson-talk.net when bloging is popular. Some people sets up their own private blog on a paid hosting. So I decided to have a try and see as private blog provides greater flexibility on the things you can do to your blog. As for my personal blog, I changed from xanga to personal blog to blogspot to personal blog to wordpress. I did not keep some of the archieve that I have for my blog. Some of the experience that I posted, I did not want to bring it over to my new blog. As my life is always interesting and I went through different sort of experience and some of the interesting experience I would prefer to leave it behind. Blogspot I deleted it totally as that was the worse part of life I have been through. I stop blogging for 3 months before I started on wordpress and only lately people knew about the existence of winsonlee.wordpress.com. After trying to play around with the blog only I realise that wordpress does not give me the flexibility to do things that i want.
What are the things that I found out that I couldn’t do in wordpress ?
1) I can only choose template that is being defined in the list.
2) I cant change css code for the template. Wordpress requires me to pay in order for me to change the css script.
3) I cant put an external hits tracker.
4) I cant put a chatbox.
5) The post box is far too small then what i want it to be. I have data up in the post and I need to refer to it in order for me to write about it. Instead now I ended up using notepad and writing my blog referring to the data I paste it on the notepad.
6) Last but not least, I cant put google map in frekin word press. There are place that i would like to refer to using google map.
That is when I thought of putting my blog onto a private server again. I have been hunting for one ever since last week. Finding a hosting server is easy. But finding for a good hosting company that provides good support and has all the features that I want is hell difficult. Sad to know that winson-talk.net domain is taken. Else I would want that domain again. Currently they only have winson-talk.com. Somehow I just dont like .com. But if that is my only choice I would just grab it instead. Next entry I will post up the detail of the hosting company that I found and the deals that I got with them.
Did I mention that porn website was one of the project that I have created ? I have never told anyone about this before as this topic is quite sensitive. Till now I cant believe that I did that. I have created it but ended up I decided not to get it onto the web. During then I was only form 5. If you do realize porn industry in the web has the largest market share and porn advertising company can pay you few times more then the normal company. During then I was thinking but of course it did not comes to my mind to know what is right or wrong.
