Yes it’s true: tonyjiang.com and its core websites (the crabbing guide and smash bros. guide) has received their 200,000th unique visitor today! Okay, there are some websites out there who get 200,000 visitors every month, but it’s still quite an achievement for my humble little sites. A big thank you to all of those who visited over the last six or seven years. I have free time to spend on these websites as I grow older and have more responsibilities, but I’ll try to add some quality content whenever I can.
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TonyJiang.com: Second Year on the Net
TonyJiang.com’s second anniversary has arrived, and just like last anniversary I decided to write an article about my web ventures of the previous 12 months. Compared to the first year, there weren’t as many major events, because I didn’t move the sites nor did I have as much time to work on my websites. I have added one new website to the tonyjiang.com network in the past 12 months, and all the other sites are doing okay. Keep on reading if you want to find out the details of my (not so) exciting ventures on the web during the last year.
Smash Guide Re-hauled
In the past week or so I took the time to re-haul my venerable Smash Guide. The site looks similar to the old design as I only cleaned up the graphics a bit, but the underlying code is now quite different from before. As with most of my websites, the Smash Guide now has a table-less layout with CSS. I also cleaned up the code and made many changes/corrections to the content. Hopefully the changes will help attract more visitors and give them a better experience.
TonyJiang.com: One Year on the Net
The coming August marks the one year anniversary of tonyjiang.com and my first year on paid hosting. In celebration to this joyous occasion, I decided to write an article documenting my website experience in the past year. Important events include the big move from my old server to the current one, and the accompanying effects. There were some ups and some downs, but overall my sites seem to have survived and they have not fallen into the bottom of the internet pit (they are already there). If you are interested in what went on with all the tonyjiang.com websites, read on to find out the juicy details.
Crabbing Guide Redesigned
Although I’m working all through the summer, I managed to find some time to improve the design of the crabbing guide, my first and still most popular website. Now the site features nicer graphics and a tableless layout. I even cleaned up the code and used headings for a little bit of search engine optimization too. Go check it out.
Redesigned and Recoded JP’s Badminton Portal Is Now Online
For the past week or so I’ve been working hard to upgrade my dad’s badminton portal website so that it can take advantage of the features offered by my current webhost. The website has become my first self-coded PHP website, and my second table-less layout after the travel journal website. Of course I read a lot of tutorials and books in order to this, and after working day after day implementing features and ironing out the bugs, the site is finally ready for show time. Obviously being written by myself, the website is nowhere near as advanced as my main site here powered by XOOPS, but it’s enough for the purpose of serving articles. Click the earlier in this paragraph if you want to visit.
Old Couple’s Travel Journal
Here’s the new website I’ve been developing through my summer vacation. This site was done for a relative who wanted to share his extensive travel experience with others online. “Old Couple’s Travel Journal” contains the hand-written journals of my relative transcribed into web medium. The various travel journals contain a lot of interesting insight into history and culture. The address of this website is travellog.tonyjiang.com. It’s only available in Simplified Chinese though.
New Server and Domain Name, plus New Website
After a few years on free hosting, I’ve finally decided to pony up a few bucks for a paid hosting account and a domain name. The new address is www.tonyjiang.com or tonyjiang.com. A paid account gets me a lot more features, and the server seems quicker too. Hopefully this will help me get more traffic and in turn increase my Google earnings as well. I want to thank all my visitors for their interest in what I have to offer and I will keep working to make TJ Online and my other sites better.
Due to the new server and address, there is quite a bit of restructuring in order, but for now my popular sites (Smash Guide and Crabbing Guide) won’t be moved yet, but all my sites will be moved to this new server eventually.
The final piece of news is that I have completed and uploaded a new site. The site is made for a relative and it contains that travelogues of this relative. The site is available in Simplified Chinese only. If you are interested, the address is travellog.tonyjiang.com.
A Year with Adsense
As you can probably guess from the title, this article is about my experience with Google’s Adsense program, which powers all the text and sometimes image ads that you see around my site. Be advised that this is not one of those “how to make a sh*tload of money from Adsense” type of literature and I’m not one of those “experts” who writes those articles. Rather this is a summary and reflection of my past 13 month experience with the program. No, I didn’t end up making a ridiculous amount of money, but the results were encouraging and better than I had hoped initially, which goes to show that even a regular Joe (or Tony, in my case) like me can make money from the internet (without doing something illegal).
Additions to the Smash Guide
I just spent the last two days updating and adding new material to my “venerable” guide about Super Smash Bros. for the N64. Mainly I uploaded information about the bonus target and platform stages. Yes, I know Smash is an old game on an obsolete platform, but it’s one of my favourite games and more pages may mean more traffic for me, which might translate into more dollars :-D. Oops, sorry about the daydreaming there. If you are interested, pop over to my Smash Guide and look at the third page of each character’s guides.