'Automation' in blogging

Why automate?

To increase reader-friendliness.

That's what engineering is all about.

And what do I mean by reader-friendliness? There're a few things to note basically:

• Reduced loading time


• Easy on the eyes (depends on font size, colour)


• aesthetic appeal (an ugly page turns people off, and turning people off is not reader-friendly)

I just learnt something new today (and couldn't wait to show off as usual). Below are pictures of the residents of Pulau Tioman (no babes there when we went, too bad).

There's catch to this program if I were to make different slide shows for each blog entry, there's a need to press the "Start/Reset" first.

Imagine if I have tons of photos to show (I foresee that'll be the case after my trip to Taiwan), and I wish to show them all (yeah, I like to show off). Firstly, even if I can put several pictures in one entry, it'll take a very long time to load them all. Secondly, you'll have to scroll and scroll and scroll.....and that may cause lagging (depending on the performance of your computer).

However, there's always a catch to making things better. The blogger will have to go through quite a bit of trouble, by adding javascripts to the template and playing around with the html code (I think most will faint when they look at the html version of this entry).

The more pictures you add, the longer the javascript in the template will become, although one javascript can handle all the pictures you have.

Showing off can be bad for health (kills too many brain cells).