Site News And Reaching Out To Other DD Communities

Sure enough, Pagespeed has identified several red flags for me to respond to… including Combine external Javascript, Minify CSS, serve scaled images, Serve static content from a cookieless domain… most of these sounds like French to me.. but there were several flags that I was able to rectify by installing appropriate plug-ins, such as the WP HTTP Compression, this plugin allows your WordPress blog to output pages compressed in gzip format if a browser supports compression. HTTP compression generally means a 60-80% REDUCTION in the size of your pages (broadband usage) as well as an INCREASE in download speeds of 3x to 4x. Other than that, nothing else I tried seemed to work as I tried several other plug-ins to help with the Javascript and CSS but none of them worked out as planned.

Besides improving on the load time of my site, I have also upgraded to WordPress 3.0.1 recently. Most of the plug-ins I use seems to be compatible with it except StatPress… well, not that I still use it anymore as it never tracked reliable statistic for me. However, one of the neat thing that came with the new version of WordPress is the ability to add menu to your side bar….

One of the few things I have been wanting to do, is to make an easily accessible directory listing to my side bar that points directly to each of my lovely Dollfie Dream daughters! I have seen many Dollfie Dream related blog sites with the same feature and have been itching to make my own daughter directory; however, I wasn’t particularly wild about making each of my daughters as their own category… this new menu feature came just at the right time, as I can specify them with tag instead of revamping all of my blog posts with brand new categories… Daughters are listed in the order they were adopted…. cause everyone who has visited here before knows who my favorite daughter is!

Just like that, one more thing off the to-do list!

Besides making various improvements and adjustments to my site, I have also been trying to reach out to different Dollfie Dream communities in different parts of the world. Since there are a considerable amount of DD parents located in different parts of South East Asia, I have been thinking about reaching out to them (after all, I am a Chinese) just because I am better at typing in English due to the fact that I never had a computer when I was in Hong Kong doesn’t mean I cannot communicate in perfect Chinese on the Internet!

After doing some researches, I found out there are two major Dollfie Dream forums, one in Hong Kong, another one in China; both very active with wealth of information, tutorials etc.

Ourtoysland is composed of mostly DD parents from Hong Kong, some of their members are also quite active here, such as Hololo and Yui~

OTL also has a sub forum with tons of DD related tutorials, I merely picked one topic to show here just for reference~

A pretty nifty mod to access the secret double joint! A similar mod can also be performed on the neck to improve the range of movement on the head!

The other Dollfie Dream community is located in Baidu.com, a popular web service company in China. Obviously, I would have to post in Chinese, but that’s not that difficult for me, just a little time consuming… that’s all. But for the sake of spreading more Dollfie Dream Love all around the world and making more friends, it will be worth it!

To properly post picture topics in Baidu… I have to load all of my picture libraries into Baidu… and that would happen in due time~

Slowly but surely, I will be adding Chinese translation along with my blog post, just so that visitors from South East Asia who are not fluent in English can also understand what I am rambling about!