Welcome home mum & dad!

Mum & dad were so pleased to see the Welcome sign on our door. They've been away to New York for 3 whole weeks! As usual, I couldn't go with them. They said New York is really far far away from Malaysia. It's about a 20-hour flight and a 12 hour time difference (which explains why mum is up at 4am Malaysian time blogging away... In NY, it's 4pm EST). I went on a lil' hol myself - to gramps' home. They treated me so well that I probably came home a few pounds heavier!

As a result of being away, we've missed visiting our friends' blogs. Thanks so much for your comments, awards and tags. We'll try to catch up with all of you soon.

In case you're wondering how we managed to post on our blog whilst being away. Here's another blogging tip. Blogger has a post option (at the bottom left of the page) which allows you to choose the date and time for publishing your post. So, before we went away, we worked on 3 extra blogs which we scheduled to post each week. Isn't that cool?

Mum's feeling sleepy again so we're going to sign off for now. We have lots to share with you. They met some really cool dogs in NY. We should be back blogging again soon, in a more earthly hour (Mum hopes... It's no fun suffering from jet lag!)

More Changes To My Blog

Friends, thanks for all your positive feedback on the new look of my blog. I really loved Mr T-Bone Beasley's suggestion on adding the scent to the blog. Some blogs have music. If someone could invent a scent for blogs, it would be very popular among dog blogs!

Now that I'm on the roll, I decided to make more changes to my blog. I discovered that Blogger has recently released a new page element called Blog List. The Blog List improves on the Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets. Isn't that cool? I opted to arrange my blog list with the latest update on top. Now, with 1 quick glance, I can click on the latest updates by my paw pals. Of course, it does take up more space compared to the Link List. But then, now that my blog is 3-columns, I can afford to do that.

I would also like to share with you the "before" picture which I used for my new header. Dad painstakingly cropped my picture out so I can use it on my blog header. He is a sweetheart!

P.S. The reason my tongue was sticking out was because we had just completed a very long walk on the hill. It was a gorgeous day for an outing.

Upgraded My Blog

Mum & I have been experimenting with our blogs. We discovered a cool website called "Tips for New Bloggers" which is right up our alley coz we're new bloggers! We initially tried it out earlier on by adding the "Recent Comments" page element to enable us to quickly glance at our friends' comments on our posts.

We then decided to upgrade to 3 columns so that we could have more flexibiliy with adding page elements. Mum upgraded her blog "Life is A Journey. Enjoy It" last Friday. After her success, she decided to try it on mine too. It took us a lot longer as we had some problems with the margins on my template. We finally figured it out today. All this HTML business is foreign jargon to us. But, I must say that "Tips for New Bloggers" website made it pretty easy for novices to make changes to our blogs.

I also changed my title header. Dad took this picture of me during our walk at the hill. Still testing out the background. Haven't quite decided if I should maintain my previous background ocre colour. Work-in-progress still...