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Best Web Ezy’s New Home
I have just moved this blog into the new hosting environment.  As I mentioned before, I am moving this blog to a US based hosting because I figured out that most of the audiences are from the US.  And I want to keep my AU based server for the Australasia clients.  Therefore recently, I have migrated to Cirtex Hosting.

So far, no complaints.  All goes well.  Uptime is good, technical support is fast in responding to my emails.  If you are looking for a web host, I would suggest you to use Cirtex Hosting.

Best Web Ezy’s New Skin
As you probably have noticed, I have changed the theme of this blog again.  This time, it is an SEO friendly theme.  I am planning to keep using this theme for a long time.  There are a few bits and pieces to be fixed, but generally, I am happy with this.

I chose this skin because it is not the usual John Chow style theme, which you might have noticed a lot of similar themes around.  They look like copycats of John Chow.  And the color is fresh.  It is the 2-column style that I always like to work with.  I am still tweaking it a bit as I plan to put a few products of my own here.  Talking about that, please look out for my upcoming publication.  I am sure (I hope) it would be a good reference for webmasters.

Best Web Ezy’s New Backbone
Last but not least, Wordpress 2.5.1.  I was always lazy to upgrade the blog but I thought I should use this chance to upgrade as well.  I think this is the best version so far.  The admin interface is so different now, but it is so much easier to work with.

I had a bit of problem migrating the database across.  There was an encoding problem.  Apparently the previous version of Wordpress was using Latin 1 Swedin as encoding method for the MySQL database.  When I got it imported into the new version, there are strange words all over the place.

After a bit of search on the internet (well, where else) I have found the solution:

1. Export the database into a .sql file
2. Change the encoding from Latin1 to utf8
3. Import into the new database with utf8 as default encoding
4. Edit the wp-config file by commenting out the encoding line
5. Upgrade the Wordpress version to 2.5.1

And that’s done.  Nice and easy.

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