What’s next for MaluriView.com?
I’ve just launched, yet this is really just the beginning. Here’s a few things I plan to explore next…
Wordpress: Own Theme
Wordpress is a great backend, and its full range of features let me get up and running quickly without getting involved in any of the details of developing a website. One feature that helped me was the ready-made themes on offer, and to get to launch as soon as possible I decided to use the delightful Copyblogger theme by Chris Pearson. Ultimately though I’d like to return to my web development roots and design my own theme, hopefully inspired by the city of Kuala Lumpur.
Wordpress: Widgets etc.
I’d like to take a good look at what’s available for developers, and get to know the Wordpress codebase a little. I’ll start by building a couple of small widgets to help me build the side column as I’d like it. Looking forward to getting under the hood of this impressive system.
Promotion of some products
There are a couple of web based products that I have been really impressed with and would like to promote through the affiliate programmes they offer. I love to read and always recommend books to people, so have decided to do this a little more structurally by pointing people towards Amazon.com from book reviews I write here. I also love and am continually surprised by the quality of service and sheer amount of features offered by my hosting provider Dreamhost, so I’ll be recommending them as well.
Of course, I only recommend based on my opinion of a service, and would only do so if I really thought the product on offer was outstanding. As such you won’t see a lot of this kind of thing on MaluriView; only what I really like will be showcased in this way.
Google Analytics
It’s a great tool measuring your site’s usage and gives you the ability to really drill down into the information gathered, so before too long you will see calls to Google Analytics‘ tracking code loading along with the pages of this site.
More posts 
And of course, the whole point of creating a blog is to write, and write I will! I intend to churn out posts over the coming months, building up a backlog of experiences and perfecting my writing ability in the process. I don’t expect much following for a long time, but that’s good in a way because I think I (and anyone new to this) needs that time to practice the art of blogging…
So, as you can see, plenty more to come.