Facebook Grid Picture

Psst.. wanna have fun with your Facebook Photo Album? Or you just want to jazz up your Facebook pic? Then you've come to the right place---I'll show you how!

If you haven't notice, your pictures in Facebook are organized in a grid structure. To be exact: they will be in a four-column grid. And just like the screenshot below (or the real thing here), you can see that it's very easy to take advantage of this layout. The key is to know how to count. In pixels, that is!

Can't Verify/Link Google Webmaster to Google Analytics: "We weren't able to verify your site"

Last week I set up a blog mirror at Blogger. Since it's free, and it's useful to add more channel/exposure to my site, so why waste it?

Anyway, I added the posts, created the pages, linked it to my Google Analytics account, and everything were checked. Monetization was also set up properly. And lastly: added it to my Google Webmaster Tools and tried to do verification via Analytic. Result? Big red fail:

We weren't able to verify your site:
http://behindthecodes.blogspot.com/

What's going on here??? Apparently lots of people are also in loss.

My Analytics account were good, and I could see the data from this new blogspot site coming in. Also to be able to link to my Analytics, Webmaster said:

You can use this option if your site already has a Google Analytics tracking code that uses the asynchronous snippet. You must be an administrator on the Analytics account.

... and both were fulfilled already. So the problem was neither on the Analytics site nor my blogspot site. Well Google, thanks for your simplistic and unhelpful error message :(

Anyway, the problem turned out to be due to the placement of my Analytics tracking code: I put the code before the closing BODY tag, where Webmaster expected it to be in the HEAD tag. So off I went: edit the HTML code of my blogspot template, move the tracking code to end of HEAD element, and tried verification again. It worked!!!

So as a summary, I just want to give this solution (fix) to the world:

In Google Webmaster, if you want to verify/link your site to your Google Analytics account, make sure you use the asynchronous tracking code (ie. the latest one from Google), and make sure you put it in the HEAD section.

Hope this helps!

Hello, World!

Hello, and welcome to my blog site.

Currently I host this at 000webhost.com (for free!), with domain name in namecheap.com. Asides from occasional hiccups related to the free hosting account, it's been pretty okay. I just need to remember to reconnect the FTP before saving my files, or else the save will fail. Well I know it's free, but still... free or not, this I think is not a good way to show one's reliability. (I hope 000webhost is reading this... :D)

Edit on 11/23/2010: I finally fed up with 000webhost's free hosting quality, and moved to Namecheap hosting instead. Now it's more stable, and so far no downtime.

Anyway, I hope you like my blog site. Please enjoy my posts, click on the ads (please please please :D), leave some comments, etc. Oh, please give me suggestions as well on how to make this a better blog site.

Thanks!