在我中文学了两年以后，我感觉我中文说得很好。每天，我都练习我的发音，和写汉字，念课文，做作业。因为我很努力地学习，所以我以为我在中国的时候，一定能和中国人交谈。可是当我到中国的时候，我发现现实并不是这样的。我甚至不能听懂岳母问我：“你们三点半下飞机的吗？”我脸红了，我以为她说：“你什么时候开始工作？”那时侯我有一点害怕！

Tags: China, Chinese, Competition - 比赛, New Zealand - 新西兰, NZ

So I created a PHP script that is included in the “Prefix” of my blog pages. It consists of one function that is passed a few pieces of information, and spits out a nicely formatted footer section.

Tags: PHP, Rapidweaver, Tutorial

This post will introduce and explain the “scroll to anchor” method I have used throughout this site. For a demo, click “scroll to Comments”, which you’ll find above.

Tags: Rapidweaver, Tutorial

The site is split into various pages, with pages for individual Chinese cities (Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Beijing being my favourites), the Chinese language, food and museums, to name a few. The site is incredibly well organized: the home page consists of a selection of small boxes, each box representing a category of Chinese sites. At first I did think this was a little weird, I’m used to sites having a main content area with either a vertical or horizontal navigation menu. After clicking around the site though, and discovering the amount of information that has been packed in, I understand why the creator chose this method of displaying the information. Now I’m used to it, I can’t see why more sites haven’t copied the layout!

Tags: China, Chinese, Review

I hit a brick wall with my plugin development, so I spent some time updating the Chinese Idiom Database.

Tags: Chinese Idioms, Culture, MySQL, PHP, Rapidweaver, 成语