Is It a Blog? a Website?

No, it’s a weblog! Confused yet?

Well, don’t be embarassed by it because a study by Shel Holtz at WebProNews.com shines some light to the agenda, Blog Design An Obstacle To Acceptance. His study was about the usability of blogs. Not only in terms of design but the overall view of it. The study was conducted by enlisting few users who are web-savvy but didn’t know much about blogs.

A clear example of how even a web-savvy person might not be as knowledgeable as the blogger was proven when Shel said;

Most didn’t know they were looking at a blog at all and were surprised and confused when told they were.

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WebSighting #3

Agent CSSBeauty just submitted in the latest report and I must say, there were quite a few potential websites. However, from the long list I decided to narrow the choice down and feature this website, Vivabit.

They’re a web development company based in the UK. They’ve got a strict and simple color palette that should be made an example to many. I can never get bored of their simple and eye pleasing header. It’s just so relaxing viewing it.

I’m not much a fan for their homepage because it looks like there’s too much content to read. What I really love about their homepage is the esthetic design used with the laying out of the page. The smooth curves and dark blue colored columns seemingly merge together at points very smoothly.

The other thing I really fancy is the right column on their content pages. It’s a tutorial type concept that’s entertaining and informative to read.

Well, that’s quite enough of my chattering. Visit them, HERE and tell me what you think later. Cheers.

Thank You

Readers who’ve stuck with me through the recent MT 500-error incident. It’s solved now and I’m grateful some still dropped by when the site was down and wished me in the shoutbox.

I’d also like to give thanks to Mack at Brand New Malaysian for plugging the post about the TMS and AirAsia Project. Not to mention also for mentioning my B.A. (Multimedia) project that I’ve just completed when I was in Melbourne. On a side note, I’m back in Malaysia now actually.

Mack is so far one of the few who’ve managed to really understand the project and like I commented, though it might not be my strongest work, it’s the best I could do with so little time. You can search and find out the stress I had during my last semester. Chaotic it was.

My apologies for not listing other names who may have supported me through the harder times. I hope you’d stay with me for the many more years to come and hope my posts become more interesting for everyone.

Thank you and cheers.

WebSighting Special – SiteVista Review

One of my WebSighting agents; CSSBeauty, one day featured a website called SiteVista. It’s simple design accompanied with curves and a tasty fruit was a website I could guarantee not many would find difficult surfing.

So what does Sitevista do?
In my own words, I’d describe it as an offered online service that works like SnagIt but much cooler and more functional. It’s not a revolutionary service and some might have seen something like this before. Sitevista’s cool factor allows you to visually troubleshoot a website you’re developing on several browsers ranging from Internet Explorer 4 to Mozilla to Netscape Navigator 4 and even Safari.

But wait, there’s more of that icy cool factor offered. You could view your website in resolutions from 640*480 to 1024*768. No more needing to switch your monitor resolution back and forth. Oh yeah, psstt.. you can even view your website in 256 colors too. Now, is that cool or what? And you won’t believe this, but it’s still not done. They’re soon going to offer a screen reader test, a color blindness test (yes, believe it!) and other nifty tests.

I promised Paul I was going to review the website and the service overall once it’s been officially launched so please read on for the review.

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Web Designers Commandment

There are actually more than ten commandments to good web design but I only want to speak about one of it. This commandment is dubbed;

Thou shall NOT kill thy website with ads.

I wonder who’s doing this right now?

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