Malaysia website design blog
As usual, out of the blue something is thrown right in your face without intention of harm. However, though as much I’d like to be happy for PPS, Aizuddin, and others who’ve worked hard in making it better..I am honestly not very happy.
There isn’t any harm throwing a huge surprise to the audience. But when it concerns the user interface which in return will reflect heavily on the usability of a website, I can’t rest at ease to see something I looked highly upon has somehow lost its touch.
The past whole week not I’ve been busy setting up the Merdeka Blogger Project. I’ve also been busy coordinating with my team on what needed to be done. Along the way, I’ve had feedback from authors that we lack few things. But the needs have been resolved already.
As much as I’d like to be blogging solely about Merdeka Day and the celebration we’ll all be having in the next 5 minutes, I’d just like to shout a big thank you to all bloggers who saw the potential in this project. You’ve helped make this happen and gave us the confidence to not breakdown and go mad.
Whew! It’s been 4-5 days and Claire has been chasing my tail to get the project up and running as soon as possible. So basically she’s my excuse of not posting for quite awhile now. LoL!
But it’s finally out and it’s gone live. I’m still quite disappointed with the layout cause I know I could’ve done better somewhere somehow. But given the shortage in time and sudden change of the project concept a little, I suppose I should be happy it’s working. And I didn’t do it alone..thank goodness.
Recently I received an email from a fellow reader (I think) and he wanted to know how some users made a ‘read more’ link to their entry. If you’re using WordPress (WP) or MovableType (MT) or any other stand-alone publishing engine, there normally is an Entry Body and Extended Entry section when typing a post.
WP and MT have built-in codes to generate the ‘read more’ link for you. However, for Blogspot users, they only have the Entry Body to put up their post and by default, the whole post is published on the homepage.
After the visit to London by ol’ Tunku Abdul Rahman, many Malayan (not known as Malaysian yet) gathered at the Merdeka Stadium awaiting words they long to be uttered ever since their soil was visited by foreign power. These words made into phrases was to congratulate them of their country spirit and declaration for the country’s independence from the British empire.
That day was on 31st August 1957; where Tunku Abdul Rahman stood on a podium with several other British officers seated behind him facing the abrupt Malayan crowd. When his speech had ended, he shouted this word continuously that is now one of the most celebrated words of our country.
He shouted, “MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA!”
(mer-de-ka is the Malayan translation for freedom).
Just recently I got an email from agent DesignersDepot and the retrieved results this time around was astounding. Not only are there 2 websites featured this time round, these websites are in Flash.
Yes, the dreaded interactive motion tool that is now plagued as one of the worst media to use online. Reason? Just because its been abused by many designers who only utilize its minor potential, that is animation.
Alas, there are modern designers around who still remember how to utilize this tool to great lengths. Not only do these websites showcase excellent animation, their innovativity with the inclusion of video is just wonderful.
Starting yet another hazy day, I launched my email client to check if there were any new emails. The feeling of receiving emails is always a happy thing because it feels comforting that someone out there cares or wonders about you.
As much as it pleases anybody to receive fan email or in my case, feedback of my blog or website, the emails sent to me were newsletters and invites. I got a newsletter from Thawte; company selling SSL certificates, and it’s weird because I don’t remember subscribing to them. The invites were interesting with one coming from Softnyx (Gunbound creators) asking if I’d like to BETA test their new fantasy game called, Raikon.
The second invite came from supposedly PayPal. Everything in the email down to the email address listed it as coming from PayPal themselves. However, one crucial mistake foiled this phishing scam.
The term phishing is used to described a scam by sending an email to an end-user with the representation that the email was send from a legitimate establishment, but the true intent is to gather personal information of the end-user with the intent to fraudulent use these information. ~ Symmetric Triangle
Agent CSSBeauty left a report in my inbox since I was MIA for quite awhile. There were quite a few potential websites on the list but I decided to just go with one. What’s the reason for it? Well, I’m not sure if it’s locally done but the brand just made me want to mention it. The brand is called; Idaman Suri.
The products being sold are instant recipes to be used in cooking. I used these lots of time but of a different brand when I was in Melbourne. It’s really that all you need is the meat, some extra stuff of your own and the base recipe. Thankfully lunch is coming up cause I’m getting hungry imagining chicken curry or something.
Last week I read an article either in InTech or Computimes that questioned the movement of web development today. The writer was explaining how some websites aren’t designed anymore to conceptual design and instead head down simple lane. As much as I’d like to hammer the writer at first, but what was typed was true to each word of it.
The border or crossing between usability, accessibility and web design have been questioned quite a few times. The same question has been asked over and over again of how does a person know where is the line and balance of all this? Because of usability and accessibility, Flash media had started to be disregarded by some developers and designers today.