Clients I Like

When you are in the freelance business, you either meet with a lot of people or you converse on the phone or even exchange emails. By any of the methods mentioned, I’ve found out that intuition counts half the time when trying to figure out your client.

But I won’t start a rant and start listing clients I hate or despise (though it’ll be a good stress reliever). Instead, I’d like to talk about the good things or attitudes I’ve found in some of my more worthy clients.

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Why Is Malaysia Weak In This Field?

As long as I can remember, I started going online in 1995 and was pretty busy in my small lil Geocities space. Back then, Geocities was Geocities and not yet a part of the Yahoo! network.

Before website design and development began for me, everyone were happy with a website that had blinking or animated gaphics and colorful headers. Imagine a header with various colored letters in a header title own. Gosh! Thank goodness we’ve moved on..or haven’t we?

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Web Experience in a Bubble

Recently I was telling you that I found a book by John Lenker titled Train of Thoughts. The published book talks about assessing your website from a more general point of view. As you know, designing a professional website nowadays isn’t just about the conceptual design but more than that.

Currently, it requires more analytical thinking than slapping physical beauty onto a website. I’ve spoken a bit on this analytical data in User Experience Design. While planning out a website fo a new client, something hit me and I started sketching my analysis of ‘Web Experience in a Bubble’.

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Web Standards Solution

Earlier this month, I reviewed the book by Dan Cederholm called Bulletproof Web Design. In his book, there were lots of coloured pages and well-written guided CSS codes for you to pick it up. At that time I also mentioned that the next book I’ll try to review is his other book, Web Standards Solution.

But here’s an extra treat for everyone, I found another interesting book at MPH Mdvalley that is quite good though very thick and I didn’t get to finish it.

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Is XHTML and CSS easy?

Joshuaink forwarded that question to all his readers in a single entry. It was simple and straight forward to determine if everyone really understood both of these standards based language.

It was really interesting reading all the comments left on his entry, Is XHTML and CSS easy?

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User Experience Design

A title such as this sound quite related to either Jakob Nielsen or Jeffrey Zeldman. Both people if I’m not mistaken has spoken about the above topic. The user experience used to broken up to only 3 main parts, which is the context, content and users.

It was made even into the ‘3 circles of information architecture’ that I found back from Semantic Studios. And to believe that this article was written by Peter Morville actually in 2004. Gosh, website design and development was taking a huge turn now.

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Comment Moderation changes

This might not be that important but it’s best to inform new commenters. I’ve switched off my new comments email notification because of the junk that’s flooding into the blog almost daily. Though the spam control in MT is successfully filtering most of it, the notification is beginning to annoy me because half the time … Read more

Apologies Again

I’m really sorry for the lack of updates the past 2-3 days. It’s really beginning to become habit or a bad practice. However, just a quick update is that I’ve finally pulled my computer out of my box and it’s up and running.

I’ve got quite a number of works on hand at the moment. I also need to get in touch with a few clients regarding their projects. I need to remind them about pending projects or enquire the status of projects.

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Adsense Preview Tool

When building a new weblog or website, the common ads you’ll want to put is Google’s Adsense. But the problem with Adsense was that you need to await approval before you could display them on your website. Also, it’s only after approval that you can see what kind of ads will be hosted based on your site’s content.

Well, here’s a handy dandy tool I picked up from Sitepoint.

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