Month: May 2006

Website Strategy: Who Does Your Website Design Target?

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During a disucssion with a client, I not only note down their requirements for their website or try to decipher what really is the client looking for in their website. Clients will most of the time know exactly what they want for themselves and their business, but do they really know how their website fits into their company strategy?

So speaking of website strategy (not website marketing strategy) most of the clients I’ve met don’t really have one in place for their project. One of the things a website strategy involves is the aesthetics of the website itself; the website design.

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What is a Website Marketing Strategy?

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I was never a student in business administration much less had fun doing accounts no matter how easy it was in secondary school. But I grew to love the subject of marketing especially the creative and behavioral patterns involve in it. I never knew how exciting and challenging creative marketing could be to sell a product or service.

There isn’t a definitive term to website marketing strategy even after I tried to dig an answer out of Google. So here’s what I interpret of a website marketing strategy. It’s simply a plan to help market your website. The word market has different meanings but the core term we’re looking for is trading or selling.

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The Art of Writing Code

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When people think of writing code, they often just think of it as writing instructions to perform a certain function. Little care is often given to how the code is presented. You may ask, what’s the point? What’s the difference? After all, the code still runs right? You couldn’t be more wrong…

People who take pride in their work, would love to show it to others. If you cannot even take the slightest effort to make your code presentable to others, it shows that you do not take pride in your work. However, sometimes it is not the coder’s fault. They just don’t know how to write their code properly. Well, it is time to learn :)

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Search Engine 101 Workshop, Talk or Seminar

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I just got a spam in my Inbox of a local workshop, talk or seminar going down in Kuala Lumpur on the topic Search Engine 101. The event only might interest me in what the speaker has to say in the second half after lunch. Yup, it’s going to be a whole day affair for anyone willing to pay RM499-RM599 per person.

The speaker is Ms Meng who probably is working with a local company called Webflexx. According to the spammed newsletter, she’s been very involved in the web scene and has been managing lots of public listed companies and etc and other marketing jargon you’ll read on 1-page ‘buy this now’ type of websites.

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New Internet Explorer Update Kills Flash

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It was back in March that many were warned of the threat or problematic occurence of the new update. Maybe it wasn’t so bad back then because it was few months ago and there wasn’t so much to worry. Not to mention the implementation or affects of it was actually taken for granted.

And I for one didn’t expect it to be so much of a problem. I’m not sure all of you have heard or read this before but when embedding Flash, there’s a lot of fugly code to deal with. You’ve got the OBJECT, PARAM and EMBED tags. The more important of the 3 are the OBJECT and EMBED for Internet Explorer.

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Simple Blog Update

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Well, we’ve got 2 projects drawing to a close and they’ve been really spectacular ones to handle. I’m truly sorry for the lack of updates but I’m having a little bit of writers block, not to mention the additional work clients might have in store for us. The Hargrave Corporation website I admit isn’t the … Read more

Pricenoia Website Review

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Now here’s a website that took a simple idea of Amazon’s affiliation and turned it into a brilliant simple website business idea. Pricenoia is like a search engine for anything found on Amazon and not just the main website but also the branches in Japan, United Kingdom, Germany and etc.

The website utilizes a very clean white layout with simple dashed lines to segment out its sections. This website is very informative driven and have a look at the cool things you’re getting when using its service.

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Did You Attend Design School?

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Hawk shared a blog entry by Andy Rutledge with me. Andy’s blog called Design View has got numerous entries regarding design and the one Hawk passed to me was definetely worth highlighting. :)

Andy created a small multiple choice quiz testing the knowledge of design fundamentals and certain involving elements in website design. I think everyone who claims they’re a website designer or have attended design school should take the Andy Rutledge Design Test for a spin.

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Create Your Own BBC Homepage

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Hawk recently passed me a link to Reboot bbc.co.uk. If you do not know what does ‘reboot’ mean it’s the new term of the 21st Century to replace the words revamp, reinvent, reinvigorate and etc. Now that you’ve got the meaning, probably you can tell that BBC UK is planning to reinvent their entire website. … Read more