Month: June 2006

Wufoo Public Launch Very Soon

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It’s not going to be long now before the new Wufoo form creator invades the Internet offering free form creation for beginners, website designers, website developers and to who ever that needs a form that tracks valuable required data on their website.

The Art of Wufoo Form Creation is something I just can’t express how happy I am to have a service like this now availabe. However, I can tell everyone a lot about the inside of the application and how it’ll make your life easier when creating forms and having a place to store important data when I received the Invite to Wufoo.

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New Homepage Design Trend

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The homepage is one of the more important website design I spend most of my time on when helping a client come up with a new website template. Not only is it the first landing page customers experience normally but it’s the doorman of your website. If your website design or website architecture is not optimized then you get a rude doorman answering to your customers.

Homepage design nowadays are unique and have adapted the one page sales letter concept. If you’ve seen a website trying to sell you something, it’s a long page with a lot of content about the product and very little website design.

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Client Designer Discrimination

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A friend of mine related an unhealthy working experience he had with a client and he’s thankfully granted me this opportunity to share his story here. The story I’m about to tell you describes the unpredictable and sometimes unproffessional action a client does.

My friend provided his services of helping a client design a brochue and booklet. The relationship acquired in this early phase was smooth sailing and the contract was signed even. After the work was done, the client reviewed it and was very happy with the results so all payment was cleared up between the two. But here comes the unpredictable thing the client did.

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Invite to Wufoo Form Creator

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I’ve finally gotten my invite key for Wufoo and the last time I was this excited trying something new was when I requested for a public key to use Google Analytics. When I first mentioned about The Art of Wufoo Form Creation, it fewer options you could add to a form and there was less features you could use.

However, now given the opportunity to beta test Wufoo I see that they’ve got a quite a few nice stuff and not so nice stuff depending how you look at it of course. So let’s have a chat about Wufoo and what it offers website designers alike. :)

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Added WordPress Related Posts Plugin

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I know I’ve wanted to implement this plugin for awhile and I’ve finally done it after Yaro Starak from Entrepreneurs Journey recommended me the plugin by Wasabi. There are many plugins created that could do the same but if an established blogger like Yaro has implemented it than I’m assuming it’s safe and good enough … Read more

Website Strategy: Timeline and Deadline

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Whenever we take on a project for a customer whom will be our friend after, one of the basic things teams and clients don’t pay attention to is the timeline. Half the time teams pitching for a project concentrate too much on the quotation and ideas that can be offered but not the timeline. This is a basic but important factor involve in taking on projects especially if it’s part of marketing campaign.

It’s important to be able to get a rough deadline from the client. At least that way, you can prepare a better proposal inclusive with all the ideas that you have. It’ll also help you eliminate second priority ideas you have for the customer’s website.

The timeline is a basic tool that many overlook because half the time it’s hard to be punctual and many have made the mistake of dragging it too long as well. So let’s strategize better here.

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Forrester Research – Don't Rationalize Bad Design

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Many sites fail basic tests of Web usefulness and usability. One reason is that
designers and stakeholders use false assumptions to rationalize poor decisions.

This causes problems like: barely legible text that annoys customers, forced
registration that cuts into sales, inappropriate ad formats that hurt brand, and
rejection of great ideas that result in missed opportunities.

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Website Strategy: Build or Rebuild the Site Architecture

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One of the things I’ve tried accomodating my clients with is the analysis of their existing or proposed site architecture. The site architecture is better known as the sitemap of your website. In Google its define as; the structure of the website.

Like a skyscraper or an office building with as many offices like KLCC, there are several levels or offices to visit in order to process a certain task. It becomes a headache if you needed to pass through so many office doors to find the right person sitting in the office you need to request a proposal for them.

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Website Strategy: Best Navigation Menu Positions

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Ever since I had the opportunity of using the Internet around 1994, I’ve seen almost all possible website navigation menus to this day. The navigation menus were placed top left below the corporate logos, they were placed horizontally below the banner, the top right corner replacing the empty banner space, on the right side to allow focus on content, and now even experimenting by placing it just above the fold.

Without a doubt website navigation menus have come a long way since then and with Flash, it makes navigation menus more experimental than ever. But as experimental or cool as it can be, it still should be practical to the website target market.

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