How Much For a Website Like That?

Being a website designer, this is one of the more familiar phrases heard from potential customers. The culture here in Malaysia practices price before value. Even for a rich, high society member sometimes question the high price of a product in regards of its value.

The number of designers or developers asked that same question doesn’t get tiresome by the customer. Reason is that he’s judging the best bargain and perceived value he thinks the website reference is worth. Not the value and results he is aiming.

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Posted by Danny Foo on January 31, 2007 | Filed Under Business & Marketing | 9 Comments | View blog reactions 

RSS Not End-User Friendly

If you’re a blogger or Internet-savvy user, you might have heard of RSS or better known as Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. Site summary does give a clue on its own but coupling that with the word Rich in front, it’s a whole new jargon in the IT world.

So what exactly is Rich Site Summary about? Well, if you ask any technical person or blogger, they might mention more jargon like XML and how it’s a technology used to pull headlines and other content on the Internet.

In layman, RSS is the ability to access or keep track of vast amounts of content easily.

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Posted by Danny Foo on January 27, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Development, Website Development, Website Lessons | 4 Comments | View blog reactions 

Donald Trump’s Advice to Entrepreneurs

Business and marketing might not be a passion for me but I’d call it an interesting hobby. I don’t know why and can’t understand why business seems like magic. It isn’t like a cycle you see happening in forums or a website that becomes old due to its design or its technology.

In my blood and upbringing I’ve asked the question before, “Why do I like business and marketing?” Is it a genetic thing (though my parents aren’t business people) or is there something intriguing about the whole subject?

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Posted by Danny Foo on January 26, 2007 | Filed Under Business & Marketing | Leave a Comment | View blog reactions 

Breaking News: Creative Designers Evolving

Other than website design, I love reading about how our simple industry of designing and developing websites is advancing. It becomes even more exciting to find out that our progression is almost on the same level as the development of new website programming languages.

Previously while reading UX Magazine, I discovered such an article by David Armano. He shares his view of what’s happening to designers today and what would be happening in future looking at the trend of how designers are required to evolve today.

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Posted by Danny Foo on January 25, 2007 | Filed Under News | 4 Comments | View blog reactions 

Using Wordpress 2.1

At 1100 hours ago, Wordpress recently released it’s awaited major update. Such news as usual spread like wild fire and every blogger on the Earth must have been beating each other to the punch. Some Malaysia bloggers were also talking about what were the affects after their Wordpress 2.1 update.

Ever since I converted from being a MovableType user, I’ve never looked back because of 2 lovely things about Wordpress. Its installation is a breeze and its upgrading is just one-click away (I’m dead serious!). But Wordpress also brought many other joys from the user-friendly interface to the various plugins found online - especially anti-spam plugins.

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Posted by Danny Foo on January 23, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Development | Leave a Comment | View blog reactions 

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    author's photoHello and welcome to Websites Made Simple. I'm Danny Foo and this is my Malaysia web design blog. I manage and co-founded a small Malaysia web design and development team; Simpleet Solutions.