Did You Attend Design School?

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

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. Yup, they’re trying something that no other large news website is doing.

They’re allowing anyone to come up with an idea and submit it to them by May 25th. It’s definetely not a lengthy time to prepare and produce right now but as designers, we have to try and make do with whatever time could be given to us.

So to all Malaysian website designers, if you’ve the time then just read the brief and design on. If having your idea or design implemented later isn’t enough, there are some other prizes and a visit to the BBC office.

p/s: Remember to read the small print of the competition.

All Round Cheap Website

This discussion started from the previous Some Malaysians are Shameless but it wasn’t complete since I didn’t have the website URL of the finished project. But thanks to Tiger, he managed to dig back up the website from his history folder.

The discussion I wanted done here earlier was to briefly talk about the fair or unfair pricing for the website; www.property98.com

This itself already is free publicity for the owner but no matter, because what we’re going to discuss is the pricing of this website work.

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Some Malaysians are Shameless

As you know, I’m an avid member of Low Yat forums and I’ve been bringing up case studies from there a couple of times. However, today’s case was affected due to the shameless editing done by a Malaysian. But no matter, though he might not allow me to discuss his agenda openly I could still always describe it in other manners.

I’ve answered some of the classifieds in the Job Enlistment forum before when it came to website building but I’ve not been ever so insulted as a person who designs websites to improve the status of the local user experience, accessibility and others.

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A Decade of Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC)

Since the start of the MSC in 1996, it was all about the hype of raising the bar in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) of things. It was a plan and target for all companies to be part of MSC or Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC). The battle still continues to eliminate piracy, improve technology, increase numbers of Internet penetration and others.

A decade has passed and they’ve decided to reband and revitalise the whole MSC and MDC scene. Maybe they think since it’s been 10 years and we’re only a quarter in, we could try sarting fresh and make things cooler. They’ve changed the MDC to M-DeC which just puzzles me because I thought MDC was always a great name for it.

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