Month: July 2005

PanduCermat Website

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In view of the road safety system, I applaud them for finally taking the effort of coming up with something like this. However, many are questioning the steps involved to help aid them. Its promoting of catching reckless drivers with camera phones or digital cameras doesn’t encourage safety with many locals. Well, that’s another agenda for the system to curb.

I was actually quite impressed with their launched website. It had that new age look to it and am very proud that they might’ve put a little more effort into a government website. Here’s a screenshot of it and click it to view larger version.

I want you readers to try and identify what do you think still can be improved?

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Online Malaysian Politics

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As much as we have offline politics ongoing about ‘AP Kings’, we have our very own blogger politics taking place. Though not as serious that it might change the car import system, it’s right now at a stage where it’s hurting others. Topping that, the political debate are involving favored bloggers with their annonymous number of followers. Unlike during elections you can see supporters with bandanas or buttons, online its more of how each bloggers post let readers know who they are siding.

In case not many have been following the few pings on Project Petaling Street (PPS), many have written about the involvement of Kenny Sia and the elusive Sarong Party Girl at the recent Singapore blog conference. Yes, the same Sarong Party Girl (SPG) blogger that allegedly came out in the newspapers being branded as threat to our young readers.

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E-Commerce Malaysia

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I browsed todays InTech and Business Times (I think that’s what it’s called). Both were speaking on the same topic of e-commerce and its booming numbers. Much to my dismay, the article that spoke of the boom referenced to only the success of e-commerce in US. Now, when I read that article, it made me think. How do you convince the local public that e-commerce in Malaysia works and is safe?

Sure the numbers in US are booming and it shows that e-commerce does work but it doesn’t reach the local market well. I’m sure you’ll all say that if your revenue covers the local market loss than it’s alright. Well, it isn’t entirely alright because you aren’t doing any good to the local market in the first place but only for selfish gain. Malaysia might not be the safest place to trade online but there are methods to ensure safe online transactions. The online banking payments made on bank websites is one of them.

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PPS Blog

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Project Petaling Street (PPS) was but a blogtal (blog-ping-portal) when it first started and recently with huge media coverage along with appearances of blogger faces and the recent PPS bash, it’s now about to take a step further into the local blogosphere. One of the PPS pioneers, Aizuddin who runs Volume of Interactions just proposed a blog for PPS itself.

The blog will contain local flavors such as:

  • Politics/Economics
  • Social/Arts/Party
  • What’s In Your Inbox?
  • Makan-Makan
  • Blog about Blogging
  • A Malaysian’s World Perspective

Other than a huge traffic gain, official PPS bloggers..

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Wedding Bliss

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I just finished reading todays Computimes in the NST and they had a full page on tying the knot. I was quite surprised to learn that the boost of tourist numbers came from married couples. The article highlighted that one of the places to benefit online right now is the bridal market. In the article, there were quite a few websites posted and knowing the expectations I normally put, I was looking quite highly toward the URLs provided in the article.

Other than spreading the roses and goodness of the launch with the many services offered, there are a couple of other websites suggested in the article. Thankfully, the next website www.malaysiabrides.com works and it looks pretty good though it’s just a forum. With 91 members (not sure how many are active), this is still better than having a dead website.

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Is It a Blog? a Website?

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No, it’s a weblog! Confused yet?

Well, don’t be embarassed by it because a study by Shel Holtz at WebProNews.com shines some light to the agenda, Blog Design An Obstacle To Acceptance. His study was about the usability of blogs. Not only in terms of design but the overall view of it. The study was conducted by enlisting few users who are web-savvy but didn’t know much about blogs.

A clear example of how even a web-savvy person might not be as knowledgeable as the blogger was proven when Shel said;

Most didn’t know they were looking at a blog at all and were surprised and confused when told they were.

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WebSighting #3

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Agent CSSBeauty just submitted in the latest report and I must say, there were quite a few potential websites. However, from the long list I decided to narrow the choice down and feature this website, Vivabit. They’re a web development company based in the UK. They’ve got a strict and simple color palette that should … Read more

Thank You

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Readers who’ve stuck with me through the recent MT 500-error incident. It’s solved now and I’m grateful some still dropped by when the site was down and wished me in the shoutbox. :) I’d also like to give thanks to Mack at Brand New Malaysian for plugging the post about the TMS and AirAsia Project. … Read more

WebSighting Special – SiteVista Review

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One of my WebSighting agents; CSSBeauty, one day featured a website called SiteVista. It’s simple design accompanied with curves and a tasty fruit was a website I could guarantee not many would find difficult surfing.

So what does Sitevista do?
In my own words, I’d describe it as an offered online service that works like SnagIt but much cooler and more functional. It’s not a revolutionary service and some might have seen something like this before. Sitevista’s cool factor allows you to visually troubleshoot a website you’re developing on several browsers ranging from Internet Explorer 4 to Mozilla to Netscape Navigator 4 and even Safari.

But wait, there’s more of that icy cool factor offered. You could view your website in resolutions from 640*480 to 1024*768. No more needing to switch your monitor resolution back and forth. Oh yeah, psstt.. you can even view your website in 256 colors too. Now, is that cool or what? And you won’t believe this, but it’s still not done. They’re soon going to offer a screen reader test, a color blindness test (yes, believe it!) and other nifty tests.

I promised Paul I was going to review the website and the service overall once it’s been officially launched so please read on for the review. :)

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