Malaysia website design blog
It’s bad enough that when you’re helping create a new brand identity for a client it’s hardwork, imagine the insanity you need to put yourself through trying to come up with your own brand identity.
And you can’t technically escape this unless you plan to work your employee butt of your whole life and later live on your EPF. There’s bound to be a miniscule jerk in your brain thinking ‘what if I was running my own business?’
Though I first signed up with Bank Simpanan Nasional (their website is too horrid to visit) when I was rather young, I signed up with Maybank while I was doing my internship for a company in the vicinity. The whole reason of doing it was because it was just an easier method to get your paycheque.
One of the reasons I found that most Malaysia companies don’t value their website is due to the poor integration or planning of their site architecture. And what’s a site architecture?
They’ve removed the sign that says “Till We Meet Again” and the plushie bouncers beside the screens have been moved aside for a new breed of 9rules members. If your web tangled mind is still foggy and haven’t heard of 9rules, you probably need to read One Week to Become a 9ruler first.
The submission page is now open and it should close by midnight tonight, I think. So if you’re not part a blogging network just yet, probably here’s your chance.
This entry might already be late by 4 days but I suppose it’s something worth keeping over here in the case of anyone needing it. Scrivs who recently visited here and left a comment in my past entry, One Week to Become a 9ruler has put up a helpful article.
The article is some tips and perspectives the 9rulers look for in a submission later on.
Me and the members of Low Yat forums half the time finding members asking these very same questions,
“How much do you charge for a website?”
“What’s the current price to design (and develop) a website?”
Some of us have approached this question too many times. But is it really our fault that there is no standard website price? After all, what is a standard website and what does the standard package contain?
Fellow blogger and friend, Jonathan Ng of Beyond Simplicity (though might be switching to a simpler domain) has written a short review of Blogs Malaysia and started a rather interesting discussion in his entry, Web Designers and Blogs.
Firstly, thanks for promoting me and Stanch for the work done on the new metablog or blog network. I didn’t do much work since Stanch was in control of development. And it’s common that when you’re developing a website, you just can’t the sight of either border-ed DIVs or colored in a solid background. ;)
Anyway, the part that sparked interest in Jonathan’s topic was if ads and a web designer’s blog should gel together.
I just finished reading one of Adsense latest case study about how Tim from AskTheBuilder.com managed to boost his already $10,000 monthly AdSense revenue to a whopping $30,000 revenue.
It was very interesting learning about Tim’s history and his journey of making it happen in a year since 2004.
I was surfing Hardware Zone and noticed they were running a CANON iPixma printer contest but dang, it already passed. Anyway, the micro site was done in Flash and as usual, you’d find out by right clicking the mouse on the area.
I noticed something new in the flash player 8 menu. There was an option called Redraw Regions. Like a curious puppy, I clicked on it and didn’t see any difference until I clicked on a link and loaded the next page. There were red outlines everywhere. It was like..
Just how far have you taken these familiar elements when developing a new personal or client website? And we’re talking about sections here, not the design. One guy worked with the bare minimum of:
• a short stylesheet
• header
• menu
• content
• sub-section
• footer
• no hacks
..and turned them into a bunch of fluid layouts.
The news is out as of yesterday and is being circulated online by various key members of 9rulers. I got my update from 456 Berea St regarding 9rules round-3 submission. What’s this about?
Well, ever since they first started, 9rules has been about websites and the Internet. They’ve evolved and grown into a larger connection of blogs about websites to topics like psychology and other fun stuff. So what’s so exciting about becoming a 9ruler?