3 - 2006 | Websites Made Simple

9rules Network Giving Back to 9charities

March 18, 2006 by Danny

The talents of 9rules Network are going to be joining forces, skills, mind and being (in some way) to help out 9 charity organization websites each year. The best part of this whole thing is that these organizations are going to get a new makeover or new website completely FREE.

Other than a great makeover, the 9rules clan are going to host the 9 charities for free too. And what better name to call this project in consistency with the 9rules identity but 9charities.

If you think the free website and hosting is just the great things coming from them, you are so wrong and you’d need to read more about the 9rules project.

Maintain a Standard CSS Structure

March 17, 2006 by Danny

Me and my buddy were discussing our Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) woes because of an evil menu that refused to center itself. After the tiresome tries we just moved on and started discussing about our existing CSS structure. We decided we had to standardize our structure so editing will be less tedious for the both of us.

I’m a designer who’s got no real logical thinking when it comes to programming. I do whatever works for me and even better when it solves the problem. My structure is normally arranged according to the row of a website.

WordPress 2.0.2 – Enable sending referrers

March 16, 2006 by Danny

If you’ve come across an error like this, Sorry, you need to enable sending referrers for this feature to work. It might be just one of the default plugins enabled (someone said this while I Googled a solution) but the problem I found was my Norton Antivirus and just disabled it before publishing. Other solutions … Read more

BolehBlogs! A Low Yat Blog Project

March 16, 2006 by Danny

Updated 16th March 2006, 7:30PM

We’ve reached our target of 50 initial Beta Users. Those who are in, we will appreciate it if you could test your blogs on a daily basis and inform us of any bugs that exists, or any additional features that would make a good addition to BolehBlogs!Next round of invites will be out soon, stay tuned!” said se7en.

The Bloggies 2006 Awards

March 14, 2006 by Danny

The sixth annual weblog awards or ‘bloggies’ results are out and I just found out about it. *gasp*

There were some new names (to me they are) and there were familiar ones from the long list of categories. I don’t remember the bloggies having these many categories the last time but it’s sure nice to see versatile type of blogs being appreciated for their efforts.

Design Blogs For Your Portfolio

March 13, 2006 by Danny

I was discussing about a new official website with a friend of mine and when I shortlisted some of the works I’m planning to put in the portfolio, we started a talk about the credibility of including works such as blog designs into the portfolio.

He said that having too many weblog designs as part of the portfolio might have potential customers question our status in this business. I totally understand his point of view especially when the customers don’t understand the whole weblog thing happening in Malaysia whether social, political or business wise.

Story of a Blogger Entrepreneur

March 11, 2006 by Danny

I enlisted in Yaro Starak’s Blog Traffic Tips newsletter and so far, all of them have been really beneficial to me. The one I received today had no exception and for every netpreneur or blogger aiming to gain revenue via ads online especially if you’re a Blogger user then you better read on.

Yaro highlighted a friend’s experience with the free blog publishing service and decided to use it as advice for anyone planning to blog seriously for money. It’s nothing bad about the service but the danger of having it suspended indefinetely.

Flash Movies in Danger due to MS Update

March 9, 2006 by Danny

I don’t want to be caught in a controversial act so I’m going to spell MS once and it’s not going to be in its actual name so you’ve got to figure it out yourself; M1CR0$0F7 (MS). That’s right, I just received a public service message from Kevin Airgid about the peril about to befall Flash interactive movies.

It’s nothing of a huge issue but it will cause some annoyances and setbacks to the lovable interactive Flash movies you’ve been creating or playing.

The Art of Wufoo Form Creation

March 8, 2006 by Danny

Particletree not only are the creators of the e-magazine for web designers and developers called; Treehouse Magazine. They’re now in the development stages of creating an easy to use service for everyone in creating a fine form for their websites.

As a web designer I can refer closely to the times when I wish I was more of a programmer especially when I couldn’t create simple things like contact forms on my own. Contact forms or forms in general have become more than a page you fill up details and submit them. It’s become one of the crucial elements to get in touch with the owner of the website.

Is The Boss or The Customers Right?

March 7, 2006 by Danny

Thinking that the boss makes 10 of their customers isn’t rational. Accepting the fact that the boss is right because he’s the client, the one paying you to do your work or worst, one of the customers..you’re just plain selfish.

Too many small-medium website design firms today aren’t doing work for the clients customers but for the client or the boss themselves. Whatever the boss wants they give and whatever the boss thinks is right, they nod their heads like agreeing robots. What a bunch of employees.