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Everyone recognizes Jakob Nielsen as a usability guru. He’s published and co-authored few books. One of the books that I have is called, Homepage Usability. Ever since I first found out about Jakob, he totally changed my views when consulting website designs.

But during one of my classes in Melbourne, I was discussing usability with my lecturer and he said that Jakob’s teachings shouldn’t be strictly followed like the bible. My lecturer said though Jakob make lots of reasonable points of website usability, not all of it should be applied.

Instead, we should all learn when, where, why, and how to implement the teachings of usability where we see fit.

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If someone managed to access your blog or website and deleted all of your entries, along with their user accounts, wouldn’t you just feel like strangling the culprit?

Well, someone took the liberty of doing just that to the Merdeka Blogger Project we had ran this year. The person involved waited till after 15th September, after all Malaysians celebrated Merdeka to commit the offence.

I’m not sure about you, but it does feel like an insult not aimed directly at me but towards the Malaysian bloggers altogether. All the fine entries by our Malaysian bloggers that were plugged have been forcefully removed by the intruder. This intruder who doesn’t have respect for us Malaysians let alone our country.

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It doesn’t take so many signals for a guy to turn on or persuade a lady. However, for Lisa McMillan she had fallen head over heels completely for the 37Signals.

If you’re still thinking that this is some tip to getting laid or getting a woman in your arms, sorry to drop your expectations entirely. Lisa is an established Canadian web designer and developer who also recently rebooted her website into CSS this year. And I dare say, she’s really intwined with her standards compliancy along with her CSS knowledge.

You just have to admire the list style applied. *drool*

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The service is temporarily down until Aizuddin manages to clearout all the spam said to be attacking Project Petaling Street. And here I was wondering if Aizuddin was migrating the new design over or something.

Anyway, I just noticed that other than the PPS Announcements links now, there’s no other way in viewing it. A bit of a hassle for the time being.

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This is the continuing discussion from More Than Simple Blogs that I posted earlier. The feedback gotten was almost as intense as the comments in Eyeris blog.

Commenters were pouring in their personal feelings how bloggers need not any gurus or probloggers to be their mentors. Well, as I said in my comment reply, my intention wasn’t to suggest every blogger to have a mentor but to have someone be your inspiration or role model. My apologies to those who might’ve misunderstood.

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There was a time I started questioning the existence and purpose of my blog and kept asking the question, What Becometh Thy Blog? Then after a month has passed ushering now into October, Eyeris has his own question to ask many and himself, Malaysian bloggers, where has the FUN gone?

His entry wonders where has all the random fun gone in bloggers. There ain’t not many posts now touching the ramblings, rants, humorous life of people. Instead, now people are blogging for the sake of becoming famous or trying to make it famous.

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Going about my daily surfing around the blogosphere, one of the must stops is always Darren’s Problogger blog. It’s one of the more essential blogs of learning how to blog effectively and gain revenue along with knowledge.

I might have missed this article back on September 30th and I’m glad I found it before it disappeared into the archives. As Darren mentioned in his post HERE, Steve Rubel recently posted an article he found regarding Search Engine Ranking Factors from SEOMoz.

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Since LiewCF has stopped pinging Project Petaling Street (PPS), I’ve only been visiting his blog come time to time. I’m not aware of his true reasons for doing so but I guess if it’s something kept personal then it shouldn’t be any of my business.

Some days back, I noticed a new blog pinging onto PPS so I decided to trail it and it led me to Mac-Switcher. Little that I know this blog actually belonged to LiewCF who recently purchased his RM3999, Apple iBook.

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You’ve just thought of a brilliant name for a domain to use for your business or personal website. It’s easy to remember and simple for your clients or friends to recall back when they’ve nothing to do in front of their computer.

So you’ve headed over to your preferred domain regisrar service and keyed in the name. Your excitement suddenly disappears into cyberspace and your cheerful smile flips over to a huge frown with frustration. As you might’ve guessed it, your domain has been registered by someone else. Ain’t this a familiar scenario?

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I’d first like to thank DZOF from PPS Review for the opportunity given though there were several hands pushing me from the back during the Midvalley meetup to be interviewed. Other than me, DZOF had several different voices to add into the new episode of PPS Review.

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