It’s a new year of opportunities for everyone and anyone around the world. Before the clock hand struck the middle of the night and 1 second, many bloggers already posted their resolutions and wishes for this year. I took a much longer time to come up with something.
Instead of my new year resolutions and assumptions of things to come in 2006, I’m going to explain the simple mission and goal I’d like to achieve this year.
This blog was built for one sole reason. It was to spread the awareness of good website design and share my practices, principles and ethical beliefs in this business.
This blog was built for every website designer or interested designer/developer who plans to build their passion. If you’d like a better explaination or definition of this passion, please read the post Passionate for Knowledge.
The mission or my mission was to try my best in teaching and sharing my knowledge of the web industry with the many Malaysians who fear there’s no room for success in this field. I wanted Malaysians who love the Internet believe that there’s a future ahead, but we need to be not ignorant and arrogant. We need to adapt and further our passion.
This mission has yet to achieve a 10% success rate in my opinion though I’ve noticed my FeedBurner reader numbers growing to 9. There’s still a lot of accomplishment that’s needed to be done and I’m hoping to do it this year.
It’s time for me to come up with new tactics to strengthen my strategy. Things I hope to do this year with the help of my readers:
- Write a paper.
- Create a newsletter.
- Add a Subscribe to Comments feature.
- Add an Email This Article to Friend.
- Become the main local source for website information/advice.
- Organize a workshop/seminar/talk.
- Refresh the look and feel of soon to be just Websites Made Simple.
As the last point said, the title of the website will no longer be Danny Foo | Websites Made Simple. It’s going to be just Websites Made Simple.
A place for simple ideas, simple discussions, simple principles or practices that Malaysians should be more aware being used by others.
I hope to fulfill my mission with my love for websites, my passion for websites and with the extra help of Malaysians who share the same love and passion.
Happy New Year to Everyone! Welcome 2006!
If your projects include advocacy of W3C standards, then I’d love to contribute.
Just give me a shout out on areas you need assistance on. I’ll do my best to oblige. Because this is one area I’m really passionate about.
All the best in 2006!
Wish you luck in achieving your goals.
Azmeen, will get in touch with you via email. :)
Thanks Eng Lee and hope all of us will be able to achieve these goals for a better Malaysia.
Hi Danny, I’d like to collaborate with you too. In the day of RSS I think newsletters are a bit obsolete, unless its a newsletter of events. Lets meet up to discuss if you’re willing. Happy new year.
I have been doing the newsletters for TaufikBatisah.net for sometime now… in the end I have abandoned it simply because it was too much hassle. Unless you have REALLY good content (and that requires commitment), newsletters might not be a good way to go. Putting blurbs of the latest on your blog in newsletters WILL put readers off – RSS will do just fine, and some readers complained that I am treating them like someone who does not know how to navigate around the site!
Subscribe to comment is just a plug in, and it will be a GREAT new feature I would love to see on your blog :)
I’m really glad to see the support for this mission though there have been believers who’ve just given up because they failed too many times.
I hope volunteers and fellow missionaries who share the same mission with me here will be able to one day say, “It was because of us.” :)
Razlan:
I don’t think newsletters are passe but maybe it’s cause my target audience would be insulted like what you said about your members. Because the people I’m targeting are suppose to be web-savvy readers, they should know how to use RSS.
So I’ll keep the newsletter aside and include it maybe later when needed or see a better value for it. :)
Anyone else want to volunteer?