Wrong Way to Display a Company Policy

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This is the first time I’ve seen any website literally doing something so wrong that it’s just plain funny. It might not be hilarious to most Internet users but for a website standards designer or developer to see this, you’d be saying “Which moron in this world would actually display a company policy using a … Read more

My 3 Plus Years Blogging in Malaysia

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The last Weekend Mail (Malay Mail) frontpage article was so inline with the quality trouble of blogs in Malaysia. So what does a blogger with 3 years plus experience in the local blogosphere do, he decides to cry and tell the tale of truth to the media.

I found the time on Monday to write an article to the Malay Mail email provided and voice out my concern, my beliefs and my observation of what’s been happening to our local blogosphere the past few years. It might be read as insulting or it might be read as another blogger trying to be in limelight but my peers and blogging friends would know me best for being the honest person.

This is what I wrote to the Malay Mail on that dark Monday.

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Top 10 Questions You Ask Your Clients Before a Project

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Other than “How are you?” and “Would you like to join me for lunch?”, what are the top 10 questions you would ask your clients before a project begins? Getting the right information for a client’s project is crucial to its success and building a better business relationship with your client. Asking relevant but ineffective questions will waste time and worst scenario, annoy your client.

I’ve not found our real top 10 but I think we’re getting very near it. In 10 questions, we learn about our clients background, their behaviour, their customers and the requirements for the project. Aren’t you curious what we ask our clients?

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Why I Like Veerle Pieters

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Digital Web Magazine recently interviewed Veerle Pieters and I really liked some of the answers over there. I liked it so much that I want to share it here and remind myself as well as any designer they should be proud to be a designer whether or not others respect them as one in Malaysia.

Veerle who runs duoh! and her own personal blog is one of the celebrities in website design who designs very well and supports website standards as well. She’s spoken at two SXSW conferences sharing her insight and giving words of advice to other budding website designers. Without further due, I’ll tell you why I like Veerle Pieters after reading the interview.

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The User, The Expectation, and The Control

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Starring as the user we have world reknown Bob, and co-starring along his side are the expectation and the control. Bob plays your average Internet user browsing a website and would like to fulfill the task of finding the location of an office and visit the office. The expectation and the control are weird characters who can work together to help Bob but sometimes find themselves arguing who is right and who should lead Bob.

View the image below before you continue reading this entry.

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New Straits Times Creates Monster Blog

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I might actually be the last to know here but while flipping through my daily NST today, I discovered hidden in the corner a small visual of a local minister being in a Podcast. When I first saw this I thought if it were a local or international blog but then noticed the local .com.my domain to the URL.

Digging into the archives, the Monster Blog created by NST has been launched since early July around 12-13. Looks like I’m getting rusty and local happenings aren’t going too well with me. But not to fret, I’m still here sharing what I know with those who want to know. :)

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Microsoft Expression for Website Designers

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When designers say Adobe others will say Photoshop or Illustrator. When website designers say Macromedia (acquired by Adobe in 2005) we’ll say Dreamweaver or Flash. If you said Microsoft to a clerk or an accountant, they’ll say Word, Excel or Powerpoint. But what happens when Microsoft decides to become like Photoshop or Macromedia?

You get the Microsoft Expression applications aimed at graphic designers, interactive designers, website designers and yes, I said de-sign-ers. The introduction of these new applications aimed at professionals might be the replacements of Frontpage and Paint. You also may download the free trial availabe for either one at their website.

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Website Strategy: Your Website Budget

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If you’ve listened to RickDees through Hitz.FM on weekends, you’d have heard them say the reason they can distribute expensive prizes is because the show has “Nooo budget!”. In other words, there is no planned budget or no limit of spending on the radio show.

For a website on the other hand is different, a well planned budget for a website can take you a long way without hurdles or a shorter way with a few stops. What I hope to do today is clear the murky waters of pricing and share with you the dangers of not planning your budget.

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Type of Web Designers and Responsibilities

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A web designer or website designer is really a general term to acknowledge an individual who build websites in their job. Being called a website designer doesn’t nominate you as a specialist or does it denominate you as a designer for the Internet. There are different types of web designers now that each of them have a specialize field.

I’ve found a few types of web designers and hopefully you’ll be able to find which you belong to or want to follow on your journey of being a successful web designer.

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Online Business Opportunities Using Affiliate Marketing

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I signed up for a free (that’s why I went) talk by The Affiliated Solutions at the Securities Commission, Bukit Kiara and attended it just yesterday. Sorry if I didn’t share the information here because I assumed no one would skip their office hours from 3PM-5PM to attend an event with topics like ‘unorthodox strategies of affiliate marketing’ or selling a product ‘without a website’.

Anyway, if you’d like to attend one of these with me in the future do let me know in the comments. Without further due, let’s hear about the good and bad of the talk I attended.

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