Malaysia website design blog
Having visited Entrepreneur.com I decided to read one of their newest articles, Newspaper Ads. Advertising in the daily newspapers is something every company does and they do it very aggressively if they’ve a new product or just have the budget to do it.
The article mentions two types of newspapers; local and international. Too bad for us that we’ve no international ones. So even the suggestive cheaper local paper option isn’t viable to us. Oh phoeey!
I share this post with everyone after reading the small white paper produced by David Meerman Scott who’s a writer and consultant. He’s not a professional website designer or architect but focuses much on content.
So when you learn about his tips, do keep in mind that you need to imagine them from all available angles especially in a more content driven manner. The original article is 10 Web Landing Page Tips to Drive Action and it’s a PDF document hosted on David’s website. If you’d like to grab a copy, you’d need to look inside his Resources.
Yesterday I was over at my uncle’s place hogging my cousins Sony Playstation 2. The past few times that I’ve visited, he’s asked me how’s business and has any new business come in. Being a small company trying to build its foundation and create awareness of essential website value, we don’t get project every day and I sure don’t want to overburden my colleagues. We’ll just leave it as that.
My uncle then asked if I’d like to grab some of his namecards of clients and ring them up. When I asked him why (doh!), he said it’s obviously to call them and ask if they’d like a website done by us. I answered that it’s alright and continued playing my game.
Ever since the consumer market has been penetrated by fitness centres like Fitness First, there have been many other big fitness facility providers emerging and one opened by Jackie Chan to boot.
When you (assumingly someone who’s interested in joining the club) visit the website, what are the things you’d be looking out for? Or what would your surfing waves be like?
Here’s the scenario. I’m planning to launch a marketing effort of promoting our services to prospective clients. However, here’s the ticker of the scenario. These ‘prospective clients’ are actually website owners with average or lower than average level websites. They might not have the intention of making their website better and by George, I don’t think they’d want to spend a single cent improving their website.
After all, in Malaysia nobody complains about a bad website to the owner. So I’m deciding to jump into the these website owners faces and do something about it.
During the celebration of The Star’s 10th Anniversary, they did it with technological grace by launching a new look for their website; TheStar.com.my Little did they know the crowd back in 2005 was already very demanding especially those who read online content.
Okie, maybe I’m exaggerating the last sentence since not many in Malaysia actually care about usability and accessibility half the time. However, I’ve been specially requested to review few other online newspapers in follow up of my own; The Star Online.
In this review, I’ve covered Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Daily Telegraph, The Times UK, Washington Post, Guardian Unlimited, and Independent.
I was rather curious to learn more from what I’ve been hearing the need to use grid systems when designing layouts. After a little Googling, I managed to find the post that I think started it all.
Mark Boulton from the UK was describing in a 5-part series; Five simple steps to designing grid systems. If you plan to read his article, just be prepared for quite a lot of absorption regarding grids as a graphic designers friend.
Bear with me as this metaphor hit me in the washroom. So you have been warned.
I was thinking how a tissue and handkerchief could be related to us and customer relationship management. Every one would love to have repeated clients or clients helping refer other friends of theirs to us. So what we’re going to do now is imagine ourselves as a tissue or a handkerchief (hanky).
Scenic beauty and ambience is what I feel when browsing through United Kingdom’s Gemstone Home Improvements. It’s blood colored background with the essence of abstract expression along with it’s wood type surface of the interface gives the website a sense of satisfaction.
Just what the interior designer might have ordered in appreciation of his/her eye for artistry in solid objects.
The Malaysian version of Creative Commons (CC) have been the talk since sometime last year. It was a sheer surprise to have the non-governing organization enter our shores and help budding talents protect their work whilst allowing them to share it online. Placing any work online has risk of plagiarism or piracy but CC tries to lessen these things.
What is Creative Commons about?