How To Choose a Website Designer

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I actually wanted to post this earlier but due to the workload just after the Chinese New Year, I’ve been updating the blog slower. As you know, profit or revenue generated from this blog is used to maintain this space and its goal driven purpose to all Malaysians and anyone else who’d like to learn more about the website industry in Malaysia.

This post will be using a few things said by Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs-Journey because he touched really a lot of solid points in his podcast of finding a website designer in conjunction with his facelift of his blog. I’ll add some at the end of the post which I might see viable here.

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Rice Raiser Canadian Fundraiser Website

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Brought to life by estaliblished Canadian firm Bauhouse, the Rice Raiser website is a Canadian drive of helping those in need of help locally and internationally.

Out of all the Non-Government Organization (NGO) websites I’ve seen online, I think this will be one of the Top 10 now. The website design is done in a very subtle yet meaningful way that communicates a simple message of helping children feed to continue living.

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Solution for Empty Designer Minds

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This tool is not a generator of finished ideas – it is a “thought-starter.”

I came across a website that offered quite a unique solution to anyone creative with a blockage for ideas. As the creative director of MouseBrains said, the phrases generated from the form you fill up isn’t finished ideas.

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Building Websites with an Apple Macintosh

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Ha! Thought I was going to teach you Macromedia Dreamweaver using an Apple Macintosh, huh? Well, that will happen as soon as I get enough funding for either a MacBook Pro or an iBook 14″ at least.

I was visiting Josh Lockhart’s website after being redirected from CSSImport. I noticed that they catered to something called RapidWeaver themes. I’ve heard of Dreamweaver but not RapidWeaver so naturally I had to find what was this all about.

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Floating Hints

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Technically, I have no idea what they’re called exactly. However, I do recognize them as floating hints and probably tooltips. If you haven’t seen what they look like, then you probably haven’t visited Edrei’s Footsteps in the Mirror blog.

What I like about these things is they are a great help for those who are too worried of clicking on some links. There have been surveys done where a user asks, if I clicked or submitted my information then how am I suppose to know where would it go? In comes the solution..DOM tooltips.

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Planet MY (Malaysia) Review

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In the local scene today there are a number of emerging networks, aggregators, blogs and ever growing number of authors who are aiming to steal the limelight from the more popular. Nowadays if you’d like to have a popular face in the tech section of the newspapers, just start a blog and make sure you spam them to visit your weblog.

Nah, just kidding. You might be able to pull it off but I’m not supporting it. The best method for these authors who want their websites to reach an average of 100,000 views or unique visits per day need to invest their time in alternate methods. Such as submitting and joining to aggregators or networks that constitute to Web 2.0 – supposedly people empowered.

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Malaysia Blog Website Review

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I was invited to join the Malaysia Blog website and was expecting something different from what’s already existing today. But even on the first visit, I was disappointed with not only the lack of interest in providing it a website design but the goal of its existence too.

It took a scroll down to finally give me the message that this website is one of those blog ranking or website ranking networks. The ranking system is made by averaging the views or visits to your website/blog that is being tracked by Malaysia Blog and also the rating you might get from supporters.

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How to Write a Contract

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After slavering the whole day away on a contract for clients to sign on the dotted line, thank goodness I’m not a lawyer or I never studied law. I could imagine myself going mad reading all those law books and becoming a Jim Carrey instead of a Morgan Freeman in court. Okie, maybe using actors wasn’t a good idea but you get the idea.

The whole day I was Googling for designer contracts to have a guide of writing my own legal document for clients. As you know, because it’s a legal document you need to have it formal and there isn’t much allowed freedom like creating a creative brief or writing a client proposal.

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How to Choose a Business Name

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Will Swayne is a sales lead generation specialist and principal of Australian Internet consulting firm Marketing Results. I actually hopped on over to his website from Yaro’s Entrepreneur’s Journey after finally finding time to catch up on several of missed posts.

In Will’s article, I loved how he kept things short and simple. He explained one of the major differences of having a quirky or functional name for a business. I can’t agree more with him.

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How to Reply Hate Mail?

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As much as hate mail generally symbolizes someone out there hating you, there are advantages and disadvantages of receiving hate mail. The great advantages or benefits you could say is that there’s someone who’s taken an interest to what you do. The other huge benefit that some hate mail give you is the excuse to break away from work awhile and have a relieving laugh.

The disadvantages of hate mail is knowing that someone really hates you. I don’t like people hating me, especially when there’s no real reason to it. The other thing about hate mail is that the writers don’t give you a chance to reply to them personally and because of that you’ll have to try and communicate with them by other means.

So is this hate mail an advantage or disadvantage?

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