Malaysia website design blog
As I was administering some of the posts over at Blogs Malaysia and leaving comments to what I thought of them, I came across one blog that had several book covers that I assumed were Amazon links.
Upon rolling over them, I was definetely greeted by an Amazon advertisement or recommendation but I’ve noticed that Amazon finally has done something to help their affiliate program members.
I just visited Darren’s Problogger website and found him featuring something nifty I thought it would be great to share with everyone. :)
Introducing dPolls, an AJAX based poll that you could create for free. When you’d like to create a poll, you need to register a free account and verify the email address you’ve used in the registration. Once that’s done and verified, you’re on your way of creating your poll very easily.
It’s been a very quiet blog new year and it’s good seeing not that many flame wars being thrown around. Most of them nowadays are the stale fights with common bloggers. I suppose that’s a sign of a good year ahead.
But even the new year has some things in store for all of us. Like Blogs Malaysia when it first launched last year, generated much hype but towards the end of the year it faded away like old news. Have bloggers lost their interest or is it that every one is still hung over from their new year party.
Current episode:
Episode 2: Power of Custom Fields
It’s big, it’s black (or at least used to be), it’s got an organic type logo, it’s The Making of the 9rules Network. After a few nudges by some fans, Colin starts to tell us the tale of how 9rules was built.
The first article published at the moment is about how 9rules was built on WordPress for their first round. Colin explains why and how he used to start of the 9rules network in an instant. And as he says, it really wasn’t that difficult.
A creative brief is really a document about the design requirements of a project. Sometimes the creative brief might be contained in a project brief which would cover the planning, timeline, development and design details of a project. This brief is to help guide you in producing the requests of a client.
Being a website designer, the creative brief is one of the important properties you should build with your client. Sometimes the creative brief is gathered through the discussion when you ask clients what’s the look and feel they’re going for or what colours they would want to use in ther website.
If you don’t have a creative brief, bad things happen in a project.
Have you ever imagined pushing the limits of merger between static content and the Flash platform together to enhance the value of website usability even more?
Well, this article written by Kevin Hale titled; Using Flash as an Animation Underlayer, from Particle Tree shows a promising future. If you’ve not seen it, you don’t know what you’re missing in the development of web industry today.
As much as some might come to believe that newsletters will be extinct in the future, I’ve a feeling it won’t because it’s been proven so far to be one of the best e-marketing tools around. Of course, this isn’t comparing to marketing stategies like playing a game and the highest score wins.
Newsletter trends today are not the same anymore. If you don’t believe me, then take a gander of this upcoming screenshot and tell me what is wrong with it?
First, I’d like to say that I’m no marketing expert. However, I’m enough an Internet addict to realize a working campaign when I experience one. A successful online campaign will have visitors spreading their own news before their friends might’ve seen the advertisement in the papers.
In other words, if you have a campaign that will generate a word-of-mouth plague then you know the campaign has won many hearts of the targeted market. So let’s see what online campaign works for some of my friends.
A little early for Chinese New Year but a great happy client will appreciate the value you have to offer them. A client of mine that I’ll showcase when the project has gone live has just given me a bonus. In his words, just a small red packet (ang pau/ang pow) for me when I submit the last bill.
I’ll leave the guessing of amount to you as I feel it might not be appropriate to scream it out. But the genenorisity shown to me is really new since I started doing this business on a freelance basis.
Darren of Problogger recently wrote about How to Decide How Many Columns are Best for your Blog. A blog is also considered a website to me. Just that it’s a genre of its own.
I like the way Darren introduced the problem along with the solution in his life experience. He began telling the story of how a salesperson selling wardrobes wanted to make a deal with him and his wife. The surprising thing was the salesperson didn’t show them a catalogue and told them the great deals offered now.
The salesperson instead started with questions of function.