Serene Green

A very environmentally fresh looking graduated website with an overall green pasture around it. According to the introduction, Serene Green is built on the strength of college students hailing from the U.S. and Canada.

Though they’re new to me, their portfolio projects scream out loud of their experience and their taste for design. They’ve even got a secret project up their sleeves.

Oh yeah, forget to mention that they’re a website development company.

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Andrew Neitlich's Twenty Marketing Tips

Marketing is really fascinating thing and the one thing I’ve started loving about it is the opportunity to try and bring out the best creative ideas. Alas below all the ideas that come flocking, there’s no point if it isn’t used now.

Andrew has a number of loyal followers (me being one of them) and his articles on Sitepoint or his website always keep me thinking and intrigue about marketing. Recently, he shared the twenty blunders he hope many aren’t making in marketing.

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Operafest Children's Choir

Just when you think that some kids are supporters of evil, shrieking around in their underwear, thesse kids in Operafest are a sight that dazzles you. If you’ve not heard of them, it’s nothing surprising because they’ve never gotten enough publicity by the government and their presence was spread online enough.

Anyway, can you believe that these children are the second best children’s choir in the world. I’m not kidding. The choir group ahead of them (though hopefully not for long) is the Vienna Boys Choir.

I don’t know about you, but missing such existence of young high achievers was embarassing even when I found out.

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Finding Your Own Brand

It’s bad enough that when you’re helping create a new brand identity for a client it’s hardwork, imagine the insanity you need to put yourself through trying to come up with your own brand identity.

And you can’t technically escape this unless you plan to work your employee butt of your whole life and later live on your EPF. There’s bound to be a miniscule jerk in your brain thinking ‘what if I was running my own business?’

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Maybank2u Site Architecture

Though I first signed up with Bank Simpanan Nasional (their website is too horrid to visit) when I was rather young, I signed up with Maybank while I was doing my internship for a company in the vicinity. The whole reason of doing it was because it was just an easier method to get your paycheque.

One of the reasons I found that most Malaysia companies don’t value their website is due to the poor integration or planning of their site architecture. And what’s a site architecture?

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9rules Round 3 Now Open

They’ve removed the sign that says “Till We Meet Again” and the plushie bouncers beside the screens have been moved aside for a new breed of 9rules members. If your web tangled mind is still foggy and haven’t heard of 9rules, you probably need to read One Week to Become a 9ruler first.

The submission page is now open and it should close by midnight tonight, I think. So if you’re not part a blogging network just yet, probably here’s your chance.

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Tips Direct From 9rules

This entry might already be late by 4 days but I suppose it’s something worth keeping over here in the case of anyone needing it. Scrivs who recently visited here and left a comment in my past entry, One Week to Become a 9ruler has put up a helpful article.

The article is some tips and perspectives the 9rulers look for in a submission later on.

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A 'Standard' Website

Me and the members of Low Yat forums half the time finding members asking these very same questions,

“How much do you charge for a website?”

“What’s the current price to design (and develop) a website?”

Some of us have approached this question too many times. But is it really our fault that there is no standard website price? After all, what is a standard website and what does the standard package contain?

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Web Designers and their Blogs

Fellow blogger and friend, Jonathan Ng of Beyond Simplicity (though might be switching to a simpler domain) has written a short review of Blogs Malaysia and started a rather interesting discussion in his entry, Web Designers and Blogs.

Firstly, thanks for promoting me and Stanch for the work done on the new metablog or blog network. I didn’t do much work since Stanch was in control of development. And it’s common that when you’re developing a website, you just can’t the sight of either border-ed DIVs or colored in a solid background. ;)

Anyway, the part that sparked interest in Jonathan’s topic was if ads and a web designer’s blog should gel together.

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