Malaysia website design blog
Those were the fine words used by John of Addicted to New. John is a developer and released this great tutorial roughly 3 months ago.
He took his readers through the development process of a project with one of his buddies. (I think) As you know, other than design process of coming up with a template, even before programming begins there’s a need to skeletize the layout.
Jakob Nielsen of Useit.com recently posted his yearly Web Design Mistakes that created an uproar. BusinessLogs stood up to Jakob‘s annual findings along with some others who defended their views from the field.
But soon after, Jakob then posted his Top Ten Design Mistakes of weblog usability. This time he decided to reveal obvious usability secrets of maintaining a good weblog.
However, note that as much as Jakob is as much a guru in usability, Steve Krug is also considered one because usability at times is mere common sense. ;)
I’m very aware that though this has been asked repeatedly numerous times either by forum members whom are interested in website design or plan to study a course that circles around this subject, the question of what and how to become a creative designer or website designer is asked.
But let me first clarify one thing that might have not been mentioned by me before. There are different requirements when you’re seeking employment and going solo in the field. The difference isn’t as wide a gap like the Grand Canyon per se but in terms of skills and knowledge, it could be considered that.
One of the things a freelancer goes through constantly is the draught in projects. Like a harvest season, during the dry periods of the year there will be less than few projects. One of the worst pitfalls of being self-employed is the non-existence of financial security. So if you’re not prepared to be without cash or save for many rainy days, don’t be a freelancer.
One of the ways I’ve thought about helping myself gain projects is by emailing website owners I’ve visited. If I’m visiting a website and think of on-the-spot solutions for them to make it better, I’d email and ask if they’be interested.
Everyone recognizes Jakob Nielsen as a usability guru. He’s published and co-authored few books. One of the books that I have is called, Homepage Usability
. Ever since I first found out about Jakob, he totally changed my views when consulting website designs.
But during one of my classes in Melbourne, I was discussing usability with my lecturer and he said that Jakob’s teachings shouldn’t be strictly followed like the bible. My lecturer said though Jakob make lots of reasonable points of website usability, not all of it should be applied.
Instead, we should all learn when, where, why, and how to implement the teachings of usability where we see fit.
In my previous entry, I decided to release some of the design or layouts that I came up with for the upcoming revamp. The number of feedback was needless to say quite humiliating, but at least I know now how much a huge head creates a wrong impact.
The discussion we’re going to have today is about determining the difference between a design and a layout. I’d like to find the border that actually tells us when it’s called a design or a layout.
But just so you know in advance, this discussion might end up being very subjective and personal preference.
Remember the many times I’ve mentioned that this blog design is still in the workshop, but pending release? Well, it’s still in the workshop without much improvements made. Why is it stuck? Why doesn’t Danny want to release something more exciting to us?
Well, it’s honestly not that I don’t want to. Trust me, I myself am actually scratching my head wondering why I haven’t turn the designs into development. So before I end up coming up with another design and stalling myself in the workshop any longer, I’m going to release current designs for feedback.
Not so long ago, I was discussing about how difficult it is finding a unique company name to be registered as a domain name. The comments left in the post had people debating about names not being unique enough to many who only want to register .com Top Level Domains (TLDs).
Then recently, I just came across Darren’s current problem of Looking for a Company Name. In the earliest part of the comments, I already noticed that Darren too admitted that most of the names he thought of were already taken.
The X edition of our running WebSighting series is proudly brought you by agent, CSSImport. This time we’re going to review a business consultant company’s website, Davis Business Consultants.
A quick introduction of owner, Paul Davis, is that he’s been working for over 20 years and a fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. It looks like here’s an accountant who’s breaking the curse of boring accountants.
If someone managed to access your blog or website and deleted all of your entries, along with their user accounts, wouldn’t you just feel like strangling the culprit?
Well, someone took the liberty of doing just that to the Merdeka Blogger Project we had ran this year. The person involved waited till after 15th September, after all Malaysians celebrated Merdeka to commit the offence.
I’m not sure about you, but it does feel like an insult not aimed directly at me but towards the Malaysian bloggers altogether. All the fine entries by our Malaysian bloggers that were plugged have been forcefully removed by the intruder. This intruder who doesn’t have respect for us Malaysians let alone our country.