Wedding Bliss

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I just finished reading todays Computimes in the NST and they had a full page on tying the knot. I was quite surprised to learn that the boost of tourist numbers came from married couples. The article highlighted that one of the places to benefit online right now is the bridal market. In the article, there were quite a few websites posted and knowing the expectations I normally put, I was looking quite highly toward the URLs provided in the article.

Other than spreading the roses and goodness of the launch with the many services offered, there are a couple of other websites suggested in the article. Thankfully, the next website www.malaysiabrides.com works and it looks pretty good though it’s just a forum. With 91 members (not sure how many are active), this is still better than having a dead website.

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Is It a Blog? a Website?

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No, it’s a weblog! Confused yet?

Well, don’t be embarassed by it because a study by Shel Holtz at WebProNews.com shines some light to the agenda, Blog Design An Obstacle To Acceptance. His study was about the usability of blogs. Not only in terms of design but the overall view of it. The study was conducted by enlisting few users who are web-savvy but didn’t know much about blogs.

A clear example of how even a web-savvy person might not be as knowledgeable as the blogger was proven when Shel said;

Most didn’t know they were looking at a blog at all and were surprised and confused when told they were.

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WebSighting #3

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Agent CSSBeauty just submitted in the latest report and I must say, there were quite a few potential websites. However, from the long list I decided to narrow the choice down and feature this website, Vivabit. They’re a web development company based in the UK. They’ve got a strict and simple color palette that should … Read more

Thank You

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Readers who’ve stuck with me through the recent MT 500-error incident. It’s solved now and I’m grateful some still dropped by when the site was down and wished me in the shoutbox. :) I’d also like to give thanks to Mack at Brand New Malaysian for plugging the post about the TMS and AirAsia Project. … Read more

WebSighting Special – SiteVista Review

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One of my WebSighting agents; CSSBeauty, one day featured a website called SiteVista. It’s simple design accompanied with curves and a tasty fruit was a website I could guarantee not many would find difficult surfing.

So what does Sitevista do?
In my own words, I’d describe it as an offered online service that works like SnagIt but much cooler and more functional. It’s not a revolutionary service and some might have seen something like this before. Sitevista’s cool factor allows you to visually troubleshoot a website you’re developing on several browsers ranging from Internet Explorer 4 to Mozilla to Netscape Navigator 4 and even Safari.

But wait, there’s more of that icy cool factor offered. You could view your website in resolutions from 640*480 to 1024*768. No more needing to switch your monitor resolution back and forth. Oh yeah, psstt.. you can even view your website in 256 colors too. Now, is that cool or what? And you won’t believe this, but it’s still not done. They’re soon going to offer a screen reader test, a color blindness test (yes, believe it!) and other nifty tests.

I promised Paul I was going to review the website and the service overall once it’s been officially launched so please read on for the review. :)

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AirAsia Appointed TMS

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Or known as The Media Shoppe which their website you could visit, HERE are now AirAsia’s website portal solution provider. According to the TMS website, they’re a local software vendor company with quite a drive for CMS. I quote from InTech today of the future expectation TMS is about to offer us consumers; TMS will … Read more

MT Join Fight of Dreaded 500

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Somewhere the beginning of this month, MovableType was being havoc-ed by a dreaded 500 error. Plagued by the Internal Server Error, I straight away emailed my awesome host support whom also is a friend of mine. :) We were banging our heads against the monitor trying to spot the problem if it was MT or … Read more

Good ol Computimes

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While reading the NST yesterday, I stopped short at the Computimes section. The place where I get most of the news on technology and what’s cooking with it in Malaysia. Not much of the articles were of interest till somewhere at the end. I can’t recall the full article and the paper has gone missing … Read more

Web Designer Weaknesses

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I know I’m suppose to be talking about web designer risks but this does cover that at the same time. How many of you have ever hired a freelance web designer? How many of you have hired me as a freelance designer? Ignore the last question, I ain’t one of those in demand people anyway. So did most of you approach a company or a normal friend good in graphics to revamp your website?

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