Website Development | Websites Made Simple

Fancy Font Replacement Support For The iPhone

April 21, 2009 by Danny

There’s now another method besides sIFR (scalable Inman Flash Replacement) or even @font-face for fancy text replacement. It usees Javascript and is called; Cufon. Easy to explain technicality is you’ll have to convert the font library you want into a font Javascript library – hope that makes sense. Then, get the Cufon library running and … Read more

P1 Team Fixes and Enhances Malaysia Wimax Coverage Map

November 2, 2009March 16, 2009 by Danny

Few weeks ago, I received my promotional code for a 6-months free subscription of P1 Wimax. This was when I last visited the P1 Wimax booth at the third-leg of the PC Fair – along with the PC Fair booth babes. Naturally, first thing I wanted to know was if my area was covered. Plus, … Read more

A Perfect Data Mining World

February 16, 2009 by Danny

This was a comic strip my business partner shared with me today. I’m sure most of us would be able to relate to the last frame of the story. How we’ve been thronged by countless sign ups everywhere we go. What inspired me to write this post was the fact how many websites are now … Read more

The Time Spent Developing a Website

August 18, 2008 by Danny

Don’t take it to heart but yeah, it pretty much summarizes certain parts of developing a website. Though most of the world still uses Internet Explorer, Malaysia website designers and developers strike very hard to make it compatible for these non-modern browser users. P.S: Developing in CSS now doesn’t take as long compared to creating … Read more

Do You Make These Malaysia Government Website Mistakes?

May 1, 2008 by Danny

Disclaimer: Remarks or comments made by me (Danny Foo) from here onwards is my personal feelings and experiences using selected website mentioned or not mentioned in this article. The published content here has no intention to degrade the Malaysia government or related parties mentioned or not mentioned inside it. I; Danny Foo, can not and will not be held responsible or liable for the comments left posted by third-party authors if it were to happen.

Now, most Malaysia web designers know some of the worst websites in Malaysia are the government related ones. And if you visit them often enough (if you can stand it), they repeat the mistakes over and over again. Thus, it’s easy to know if you make any of these Malaysia government website type mistakes.

The Google Robot or Googlebot Needs New Batteries

December 13, 2007 by Danny

Google has yet to come out with its own robot but it’s Googlebot is constantly scouring the Internet for relevant content in webpages. The Googlebot is a search bot used by Google. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine.

When you sit with a group of search engine optimizers, they’ll be talking about how they try to control the Googlebot to help websites be on top of the Google rankings. But I personally think Google is going to have to change the robot’s batteries. In other words, to tweak it a little bit more rather than to just find relevant keywords.

When Your Website Structure (Information Architecture) is Flawed?

September 14, 2007 by Danny

Sitemap flawed Part of any website strategy is to plan your web site architecture also known as website information architecture. In short, the information architecture is a blueprint of your information or a website sitemap.

It’s always easy hearing about it and this is deemed one of the easiest because it’s just organization of information in your website itself. However, I have found many who are ignorant of organizing their content in a manner only made sense to them and not the user.

Out of the Box CSS Layout

February 6, 2007 by Danny

A List Apart author Alan Pearce recently shared his development work to solve one of the most common problems in CSS layout. Some of us web standards designers would remember this being called the “holy grail”.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Alan has finally found the grail and it uses little to no hacks whatsoever to successfully achieve equal height column bliss.

RSS Not End-User Friendly

January 27, 2007 by Danny

If you’re a blogger or Internet-savvy user, you might have heard of RSS or better known as Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication. Site summary does give a clue on its own but coupling that with the word Rich in front, it’s a whole new jargon in the IT world.

So what exactly is Rich Site Summary about? Well, if you ask any technical person or blogger, they might mention more jargon like XML and how it’s a technology used to pull headlines and other content on the Internet.

In layman, RSS is the ability to access or keep track of vast amounts of content easily.

List of Malaysia E-Commerce Payment Methods

January 19, 2007 by Danny

During consultation with clients who aim to setup an online business in particular an online store, one of the most common questions is how do I collect payment and how do customers make payment?

The one and only method recognized by many clients because of its common use is via credit card. They don’t know how it works but they’ve heard from friends or relatives when shopping online, they would pay by just entering their credit card details. Alas online shopping in Malaysia is slightly difficult due to lack of exposure and insecurity of even the shop owner let alone the customer.