Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 |
This should be a very common questions every designers faced. A designer started to work on a project for a client and some of them require revisions that last forever. it never ends until a couple of months or sometimes years.
Can you imagine doing a simple web design works which is being revised for 40 times? And the work is completed after almost one year? I bet some of you do have this problem.
Some of you might have lose your mind and want to scream the hell out but couldn’t able to do it because your neighbor might knock your door and scream back at you or call the police if you do so. So what exactly the best way you should do?
This problem has definitely have lots of negative impacts. I could sum up some of them here based on my experiences:
- Confusion in the design directions
- Too much time and energy spent in just one work
- Feel boring about the projects which led to worse result
- When will I get paid?
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 |
More and more web designers are using web standards in building websites. What is the purpose and benefits on it actually? Let’s continue reading the article below.
By using web standards, your website is designed upon technologies that have been tested bu leading experts in web community and organizations. For instance, W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has ensures that this standard is compatible with browsers in several products. Orienting your designs toward standards means ensuring it compatible with the latest innovations.
The web technologies that are here including:
HTML – a technologies has been growth and success for 12 years through its careful developments and innovations.
XHTML – Extensible HyperText Markup Language is the successor of HTML. Primary used now because web contents now need to be delivered in many different devices.
CSS – Used widely in websites and web applications. It is used to define web layout in HTML. The main purpose is to simplify web maintenance and changes to be applied once in CSS documents.
XML – it is used almost everywhere right now because of its flexibilities, This 4 years old technologies is used in web applications and flash applications.
HTTP – network protocol that finds new usage so often, it was first used to surf the web, recently it is used as a messaging protocol through SOAP. (more…)
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 |
Web standard is a general term used in developing or designing a website that affect its technical specifications, philosophy and trends. This practice is developed by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with other groups and standard organizations to deliver numbers of benefits for web users.
The History
In the beginning, the internet was meant to be a place to share information for academics, researchers and the military. When internet was ‘open’ to public and became popular in the second half of the nineties, it has became a place to showcase graphic design. It was considered as an ‘online print media’. There was no CSS (Cascading style sheet) at that moment, and however it led to the abuse of HTML to show the visual presentation on the web. That was the time that table was widely used, especially when designers found that using “border=0″ could let them control the layout of a page. (more…)
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007 |
Finally, after 3 years of the old Beegamax website, we’ve finished the revamp and put it online. The new site is keeping its dark/black colours to retain its style. Besides, the dark colour looks classy to me 
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I really like to adopt nature elements to this new website. That’s why you’ll notice a slight dark green colour and leaves sketches in the background.
It is not a fully flash site as a couple of versions I did before. Flash is used in the slideshows on frontpage only. I’m trying to follow the Web 2.0 design trends here.
The website is build up using css and div tags. It’s a tableless design in back-coding. In fact, I’ve built this website without designing the layout in Photoshop first. I did it directly in Dreamweaver. Photoshop is used in creating graphic elements only. Just trying out my skills anyway . (more…)
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Monday, September 10th, 2007 |
We’ve just finished transferring the domain and hosting from a Singapore provider to a domain provider in Indonesia. The domain was hosted in Yahoo Small Business before. The process is pretty confusing at the start, but after reading from the Help section, contacting Yahoo Support and seeking around Google, I found it is not that difficult to do.
I’d like to share some points to take note if you need to do domain transfer in future:
- Make sure you have access to the domain control panel from your old registrar or domain provider
- Make sure your domain status in “unlock”
- You need to find the “Authorization code” or “domain secret” in control panel. Usually it’s a random characters and numbers
- You need to have access to the “admin email” of your domain, to confirm on domain transfer
If you don’t have one of those points above, it will be pretty hard to transfer across. Thanks to my old provider on sharing this information. (more…)
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Friday, July 13th, 2007 |
It’s been a while since my latest post. I’ve been very busy on daily works for these couple of weeks. Besides, I’ve also designing a new job board which I name it JobsKafe.com.
I’ve seen some of the similar job board anywhere on the internet like authenticjobs.com and jobsandgigs.com. Well, these job boards are mostly for design/programming/IT related vacancies however, but developing a similar website for all type of jobs will be good as well.
JobsKafe.com’s concept is about bringing up a simple job board to help employers on posting their vacancies and assisting jobseekers on finding the right jobs.
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Monday, May 14th, 2007 |
Web 2.0 is the words we often hear these days. It’s reflecting both application and interface design trends on the web world.
There’s no official standard for interface design though, but you can see that the style goes to something smoother, glassy look, round corner and most importantly, simple.
This trend even reflected on the logotype. You can visit some of the websites that already adopted this style, such as: skype.com, clipshack.com, kajeet.com, newsgator.com and a lot more if you search by Google.
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Sunday, May 13th, 2007 |
As we all know, to get your blog online, you have 4 options for the interface design:
- Use the default theme from the software
- Get a free theme from some other sites
- Get a designer to do a custom theme
- Design a custom theme yourself
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Friday, January 19th, 2007 |
We have received responds from some prospectus clients asking about this question. They’re confused of what kind of website they want us to develop for them. All they know is they want their company to exist on the internet so their customers can view it online.
For a start, the web has grown to be a great environment for your business. There’re certain kinds of web development which one of them will certainly suit your needs. It might only be a very simple webpages or it could be a very complex website. All depends on your business needs. Here are the descriptions of each type. Have a read and you’ll get a brief idea on them.
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