2006 is about to pass. It is so close that you can see it in the blink of eye now. We have had a great year of growing web technology in 2006, and it has leave a good start to enter 2007. We’ll see what to come in web environment by the end of next year. But here are my predictions:
Some website owner will think that after creating a website, there won’t be anything more to do and just let the website run by its own. This idea is totally wrong!
A website is actually like a store in offline world. When you buy or rent a store, added the furniture to display the products, it is not just stop there, you need to advertise your store/products/company to the appropriate newspapers, magazines or other promotional tools like brochures, flyers, etc.
In the online case, it is very important to keep updating and improving it to attract visitor, boost revenue, grows the business and do the necessary marketing adjustment.
While creating one of our client’s website, we have found out some problems with flash movie. The flash movie has covered a continuous looping background image in HTML pages, that it blocked a square area in the pages. Another problem also occurred in the javascript generated dropdown menu. When we put our mouse hovering the menu to bring out the dropdown, it appeared just behind the flash movie, when it supposed to be in front of it.
But the internet is always a friendly place to solve your problems. Just googling around and you’ll find most of the troubleshooting required.
Last Thursday, I had a very great talk with Ariady Sugita, a cool photographer in town. We are discussing about opportunities of collaboration in business. It was a great meet up.
And what came in his mind is, he is considering about creating an online store. He was asking for my advise about this, and what came first in me is security. It will definitely be a website where credit card transaction takes place.
After the talk, I think it is good if I spend some times to write down an article about e-commerce security and share it here.
Finding colour combinations for your web projects are sometimes daunting. There are couple of tools on the internet that you can use to find the right complementary colour.
Just surf around and find this useful tool in Adobe website called Kuler. It allows users to quickly match and share colour themes over the internet.
Kuler also lets you choose several options such as Analogous, Monochromatic, Triad, Complementary, Compound, Shades and Custom. After you’ve found the perfect match, you can write down a title and save it to ‘My Kuler’.
Actually, this interview is pretty old already, but I think it is still good to share. This is an interview of Beega.com (the very first form before it became Beegamax.com, while my daily meals completely depend on freelancing, Those are good old days to be remembered).
This website is about creating something like a game, with character moving around screen which controlled by arrow keys. And yes, it’s a fully flash site with lots of action script involved. I spent 2 weeks time to get it done. This website, has helped a lot on getting quite sums of freelance works which mostly coming from outside Indonesia.
A web site is an inexpensive and effective business promotion tool. A website will turn your business worldwide, which means people from around the world will be able to see your company, products and services and how to reach you. But thus, how will it benefits your business?
1. Online Product Catalog and Promotion
It will turn your product catalog and promotions from offline to online. Customers will be able to see your products and services by only visiting your WWW.
2. Reduce the Costs of Customer Service
There’re many ways to serve your customers online. For example, you can make a web forms to gather inputs from satisfied or/and dissatisfied customers, without having your staffs go down to street to collect directly. Besides, you can also give Hints or Tips on using your products/services. These are just a few of customer service advantages. All these can be done very easily on the web.