Category: Web Design

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Revamp Objectives?

If you are a web designer, the following lines should be common to you:

  • “I want the site to be more vibrant”
  • “Make it more professional”
  • “More happening”
  • “I like it to be clean and uncluttered”
  • “I want a refresh”

It doesn’t matter if the site you are revamping is a corporate website or an ecommerce site, for a manufacturer or a fish monger, for a real-estate agent or for a hobby group, you probably have heard the lines above before in some form or another.

But is a website revamp just about the aesthetics? An online personification of its website owner? A humorous reminder that almost everyone wants to conquer the world using a budget that might not even be enough for your next gadget upgrade.

Being a project manager in a results oriented internet company, i try to better understand my clients’ business. Only when you understand why your client is willing to part with that money, then will the pieces slowly fall into place.

Ok, sometimes they really just happen to have the money and just want to make it “more happening”. lol…

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Learnings and Recommendations from Danny Choo

Attended Danny Choo’s workshop today and i was simply blown away. He is a humble guy and he shared with the audience about his career, the learninings and also some recommendations from his experience as a blogger who commands an amazing amount of traffic and passive income.

Its always nice to hear from SEO experts, but Danny is so much more than that, he practices what he says and his sharings about his trail and error efforts to evolve his site is simply a real life fairytale-ish account.

Alot of the stuff he mentioned are solid good practices for website owners, while there were some other things he mentioned were quite new to me. Super inspired to see someone so disciplined to systematically achieve his goals.

I’m just too awe stuck to write more, but you can be certain, my blog will be evolving soon and i’ll start blogging more regularly about web stuff which is my thing. ;)

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Proud to be Singaporean

mySingapore.sg
mySingapore.sg

If you’re Singaporean, you need to sign up for this website. Other then all the fun stuff like making a pledge on the Members Wall, you can do the National Rolling Polls to impact the mood of Singapore. Currently, Singapore is feeling “Ok Lah!” lol…

I’ve added my pledge.

Me, a citizen of Singapore, pledge myself as one reliable worker, regardless of travel, waking up early or at times over the weekends, to build a balanced work life based on moderation and long term planning so as to achieve 2.1 reproduction, happiness, prosperity and progress for my family.
~ nickpan on mySingapore.sg Members Wall

lol…

Ok, on the serious side, the website is really trying to serve as a platform for locals to get together to improve Singapore. Check out Project SG where there is a list of such projects.

Calling all Singaporeans! go support support!!

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MAMP

Yay its childrens day and i got myself a wonderful toy. The abbreviation MAMP stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X!

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The web in 10 years

Had a lunch conversation with a colleague and we toyed with the idea of being able to accurately predict what will the web be like in 10 or 20 years from now.

If you have a view, i’ll love to hear it. Drop me a comment. :)

  1. Bandwidth – I think with bandwidth growing at the current rate, slowly all data storage & desktop applications will become web based.
  2. Mobility – With mobile devices becoming more and more versatile, i think the mobile phone will eventually fuse with all portable devices (ie. Music, Camera, Video Recorder, Computer, Projector, etc) and it will definitely be internet enabled from almost anywhere.
  3. Affordable – Internet should also slowly become super cheap, maybe even almost free as costs will slowly be borne by advertisers.
  4. Semantic Content – Online content will eventually use a standard semantic standard. If we can use SWIFT code for bank transfers, i don’t see why we can’t use Microformats (or similar) for content.
  5. Universal Profile – I also feel slowly we will all use a universal profile. We have so many user accounts everywhere, twitter, facebook, flickr, yahoo, iGoogle, Gmail, etc… Sooner or later, we will all be able to choose to have one universal online profile if we wanted.

So my prediction is :

Affordable Internet everywhere via a mobile device to access all content, data, applications in a standard way using a universal profile.