Web Design, the Malaysia Way

Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, you can present them in a variety of ways. On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery. However, to convey the message of presented data effectively, it’s important to offer it in an attractive and intuitive way. Furthermore, the presentation itself can make images more valuable and simplify the browsing through hundreds of slides.

Trip Tracker Slideshow is one of the good-looking, lightweight JavaScript image viewer with an animated slideshow feature. The viewer is free to use in personal or commercial web pages, provided that the script is not sold or exchanged for profit.

See their script in action!

Started from hand sketch, a web layout was turned into box components. When a more detailed layout was produced, it was reviewed for its usability, technical compatibility, loading speed, extendability and others. Localization to other languages and right-to-left layout was tested. Reviews was done several time until a finalized version of layout was completed.

This is just a start. It would be converted into HTML coding in the web interface stage. This is followed by coding, debugging and finally the launch!

Most of the website owners are able to tell us what they want when come to the design of their websites. Their preferences run wild from font-size to the colors used in the web layout!

We started by asking them who and what is the reason for someone to visit their website. Not everyone, please. Until now, they seem to understand pretty well about their visitors.

They continue to propose features which they want. This is where they stray away from their objective. Sadly to say, it sounds that those features are of what the site owners want, than their visitors.

It comes into a long list, from content management system to online payment. If your customers are businesses who prefer dealing with you by check, or group of people who never buy online - how much would this online payment help!?

The simple rule is, starting from something simplier. Do not worry about what features your customers might want to have, because they are the one who will let you know. The site owner, only represents one of the visitor, not everyone!

If there is only one feature you will need to include in your website, it would be how to make the life of customers easier!