Web Design, the Malaysia Way

When come to system development, we used have to decide on one thing. Let’s look at creating a website for hotel booking. We break it down to front-end and back-end. Front-end refering to the website where customers choose the hotel and make booking online. Back-end, taking care of the management of hotels by administrator of the website. Both access to the same database.

Question is, if you have limited time, which will you develop first? Backend or frontend?

The answer is, Front-end. Why?

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!

Search options are something that can change from time. In real life, business grow. If today you use a State name (eg, Selangor) to find a housing development project from a Developer’s website, tomorrow you might be sorting your way by country as the developer grows and has more project internationally.

It is an never ending games. Your customers decide what is best to find their way to the information they want from your website. The site owner listens and make changes to their website - But, all this can not be done if your website is build dynamically with a database-driven backend! Why? Because all fields and columns are hardly changed.

Tag or Category present an alternative and better solution to this. Managing Tag is easier, without the need to touch the database. It is parallel, in terms of every item can belong to more than one Tag, yet flexibly enough to be presented in any way you like!

This makes content sorting more logical and practical! Check how 1.com.my sort their content!