It says the guarantee apply to any keyword. I wonder how this can be done? If only this can be done, why not their website appears when I did a quick check on keyword ‘web design malaysia‘.

This is as weird as building your website in Jungle? Misleading and over promising!

Yes, Blog is free! Free is not good – at least for businesses. That is why, blogging spread like fire among individual users than businesses. It has becoming a New Marketing way for most businesses. Old corporate managers do not want to miss this new marketing opportunity, ended up setting one official corporate website together with an official Blog.

It was never easy to tell my customers that Blog and corporate website are the same. Fancy design still remains as the top-most-wanted feature for most of my customer. It was designed as like to please just the corporate website owner than people visiting it. Or, it may be the idea of web developer to push for beautiful layout, which in most case, the same result can be delivered by a page simple as Google main page.

WordPress has done so well in keeping the design separated from the content. It works like the theme in you Nokia Phone. You can choose to change the look and feel of your screen without entering all your contact in your address book again. This sounds simple but challenge is everyone has to adapt to a single format (post title, post slug, categories) of content, yet work in any page!

We have changed the look and feel of our corporate website several times, without worrying about rebuilding the content. But, you will be surprised with number of corporate websites still built with both content and design combined and ready to have them built from scratch again in their next revamp.

Bloggers are paving the way for the change of corporate website. They take the risk of change, trying up how the new format of content definition should work. Bloggers do not have website in the past. Creating a Blog is not a revamp to them, but something new.

But, for a company with already spending so much in the past in their website, it is hard for them to make the change. They choose not to make immediate decision. They are still on the look-and-see state, but will eventually follow!

There are three things happening now,

1. Businesses are starting to understand the importance of the goal of creating a website. A goal must be measurable, it can be number of order, number of people downloading your location map, number of support email received, except branding :)

2. The platform of Blog, such as WordPress, after a long 5 years of development are now ready to prove that the technology is mature yet simple to user now.

3. All of us are no longer limiting to our own job of scope. My partner just login to our corporate website, edited one of a page posted months ago and approved some comments. In that 5 minutes works, he turned himself into editor, proof reader, comment moderator, etc. The rules changed. You are taking over works of airline booking agent because you know it can be done online, faster and cheaper.

Business will soon no longer need a web developer!

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I am listing out the top 10 web design companies website snapshot by googling ‘web design malaysia’ keyword.

Motion Edge Design

Webz Design and Solutions

XiMnet Malaysia

Elite Web Solutions

JustSimple Dotcom

Ericanfly Webstudio

1.com.my

Acdra

Malaysian Internet Resources (MIR)

Netallianz

While we are over-excited by the ‘overnight’ success story of online business which sold for a don’t-know-how-many hundred millions, there is always a reason behind!

The code and design of such websites are state of art. In this case, the grey bar of where the word Request are, are slightly extended to make sure the word Request aligned with the content below. This is Facebook!

Most successful websites are not stingy with space allocated for their sign up button. WordPress, as one of the most widely used Blog platform, firmly believe the size of the sign up button has a lot to do with the conversion. And most importantly, conversion is the best measurement of how successful a website, rather than fancy flash animation flying around in your website!

See, even the words used in the button has a lot to do with Google. Imagine if your Sign up now button is in graphical format, not text version…

On average, most corporate websites require only about 10-20 maintenance hour in a year. Yes, a year! Do not be surprised, having a website and think an online way are two completely different things.

Yet, website owners complain on the lack of support from their web developers. When asked about how much is the charge, both parties (website owners & web developers) do not seem to have a clear answer regarding this issue!

If a request is handled promptly by a designated project manager (not directly dealing with graphics or HTML programmer that speaks different languages), reviewed and complete the changes without mistakes. If the customer is convinced that the project manager can give them the estimated time required thus resulting in zero overcharged cases!

RM80/maintenance hour can be a good rate to start with!

There must be a good reason of IKEA Malaysia not using their portal to sell their home furniture online. I guess the offline conversion it far more profitable than putting it online! Perhaps, using the website to reduce their operational issues can be something that they can think of, such as checking stock avaliability, or checking the delivery status.

Currently, the website is showing their Kitchen weeks promotion in a popup. If you close the popup too early before the website finish loading, you will get a blank page. Well, this is annoying indeed. Considering visitors make their decision on first landing to your website, the approach of using popup for their promotion can be really a bad ideas!