Posted by John on February 12, 2009
While bandwidth has increased greatly in today’s era of high speed internet, you might still want to make your web pages really lean and fast if your website is catering to a huge audience. Check out these tips from http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=207
But while speed is important, don’t forget about other factors such as functionality, content and usability. A poor user experience delivered fast is still a poor user experience. A positive web user experience will correlate to a positive brand perception (http://uxd.forumone.com/archives/35-Website-User-Experience-impact-on-Brand.html)
Posted by John on February 4, 2009
As I was browsing the web for Valentine’s day ideas, I stumpled upon this ingenious love letter made up of Web 2.0 company logos created by Social Signal. It’s really creative, you have to check it out for yourself at http://www.socialsignal.com/2007-valentine
WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by leepeng on January 14, 2009
Many times I’ve received requests to build spell check for websites. Mainly on the backend CMS or some web-based systems.
My reply is always the same.
“Please install and use Firefox 2 or 3. Everything is catered for.” WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by leepeng on
We developed a website and tested it on Firefox, IE7, Safari, Opera and Chrome. After delivery, the client said that some functions were not working on their browser. We checked and found out that the entire organisation is still using IE6. So we advised them to upgrade their browser.
Shortly afterwards, the IT executive called and gave us a comment: “Your should make sure your website is BACKWARD COMPATIBLE! No way we gonna to upgrade our browser!” WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by leepeng on December 27, 2008
Consider the basic architecture of my previous Post (PayPal Integration)
At point A, we have stored the order record in the database as “Pending Payment” status. We will update the status to either “Paid” or “Failed” after PayPal redirect back to Thank you or Transaction cancelled page. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by leepeng on
This article contains 3 section …
I. General Architecture
II. PayPal Settings
III. PHP Integration
The integration uses CURL to connect to PayPal server. I assume you are familiar with CURL functions for PHP. You can visit PHP manual at http://sg.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php for more information. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
Posted by John on November 7, 2008
We’ve been in the web design & development industry for some time now and have had a fair share of clients with the wrong expectations of us. We’re not talking about you now darling, we’re talking about another client. Most of the examples here are actually over exaggerated and the prose a tad direct, be warned. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »