Well, it was not that taught to work with Peter Chin - Group Creative Director & General Manager who didn’t know much about web.
Primeworks Studios has established as a new subsidiary of Media Prima, no longer a department (Creative Service Department). However, it was not the main reason why Peter decided to revamp the old design, currently it also lack of portfolio or works.
Old design…
Few months back, I met up Peter’s personal consultant – Sarah Lian (www.sarah-lian.com) who also a famous model in Malaysia. Overall, she knew quite a lot of things and what suppose to have on the new design. Overall, we have a good session and new comments.
Unfortunately, the whole idea had “freeze” due to new team with new set up. But a few months later, we had agree to continue with new design; meet up with Peter again and the whole ideas were very simple – Make public users feel good of CSD and show as many portfolios.
Finally, gone through a few round of presentations, eventually Peter like things to be done correctly and perfect. We had spent most of the time choosing the right photos and videos file… goosh! That was taken up sometime to solve it out correctly.
However, entire website was fully coded in Full CSS; first of all, would like to give the credit to my designer – Cherry. She has done a good work.
Click here to go to the live site!
Typetester! It was listed on the “Best CSS Tools”.
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.
It makes our preview and display the actual fonts on our screens faster and accurate. However, I find it much useful compare to CSS typeset that I had mentioned in my blog earlier.
Give a try! And you could easily copy the css code by clicking on “Get CSS”.
Recently I have been looking on Web 2.0 UI and realize the full use of CSS and Java Scripts was a big trend now. And less people were using tables in html. Why? Or read this.
Right now, majority of the good and innovative design don’t feature much on full flash, soon or later people “suspended” the idea of full interactive animation. There were few reasons, I think it was because of the search engine or website content unlikely to be searched; or you should read this …
Fully integrated CSS and jQuery, both allow our website interactive and work similar like a flash site. Another benefits, the content is much more dynamic and searchable.
Last year, tmsPortfolio.com was integrated with full Flash. One disadvantage point of it - not friendly for details search or keyword analyze. Furthermore, trouble and hassle for updating when using Flash.
To allow my team member to access the code and they could edit the file easily. So I have decided to move back to html with fully integrated CSS. In addition, the loading time are much faster.
Facebook - to connect with your old buddy! Now what? Geni, is a tool for understanding and staying in touch with your family. I’ve seen Geni quite sometime and didn’t bother to do it. Lately, I was invited by my cousin Eric Lim, one of my eldest cousin brothers in Lim Family.
Geni is quite similar to Facebook apps, there’s your own profile, private group and photo album, videos etc. One thing I love about it is the TREE. With the tress you able to track the relationship between who and who, it’s good for our young generations especially my kids, one day they able to find out who is their grand-grand father.
After I have joined in, and I was surprised the “Tree” has grown so fast in my family members, and I could view my cousin who is my grandfather’s sister’s grand daughter (far apart), gosh! And some of them I don’t even seen them before. Pai-seh!
Nevertheless, time flies, I met my relatives when I was 8-10 years old; how amazing after 20 years later and we are “meeting” in Geni.
I hope my parent able to use computer and access to Internet, soon or later they would have hook-up with Geni. Hahaha… I believe old folks are appreciated with their own blood relationship and would want to keep in touch while they have the chances.
But first of all, I should register an email for my parents. 
I found this site when I was searching for some tools to create CSS Advanced.
This CSStypeset give me full control of types in web, it is handy tool for seeing the effect of CSS code while simultaneously seeing what’s going on behind the scenes with the actual code.
It works both ways, you can type code and immediately see it applied to text, or you can type text and use a GUI with sliders to apply CSS to your text. If you have a hard time figuring out the difference between em and px, verdana and helvetica then this is the tool for you.
Now you don’t even need Flash to come up all these web effects.
Just plan coding with JS coding, you can have those ultimate effects for your picture display.
It’s so easy and you can do it yourself.
First time I heard of Web 2.0 or web-2, it was year 2006; but it origin since 2004.
Do you know where and how this name came about?
“Web 2.0″ is a weird phrase. It began as the name of a conference, but the people organizing the conference didn’t really know what they meant by it. Mostly they thought it sounded catchy. However, “Web 2.0″ has since taken on a meaning. There are some interesting new trends on the Web, and it’s the nature of a phrase like that to adhere to them.”
But today people introduce it with technology and bringing certain styles to feature the Web 2.0 design.
What special about Web 2.0 from design perspective? Yes, there are some guides or design styles you need to follow:
1. Simplicity
2. Central layout
3. Fewer columns
4. Separate top section
5. Solid areas of screen real-estate
6. Simple navigation
7. Bold logos
8. Bigger text
9. Bold text introductions
10. Strong colors
11. Rich surfaces
12. Gradients
13. Reflections
14. Cute icons
15. Star flashes
Kindly visit Web 2.0 how to design guide.
If you need more references, try to visit go2web20 which listed hundred of Web 2.0 sites.
Is there going to be Web 3.0? Why don’t you click here to find out.
