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Wordpress 2.5 is out and about
The User Interface for the new Wordpress deserves to be noticed, not because it is good, which it might turn out to be, but because it is done-up by the people behind Happy Cog, a user-interface-design firm.
Wordpress has certainly come a long way, and the massive popularity of this blogging platform owes its credit not [...]
Problems with “Problems with Olpers Milk” are no more a problem
I did a post eons ago, it seems.
That post was well received.
While moving servers, that I did, again it seems, eons ago, the comments to that post were stuck in the middle. Thanks to God, the comments (which really are the heart of any website journal or blog) were only stuck and not lost.
Finally, I [...]
Presenting website packages
The page has been there for some time now.
Unfortunately, it has not been done up properly. In fact, it has not been done up at all!
A lot of the website visitors are going to the website packages, only to be perhaps see just one ‘package’ (where the offering is so vauge that it may make [...]
Focus and such
The primary job of design is to ‘disperse’ your attention in predetermined ways.
If you want your customers to click on ‘buy now’, the design should, in one way or the other, work towards that. Many-a-times, a design will take all the attention with the content being pushed in the background.
And by design, I am not [...]
User Interfaces for people who can’t read
The sheer penetration and availability of the Internet can pose some interesting challenges in the realm of design.
Imagine an information kiosk in a village somewhere near the small city of, say, Pakpattan (in the province of Punjab, Pakistan). Now, assume that someone who actually knew what he was doing designed and developed the kiosk [...]
The online property industry
Recently, Treetech launched the Property Standard website and I ensured that basic SEO techniques were followed. The beauty of sticking to basics is that things get done and one is not confused or preoccupied or distracted by little fluctuations. For example, basic SEO is all about writing website copy with the audience in mind, and [...]
Lahore Metblogs website’s new design
Lahore Metblogs, for those who do not know, is a blog centered around the no-doubt glorious city of Lahore. LMB (as it is lovingly called) is a tiny part of the Metroblogging network of city blogs for pretty much every major city around the world (not to mention the not-so-major cities as well that play [...]
Updates all around
One of our clients is a Engineering Consultant, working from the heart of industry in Lahore; Kot Lakhpat. After intense draft reviews, his website is finally taking shape and looks good. (The website is actually a wordpress theme developed in house, which after heavy changes, will be released here… but more on that later). The [...]