http://treetech.com.pk Website designing and Web Application development Sat, 31 May 2008 09:47:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A bit too many clients ask for a great design to embrace their online presence. They would want the 'wow' effect configured into every square centimeter of their web page. The need for eye-candy does not seem to end. But it really should. Design is secondary. And design has a duty to ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/05/31/website-design-vs-website-success/ I remember walking up to store owners in DHA Lahore, asking them if they would want a website for their store. I am talking 'back in the day', while still at college, six to seven years ago. A lot of the times, people would respond somewhere in the lines of, 'I ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/05/03/website-development-in-lahore/ One thing that surprises me to this day is that how lightly people take email. This may be due to the fact that email is ubiquitous enough to even qualify as the perfect computer application. There may be a lot of businesses that sell products or services through a 'shop' that may ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/04/30/email-as-the-primary-mode-of-communication/ Advertising is an art. Just like Picasso relied on his technical ability of using a paint brush, so does the art form of Advertising relies on research findings and set procedures. But at the end of the day, it is art. And the following is the work of an artist, using the ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/04/17/art-as-advertising-or-advertising-as-art/ Websites really do not matter. Who ever is going to visit your site? Why would they? There are billions of web pages out there, why would someone just stumble upon your page?You actually paid someone to design a website for you? Did not your 15 year old nephew offer to do ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/04/01/april-fool/ 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 ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/03/31/wordpress-25-is-out-and-about/ 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 ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/03/30/problems-with-problems-with-olpers-milk-are-no-more-a-problem/ 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 ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/03/25/presenting-website-packages/ 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 ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/03/22/focus-and-such/ 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 ... http://treetech.com.pk/2008/03/14/user-interfaces-for-people-who-cant-read/