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Congratulations to Linguistic Council on the launch of their new look website today.

Linguistic Council is the premier provider of training programmes which support children with Dyslexia, Autism and Dyspraxia. It specializes in equipping parents, teachers and caregivers with the practical skills needed to support such children with special needs.

We were requested to come up with a fresh new look which projects the “feel of an education institution”. Since Linguistic Council operates in both Singapore and Malaysia, the website was also mirrored to provide localized content for each target market. Visit Linguistic Council Website

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Most of us know what Alexa Ranking is. However a somewhat more mysterious concept is Technorati Authority and Technorati Ranking.

Basically Technorati is one of the web’s leading portals for finding blogs and blog articles. Technorati has its own method of ranking blogs and the two important concepts are:

1. Technorati Authority

Higher is Better

Technorati Authority is the number of blogs which link to your blog in the last 6 months. Therefore the higher the number of incoming links, the better it is for you.

Note that Technorati measures the number of blogs rather than the number of links. If a blog links to you many times it still counts as 1 vote. But a new link (even from the same blog) means that the vote will last another 180 days.

Another indicator, the Technorati Top 100 shows the most popular 100 blogs based on Technorati Authority. The No 1 blog is the one with the most other distinct blogs linking to it in the last 6 months.

2. Technorati Ranking

Lower is Better

Technorati Rank is calculated based on how far you are from the top. The blog with the hightest Technorati Authority becomes the No. 1 ranking blog. So the lower your Technorati Rank, the closer you are to the top.

So what is the No 1 blog in terms of Technorati Authority?

 

Well as at the date of writing, it is American Internet newspaper Huffington Post (which currently has Alexa Ranking of 568 and Google PR 7). Renowned “problogger” Darren Rowse stands at a respectable No 23 with a Technorati Authority score of 7,784 compared with Huffington Post’s score of 26,553.

So there you go… Technorati rankings explained in a nutshell.

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Bigwheel OTR specializes in tyre re-treading for Off-the-Road or OTR tyres. It is a subsidiary of Goodway Integrated Industries Berhad, a listed company involved in the development and manufacturing of rubber and re-treading compounds.

This is a corporate website which was designed to provide a convincing case on our client’s core capabilities and on tyre re-treading for earthmovers and mining trucks, in line with our client’s slogan “Let’s Green the Mines”. The project involved tight datelines in order to meet the client’s exhibition launching activities.

Clients URL: http://bigwheelotr.com

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Amberhill Homes are taking luxury and exclusivity to a new level in Taman Melawati. The website was originally designed by another company and our client felt it was time to do a little renovation.

While maintaining the original design framework to save cost, our main focus was on improving the readability of the website content. Hence the home page content was sharpened and the website navigation changed to accomodate for monthly newsletters which our client intends to publish.

Once again it was a satisfying experience knowing that our client now has control of their website.

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The Prime is a range of health supplements which prevents age-related problems and promotes your well-being into your prime years of life.

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We currently have 2 openings for the position of Part-time Web Surfer who will assist us in the following tasks:

• Submit links to Search Engines and Directories
• Commenting on Blogs
• Participate actively in Forums
• Assist with web content compilation
• Ad-hoc office duties as required

Requirements:

• You must NOT be working for another Web Design or Web Hosting company (either full or part time)
• No technical knowledge is required but candidate must be fast on the PC and training will be provided
• Candidate must have good attitude and be teachable
• Minimum availability is one-and-a-half (1.5) days per week
• Flexible work day (any day of the week subject to mutual arrangement) from 10.00am to 7.00pm
• Work location is in our Puchong office (Bandar Puteri)

This is a dream job for those who enjoy surfing the Internet!

This job ad will be open until next Wed 7-May-08.

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CSS or Cascading Style Sheet is a growing trend in web design. By using CSS, you can do away with more traditional web design techniques (eg use of tables) and create a website which is cleaner in coding and purer in content.
Common elements that are usually included in CSS files include:

• Navigation bar look & feel
• Dimensions and margins of the various sections of a web page
• Background and text colors
• Headers and footers

CSS techniques have developed rapidly over the years, nowadays it is quite common for web designers to minimize graphic files and use CSS to create things such as rounded corners, lines, shades and image transparencies. Image bubbles such as the one below is an example.

CSS and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
CSS allows you to place code-heavy elements in a single file. To include those elements in your web pages, you can simply reference to the CSS file with a single line of code.

By doing this, your web content is cleaner and this helps search engines crawl your site more easily.

WordPress (the world’s most popular blogging application) uses CSS substantially. This is probably one of the reasons why it is very search engine friendly.

More Reading…
CSS Galleries: a showcase of beautiful CSS driven websites….nice place to see what CSS can do.

Noupe.com: a showcase of CSS techniques.

CSS Menu Tab Designer: lets you produce CSS menu tabs and buttons easily.

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After 3 years, we decided it was time for our web hosting site to get a new look.

The old website has served us well. But instead of remaining in our comfort zone, we thought that it would help users if we streamlined the navigation.

Little did we know what started out as a streamlining excercise ended up as a total revamp!

Ideas were brainstormed, things were moved around and we played a bit with colors too. So this is the result…

Check out our web hosting packages starting from RM150 which represents top value for your dollar. We are now working on web templates and internet marketing tools which will be available to all customers from May-08 onwards.

Visit connect.com.my

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Web design sometimes involves thinking out-of-the-box.

Last year we were involved in an ecommerce website where our client sought to introduce a horizontal scrolling concept to its product range.

Truly something different! Just think about it….out of fifty websites you visit, how many horizontal scrolling websites do you come across?

We were at a loss as to why we had to do this, apart from the novelty factor of course!

Anyway just a couple of days ago, we came across The Horizontal Way – a collection of websites which use the horizontal scrolling concept.

Eminence Suit is what we would call a partially Horizontal Scrolling site. In comparison, the sites featured in The Horizontal Way are more hard-core and take horizontal scrolling to a new level. If you ever wanted to design such a site, it’s a good reference point.

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After developing eLawyer.com.my for the last few months, we have decided to sell the website and refocus on our core web development and hosting business.
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