When I first use laptop, it was an dinosaur laptop from my uncle. Running on Windows 98 in year 2002.

Big, heavy and slow. That’s all I can say. But hey, its that machine that helps building whatever I have today. I learn HTML and CSS by that little old machine! With 13 inch screen by the way.

Anyway, a 14 inch fitted nicely to majority laptop users, that is how it claim, and why there are thousand of model with 14 inch screen (Let’s not get into Apple product). So whose standard was that? 14 inch? I’m still prefer a larger 15 inch LCD screen instead.

Nowadays, with HDMI plug, lots of laptop users are hooking up their laptop with a big LCD TV. This has to be thankful to Apple Computer. They are the first to move desktop to laptop, and improved lot of other laptop vendors to improve their product quality to enable us, to run laptop as if it is a desktop.

I haven’t been unplug my laptop for a week now by the way

Just when I thought to have a lazy Friday and off for some activities, there comes the announcement of WordPress latest release…

I seriously need some adult acne treatments now. With 2 frameworks to update. One for a normal usage and one for advance usage. Then some clients who are enthusiast with WordPress 3.0 and have been waiting for it before I finish their project too, have to upgrade.

Well, the good side is… Some features are really helpful for next development

Recently a friend of mine, who also wanted to work on his own as a web designer asked me for a book, a web design book.

I remember while we both sat on a coffee shop few months ago, he mentioned that since I studies design, so it is easier for me to get into the field. Unlike him, who is a computer studies student jumping into web design.

Well, I do however, have different idea about the web design, computer and graphic design. Unlike sitting for SAT prep course. Web design is a totally new thing in this country, for now. We don’t have a specific course for web design, marketing, SEO or PHP.

I am, for one, struggle for a betterment of PHP and Javascript, where he is a computer studies student who already has the concept of how those work. He is struggling for better web design, where I am a graphic designer.

Each field has its own specific need, but coming to freelance is a whole new field. I guess he is getting it now, or it would be too late for him to understand.

Freelance does not depend on how well you are in web design or any other language programming. It depend how well you know a web strategy. The simplest, 3-click-rules, 960 guide system and etc, are just some basic web strategy.

Basically we all going to start from bottom when we jumped into web design, or worse, freelancing.

A friend of mine asked, how to lose weight fast? Well, this is the month Anyway, it depend, because either may happen – You get fat, a lot; you get thin, a little.

I take it that this month, a lot of football fans going to sit on the TV for the whole season of World Cup.

That got me thinking, if most of my clients are football fans, does it mean I’m going to have a silence month for my income? That’s gonna hurt!

Anyway, there you go, the official song of South Africa World Cup 2010

I was active on the web World back in the late 90′s. Where Yahoo! dominated all the directory (Like a yellow page) and Netscape was the best browser that even allow HTML editing There are a few search engine / directories that is my favorite of course.

Yahoo!

Back then, Yahoo! was just a directory. Everyone want to have their website listed on Yahoo! and it was free too. For your information, I actually look around in Yahoo! directory for a college to attend. That was the day

AltaVista

Acquired by Yahoo! in 2002 where I’m already start using Google. Honest speaking, AltaVista wasn’t a really good directory compare to Yahoo!. AltaVista has quite a messy front page back then.

My Way

I like My Way for it huge mailbox storage back then. It was a rip off of Yahoo! though, running almost the same design different color.

Google

Anyway, I finally settled down with Google. For it has the fastest loading web and biggest mailbox storage back then. Now that I started to use more and more Google product, like Google Document, Google Reader, Google Mail, Google Code and etc.

With all those changes, one thing I saw improving – user experience. Let’s not get into hanky panky design and interface. User experience is more the job to get a visitor surfing around a web. They all know it