I believe a lot of Internet users notice that there are lots of websites has a good looking slideshow on their front page. By Flash or by Javascript.

Almost all the clients I worked with required one for them, for their news and update or press release. But does it work well with it? Not exactly.

For my point of view, a business, depending on the services, a slideshow is a showcase, in a way.

It should emphasize the business itself. Attractiveness is not a priority, but the effect of the slideshow counts. Delaying too long is not good; invisible button is not good; button not clearly shown is not good and so on.

It is always good to use JQuery for the slide instead of Flash, because Flash already breaking the first rules of the slide – Delay. It needs to load and depend on how fast/slow the Internet connection a visitor has. However, overusing slideshows may make it all little boring too…

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

Just went for a little chat with a friend of mine, which did not meet for some times. It’s still good to hook up with some old friend and chat about things that is related to each other – Web technology. It’s like appetite suppressants pill when it comes to web for us, at least. So without further drink or even snack, we went on and on for about 2 – 3 hours.

Both of us are from a small town, where not much of businessmen believe web can benefit them. Which in turn, no web designer in town. I did not strongly advertise my field in the town yet though. As I have some job coming in from the web itself.

However, even if web doesn’t bring in business, I believe it does help in promoting the services/products online This is what businessmen doesn’t know…

How do you update your twitter?

Previously I use the web twitter.com then use some Google Chrome extensions, but I found those 2 hooking down the speed of Google Chrome. So I listen, listen to my wife who giving me advise about TweetDeck back then, now she is using Seesmic, which is what I am using now too, consider the nice little interface it has.

Somehow, in some where, I don’t know which fault it was. Either my Internet connection is sucks to the max or those Twitter clients are just plain slow due to the API and Twitter having too over loaded? I don’t know, but I find they load very very slow and sometime, most of the time, having error. Giving me the most headache now

Recently I just signup for an online marketing coaching session. It is not an easy task as I have jobs around me as well. I have yet to finish a prototype 37c review website.

Anyway, speaking of online marketing, it is totally different with offline marketing, which was my field before – Advertising. I was so into advertising few years ago, where I joined a few trainings and also working sleepless nights to win a student category award while in college. Well, it all seems to be useless now anyway

The good thing is that, I’ve made my step into online marketing first, combination of both offline and online marketing is what most advertising firms are working towards.

While I am in web field now, I still observing the advertising line in Malaysia. They still work quite slow in adapting website as their campaign. Below are the viral videos of Ray Ban which I remember so clearly all these year

These viral videos changed the consumers impressing toward TV commercial. When will you see a bunch of consumers searching and watching commercial, themselves?

When can I see something like this in Malaysia? Hmm…