Old school website

What I’m saying here is the information website. Nowadays if they’re not a big agency/company, they don’t use information website anymore. Big agency/company likes to use information web because it’s easier for people or applicant to search for more information about them.

The difference between big and small company is big company already has a loyalty clients, big R&D department and good Executive, everything run on manpower, big budget. For small company, they need to do it in a tight budget. That’s why most small company like to use new age website expecially interactive game or something else (Facebook perhaps?).

This however, means something. Web designer requirements are getting higher and higher. Looks into the paper or job site, most web designer are require to be able to work on Flash. I don’t know how much knowledge should one web designer have on Flash, it definitely not only on doing some logo animation that easy. I myself, when I work on Flash website, it gonna take me hell lot of time to create the content and copy, but if it’s just some information website, without design, it simply takes only half an hour. The difference is very prominent. Hopefully this new age web designer don’t get cancer like mesothelioma that easy nowadays… Sometimes I hate facing LCD for such a long time too.

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Search engine or no

I’ve notice some changes has been taken place this few years on the internet, search engine or not is one factor, but popularity is what online advertiser looking for instead.

1, Due to the long live internet and website, people started to get their own comfortable website that they went for information. Example, Wikipedia, it has been one of the site that students has in their bookmark toolbar. Yahoo! music also one of the way people gets their update about music industry. In other word, internet started to stick with sites they’re comfortable with and hardly went for search engine anymore.

2, My girl friend and I have a site making Wordpress theme. It surprise me when she told me that she can actually auction the sponsor footer link. This sound like some easy to earn income, but the insider is - Popularity. That also explain why paid posting was so heat up the blogger community last few years (And properly started again due to the economy down fall). I myself has been assign the same keyword for few times, because popularity of keyword on my blog as well as the traffic in my blog. When Google banning and elaminating blogs with paid post, my blog was PR0, so what?

3, Blogs can sometimes be so informative than any other website, well, this mostly due to the paid posting and the love from search engine too. Some people might search for the keyword “weight loss pills” they might come into my blog - Popularity.

Yahoo!, Google, MSN started to get away from search engine. They invest in a lot of other services, Google coming into mobile (I believe they wanna go into OS industry too). MSN are now named as Windows Live, the online storage is one of the point right now. Yahoo! also investing a lot of other site, be it buying or selling. I think I have to look for way on developing website nowadays.

Website and resume

I have always questioning about a blog/website with a resume. Isn’t it better to have some interactive with the interviewer before hand? A blog/website always give people impression and this is the most important thing. A few bloggers and my friends were called for interview because of their blog and the portfolio stored within the blog. People see, people notice, people take action. So if it’s really interesting, it works don’t it?

Resume is just like a website. When you apply a job, you present your resume like marketing yourself. Especially for creative field, if it’s boring, it’s on the trash. If it’s interesting they keep looking and maybe share it. Just like a website/blog, it’s like an online resume with the portfolio or promotional items for company website. And if the visitor sees that they will not benefit to your site, he will give no response; if the site is interesting, they’ll keep coming back.