Netallianz Web Design

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.

eLawyer was developed as a portal for lawyers and the legal industry in Malaysia. Working with an ex-lawyer, we built the website from ground-up and assisted with its launch and online marketing process.

eLawyer now features job ad listings from most major law firms in Malaysia. Within a span of 4 months, Read more »

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Ever wondered how you can download an entire website and run it locally on your PC?

Well, you can save it page by page (using File - Save As in your browser) and then rebuild it by changing the navigation links so that all the web pages are correctly linked. Those of you who have tried this will know how hard it is!

Or you can make life easy for yourself and use HT Track, a really cool software which has been around for a couple of years now.

HTTrack works on most websites and can even download Flash SWF files. It is able to follow web links and hence create a correct path for navigating the site after downloading it to your PC.

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A couple of years ago RD-Palmer engaged us to design their first website. It was a modest job, just a couple of static web pages and a brief company profile.

Since that time, the company has expanded and moved to larger premises. It was time for a new look website as well, and when we received that phone call we were very happy indeed!

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For almost as long as there’s been a World Wide Web, there’s been Yahoo.com.

And for those of you who have been surfing the web long enough, you might remember that the first generation Yahoo looked like a website with lots of links and cartoon icons at the top.

Of course today the website has since evolved into something more serious.

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Recently many of our web and email hosting clients have complained that they were unable to send emails although they were receiving fine.

This occured when clients were:

• connecting to the Internet using TM net / Streamyx
• using MS Outlook or Outlook Express as their email client

The reason for this is that since December 2007, TM has been starting to block Port 25 which is the default SMTP port.

Therefore to fix the problem, all you need to do is change your settings slightly in your MS Outlook or Outlook Express. Please refer to our announcement here.

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The above shows an American Express banner ad that was displayed on AOL recently.What a great idea! If almost every business out there is asking for feedback, why not advertisers?

If this happened, we hopefully won’t see any more of those annoying flash ads which are forced on our face when we visit TheStar homepage!

For advertisers, just think of the possibilities here…. true interactivity can be taken to a new level as web surfers are encouraged to click on the feedback to voice their opinion.

Take a look for example at how CNET asks for ad feedback on their website.

Of course whether this will happen or not is an entirely different thing. Even with the advent of the Internet, many traditional advertising companies have been comfortably sitting in their comfort zone, just like the music label companies before Steve Jobs came along.

Sadly, one-way communication is pretty much still the norm in advertising.

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