People have garbage websites but they have already a designer

And of course they are satisfied. Why? Because those garbage computer literate guys dare to call themselves designers. Not everyone who knows what is a patch cable or HTML code is a web designer. People are scammed all the time and they believe they got the best service possible for the lowest price. Oh yes, SEO, CMS and everything included but real design and style. Sure it is a start and I had customers who realized that the friend who made the website for free might be not the best bet. So they came to me and they were satisfied. I did not make any SEO, optimization or any extra. All I did is a good quality website with style. And voila, the business reported that sales grew. No SEO, no optimization, no additional ideas and function. Pure professional design. Anyway, I hope these made up designer will die out so we can have a place once. No longer I want to pay for quality leads.

Imagine, I just registered at a uk website where people ask for qualified web designers. There were some good prices. People with £4000 budget. That’s not a bad deal. I went into one and bough a contact, event planner website. Okay, I phone the lady, she doies not take it. I emailed her and no answer. After some days I could phone her but she was busy. Then I got an email saying that she got a better offer. She had £4000-4900 budget, so I bid £4000. Guess how much did the other guy offered? £599… I told her that I’m not sure she will get what she wants but I got no answer to that email. That lead, to buy the contact information of the lady cost me £25. Craze.

Oh, yes and I made cold calling as well. People are satisfied with what they have and sometimes even hang up the phone when I mentioned the mythical word “web site” or “web design”. Oh yes, these gangster “web designers” have made the industry so much down, I don’t even know what to say. I tried to apply for jobs without success.

The cool thing is that I have still a laptop and internet. So that’s fine because I can blog and I love to blog even though sometimes not really. Anyway, I don’t need to be bugged by stupid people any longer. Hope it will work out. And yes next to this, I will open a model site and take pictures. Yeah, models are nice faces and I will enjoy taking photos of them and getting them some jobs.

So things go fine, UX and usability still rock!

New Google AdWords interface

Announced today some hours ago, Google  has updated their AdWords interface. Just checked it out and it seems that the search engine try to standardize its product interfaces goes on well. Still a bit awkward Google Analytics-like chart but the design is all right and nice. It’s a nice update from the old-google-like interface style to a new flashy user experience. While in Google Analytics they successfully implemented flash charts to glitter your eyes, AdWords Beta comes with an image based chart. No bubbles at dates, only a straightforward vertical line to show you what you campaign has reached at a time. Interesting to see the same concept in a rather CSS-like design. It seems though that the Ajax sidebar yet needs some correction as it strangely stretches while scrolling up and down. Usability 5*, Accessibility 5*  User Experience 4* Design 4*. FULL ARTICLE +

A Future for JPG Magazine

I got an email some days ago titled: “A Future for JPG Magazine” and was wondering what it contains. You know I wrote about the marketing tactic of JPG Mag saying they are closing. Such cheaters! And now of course the good team of photographers saved the entire magazine and we can all enjoy JPG mag. I really wonder how much minus JPG was was for 8020 Media… I think they would not bag for food. The marketing and surviving technique worked out, but I’m not sure it is the right way to do it. FULL ARTICLE +

Belgian government choses Open Document as standard

The government of Belgium ahead of any nation chose to have Open Office their standard and official software instead of Microsoft’s Office Suit. This decision came after the Open Document format was ratified by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) ahead of Microsoft’s XML format that probably needs to wait still some years to get the same rate as OD.

This is a great news for freebee lovers, as I am. I don’t really buy softwares because usually all paying software has a free alternative. I pay only for Windows operating system because I don’t get along with Linux. And I paid for Vegas Video software because there was no really good free alternative for video editing and production. The rest is all freeware. I have a bunch of them and with most of them I am very satisfied. They served me well thoughout the years.

In US, the Obama administration also asked about the benefits of open source software in governmental institutes, but I don’t know if they adopted it as Belgium did. Anyway, Belgian people shook down the mess from the freeware and through a cake into the face of the old age Microsoft Office standard. And that’s great news. I also use Open Office myself for years and I’m just satisfied with it. The software had some lacks of features and their look was not as Word or Excel. This changed over the year as they partnered up with Sun Microsystems and  their latest version is not far from Microsoft Office’s usability and look.

Delete 10 friends to eat Burger King Whopper

For sure you’ve heard about the big action of Burger King that tried to get some more clients and sell their whoppers. But what the hack is this? At the financial crisis you can eat only if you delete some friends? Is that normal?

This is like guerilla marketing like the one that happened in hungary last year. MTV hungary to launch their service put guitars into the neck of historic statues around the country making an indignation. I don’t know what is it good for but I don’t think that’s a good marketing strategy or advertisement. There are other ways than such a low profile ad.

I hate Burger King! And I think facebook does as well.

Marketing trends for 2009 from CES

I wanted so much to write about my marketing and advertising ideas and now I heard some from Greg Douglas. So here I’m to say aspirational and boundle marketing is key factor in this year and the years to come.

How about buying an 8mbs internet service and getting 300 minutes for free for inland phone calls if you buy a phone from the ISP? Sound great, we have such. Shortly after I heard the company selling the same 8mbs service for half price and with an additional printer. I’m bad we didn’t wait a bit longer that would have been a better choice. We needed internet connection ASAP so we FULL ARTICLE +

JPG Magazine is said to be closed till today

I  have a trial today with this post. I have a blog called MediaWared, it’s kinda  “media” stuff would-be project. But somehow it does not want to function. Sure I did not posted there for a long time, I’m off… that’s it. I partnered up with Daniel Demian a 14 ! year old succesful blogger from Romania, he is a tech guy! So he will work with me. How  young he is it’s almost not seen in his works and in his professionalism. Anyway, so I posted about the same story on that blog, I liked it on mixx, digg, reddit etc etc. I hate it really. Social Cardigan or how they say it makes me mad. People go meet online rather than in real. Craze. I tell you it’s madness. Human madness. So The thing is that JPG Magazine sent me an email FULL ARTICLE +

Which is the best way to increase your blog’s traffic?

It’s a common cliche question and the answer seems to be quite diverse and at the end of all somehow missing… I try to redefine the whole thing, because bloggers out there who give such advices are addicted to the money they get from you by reading their articles. So they tell you the same increasing game over and over again not telling you their real secrets. They just feed you bits by bits so that they can write about it again and again. Finally they go to bloggers Expo’s and tell the great deal. Not like that. I’m somehow unsatisfied with the cake I get.

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Zemanta a way to build backlinks

It was not a long time I started this site and praised the advantages of Zemanta plugin for WordPress, I realized some early backlinks from sources I’ve never though to have link to me. It was namely, the blog of Ben Bleikamp a blogger and user interface mastermind, user experience expert who inspired me in ways lot more than others. I simply liked his style of writing, his unique approach to design and marketing. So I kept an eye on his blog, well, not spent as much time as I’d love to… so he had a big impact on me even though I don’t agree with some of his applications: like the Thesis WP theme FULL ARTICLE +

Hello world!

This is my first post and I wanted to tell you what I’m going to write about on this blog and first of all, why did I started it. I started this blog because on the blogs I have I feel a bit imprisoned to the topic of the blog, so I wanted to at least express myself in a variety of areas of life. Mostly in web design, media, graphics and such. I’m driving an official design showcase site that is well user experience and sales centered but I feel inappropriate to write there about my sometimes hardship with coding, debugging, “begging” for programming help and such. FULL ARTICLE +