Archive for July, 2007

Receiving Payments Online

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

As a freelance web designer based in the Philippines most of my clients are abroad or foreign and all transactions are conducted online. From submitting designs to receiving payments.

One of the most commonly asked question by many of my new clients is how to send payment and another question commonly asked to me is, “do you accept paypal”. Read the rest of this entry »

Design vs Content: Who is King?

Monday, July 16th, 2007

I am a firm advocate of good design but most of the time people tend to interpret design as amazing graphics and astounding visuals they tend to forget that design is the culmination of every aspect of good and effective presentation into one (visit Vincent Flander’s WebPagesThatSuck.com).

We all know that design and content have equal importance in regards to websites but if you must choose which one is immediately important, which will you choose, design or content? If you’re going to prepare an entire web marketing strategy on which of these two shall you focus on more? Why? Please defend your answer? Read the rest of this entry »

Keep It Simple

Monday, July 16th, 2007

In the past few years that I have surfed the net, I have seen websites that use designs that are way too complex for ordinary web surfers. Complex designs are those designs only the designer can understand and navigate through. I am also not to keen on designs that use a lot of graphics for the sole reason of not being to view them immediately, slow download time. Read the rest of this entry »