Xtremax - Web Design

Well, just spent today browsing through some of the Google Maps API and was really surprised at how easy google made it.  Hmmm.. if only coding was so simple… it would have been a lot, lot more fun… :P
Anyway after a few hours of work, here goes my little map!
http://xtremax.com/googleMap/

Well, never thought a domain could costs that much… but apparently, ToysRUs really paid that amount for toys.com.
Hmmm.. why didn’t I buy up all the domain names when the internet was still in its infancy?  darn…
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/27/toysrus-buys-toyscom-at-auction-for-51-million/

The Idea:
The main point when you are designing a web page is to be you should have an idea of what you are going to design and for what purpose the website is going to use. When a user opens the page it’s clearly shown that it is a website of what you are providing. [...]

Ever wondered if your server is overloaded?  Its a common practice for System Engineers to run the top command and see which process is consuming the most CPU and Memory.  However, with virtualisation and servers with multiple processors, this statistic becomes less relevant. 
CPU just reflects the amount of time which a process is hogging a [...]

If you have worked on Search Engine Marketing, you will realize that it is heck of a lot of work.  It is a whole cycle of:

Finding the keywords to target
Crafting Ads for each keyword
Monitoring the position of these ads and changing the CPC accordingly
blah blah blah…

That is a lot of work… especially if you [...]

I always thought that the United States being the pioneer of most internet technologies will be a country swamped with corporate websites.  Hmmm… surprise, suprise… on the average .. only 50% of US enterprises have website. 
The stats are:
45% - Revenues of $100,000 to $499,000 49% - Revenues of $500,000 to $999,000 [...]

Mr Otter asked a pretty interesting question, which to my modification, I could not answer. I just assumed that with many entrenched users, Twitter must be making money. I was also told by Mr. Otter that Facebook is not making money from the advertisements, despite the seemingly high valuation that most popular social networking site [...]

I was struggling to do some prototyping for a new client.  I needed to create a lot of static pages.. and like all static pages, they have a header panel, a side menu panel, footer, and finally the content pane.

I have just watched a recent video presentation given by Evans Williams, co-founder of Twitter, explaining the explosive growth of this messaging tool, which was originally intended to be a side project. Twitter is based on a “very trivial and a seemingly simple concept,’’ allowing people to tell their friends what they are doing in [...]

One of the big problems faced when designing a web page is typography.  As designers we need to leverage on a whole multitude of fonts (sometimes proprietary) to bring out certain design concepts.  However, these fonts are generally not available on the public viewers’ computer.  As such, this will result in it being rendered in [...]