Xtremax - Web Design

On April 1, 2010, our team sat through a launch ceremony of a website that we have painstakingly taken few months to do – a community portal that aims to engage the fathers in Singapore to be “present” in their children’s lives. The website - www.dadsforlife.sg - is sponsored by Ministry of Community, [...]

Was just rummaging my old tired brains on all the different programming languages and frameworks that we have worked with in Xtremax in the recent years.
Hmm.  Just came out with an interesting Mind Map….

Just the other day, a web design client asked us whether we knew about their survey campaign that was advertised on TV recently. Our immediate response was “errr…..we don’t watch TV.”
Whatever we can get on TV, we get even more on the Internet. So why bother using that remote?
Times are changing. To reach us, the [...]

Microsoft has launched Silverlight and as any other product it is gaining fame for itself. So, let’s review if it really has something new and advance to offer other than the old and most used flash. I have taken a course to compare both silverlight and flash side by side for each feature and functionality. [...]

Since the web is becoming the most powerful marketing and research tool for products and projects respectively. The Web Design needs to be more interactive. However, the web is not always good, they are black shaded or complex region which are not very must convenient for the general user to go through. In all this [...]

Adobe Photoshop shortcuts I find it cool and also learned a lot through this Photoshop Secret Shortcuts. Just want to tell that the doing with lots of clicks is much easier and timesaving then using the keyboard shortcuts keys. Basically working with Photoshop can be very time consuming for both interns and experts. Key board [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]