a different kind of development with an attitude
I’ll never understand the mentality of Small Medium Enterprises in Singapore. The huge want not to incur any costs no matter how reasonable it seems and still want quality at the same time is beyond me.
All this going against the better advice of the developer who is more of the subject matter expert.
Posted in thoughts · November 7th, 2008 · Comments (0)
After the completion and upload of recent changes the client requested, I realised it might be a wiser choice to skip all the hassles of creating html pages from scratch and implement everything in a CMS.
Mind you, the site was small, 6 pages including the index and the newly requested “news section”. Still I thought it would be fun to see where this would get me and how long it would take.
Since I had experience with WordPress having hacked together a major site using it and converted a design to a WordPress template. I figured it shouldn’t be that difficult.
Updated: Main site has been moved to the WordPress version.
Posted in Clients, Me, Method, WKWSCI, devlog, thoughts · November 4th, 2008 · Comments (0)
I’ve always had an interest in the art of giving and preparing presentations. Take a look at Al Gore’s presentation in climate change. Apart from the fact that he is a very good speaker, the slides used for his presentation are top notch, specifically designed to best convey his message.
I used to think he’s a real whiz at Keynote, until finding out the genius behind the company that helped him communicate his message most effectively — Duarte Design. I have since bought Nancy Duarte’s book, slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations and have become more enlightened in the art of communicative media.
Herein lies the thought. If CEO’s and important people are leveraging these companies to help communicate their message laymen, normal people, average joes, how come this is not applied to academia, where the most difficult messages actually have to be communicated daily if not at an already frantic pace via the wonder of technology known as Powerpoint.
Is there a potential for a company to exist to help tertiary institutions or any other education facility for that matter to create presentations that help in that capacity? Heck, even as a part of the process in getting teaching plans audited prior to approval for use by teachers would help many clueless students.
That being said, it means training is also required for teachers to help them effectively use the these new tools.
Posted in education, presentation, thoughts · October 21st, 2008 · Comments (0)