Jullian’s Musings

I was helping my coworker today moving web domains where I have to log into the domain registration company’s website at http://www.techscape.com. This later turns to be a nightmare when I found out that this website only works with Internet Explorer, under windows and have to have the latest flash plugins available. I had to move computers to the only computer in the office with Windows that was available to me and do my job there. Afterward though, I looked inside the codes for that website, and I tell you,… these people created a web that is classic list of “do-nots” for web design and building:

1. Stupid thing 1: Force people to have flash. At first, I thought that they might be using flash for interacting with databases, but apparently not. They siply use it for banners and eye candy! If they really want to use those crap, why not let people without flash or whatever still access the site?
2. Stupid thing 2: Forcing people to use IE and Windows for no good reason whatsoever
3. Stupid thing 3: No using web standards whatsoever such as DOCTYPE, still using table-based design, and minimal use of CSS. This is just plain uneducated

I would have understand if this is a corporate website for a non-technology company. The problem is, that this is a website for a IT company. I hope they are not an illustration of the present picture of IT in Indonesia, though I’m afraid that it might be somewhat true.

I have just finished uploading some of my wedding pictures to this site. Just click on the Photos Collection link on your right and browse the pictures. Oh yeah, for you who doesn’t understand Indonesian, akad means wedding reception and resepsi means, well, reception. Enjoy the pictures, and comment on those are really welcomed!

For all of you out there who knows me, you know that I like to customize things. However, I don’t have time just yet to customize this website other than changing the pre-built themes from the wordpress repository. So, just to be clear, I am going to change the theme, and I am not pretending that I made this theme you are seeing, hehehehe..

I finally decided to migrate to wordpress from the one that was built totally from the ground. I don’t have enough time to deal with my own personal website on a full time basis, and wordpress is a powerful enough framework to do it in. I hope you enjoy this change and I’ll check back on your comments later.