Again Why Drupal

After reading a bit old mac magazine article comparing CMSs and concluded with ExpressionEngine by EllisLab with the reason being its ease of use (therefore, easy for passing CMS responsibility to web designer customers) and its support.

Then through EE Showcase, found a few links with a new point of view.

Why We Love Drupal
Why Drupal
Why Yahoo! chose Drupal for an internal site

GoodBerry. Integrating Online Business Tools

GoodBerry.

"Replace 5+ Systems with One

You used to need 5 expensive and difficult systems to manage your online business - eCommerce, CRM, email marketing and your website. Now you can do it all more efficiently and cost effectively."

Website Edit
E Commerce and Online Retail
CRM to manage Sales and Logistic?
Analytic to understand Sales
Email Marketing to drive Sales

All in one dashboard, at $39 a month

Web Design and UI Mistake Checklist

the best practice can be found reading 37signals Manifesto at http://37signals.com/manifesto

One link from that on Prioritize: Good Content Bubbles to the Top

Image Search

a nice way to search for images, using bookmarklets at search engine

Image search bookmarklets: easy find high resolution images, free stock photos, news and portraits photos

basically, you are searching your favorite websites at once through google, as sites search, where you previously determine those sites

Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks

Web Redesign Checklist

Process:
1. Content
2. Design
3. Program (CMS)

Parts:
Introduction (Home)
Directory (Categories, Index)
Pages (with Flash, or what engine, photo viewer, shopping card, payment, reservation for hotel)
Blogs
Tags (planning help)
Image Gallery (Flickr, ...)
Music Gallery
File Gallery (Sales Package, Media Kit, Artwork)
Community Tools (Username, Webboard, Forum, Blog)
Social Media (Google Friends? somthing... Open?)
Languages
Email Newsletter

Media Temple - a cool host

More on Why Blog?

Guy Kawasaki interview Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net

Why Blog?

a few good information on blogging. while trying to figure out the key to it from many of the reason provided, i would guess it is surrounded somewhere around Community, which is Interaction. (a network for a niche) what you can do with that is up to you. alternatively, it can be a personal tools, whatever you want to do with your online notebook.

the last question has good basic information for what in it for small business (#18). is there really a different for individual, small business, and corporation, in term of connection and growth?

What Business can benefit from Blog

Blog is News so to benefit, you got to have news to share. News can be about your company, products, services, team, industry, whatever you wish your client would know so that they know you are the best to buy from.

Any innovative business got something they want to share, because it will show that you are at the frontier, that you are their solution. By sharing (resourceful information, maybe not company secret), you are constantly putting yourselves out there, just like any network session. By sharing, you gain friends, who will talk about you in the way that you want them to.

But for them to repeat the right information that would help you sell, you first must present them with the right information, one that is also interesting to them, one that they seek, one that they will be proud to say (repeat) to their friends.

Blogging and Web Design Service

Mr. Problogger is a very good blog on blogging business.

New thing I learn today, "Network Blogging" from 10 Network Blogging Survival Tips Blogging is a great community where people help each other.

What it thought me, apart from making just Web Design, there is Blog services to it. (One time payment vs. Monthly fee) It is more than just setting up the blog with the right platform and configuration and information architect.

It is a daily to weekly posting, and not just you, but a network of you. One important thing though, the job that you choose to accept must be your passion, otherwise, you are stuck with lots of research and writing, which if it is not fun, hard work will be too much to bare.

My interest would be self improvement, small business, sales, marketing, web development, new media, design, property, and some food and hotel. So I will be able to do blog for the business under those categories, because will enjoy it. It is more of a learning than cash.

But it seems like the only way to go for organic SEO and to promote your business website in the internet world, as well as networking.

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails

Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.

A new thing to learn...?

Web Business Model

Beyond AdSense: A Business Model Checklist (for websites and blogs), at LikeItMatters, by Brian Oberkirch

very useful information, if someone want a list of web business model...

For follow up on this post, read "for starters" section to get an idea of the basic, and read this, Living on the Edge: Blogging in the Real World, a how to put blog into work for marketing

For web designers

a very good blog or website with a lot of resources for web designers and developers, forwebdesigners.com

Great Numbers, Not So Great Design

an interesting article written on hiring big agency vs. small firm for designers and its result, read it at subtraction.com

very nice website also... (want the rating system)

Competition: for Branding and Emarketing

Very nice competition services company ePrize.com, read more on the Solutions pages

Sources:
Alltop Badge Contest

Shopify

Shopify is another great web tool to easily make ECommerce Store and payment system.

Work with Paypal Pro and Google Checkout, and you can easily modify theme with Liquid.

Related: EJunkies

Google Friend Connect

Enabling users with more ways to do things with friends and Site Owners to have more traffic. Very very nice tool.
(Based on OpenID, OpenSocial, and OpenStandard, it is making a more social, more open, and more useful web)

Newspaper

Google Reader is my Newspaper

I choose the content based on my interest, through very interesting Bloggers

Web 2.0

Is it?

Next Generation Website, Web 2.0

Interactive, Dynamic, Content Management (CMS)

Why Sign Up Forms Must Die

A good article from A List Apart, Sign Up Forms Must Die, in a website design.

In summary, Gradual Engagement. First show people why they should care, before making them make a commitment.

Video: RSS in Plain English

Video: RSS in Plain English
By leelefever

He is remarkable simple, and super functional, super useful

too much information to read, sign up for google reader

1. Finder Information from your Readers (Input)
2. Share with you Readers (Output)

Expand with Pre Qualify Sources = Good Information = Niche Public Personal Opinion (from Experience)

Note:

Home of Research = Search for info from your "trusted networks of information" (any websites and blog, those that can be RSS)

Two thing to do;

1. Subscribe to Google Reader
2. Link them with your websites through add google reader (tell google what you like)

Project Management

wiki video explained

it is used for collaboration. Project management in the best possible way through teamwork.