When I first set on to write this article, I thought it is going to be hard choosing between endless selections of great Indonesian hotel websites. When I got started on my research, turns out it was even harder, but for all the wrong reasons.

It took hours upon hours of browsing through Indonesian hotel listings to come up with the nominees. Frankly, I’m a bit disappointed. It really baffles me that Indonesian hotels in general haven’t fully grasps the potential of their websites.

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This is my first post of “Best of the web”. A series of articles about the best website in Indonesia and in the world in each of the category or their respective fields. These website will be reviewed based on the design, functionality, usability, content, etc.

To celebrate this end of the year holiday season it is appropriate to start this series with the travel industry websites. This article features some of the best Tour & Travel Services, Hotels & Accommodations, and Travel Directories in Indonesia and also a couple of pointers about building your own Travel related websites. Continue reading »

In the web development business as well as in any other, the initial inputs from client is very important in deciding the directions of the entire project. It means life and death in deciding weather or not you will come up with on-the-mark solution, the right-look design, the right web applications, and so on.

The more complete the information of their needs, their problems, their business, means the faster you can come up with the concept and the estimates. And off course, the less time you should invest in finding those missing puzzle elsewhere (by doing your own research).

But sometimes there are a few things your clients wont tell you or reluctant to tell you and most of the time it is the information you regard as the most precious. If client interview is a treasure map, this information is often the x mark. From my experience, these are some of those x marks: Continue reading »

Happy First Post Definite Blog!

October 5th, 2009 by dimas | News | No Comments

After few months of delays, busy working on projects and procrastination at last we publish our very first blog post. Hooray! And now, a little introduction of what this blog is all about:

This blog is about sharing our experiences, knowledge, tricks, tips, tools, plugin, links, inspiration, freebies and a whole other stuff to you.

So, just be patient and subscribe to that Feed icon on the header in the mean time. See you on the next posts :)