4 tahun yang lalu, perkenalan dengan dunia web development membawa alit buat belajar lebih mendalam, mulai dari manajemen konten, desain template, slicing, HTML, dan CSS, hingga PHP dan MySQL. personal web pun berubah dari waktu ke waktu, dan meningkat dari statis menjadi dinamis.

dan hingga 2 tahun yang lalu, itz personal site (demikian personal site saya biasa saya sebut) sudah mengalami perubahan hingga 6 kali.

setelah hampir 2 tahun ini bergelut dengan blog yang membawa saya bertemu beberapa teman baru, dan dengan sedikit berat hati saya memutuskan untuk membuat rumah baru saya di internet di alamat ini.

Soooo!!!! I’m MOVE OUT Guys…….. dan Bittersweet dengan ini secara resmi ditutup!

dan mulai saat ini saya pindah ke alamat dibawah.

AlitMahendra.Com 

proses pindahan masih berlangsung, jadi maaf klo masih banyak kekurangan, dan dengan sedikit kemungkinan kalo blog ini akan diteruskan…

Jikalau telah datang waktu yang dinanti
Ku pasti bahagiakan dirimu seorang

Ku harap dikau sabar menunggu
Ku pasti akan datang untukmu

Naif - Jikalau (source)

eh ga tau kenapa akhirnya sekarang malah jadi suka nyariin friwer alias barang gratisan, hohoho. asline ngono kepikiran gara2 sofwer2 berbayar itu makin baru versinya makin berat.. berat n berat buat kekuatan desktop item dirumah, masio xp-ne si desktop ya masih bajakan… lom kuat beli yg ori… untungnya ajah neh notebook oldschool da pake XP Home Ori dari sononya (ada stiker Product Key dibawah), hihihi

mulai dari ACDSee yang diganti pake FastStone.. MySQL Front di migrasi ke Heidi SQL… Nero burner jadi StarBurn.. Nero image creator ke LC ISO Creator.. Image drive-nya pake Magic Disc.. dll.. dll.. ama yg trakhir… Kaspersky Internet Security ke AVGFree… whew… masih banyak neh yang harus dicari lagi…

ya memang sih friwer-friwer yg biasanya ukurannya kecil2 itu blom bisa 100% ngegantiin fungsi sofwer2 berbayar berukuran ratusan Mb, tapi klo nurut aku sih uda cukup bagus lah para friwer itu bekerja sesuai fungsinya… hemat space en efisien… masio akhirnya isi tu komputer lom bener2 bebas dari bajakan…

tapi klo emang pengen migrasi ke yang bener2 100% halal ya kayaknya Linux and Unix bisa dipertimbangkan… hihihi…

*btw lek butuh link tu friwer2, cari di gugel ae yah.. aku yo wes lali donlot dimana… hohoho 

ga tau kenapa sempat ada masalah ama blockquote-nya… hadoohhhhhh…

benernya aku mo make fitur css2 yang buat opacity di header, jadi headernya biar bisa transparan gitu, cuman ga tau kenapa tulisannya ga bisa tetep dibikin solid , pause dulu deh.

cara tradisional memang cukup menguras otak… biar gambar sedikit, tapi tetep aja loadingnya luambat, kenapa sih oggix ga pake div ajah… ide desainnya sih hasil adaptasi aja dari beberapa themes-nya wordpress (lupa apa ajah), pengennya sih adopsi banyak, cuman kayaknya koq neh blogsome emang masih banyak kurangnya . OH om admin.. upgrade dunk servernya…

jadi pengen buruan pindah ke rumah baru…

a. Do visitors know which page they are viewing?

The best way to ensure your visitors don’t get lost on your website is if you title your pages. Make sure this title is the title in your navigation area too. On your home page, or the one that is your "index.html" or "index.htm", you don’t have to title the page "HOME PAGE". It could be titled "About Us" or a page you want your visitors to see as soon as they open your website. If your "index.html" page is your "About Us" page, then put the header/title "About Us" at the top of the page. In other words, every page should have a heading so that your visitors will know what page they are currently viewing.

b. Can your visitor easily get to other pages using your navigational area?

Make sure that if you have 5 main pages in your website, there are 5 links in your navigation area with the exact titles as the titles on your pages. With this in mind, don’t make your titles too long. If you have articles on your website, make one link titled "Articles" in your navigation area. On the "Articles" page, list your article titles in the body of that particular page because the article titles will be longer.

c. Does my background color and text color make a good combination?

You will need to take this into serious consideration. If your color scheme is unappealing, visitors will leave no matter how good your subject matter may be. If the combination causes eye strain or headache, your visitors will leave your website and may not return. Examples: blue background with red text, lime green background with yellow text, red background with yellow text, etc. One other background I would like to mention: patterned/tiled backgrounds. These can be overwhelming to the eye. No text will be readable on these types of backgrounds - at least not without difficulty. If you must have a patterned/tiled background, make it look like a watermark - full color patterned/tiled backgrounds will send your visitors away quicker than ice cream melts on a hot stove.

d. Are my photos too big or do I have too many on a page?

If it takes longer than a few seconds for your webpage to load, then your images are too big or you have too many on a page. It is not necessary for a photo to take up the space of an entire browser window. Too many photos, without a doubt, will slow your website down to a crawl, even on a high-speed connection. Most people will leave your website before the images finish downloading. You can make the images small enough for a slideshow or create thumbnails so that your visitors can select which images they want to see. Once your visitors click on the image to see a larger view, make even that image small enough to see all the details, but not big enough to slow down your website. There are quite a few image editors out there to use - some are even free. I use Macromedia’s Fireworks to optimize my images. They have a tool where I can make my images smaller without losing clarity.

e. How do I test my pages for errors and user-friendliness?

Have a few other people look at your website. If you don’t think that friends and family will want to hurt your feelings, find a site with your color scheme; tell them that this website is not your website, but you would like their opinion on the color scheme and if it is difficult to read. You can also post your URL to various forums to ask them for a critique of your website. If this is your first time testing, you can ask for feedback so that you can get a variety of comments. Keep a copy of the answers you get so that in the future you can refer back to what people have said about certain features. Later on, you can put together a checklist to go by for every website you design. I wouldn’t use just one checklist to check all websites, but a checklist would be a good start. Whether you are a beginner or expert website designer, you will always need to test multiple times. You have a great deal of choices to check for errors on your site. I like to use W3C’s validators to check for errors and to bring my websites up to standard.

Making your website user-friendly is one of the best things you can accomplish for yourself and your visitors. Taking the time to ensure usability is nothing compared to how many visitors you will lose if you have a not-so-friendly website. Ensuring readability, fast downloading, and performing multiple tests will get you started in the right direction of designing user-friendly websites. Good Luck! Send me a link if you want me to critique your website.

source : http://www.webdesign.org