BlueFreelance

Well, weekend again, I need some relax for today. One of my hobby is to watch movie, and I guess many of you sould have the same, right. Just some years ago, there were a few file formats of video as well as music and I often buy movie CDs to watch. Don’t ask me why I didn’t download a movie with a 56Kps connection at that time.

Nowadays, there are hundreds kinds of codecs and file formats. Be an internet worm, I enjoy searching and downloading a lot types of media to enjoy, from music video lip, funny clip to a whole movie. Then I tried various kinds of media player, from free to commercial to find a perfect one. Guess which one I will recommend you ? No one actually, but I will present you a list of the best, and of course, as usual, they are free.

I won’t put three popular ones Windows Media Player, Real Player and Quick Time into my list. They are still doing their jobs very well, however I am always eager to find others to try. Now, enough chat, let’s go.

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After 5 hard-working weeks, we has finished a design project for a 3-star hotel. Let me tell you that, this is the first time we deal with a hotel, and the hotel owner also has just started this kind of business for the first time. I must go around some similar hotels, even stay one night in a hotel near there to collect which one we should put in our project. The final purpose is to complete a communication kit for the marketing team to introduce its services

This is not really so challenge project, the only issues is that we can’t figure out which elements exactly to process. We also join the brainstorming progress with the owner, to identity the segmentation which this hotel target. Base on our ideas, the hotel should be a friendly, warming one, a kind of boutique hotel. Its name is Lavender, a beautiful flower, which has a enjoyed smell.

The most interesting idea in this project is that we make some tags and put them into the catalouge instead of printing them in one side like usual. Each tag will be an introduction for a service in the hotel. Sometime, we could generate awesome ideas, but the client may not approve, however in this project, my client love this idea very much.

At any way, let take a look at what we’ve done so far.

The client has been very satisfied with our outcomes, that ’s our happiness in every project. Hey, if you have a plan to travel to my city (Ho Chi Minh), please visit and come this hotel and enjoy our design, he he.

At the moment, I and my partner are working on a Joomla implement project. As usual, Andy had worked on design, he made PSD lay-out, and I implement Joomla, Wordpress or some PHP CMS into that. In this project, we worked on a Jomla site, which has made from others. This is the problem, Joomla is powerful, of course but it is not suitable for a complicated lay out, like Andy has made. We have 3 different structures, which need apply in a Joomla template.

As we can see, the structure of the homepage is completely different, compared with sub-pages. The client has approved the design, and we cant have enough time to rewrite the new CMS for this project. We have only 1 week to process everything from PSD layout, to CSS/xHTML and implement this into Joomla. Read the rest of this entry »