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Brand Identity Design | Megah Mesra Construction

Posted on | January 27, 2010 | No Comments

Megah Mesra Construction Sdn. Bhd. is a young local company located in the heart city of Kota Kinabalu,  Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. The design brief was to develop a new corporate identity system which is carries value of constructive precision yet the finespun and touch of  the Sabahan friendliness.

The concept came from building blocks which formed the main letters “M” for ‘Megah‘ (English translation : strong and solid) and ‘Mesra‘ (friendly & affectionate).

After the brand identity was developed, a set of designs were created for business cards, letterheads, company profile, envelopes and facsimile. Below are the samples of the final artwork that was finalised by the satisfied client.

If you are interested to view more of my work, do visit my design porfolio or  contact me for any inquiries.

Thank you and enjoy!!

Category: Designs, Logotypes, Sabah, borneo
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4 reasons why web designers should offer email marketing as a service

Posted on | January 24, 2010 | No Comments

Not many things divide opinion in the web design world quite like email. There are the purists out there who live and die by plain text, right through to those who swear by a nicely formatted HTML newsletter. But the fact is that if done correctly, email is one of the most effective forms of online marketing available to your clients. This in turn makes it a very profitable service to add to your portfolio.

So, why get into email marketing?

Reason 1: You can already do it

Sure, there are some subtle differences, but if you can design and code a web page, you’ve got the basic skills required to build and send a HTML email. There are plenty of tools available today that make sending and measuring email marketing campaigns a painless process. Provided you can get the creative right and follow best practice for acquiring permission, you can start offering email marketing as a service in no time.

Once you understand email design, you can start extending your knowledge beyond creating templates. Learn more about growing your customer’s subscriber lists, avoiding spam filters, designing effective landing pages and a range of other areas that will ensure you maximise results for your clients.

Reason 2: It complements your current services

Email marketing is the perfect add-on product to package with your existing web design services. Once you launch a new web site for a client, why not help them drive traffic to the site and make the most of their investment.

Add a newsletter subscription form to each page of their site and start building a house list. Add an opt-in checkbox to their online store’s check-out process. Include paper-based sign up forms at all their offline stores. Do everything you can to encourage interested customers and subscribers to join your client’s list.

A few months after the site is launched and you’ve (hopefully) started growing a decent house list for your client, you might begin designing and sending a monthly newsletter or a latest specials email to this list, which leads us to the next point…

Reason 3: It’s a new and recurring revenue stream

Just like most web sites, an email marketing program is an organic thing that changes over time. Each issue needs to include new content or a new offer, there might be a design tweak you need to make or a new email client to test in. As well as improving your clients relationship with their customers or driving sales, an email marketing program can also provide a great cashflow injection each month.

The good news doesn’t stop there. A recent survey of 1,500 marketing professionals not only found that 72% planned to increase their spending on email marketing in 2007, but more than half were outsourcing their email marketing to designers and creative agencies.

Reason 4: It works

Actually, works is an understatement. Based on research conducted by the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing is predicted to return an incredible $48.29 for every dollar spent in 2007. To put this in perspective, that’s more than double the average return for other forms of online marketing and more than 6 times the return from print catalogs.

Why email marketing works

  • It’s cost effective – While the cost of actually designing your email creative can be comparable to direct mail, the big savings start when you consider there are no printing costs and you can get your message delivered for around a cent per recipient.
  • It’s immediate – Email generates an immediate response, instead of waiting for a subscriber to visit your site you can get your message to them when it counts. The majority of your recipients will see your message in the first 24-48 hours.
  • It’s relevant – Email makes it easy to segment your subscribers using a variety of criteria like demographics and past campaign behaviour (such as clicking a certain link). This way you can ensure your message goes to the individuals most likely to be interested in your offer.
  • It’s completely measureable – More than any other form of marketing, email can provide actionable data on the results it generates. Keep track of who opened your email and when, what topics they were interested in, who forwarded it on to a friend, how many sales were generated and much more.

Courtesy of www.campaignmonitor.com

Category: Business, Internet, Marketing, Self Help
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Veteran World Champion, Datuk Aloysius Sibidol passed away.

Posted on | January 13, 2010 | No Comments

Today is a day of sorrow and mourning as our legendary hero of  Malaysia & Borneo Isl;and, whom is also my grandfather through my father’s side, the late Datuk Aloysius Sibidol came to rest last night – 13th January 2010. He was very ill, bed-ridden for a few years and was treated for pneumonia in the local hospital here in Kota Kinabalu. It was a tough battle and I am still in great shock as I have always known him to be a strong, kind man, yet an amazing Goliath.

He is well known to the Sabah & Brunei locals; the Borneo community, as a veteran sportsman, also a veteran world champion t for winning numerous championships and achieving outstanding performances and even shattering numerous World-Records for events such as javelin, shot-putt and discus. That is how he got his nickname “Borneo Bomber”.

To family and friends who knows my late grandfather,  Datuk Aloysius Sibidol, please do come to the late Datuk’s first son, Mr. Goldie Datuk Aloysius  Sibidol, our house is located in Kg. Tunoh, Penampang for the ceremony to proceed.

Let us share our feelings, give our thanks and pray blessings to the late Datuk Aloysius Sibidol Duligin.

With great love from you grandson,

Ali Goldie.

Amin.

P/s: I  made a promise to me late grandfather and with his blessing to build a small museum to commemorate his lifetime achievements. I pray my promise would be justified with help of my lovely family and friends.

If anyone who has information or some stories or want to express their experience about the late outstanding  Datuk Aloysius Sibidol, please I ask help & assistance to make my this successful by contacting me anytime.

EMAIL : aligoldie@gmail.com

My deepest & sincere gratitude.

Category: Personal, Sabah, Sports, borneo
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Machines Distracting Humans. Does Digital Tools Take Up Your Time at Work?

Posted on | January 7, 2010 | No Comments

Computer machines were first manufactured and initially marketed as devices or tools to help us at work. We were told they would perform amazing feats of office derring-do — summing up rows of numbers effortlessly, turning our musings into beautiful magazine-quality documents, and letting us collaborate with one another across multiple continents.

However, these past few days I notice myself having that most the time in front of the computer. I would be downloading web contents, socializing anywhere in our vast digital universe; –  replying Emails, writing, web browsing, taking calls, Skyping, Facebook-ing, tweeting, designing, RSS Feeding. There are so many of these sites that just keeps you coming back to it – like an addiction! DO You suffer from ‘Internet Addictive Disorder’ (IAD) ? How do you value yourselves for utilising time on these digital gadgets of the future?!?

I found this great link to share; a ‘hierarchy chart of digital distractions’ by David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer, an independent data journalist and information designer. He has a great passion in visualizing information – the facts, data, ideas, subjects, issues, statistics, questions.

In this diagram, each level in this hierarchy trumps the next.

So, if you get a new msg on Facebook, but your landline rings, you’ll take the landline call. You might have a spasmodic moment of ‘uh? wadd I do’. But, usually, you’ll take the call.

Distractions of Media Nowadays

Category: Business, INTERESTING LINKS, Personal, Self Help, Technology
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The Future of Computer Interface?

Posted on | December 24, 2009 | No Comments

Xerox was the first to introduced the modern graphical user interface paradigm we today take for granted –  the mouse and keyboard. However, could there be another solutionor way to improve the standard user-computer interface interaction?

10/GUI aims to bridge this gap by rethinking the desktop to leverage technology in an intuitive and powerful way. I find this video to be brilliant &  inspiring and would like to share this with you. What do you think would be our future for GUI technology?

If you have an interesting link or an interesting idea, do share it with us.

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

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Aligoldie.com vs BorneoColours.com

Posted on | December 22, 2009 | No Comments

Dear Readers,

I understand many tried to connect to my site – Aligoldie.com but couldnt find much new contents. The reason for this is because I’m currently working on a new project: it is a local knowledge portal for the Borneo Community: http://www.borneocolours.com.

borneocolours.com webpage

However, Aligoldie.com will continue updates as usual. I intend to write and share more with the world about designs, my thoughts and future plans. I have always believe to share knowledge and ideas with others.

Let me give a short insightful brief regarding my new project:

What is BorneoColours.com all about?
Borneocolours.com is best defined as “Intelligent New Media” – a web portal that is comprehensive and user-friendly, designed intelligently with integrated social media function to aggregate and engage users to trade, search, share, store and communicate information.

I would like to invite everyone to join us on the portal and help contribute & share any contents related with Borneo Island.

The site is is divided into different categories which are:

Travel Guide
This is an easy and convenient communication platform for traveller, tourism operators or anyone interested in sharing or gathering information about places of interest, accommodation or dining experiences all over Borneo.
Add your personal stories about particular tourist attractions, hotels, restaurants, and so on. Other users can then review your content and share their opinions on them as well. BorneoColours.com ensures that we’ll get answers for any review or comments required justification.

Education, Jobs & Career
This section is where users can share education, job and career information. Training Offers, Research in Borneo, Support Tools and Vacancies are its categories subsection.
You can share or browse though training and job opportunities information. You too may share or search research abstract conducted in Borneo. The Support Tools are subsection to share helpful tips and knowledge about Education, Jobs and Career related material.

Community Buzz
This section is where worthwhile stories or events are shared for all. NEWS, BCBUZZ and EVENTS are its categories subsection.

You can now post or comment Interesting stories from legitimate sources in the NEWS subsection. Share and discuss on any gossips, recent events and any other stories worth buzzing about in BCBUZZ. Share an event that you wish others to attend on EVENTS Subsection.

Borneo.TV
Stay Tuned! For Official BorneoColours.com Official Video Content.
This is also the video-sharing platform where you can posts video links from YouTube, Vimeo, CNN, and other video sources relate to borneo or worth watching and sharing.

Market Place
BorneoColours.com support the need to create a business platform that is dynamic and vibrant for everyone and to create entrepreneurial spirit among its community. We welcome you to participate and display 2nd hand product for sale on the our subsection call Traders Market. You too could showcase your business and services on a micro site within our portal at our Borneo Business Directory.

BorneoColours.com walk the talk when it comes to Corporate Social Responsibility, thus creating a mechanism call the Give It Back Project in support of sustainable financing for the community. Our platform for this project is call the Give It Back Store.
Find out more on our “Give It Back Project”.

Creative In-Motion
Borneo has abundance of undiscovered talented individuals. Here you can share and review artwork. This is a platform for your masterpiece to get notice and appreciated globally. Leave your contact details, you may be contacted for some business assignment.

BC Buddy
BC Buddy is our Social Networking Component. Sign in and you’ll discover several similar basic tool like Facebook. As a matter of fact, we made it easy for you to sign in by adding the “Facebook Connect” Application.

I must apologise for my late email replies, i am just abit tied up with work but I will reply your requests as soon as I can. you can reach me by email: askme@aligoldie.com

Thank you for your great support and please browse through my site and write me a comment if you find anything that interests you.

Sincerely,

Ali Goldie

Category: Designs, INTERESTING LINKS, Personal
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Wildman of Borneo – The Ultimate Adventurer!

Posted on | October 1, 2009 | No Comments

Are you man enough?
Here is a chance for you to travel around Borneo for FREE!
Find out how you can be the ultimate adventurer @ www.wildman.borneocolours.com

Are you man enough?

Here is a chance for you to travel around Borneo for FREE!

Find out how you can be the ultimate adventurer @ www.wildman.borneocolours.com

Category: INTERESTING LINKS, Internet, Sabah
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The total guide to make Firefox look like Chrome

Posted on | August 29, 2009 | No Comments

Recently a lot of people including myself wanted to switch to chrome due to the beautiful interface, yet Firefox is way better with its superb extensions

via The total guide to make Firefox look like Chrome.

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Immediate Job Vacancy in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Labuan, Sarawak, Brunei, Kalimantan, Borneo Malaysia

Posted on | July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

Theres Job Vacancies for immediate posting :

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1.)  Graphic Designer +  Web Programmer or Developer  : ( 1 post available)

  • - Base Location:  Lintas, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah , Borneo Malaysia : We

2.) Sales Executive ( 2  post available)

  • - Base Location:  Lintas, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah , Borneo Malaysia :

3.) Event Executive (to be notified..)

  • - Base Location:  Lintas, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah , Borneo Malaysia :

4.) Travel Writer / Blogger (by assignment / part time)

  • – Base Location:  : ANYWHERE around Sarawak, Kalimantan, Brunei, Labuan , Sabah.

5.) Copywriter / Researcher  -  Based : Kota Kinabalu

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    (Only phone calls & emails would be entertained. )

    Let all your friends now about this.. who know he or she knows someone who knows someone cousins own auntie own step sister own boyfriend own mother own neighbour.. that really in need of a job and is really talented. there you go, you might help a stranger.

    Get them to email me at -  jobs@borneocolours.com / or Call Now 088 2400 68

    so start telling other about this news and be a good samaritan.

    Thanks in advance by the way.

    ;-)

    Sharing is Caring!

    Category: Personal, Sabah
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    Issues with website

    Posted on | July 9, 2009 | No Comments

    Hey guys, my site has been deleted when i forgotten to update with my hosting, but this one would be alter and modified along the way to improve the site.

    Enjoy your visit and thanks so much! :)

    Category: Personal
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