Welcome to Rasa Malaysia 3.0
February 28th, 2010 | Announcements | 58 Comments
Welcome to Rasa Malaysia 3.0, the spanking new design and updated version of Rasa Malaysia.
Gosh, where do I start?
My developer R and I have been working on this project for 6 months—yes, half a year!—because we are both hopeless perfectionist (I am a Virgo) and we wanted a great design that looks familiar to all the loyal fans and readers of Rasa Malaysia, but we also wanted to inject new design elements, new color schemes, features, better UI (user interface), and most importantly, we wanted it to look “grown-up,” sophisticated, professional yet friendly and welcoming. Trying to make everything work within our vision is further complicated by the many ads on Rasa Malaysia (someone has to pay the bills). I mean, our creativity was hindered by the gazillion ad spots I have on the site. We went through a couple of designs. At one point, I did my wireframe and practically told R what to do (and that didn’t fly because a marketer should never instill rigid requirements and specs of how a site should be because it just kills creativity). Eventually, R came to me with a concept of the current design and we both loved the direction and perfected it and voila, you get this new design that we are both proud of. R and I are still working on finishing up all the small details on the site, killing bugs, and we also have a grand plan to offer a simpler template/theme based on this design for sale in the near future. But time is the main factor and we shall see if we will really get to it…
