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I got chance to work in different type of companies in my working life. Basically it can be categorized in to 2 types; either project base or product base. However, I found that most of the project or product development is not being managed well. You can see someone is doing nothing all the time and someone is busy like hell. Manager or top management never knows exactly what the progress is. We do not really have a system to manage, assign task to worker, and keep track the progress of each individual’s task. We always end up with sending, replying email in order to communicate, and sharing files among team members. It was really a terrible experience.

I had spent some of my free time to develop an online collaboration solution for teamwork and project management, ajaxworkspace.com. I know this cannot compare with other professional collaboration tools like groove or SharePoint since this only develop by me alone. However, I hope I can improve it to become better and better. Hopefully, it can be use by SOHO user, freelancer and small-mid size company. Here are some of the product features I get from ajaxworkspace.com

AJAX workspace offers a secure Web-based workplace consisting of an integrated suite of simple and easy to use collaboration application. You can efficiently organize yourself, manage projects and work with your entire enterprise, colleagues and team member from one central location. The ideal tool for any type of project management regardless if you are working in a company or if you are working as freelancer from home.

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Do you ever feel tired for searching link partners and publishing web pages every time a link exchange request takes place?

Link exchange process is time consuming and tedious. You require finding potential link partners, sending and replying emails, publishing others’ website by modifying your HTML pages, and check whether your link partners are still linking to your site periodically, etc. Soon, you will find that you spend too much time in your reciprocal link exchange campaign instead of doing business tasks.

AutoLinkManager simplifies the entire link exchange process, making your life a lot easier. We offer online link exchange system that allows you to exchange links with any member in our directory, manage incoming link exchange requests, build a categorized directory and publish your link pages to your web hosting. We keep your link exchange requests organized!

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Internet revolution has been started since early 90’s. Nowadays, I believe even a 15 years old school boy may able to build their own website using HTML language. We can always see some advertisement showing “Web design package – RM 300 for unlimited pages!” in Malaysia. I am a bit curious, how can people build a website with unlimited pages and only cost you RM300? Yes, I know HTML language is easy. However, will there really able to deliver a professional web design look? Is the website search engine friendly? Will they put a great deal of effort into the design? Do they have sufficient skills and experience to deliver what you want? Personally, I don’t think that they can deliver a good looking, professional website with only RM 300. If you know somewhere can get this kind of web design package please do let me know.

I had experience in web development for more than 4 years in Malaysia. I can tell you that the website design marketplace in Malaysia is very bad nowadays. A lot of companies do not want to spend more then RM 1000 for their website. We often heard from our clients that “XXX offer RM 300 for unlimited web pages. Why your packages so expensive?” At the end, we need to give more discounts in order to get the sales. This is the fact for all web design companies in Malaysia. However, I think everybody should know that there is no free lunch in this world. A good quality and successful web site be sure will cost you more compare to a budget website. In return, you will get better image for your company, generate more traffic to your website and increase your revenues. Besides, it can be an extremely effective method of communicating between you and your customer. If you planning go for budget web design package (RM 300), I will suggest you better do not waste this kind of money. Spend it for your staff lunch and hope your staff will work harder and get more sales for you rather than create a lousy, low quality and useless website.

Here are some of my previous projects done when I was a freelancer 2 years ago. http://www.quantum-profile.com. I am no longer work as freelancer now. As you can see, the “RM 300 for unlimited web pages”! It is hard to survive in this marketplace. I am currently working in an MNC software house in KLCC. However, sometime I still helping some friends or relative when they need me in website development…