Below are the list of interface that can be a good reference for content display.

a. Straight Forward
- A straight forward FAQ consist of Question and Answer.
- Use a different size & color to differentiate the question and answer

http://www.apple.com/getamac/faq/

b. Too many things to asked
- If you have a lot of questions and wanted to display in a page, you should use the java dropdown where when you mouseover the question, the answer will be displayed.

http://www.facebook.com/press/faq.php

c. Grouping
- You should rearrange the content into groups and create the quick jump menu for the group via pull down menu or hypertext links.

http://europe.nokia.com/A4144974

d. Popular/Top FAQ
- In some website, they highlighted the most popular FAQ for quick access

http://europe.nokia.com/A4144973

e. Back to top button
- You have to put the back to top button especially in a long, one page FAQ

http://www.maybank2u.com.my/site_functions/faq/onlinebank.shtml

f. Content segregation
- Use line to segregate long answer for a better reading

http://hollylisle.com/fm/Articles/faqs1.html

i. Related content
- Put hypertext link if the content is co-related with another content

 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7403

h. What’s next after the list of FAQ
- Guide user attention to contact admin / webmaster for more enquiries or unlisted FAQ

That’s all for this week. Now you can FAQ yourself. :p

MORE REFERENCES

Ikea
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_AU/customer_service/faq/faq.html#0000 

We reject the use of abusive positioning techniques that can generate misleading indicators.

1. URL naming

Each institution should choose a unique institutional domain that can be used by all the websites of the institution.

It is very important to avoid changing the institutional domain as it can generate confusion and it has a devastating effect on the visibility values.

The alternative or mirror domains should be disregarded even when they redirection to the preferred one.

Use of well known acronyms is correct but the institution should consider including descriptive word, like the name of the city, in the domain name.

2. Contents: Create

A large web presence is made possible only with the effort of a large group of authors. The best way to do that is allowing a large proportion of staff, researchers or graduate students to be potential authors.

A distributed system of authoring can be operative at several levels:

Central organisation can be responsible of the design guidelines and institutional information

Libraries, documentation centres and similar services can be responsible of large databases, including bibliographic ones but also large repositories (thesis, pre-prints, and reports)

Individual persons or teams should maintain their own websites, enriching them with self archiving practices.

Hosting external resources can be interesting for third parties and increase the visibility: Conference websites, software repositories, scientific societies and their publications, especially electronic journals.

3. Contents: Convert

Important resources are available in non electronic format that can be converted to web pages easily. Most of the universities have a long record of activities that can be published in historical web sites.

Other resources are also candidate for conversion, including past activities reports or pictures collections.

4. Interlinking

The Web is a hipertextual corpus with links connecting pages. If your contents are not known (bad design, limited information, or minority language), the size is scarce or they have low quality, the site probably will receive few links from other sites.

Measuring and classifying the links from others can be insightful. You should expect links from your “natural” partners: Institutions from your locality or region, web directories from similar organisations, portals covering your topics, colleagues or partners personal pages. Your pages should make an impact in your common language community.

Check for the orphaned pages, i.e. pages not linked from another.

5. Language, especially English

The Web audience is truly global, so you should not think locally. Language versions, especially in English, are mandatory not only for the main pages, but for selected sections and specially from scientific documents.

6. Rich and media files

Although html is the standard format of web pages, sometimes it is better to use rich file formats like Adobe Acrobat pdf or MS Word doc as they allow a better distribution of documents. PostScript is a popular format in certain areas (physics, engineering, mathematics) but it can be difficult to open, so it is recommended to provide an alternative version in pdf format.

Bandwidth is growing exponentially, so it is a good investment to archive all media materials produced in web repositories. Collections of videos, interviews, presentations, animated graphs, and even digital pictures could be very useful in the long term.

7. Search engine friendly designs

Avoid cumbersome navigation menus based on Flash, Java or JavaScript that can block the robot access. Deep nested directories or complex interlinking can block robots too.

Databases and even highly dynamic pages can be invisible for some search engines, so use directories or static pages instead or as an option.

8. Popularity and statistics

Number of visits is important, but it as much as important to monitor their origin, distribution and the causes why they reach your web sites. Most of the current log analysers offer a great diversity of tables and graphs showing relevant demographic and geographic data, but make sure there is an option to show the referrers, the web pages from which the visit arrives or the search term or phrase used if the visit came from a search engine.

Most popular pages or directories are also relevant.

9. Archiving and persistence

To maintain a copy of old or outdated material in the site should be mandatory. Sometimes relevant information is lost when the site is redesigned or simply updated and there is no way to recover easily the vanished pages.

10. Standards for enriching sites

The use of meaningful titles and descriptive metatags can increase the visibility of the pages. There are some standards like Dublin Core that can be used to add authoring info, keywords and other data about the web sites.

The sculptures of Miguel Ortiz Berrocal may be found in art museums, galleries, and private collections around the world.  Berrocal is best known in the puzzle community for his sculpture “multiples,” signed and numbered limited editions typically consisting of many ingeniously interlocking metal elements.  Indeed, the numerous mechanisms employed throughout Berrocal’s work are works of art in themselves.  Each such sculpture is accompanied by a book detailing disassembly and reassembly of the sculpture.  Needless to say, the puzzles posed by the works of Berrocal are not meant for those easily frustrated.  I have found myself cheating on reassembly by consulting these books much more than I would prefer.

As you will see if you more closely peruse the “multiples” in my collection, much of Berrocal’s work involves items of jewelry and/or clever erotic references.  Please be advised that a few of the sculptures as well as many of the descriptions are sexually graphic.  More information on Berrocal’s work may be found on his official website.  Berrocal died in May of 2006.

*Alexandre

a. Which one of this website give you the accurate value?
b. What is their estimation base?
c. Which is the best and the most popular, officially well known, being used by people?

http://www.smartpagerank.com

Information you get :
Email sent automatically if PageRank™ is updated.
Estimates the value of your website.
Checks if the PageRank™ is fake or valid.
PageRank™ from multiple datacenters.
Checks PageRank™ with and without “www”.
Displays number of backlinks, Alexa traffic ranking, and DMOZ links.
Mini buttons to display your PageRank™..
Thumbnail of website.

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http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

Information you get :
Page rank only

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http://www.dnscoop.com/

Information you get :
Domain Age
Page Rank
Inbound Links
Alexa traffic ranking,
Domain name IP report,
Link Value Report by Text-Link-Ads
Site Value Report

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http://www.goingup.com/

Information you get :
You need to install their script in your website then you’ll get your result. In this case, we do nothing about it.

***

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/

Information you get :
Estimates the value of your website.
Page Ranks
Backlinks
Traffic Ranks
Daily Page view
Daily Ad revenue
Alexa traffic ranking,
last update

***


http://www.sitestimator.com/estimate/

Information you get :
Estimates the value of your website.
Page Ranks
Indexed Page
Inbound Links
Alexa traffic ranking,
Site Value for Ad

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We try to check the value of secretschool.org and here are the result:
smartpagerank – USD 92
prchecker – no value
dnscoop – USD 360
goingup! – no yet get the value
websiteoutlook – USD 1781.2
sitestimator.com – USD 699.28

Summary : So which one is the best? From the marketing point of view, I prefer the websiteoutlook. Of course, it can sell more buck.

We might think to start a web portal immediately after knowing this ultra digital achievement but then the idea fade away as we even didn’t know the process of buying domain name.

The question is how was a web being valued? How was the price is estimated? One of my friend Ahmadazwan.com said it was base on the traffic that the web could get. More traffic means more access to buyer.

So how to know your web traffic? The simplest way is to have that ustadz, sorry, Awstat as your tools to check your site popularity. This web tools is so user friendly where you can get a lot of details until the extension the details that not so important to you. But, at the end of the story, you still don’t know how much is your web price.

One of the method is to submit your web address to this site, and you will straight away get your estimated value base on their formula.

So here’s a list of estimated price IF you want to buy this listed website.

Local :

Limkitsiang.Com Estimated Worth $56472.8 USD = RM 182,887.169
Anwaribrahimblog.Com Estimated Worth $48 800.50 USD = RM 158,040.425
Kadirjasin.Blogspot.Com Estimated Worth $17914.2 USD = RM 58,015.139
Chedet.Com Estimated Worth $11 161.70 USD = RM 36,147.167 ( just launched a few weeks ago )

Afdlinshauki.Blogspot.Com Estimated Worth $6051.7 USD = RM 19,598.431
yasminthestoryteller.Blogspot.Com Estimated Worth $5175.7 USD = RM 16,761.505.00

Thestar.Com.My Estimated Worth $1.33 Million USD = RM 4.307 M
Utusan.Com.My Estimated Worth $770456.6 USD = RM 2,495,123.79
Harakahdaily.Net Estimated Worth $414202 USD = RM 1,341,393.226
Malaysia-Today.Net Estimated Worth $32 6821.00 USD = RM 1,058,409.847

Tm.Net.My Estimated Worth $353568.2 USD = RM 1,145,030.658
Maxis.Com.My Estimated Worth $199443.3 USD = RM 645,897.151
Digi.Com.My Estimated Worth $121610.7 USD = RM 393,836.266

Mmu.Edu.My Estimated Worth $168476.7 USD = RM 545,611.813
Um.Edu.My Estimated Worth $100316.6 USD = RM 324,875.321
Oum.Edu.My Estimated Worth $59706.7 USD = RM 193,360.155
Limkokwing.Edu.My Estimated Worth $12826.1 USD = RM 41,537.326
Secretschool.Org Estimated Worth $1781.2 USD = RM 5,768.416.00 ( well we need a lot of work to do here )
Cosmopoint.Edu.My Estimated Worth $372.3 USD = RM 1,205.694

International :

Microsoft.Com Estimated Worth $172.07 Million USD = RM 557.249 M
Apple.Com Estimated Worth $36.5 Million USD = RM 118.205 M
Nokia.Com Estimated Worth $5.26 Million USD = RM 17.035 M
Sony.Com Estimated Worth $3.28 Million USD = RM 10.622 M

Yahoo.Com Estimated Worth $2.41 Billion USD = RM 7.805 B
Google.Com Estimated Worth $1.2 Billion USD = RM 3.886 B
Youtube.Com Estimated Worth $803 Million USD = RM 2,600.516 M

Myspace.Com Estimated Worth $401.5 Million USD = RM 1,300.258 M
Facebook.Com Estimated Worth $344.15 Million USD = RM 1,114.53 M
Friendster.Com Estimated Worth $60.23 Million USD = RM 195.055 M

Well, who want to buy the yahoo.com website? Contact me. :p

* The sms from Fishie last week to tell me the news of his father’s death made me wonder, how short this life is. I know he was not feeling well in this few years but the sudden heart attack he suffered brought an end to his life’s journey.

Still, we the left one might be thinking how great  a journey we could take part base on the opportunity that god has given to us.

To Fishie, Pojie, Auntie and family : a big condolence from all of us. Our prayers and thoughts are with you.

Visit fishie’s blog, click here. More article, click here.

I think that Malaysian now is having a big issue on the post election PRU12. Since everybody is busy talking and discussing about it and of course, it is a really a big matter if you are truly Malaysian. It’s no joke on the overall result and for me I believe the major rejection is always something to do with the leadership. Hey this is the future of our generation, it is not about if you lose, then lose-lah. Do you dare losing your generation?

Since this is not a political blog, then we shall not discuss politics “heavily” here. What I’m sharing is the second part of “A lot of news in a paper – Newspaper” part 2.

The summary of the first part is : what if there is another message in a message. That was discussed earlier and you may click here for detail.

Today, I’m giving you another thing to ponder. What if, the message is not that message? Or… the message is invert as it says not what it says?

I had a glance to the Utusan this afternoon while we were having lunch. I say it’s a good composition of text and image placement where the newspaper today deliver more than one message to the audience in one stroke. You see, the image below describe what i’m saying. Although there are few clipping in the frontpage (many news) but in secretly, they are delivering more than what we want to know subtly without we notice and this message was transfered to our brain as an understanding.

A process of Un-notification agreement. Perhaps…

1. This book explains the benefit of making bad decisions.

2. It shows how RISK is your security in life.

3. And why unreason is better than reason.

4. It’s about having the CONFIDENCE to roll the dice

From the book:

ITS NOT ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE IDEAS

Some people have a gift for coming up with ideas. But for those that don’t it is a real struggle. Oddly, the people who struggle most are  often the ones who become the most successful. Having too many ideas is not always a good thing. It’s too easy to move on to the next one, and the next one.

If you don’t have many ideas, you have to make those you do have work for you.

Yes, I want to be a confidence guy, and I want to roll the dice