Thursday, January 04, 2007

Where to find Web Designers?

"Where do I start looking for web designers to design a simple Banner for my new web site in Malaysia?"

This is a pretty good question for an internet marketer in Malaysia.

There are only 2 alternatives here. One is to learn and do it yourself via Adobe Photoshop CS. The other is to outsource to a web designer in Malaysia.

However, I encountered some challenge here.

Most web designers are ego-driven or monetary-driven without the thought of offering to help their potential clients. Especially web designers based in Malaysia.

Most of the time, the cost of getting a new web site designed cost between RM500.00 (USD139)to RM2,000.00 (USD556) for min. 5 pages to 10 pages. Inclusive of Banners, overall look of the web site, internal linking and navigation bars.

Then I encoutered some freelance web designers who could design simple mini web sites for much lower fees than these rates quoted to me and willing to help me out.

As a matter of fact, I can buy online from any US based template web sites for a mere USD55.00 min. for a professional looking web site in whatever format I fancied.

And there are some web designers who specialise in eCovers only and they would gladly create these mini sites for under USD130.00

So I would suggest you do some of your own research when looking for reliable, dependable web designers in Malaysia.

I learned Photoshop CS but I find the work tedious as I prefer to work on my web site instead and leave the web design to web designers. So I would rather outsource them out. And if they are good, I recommend them to other internet marketers.

Inventory.overture.com - Keyword Selector Tool

Has Yahoo really taken Inventory.Overture.com keyword selector tool out of the cyber space?

What are webmasters and other users going to be using next to select keywords?

I stumbled upon this message of concerned from a webmaster site. This is a Buzz for all webmasters and users alike in the world. What keyword research tool are they going to use next? Will the next tool be user-friendly?

So I went into Yahoo and located Search Marketing immediately and did my own research.

This is the path to follow. It seems Yahoo has changed the presentation format for keyword selector tool.

Yahoo main page > Search Marketing > Sponsored Search > click on Get Started Now > select Self Serve (with No Service Fee ie. it is Free!)

Just follow the 5 Steps like they said but you do not have to go through all the way.

What is interesting is when you type in your keywords, the search results will come out in Bars. The maximum number of bars are 5. So that means that particular keyword you keyed in has the "most number of searches".

Drawback is that Yahoo do not tell you which month it appears on, unlike previous Inventory.Overture.com

Well! I got through till Stage 4 when it asked me for my budget for bidding on the selected keywords and I stopped.

I was only keen on the keyword selector tool section.

We have to say Good bye to Inventory.Overture.com and welcome the new Yahoo Search Marketing keyword selector tool in this New Year of 2007 then.