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Questworks, Inc. is a full service video production house, offering excellent service to clients by producing high impact, trailblazing and cutting edge videos and other media solutions in print, broadcast multimedia or the web.

Questworks, Inc. is composed of young, dynamic, experienced and highly creative team, full of zest and passion in what Questworks, Inc. do. The Company are expanding and looking for a new addition to the team.

Job Requirements:

• Graduate of a 4-year degree course (preferably Fine Arts/Advertising Arts, or Multimedia Arts)
• Previous web development and graphic/illustration arts experience preferable
• Required professional skill(s):
• Able to interpret required detail and transform into graphic representation as web page(s)
• Able to provide functional concepts within an acceptable span of time.
• Able to accurately forecast time lines for a project.
• Able to justify concepts as appropriate to the project requirements.
• Able to work with existing tools.
• Preferred skill(s):
• Vector Graphics
• Image Editing/Compositing
• HTML (Coded and Visual)
• Attention to detail/instructions
• Attention to color combination
• Attention to element composition

Optional skill(s):

• Flash/Shockwave knowledge
• 3D/VRML knowledge
• Photography knowledge
• Printing process knowledge
• Animation/video process knowledge
• Self-starter with strong self-management skills and has the ability to organize and manage multiple priorities; At least 1 year(s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
• Able to speak and understand English fluently
• We also welcome fresh graduates with prior freelance experience.
• Applicants must be willing to work in Makati City.

A competitive compensation and a rewarding professional career await successful candidates.

Interview invitations may be done via email so please check your email regularly. Preference will be given to candidates who apply online.

Applicants may submit their resume to: Jacky Nuevas or e-mail it to questworks@pldtdsl.net and visit Questworks, Inc. website at www.questworksasia.com

I’m not fond of judging peoples work, maybe I’m not a critic type of guy who used to criticized something. BUt if it could lead somebody to look forward and to make them aspired to push more harder and become competitive, hope it would make sense.

Bit surprised this morning that our head manager invite me to panel Web Designs Contest conducted by our Province to their tourism growth and development program.

And creating a sensible website is a step with regards to online promotion that could attract tourist here.

See review outcome of the said contest, rating ang comments I have made to several contestant design can be found below.

Eng’r Niel Alado
Roberto Villarna Jr. (Entry No.1)

Although the color was not so striking but the website architecture is designed for quick browsing, easy navigational menu that bring Negros tourism information right away.

Some pages don’t have content, maybe they don’t have enough time to research. The color was playing safe, try to be more artistic by combining pastel colors (happy colors).

Search Engine Friendly.

Rate: 8

View Visual

Entry No.2

Catchy to eye plus add the drum beat that made me remember the native tribe somewhere in Africa. Good thing that the site was never made full flash, but the background color are too dark for a tourism website, color should portray happiness, joy, and laughter.

In additional, the lay-out is compatible in internet explorer (IE) but look destructed on firefox - fact, 40% of web surfer use IE, 33% use firefox and the remaining 27% is for other browser like safari, Netscape, and etc.

Less Search Engine Friendly.

Rate: 7.6

Entry No.3

Just a simple website, it looks so plain… attractions needs to be focus since we are promoting tourism here.

Search Engine Friendly.

Rate: 6.5

Entry No.4

White is much better, if you notice and use the color combination on your splash banner “Negros Occidental” then, this might be more attractive.

Lay-out is compatible in IE but not in firefox. I’m looking forward to see more feature attractions on the main page.

Search Engine Friendly.

Rate: 7

Escalante City (Entry No.5)

It made me not to look or browse the site, looks like a gamer’s website. Full of flash widgets and I can find the tourism concept or theme.

It’s just a template I guess, Develop and try to be more artistic. Want to see your latest design next year.

Not Search Engine Friendly.

Rate: 4

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I’m back… after a long vacation from this blog.

Moving up to the new house was really feel good, cozy atmosphere and having freedom is the most important to me. Even though i’m still couping up with my internet provider because of connection problem i’ve experianced these past days, but i know it will be fine soon.

And about my latest web design, here is another new concept I’ve made from one luxury hotel here in our city, the idea was pretty fresh and i need to be innovative because the client want a simple design, but it needs to be elegant and cool to the eyes where viewers can feel the harmony of the hotel.

I’m pretty open for every critics on this design. If you found something not good and needs to be change, please drop your comments - I’ll appreciate every words from my visitors.

I know that there are lots of people who doesn’t want to pay for an easy top Search Engine Ranking Position (SERP), not because they can’t afford but sometimes they want to do it as a part of learning.

There’s a lot of free articles that discuss Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Internet Marketing and things that could enhance your site visibility or if in business, could increase your Return On Investment (ROI).

Well, here an easy and free SEO tips from Matt Cutts, Google Spam Engineer - that tackled some basic but effective tips:

The guy who conduct this interview was Jefferson Graham of USA Today.

In addition, I love the shirt “We love Webmasters“!

If you’re an Internet Marketer and somebody hire you for a scam operation for their making money online scheme, would you do your best to make it on the top?

An inquiry came across this morning on our webmail asking our services for this kind of search engine activity, I know we’re selfish and money oriented company if we accept this and maybe kind enough if we dump this offer.

Below you can find the target keyphrases they want:

1. best home based business
2. small business opportunities
3. online opportunity
4. successful home business
5. legitimate online business
6. genuine home business
7. make money from home
8. entrepreneur opportunities
9. successful small business
10. home franchises
11. work from home opportunities
12. new small businesses
13. make money now
14. best online business
15. profitable home business
16. money making opportunities
17. earn lots of money
18. growing a home business
19. creating a home business
20. small business ventures
21. proven home business opportunities
22. real online business
23. entrepreneur opportunity
24. make money easy
25. direct sales opportunity
26. easy home business

Here the sample article they sent me for their SEO pages:

Best home based business

With the holidays around best home based business Australia the corner, you may find yourself struggling to keep your home-based home business and your home life separate and running smoothly. And you’re not alone.

Operating a home-based home business best home based business has many benefits as you already know, but its main drawback is that it often causes the line between your work and your personal life to become permanently blurred. Unlike those individuals who work outside the best home based business home and who know their day at the office ends when they get in their car and start the commute home, home business operators do not usually have a definite end to their day.

The reverse situation is also possible: they best home based business may not have a definite start to their day either. If you have a hard time breaking free of your work responsibilities or if you sometimes have trouble settling in to tackle them, these tips will help you bring both aspects of your life into equilibrium.

Separate Your Office from Your Home best home based business.
If your work computer is in the living room where everyone in the family congregates, chances are you are being bombarded by distractions. Plus, when it is time for you to relax, you may find it difficult best home based business with the computer right there as a constant reminder of all the work you still need to finish and all of the communications you still need to respond to best home based business.

So I put you in my shoe, would you that selfish or kind enough for this?

Choosing the right Web Promotion Company for your internet marketing or search engine optimization (SEO) campaign would make your Return on Investment (ROI) increased and choosing a wrong company could make your effort and money goes in vain.

The question is, how could you choose a good Web Promotion Company?

Jumping in unknown water is very risky and dangerous, always put in mind that you need to measure and anticipate everything before you jump by following scientific methods:

Gather information on different company

• Do they have set-up fees? (Most of the company offer paid set-up, I know several companies who doesn’t charge set-up fees)
• If they, how much? (The right fee goes around $99)
• How much is the current market price for this internet marketing campaign? (For me $100/year for minimum competitive keyphrase)
• What can they offer? (Copywriting, link building, press release, syndications, social media promotion, PPC)
• Span of works and terms of service.
• Do they offer guarantee? (Money back guarantee never exist anymore, but top 10 in major search engine is fair, increased of traffic, conversion rates)
• Do they provide search engine ranking report? (Yes, they should provide you that every month so that you can monitor how its going… if not forget them.)
• When will you start seeing results? (3-6 months if you ask me, depends on how competitive are the keyphrases, domain aging; old sites tend to rank better)
• What techniques do they use to optimize my site? (Avoid blackhat SEO, spamming and cloaking techniques)
• Ask a portfolio.

Analyze the data - be sure that they provide you the exact details needed, compare their rates and services, try to contact the subject they give on their portfolio and ask how they perform
Interpret data and form conclusion - weight the results according to the specification above.

Test - Don’t give them do the whole thing, let them run on testing period, start on single site if you have number of website to be optimized, just let them work in a few target keywords and keyphrases.

If they work and made your ROI increased, that’s the time you let them work full.

Email Recap:

Hey Archy,

I have a new project, but really do not have anything to get it started. She is a startup and does not have a logo or anything.

She is doing an article website where people can send in questions and she will write articles about it. She likes a newspaper layout as she says, and that she likes the New York times website.

The articles will be in categories, so we will have more than one “article” area. She will also allow people to ask questions, both free and paid questions. We need to do something that looks a little bit cooler than an average newspaper website.

The name of her site is “The Advice Website”.

See what you can come up with for this, I know it is isn´t exactly easy since we don´t have anything to work with. But let´s just start somewhere and see what it leads to.

All the best,
*****

So I come up to this:

Thu, June 12, 2008 8:31 pm

Hey Archy,

The design looks pretty good. Can you remove the “about the author”, I know she does not want focus on them. You can do a “survery” there instead, but that would only take up about half the width of the about the author column, so you can extend the articles from the left. You can also make the opening page image smaller, she probably will not be using images a lot, so they don´t need as much attention. The image could be half the size, and just have more content around it.

Also can you replace the links on there to these:

1. Topics

a. Love

b. Relationships

c. Marriage

d. Future

e. Career

2. General questions

3. Confidential questions (Payment required)

4. Newsletter

5. Contact us

6. About Kim

7. Sitemap

8. Privacy policy

9. Legal

10. The store (hidden)

Revision:

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Big clarifies that they made this agreement for users, advertisers and publishers good cause. Confirmed that this agreement is not a tread to emerge on Yahoo! that they are still in competing field, doesn’t cage Yahoo! to do similar agreement on other company such Microsoft, doesn’t share their search traffics, and most of all; doesn’t raise prices for advertisers.

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