This was the presentation slide I delivered at the Catholic High School in Malaysia. It's about how you should not only be a website designer but offer more in value, education and purpose when building a website.

1. SIMPLEET SOLUTIONS How to NOT become a website designer! by Danny Foo

2. Simple and 1337 (leet)

3. ASL Age: 26 Sex: Male (I think) Location: Petaling Jaya Bukit Bintang Boys Secondary School Lim Kok Wing College Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)

4. What I do in Simpleet?

5. Manage projects

6. Talk to clients

7. Get project requirements

8. Research (Galleries)

9. Gallery Examples CSS Remix CSS Import Web Crème Screenalicio.us Konigi And plenty more…

10. Sketches

11. Wireframes

12. Design mockups

13. User experience

14. Know

15. Do

16. Feel

17. Accessibility

18. Compatibility Internet Browser Statistics (June 2009) Internet Explorer 7: 18.7% Internet Explorer 6: 14.9% Internet Explorer 8: 7.1% Mozilla Firefox: 47.3% Google Chrome: 6.0% Apple Safari: 3.1% Opera: 2.1% Modern browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari & Opera) total: 58.5%

19. To Infinity and Beyond!

20. Online Marketing Email campaigns SMS campaigns Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Social Media Online games…etc. Ideas grant you unlimited resources!

21. What now?

22. Flash is evil When: Used only as an entertainment tool. It doesn’t improve the website user experience. Not developed correctly to optimize loading times.

23. Internet Explorer 6 kills “IE 6 is a last-generation browser…Supporting IE 6 means slower progress, less progress, and, in some places, no progress.” Source: 37Signals

24. Tables are NOT for layout Because it does NOT: make your pages load faster lower your hosting costs make your redesigns more efficient and less expensive help you maintain visual consistency throughout your sites get you better search engine results make your sites more accessible to all viewers and user agents Source: http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/03overview.html

25. Criticism are Ideas

26. Thank you!

27. Find me online www.dannyfoo.com/blog Twitter.com/dannyfoo Delicious.com/dannyfoo simpleet.posterous.com www.simpleet.com