If you are in Malaysia, I’m sure you’ve heard of Chef Ismail or his space venturing partner, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar.
Maxhosting.com.my is proud to sponsor the hosting of their restaurant’s, Rebung.com.my, web hosting plan. The actual site was developed and designed by Irfan Khairi’s team.

Rebung is located in Bangsar, KL and has awesome authentic Malay food. Check it out for yourself.

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Wordpress adalah blog/content publishing system yang paling popular dan senang untuk digunakan. Lagi2 ia adalah percuma dan terdapat pelbagai plugin untuk pengunaan masing2. Berikut adalah pilihan top 10 kami di Maxhosting:

1. Google XML Sitemaps

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.

2. All in One SEO Pack

Optimizes your Wordpress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization)

3. WP-Cache

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and

4. Viper’s Video Quicktags

Allows easy and XHTML valid posting of YouTube, Google Video, Stage6, IFILM, Metacafe, MySpace, FLV, Quicktime, and generic video files into posts.

5. Lightbox JS v2.03.3 Plugin

Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups. Also check out out post on videobox here.

6. cforms II - contact form

cforms II is an extremely customizable, flexible & powerful contact form plugin. A plugin we implemented on kevin zahri’s contact page

7. Google Analyticator

Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics. Allows you to track stats and much much more.

8. Share This

Share This is a plugin that provides an unobtrusive way for your visitors to add your post to various social bookmarking sites, or send a link via e-mail. Great to get your sites linked to more sites.

9. SimpleFlickr

This plugin allows you to embed a Simpleviewer Flash Object integrated with a Flickr account. For Picasa users go here.

10. Popularity Contest Which of your posts/pages are most popular? Make sure they are visible at all times.

Looking for more great wordpress plugins. Check the following links:

• Official Wordpress Plugin Page
• Smashing Magazine Wordpress Plugin Guide
• WORDPRESS GOD: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog

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Most of us have heard of Lightbox, a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page….but it only supports images….until there was VideoBox.

Now Videobox is a 6kb script, which allows you to show your videos in Lightbox. It’s written for the wonderful mootools library. And used swfobject to embed flash. It has done a really great job, if you would like to show your videos in the page with an overlay, Videobox is a really great choice.

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Showcase: WanZurina.com

We just completed another small website for one of our client, wanzurina.com. Some of the site’s highlights:

• No Tables. Pure CSS XHTML
• Ajax Contact Us Form

Check out wanzurina.com. If you like what you see, do visit our web design services.

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We had an earlier post “10 tips to drive people to your website” which received many positive responses. Due to the popularity of the post, we would like to expand the article to include a basic guide on how to effectively market and promote your website. Enjoy!

So where do you begin when attracting more customers or clients is your goal?

In a word…marketing.

Effective marketing is what brings customers to you.

A dependable, consistent marketing plan and implementation system delivers customers efficiently, on a regular basis, and for a much lower investment than the hit-and-miss methods many business owners attempt.

Acquiring new customers and then keeping them for life is what it’s all about.

Ideally, it should be a matter of delivering superior products and service, then renewing the sales relationship with each new customer, so they buy over and over again and… are happy to do so.

With this kind of customer satisfaction, you’ll not only turn one-time buyers into lifetime customers, you’ll also automatically gain many more first-time customers by word-of- mouth referrals.

Business success begins with the first-time customer.

Unless you already have a large list of customers… your primary focus should be in the area of attracting more and more first-timers, on an ongoing basis.

As always, if you need assistance on how to conduct a successful marketing campaign, we at Maxhosting are more than happy to assist. You are welcomed to contact us here.

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