1.com.my is pleased to introduce six new blogs that are now available for viewing. These blogs are focused on the world of online business and contains advice, tips, tutorials, experiences, and anything interesting that happens online. From the simple things like selling web domains to the complex issues of setting up an outlook express. Below are the six blogs that contain these and many more items that you may find useful.

The first blog on the list, websitesolution.com, details the many experiences of Earnpin Lee, a member of the 1.com.my team. In this blog, he records down various escapades, foreign and domestic, of just about anything he comes across that has to do with the online world. In it he also offers short and simple advice of how to run online matters in a more appropriate and effective manner. In this blog he also gives his comments on websites he has visited.

In webdesigning.com.my the focus is strictly on the many facets of web design trends. It allows for web designers to share their experiences, artworks, and designs techniques to help spur the creativity and passion in people who have the flair for web designing. It is a blog that is always eager to talk about modern web design trends and any comments or suggestions given will be welcomed.

Emails for some can be a simple as a few clicks, while for others it can be a complicating muddle that involves setting up mail servers, routers, domain names, and what not that is entailed. Emailhosting.com.my is for people who find themselves in either category. It offers tips and tricks to send, receive, and organize emails that people with email related problems may just find useful.

For anyone interested in online marketing, highconversion.org will be a blog of interest to him or her. The blog offers tips and advice on what to do and what not to do to make one’s online marketing experience a positive one.

If you’re a multimedia guy and are interested in successful recipes in flash, multimedia, and print design, then you may want to pay a visit to designrecipes.org. You may bump into some recipes that that you and others will never forget.

No one needs to tell you that technical stuffs make for bad entertainment. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the technical guy is the same. At technicalguy.org readers will find technical language made easy. Be it a web server setup or a configuration of a virtual server, the Technical Guy is there to help.

We are about to launch one of the shortest web superbrand in Malaysia- www.1.my (one dot my).

After a bit of technical glitch at the beginning of the year with the registrar, we are finally awarded the domain name on 15th February 2008. It was a six-year-long wait.

To commemorate this auspicious event, the team has been busy preparing for a new outlook, which will combine our years of experience of building web presence and applying our knowledge in building a highly conversion-able website.

One of the major design considerations is the use of Category or Tagging. This will help readers check out all the issues that is currently discussed at 1.my while also not forgetting issues that are less discussed, but no less important.

Also added this round is a new column that retrieves feeds from our developers’ blogs.

Another feature that we are quite happy with is the new “Contact Us” form, where we put the “Single Contact Point” principle into practice. This basically means that we understand that clients don’t care which channel they are going through, they just need a solution and they need it fast. This new Contact Us page will do just that, let the client specify their reason of contacting us in the shortest steps, and then we’ll do our best to reply them in record time.

All pages are designed in such a way that they are all stand-alone pages, where each pages are independent of one another. In an era where search engines dominated the web traffic, creating successful landing pages becomes a more viable strategy.

With all that said, we do hope that you can give us a piece of your mind on what you think about our latest change!

It’s been a long way since our founder, Mr. Earnpin Lee won the Venture 2002 business plan competition. Jointly organised by the Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM), the Mesdaq Market and McKinsey and Co. Malaysia, the competition drew more than 200 entries. Last week, The Edge Malaysia caught up with some of the finalists to see how they were doing, one of them was 1.com.my.

Initially, we all thought it was a great idea. Then we were short-listed and we went through some of the sessions with the VCs. We listened to what they had to say and some were things that we didn’t think about. Eventually, we realised that the idea was not practical because it would have been too expensive and difficult to implement,” says Lee

Lee did not proceed to implement the idea he and his friend Daniel first initiated. A true-blue entrepreneur, he laughingly confesses that he has never attended a job interview in his life. He knew early in life that he wanted to strike out on his own. Hence, he began taking on freelance web design projects during his university days, and saved up RM30,000 to set up 1.com.my in Dataran Prima immediately after graduation. Aside from that, he lined up projects that would keep him afloat for the first six months of setting up.

“When I first started, I was the only person in the 800 sq ft office with my desk and PC. For the six months or so, I worked, ate and slept in the office,” says Lee

Indeed, success never comes easy. His hardwork is paying off as the company now has a larger premise, and is running an electronic visa system which was designed from ground up for the Cambodian government. To date, feedback about the system has been very encouraging. Currently, 1.com.my is working on a new project that involves advertisement-space booking on all mediums, and is on the lookout for investors to fund the RM1 million project.

Reference: The Edge Malaysia, by Toh Mei Ling

More from Earnpin

Since 2002, we’ve been designing systems that improves bottomlines and efficiency.

With Kumomo.com, we aim to create an ad-space booking platform to match ad space owners with buyers. This project has also helped to build 2 schools in Cambodia.

The Cambodia e-Visa project began since April 2006, and has now served more than 55,000 travelers. We provided our technical expertise and experience in online marketing. Some travelers said that it’s the best in the world ;-)

A4trip.com is a global online guidebook store, where you can purchase the most updated guidebooks online and print them in handy A4/Letter sized formats.

We’ve been actively hiring interns from local Colleges and Universities. Since 2002, we’ve hired more than 20 interns, where some of them stayed around till today.

Web Developer Alliance (WDA) is an initiative to bring together the best talents in Malaysia’s web development industry. WDA facilitates the exchange of expertise and also helps each of the members when it comes to pricing and also to keep track of blaclisted clients. At the moment, we are about 50-member strong.

Over the years, we’ve built web presence for more than 500 companies. Online shopping, Content Management System, Email Marketing, Search Engine Optimization and Customer Relationship Management system, you name it.

We consider email as an integral communication medium when running our business. Hence, we advocate the importance of reliable email hosting to our clients where email is an important tool in the running of their business.

We love listening to feedbacks, especially negative ones. Hence, we love blogging. A blog also allow us to share with you our opinions on various issue concerning web development and how it affects you.