PPS and Merdeka…!

Welcome, people to Project Petaling Street’s new face…

PPS screenshot on 31 Aug 05

It has been hinted for quite some time, that another addition to the blog-tal will be made. I wasn’t sure if PPS RSS had already been incorporated last time, but I suppose the whole idea now is more organized compared to previous. With PPS Wiki and PPS Directory, I hope the convenience is there. (I remember searching for info all over PPS page, clicking one link after another… and also missing out on someone’s blog until he pings again next…)

I agree with him that the 5 main link pages should have somewhat similar look and feel to them. Looking at the front page though, I began to think back the reason I’ve visited PPS all that too often- to access the latest blog entries. Sure, many features were lacking then, for example a blog directory (which exists now) or an archive (will there be?), but it takes 2 clicks now to access all those new pings… And where are the resident, like jeffooi and sixthseal and so forth? I would certainly like to have a glance at their blog first at the ping page before going there. Finally, it’s not all that easy to navigate across the pages, say, from PPS Ping to PPS Directory…

With this new face, it seems like PPS is no longer only a ‘ping’-ing portal, but serves to promote itself…

Somewhat reminded me of this.

And btw, Selamat Hari Jadi Malaysia. 42 atau 48? Walau apapun, umur sudah cukup tua ya? ;)



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  1. Comment by kcyap | 2005/08/31 at 12:14:16

    yeah it had changed. yesterday when i step into it i tot something is wrong with the page or being hacked but when i refresh for a few times i just know it had been changed. This would be much better

  2. Comment by Edrei | 2005/08/31 at 13:06:30

    Wait a minute…how does promoting itself relate to Wordpress.com?

  3. Comment by andre | 2005/08/31 at 13:32:44

    I’m not referring to the act of self-promoting per se, but on how I see that PPS has ’spread’ itself up. Both are perhaps heading in quite different directions though, thus ’somewhat’ reminded me…

  4. Comment by Edrei | 2005/08/31 at 13:54:43

    Oh…that makes much more sense now.

  5. Comment by dannyFoo | 2005/08/31 at 14:51:43

    I’m going to try and help out Aizuddin by introducing a new layout that would help PPS stay as the blogtal of Malaysia yet manage to introduce the newer services. Hopefully with that, it’ll solve issues of usability and needs the PPS homepage requires. :)

    I do agree with the point of where has the Jeff Ooi pings and all gone. I’ll try and solve that need later.

    Please leave more feedback or needs at my blog later. Cheers.


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