I learned AutoCAD just by watching my dad while he was working at our family computer. At 9 years old I made myself a drawing and showed it to my parents, they were totally surprised because the dad didn’t reminded to make that!
If you are architect, interior designer, real estate agent or data provider, I can post your banner on my website and/or I can refer you leads.
I started a thread in Google Product Forums, hoping a little volunteer help. But, instead of answering my questions and telling me what is the real cause of Google Penalty and how to fix it possible issues/mistakes, the “helpers” used all possible words to make me guilty for all mistakes that I done and said that I deserve being penalized, bad words against me, against my website and business… this made ANGRY one of the visitors of my website, who joined me and posted the following RUDE message towards “helpers”.
A collaboration with an established company would have helped me, but I did not had any such offer until was… TOO LATE.
Personally I define BLOG the ones where a person write their diaries (web log > weB LOG), so my one should be called WEBSITE, but many people referred me as “this blogger have…” , “found on his blog“.
I have on website numerous photographs that are not made by me, all them are LINKED to their original source. Some people suggested to stop linking images from other websites and upload them on my own account instead. Is this a copyright issue?
“I did not click chat because it looks a bit like commercial or spam so I was careful” what does this mean???
I always wanted to interact with visitors, to exchange knowledge, make new friends with similar interests and get feedback about my works and products. For long time I did not know who visit my website and what they think about my projects, because I could not interact with visitors unless they were emailing me. I was not aware that knew that this is possible to chat directly with visitors, until January 2012 when I discovered SnapEngage. Since May 2012 I moved to Zopim Chat and made first sale.
Please don’t consider these cases as lost customers or failure in customer services. Most of these people not interested in my services, but just browsing multiple websites for ideas and free house plans. They may have found something better in another website and forgot me. But some of them are still funny how they asked for help from me then gone away…
What is wrong with this guy???
Map of HDB blocks colored by construction year is one of most popular projects I made on this website, but some people asked me to recolor map by number of floors.
During 2 days I got 4 chats from SAME IP located in Australia, first time gave me a BAD impression of a child making PRANKS claiming that is a diplomat and his parents are living North Korea. Next day said that is from a construction company and want to do business with me, and yesterday person was “a colleague”. Would you take this in serious?
If anyone knows where I can find list of childcare centres please tell me! I had at least 2 people contacting me and asking the same, while Elvin never answered me at emails to say where he managed to find the list in another website.
Most visitors of this website are ADULTS, some of them businessmen, respectful people that knows to start a chat with me ONLY IF you want to buy something, pay a service, or need a professional consultation.
But a small number of visitors are kids, especially the Housing around the World section seems to be popular among American school children looking for information about other countries for their school paper. This small number of kids cause a huge nuisance.
Every day, I am contacted by few people from Singapore for info about HDB and chit-chat, I am also contacted by people all around the world for architecture / CAD design services. I differentiate customers by chit-chatters by the way they address me and by what pages they click. Look how THIS guy is addressing me!! Sometimes I mistreat chit-chatters as potential customers, but could be this a potential customer, mistreat as chit-chatter and lost?
If you need a little help how to create, improve or optimize a website, feel free to contact me!
If you need someone to create a website from scratch and maintain it full-time in your place, then I am NOT the right person.
Warning: this article is OUTDATED (written 2011-2012), it no longer reflect current situation. Live Messenger was discontinued in 2013 and users transferred on the shitty Skype, Yahoo Messenger was also discontinued in 2016, leaving only Google Talk.
Warning: this article is outdated (written in 2011, last update 2013), it no longer reflect current situation.
See first HDB floor plans (100 most common layouts) if you did not saw arleady. I created this additional page to post less common layouts… Read More »HDB floor plans rare layouts
After days of learning, Octoparse allowed me to create new databases by scraping websites that require user to click buttons or enter text, which was not possible with Import.io, but I had also projects done with import.io that cannot be done with Octoparse.
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Given by the success of Map of HDB blocks made for Singapore in September 2017, I started in January 2018 a similar project for Romania. By end-2022 the database contains over 32,000 buildings, being complete for Bucharest plus 7 of the 40 countries of Romania. In 2022 I bought a domain name dedicated to this project: www.hartablocuri.ro.
I decided to publish these stuff here so everyone can see what creative talents I had during my 1990s childhood before the era of computers and internet (especially today kids who spent most of time on mobile phones and computers, playing games, Facebook, Instagram, etc).
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My HDD crashed on 1 October 2019, despite of paying $330 to data recovery company, the loss of data was significant and this incident forced me to STOP taking new projects for next 3 months to get back on track with existing projects.
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