Tell us your reasons for wanting to work at innocent and the role in question. Why is this the right job for you?

I practice high level of work ethics when dealing with my clients (as I currently do freelance web design/development). I will always try to deliver solution that meet or even exceed the requirement whenever necessary.

I always believe that these qualities are essential to work with established company such as innocent – in order to deliver the best towards the customer.

We love meeting people who leave things a bit better than they find them. So, please tell us about a recent situation where you took the initiative and made something happen.

I believe that even small things can make a big difference. I used to help my parents at the school canteen where I learn to clean the tables and floor. Having this experience, it teaches me to think twice before leaving my plates on the table for people to clean it for me.

Although I am not expected to do so, I understood the tiring work behind the cleaning process. Especially when the food tables and floor are dirty. Thus, having this in mind, I will always try to make sure I take my plate to the required place (if available) and pick up any leftover on the table.

At the end of the day, “What Goes Around Comes Around”.

We’re looking for people who face challenges head on and deliver against the odds. What achievement are you most proud of?

In 2009, I entered the Business Idea competition, in which the competition was similar to BBC Dragons’ Den. I have sent my business proposal for the competition, however, there was no reply that I received regarding my entry. Despite that, I made myself available in London – I took the bus from Cardiff to London.

On the day itself, around 10am, I made an assumption that my entry was rejected. Thus, I have no other thing to do other than enjoying myself in London – sight seeing. Around 11am, I received a phone call from a friend of mine asking why I was not there yet? I have just been informed that I was one of the finalist, but they could not sent the feedback due to some technical issues.

Although I am not wearing suit and tie for the presentation, but I start my presentation with these lines, “I beg your pardon for my attire. If you watch The Pursuit of Happyness, then my case is quite similar to Will Smith in the story…”

I was awarded the Special Judge Prize for my business idea and presentation. I am proud of it because I found myself holding the same principle through out my life – never quit!

Photo credit – humpalumpa

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Like previous Trydan meeting, I have shared about four website links and a video mainly on time management, photography and design. This time, I believe it is more about website platform and a bit of news from me. I hope you will find it useful!

// elgg

elgg is a professional social intranet platform that allow you to build a website which enable your visitors to register and utilize the features available on elgg platform. It is an open source platform meaning that it is free and you can modify it as you wish. I had never officially try this platform but I will spare sometime to give it a go and maybe design a template for elgg.

// Joomla

Joomla is an award winning CMS platform thus no doubt many people are using them for managing websites. Lately, I have also involved with re-designing a website on Joomla platform as well as modifying codes. Personally, it is fun!

Anyway, Joomla is great because of the modules that it offers. With certain modules that you implement to the platform, you can evolve a website to become an event booking sites, e-commerce and social networking sites. It is also open source! I am looking forward to carry out few design project using Joomla if it is the right platform to use.

// WordPress

I have been praising WordPress so much that I feel like spamming to put it here. Yet, they deserve a mention. Being free and yet so powerful are the main reasons why I love it so much. CNN, Ford, Wired and The NYT have been using WordPress for their website platform and you can’t be more serious than that (or at least you cannot be wrong!).

Looking on the perspective of a web designer/developer, if my client would love to have a paid publishing platform, I am more than happy to point out ExpressionEngine or Light CMS. Easy?

// Portfolios

Portfolios is commercial photography and illustration showcase which is going to be held in London on the 9th and 10th June 2009. I might not be able to make it because I have signed up for the Business Start-up Week (8th -11th June 09) organized by Cardiff University.

Anyway, I am going to bid farewell to all because I will be going back to Malaysia on the 20th of June for the summer break. I am sure going to miss all of the people that I have met. After two years living in this lovely country, I believe it is good to have a time out and spend some time in with your family and old friends. I hope to be back on the 30th September. Take care and hope to seeing you later! Bye!

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That is what I did. I have been using it to save enormous amount of useful links and tips. I went to the twitter meet up where you actually meet the people behind their username. I have been blamed because of using magpie for testing my followers reaction and even had a haircut for free with it. And I’m still running with the ball.

Today, businesses have been using twitter and surprisingly a cat now has a twitter account, and tweet – apart from the 104 years old lady who joined the twitter adventure! So, if that is their story now it is my turn. This is how twitter has smashed my life, once and for all.

One night, I have found myself really obsessed with twitter. I didn’t really know much about twitter search but that night, I tried. I searched for “twitter wordpress help” just to see if there is much going on. I was a bit free at that time and happy to help others. So, whoever needs help, I will just send a reply message to them using @(their twitter name).

That is where it all begins…

I had a conversation with Julien Sharp of Stylo Creative regarding the problem she had while trying to integrate twitter using a WordPress plugin. I remembered that I have the same problem before so I stayed up a bit longer that night hoping that I could do something before I went to sleep. After I have identified the problem, I have suggested her to use twitter widgets meaning that it will request the twitter status straight away from the twitter server and not depending on our website server. The methodology illustrated below.

We had a skype conversation on implementing the codes. Prior to the conversation, I have shown Julien that the code supplied by twitter is working and unless twitter is down (fail whale). Everything runs smoothly and we were really happy. On similar occasion, people say that I will gain big time and I hope I will. Few days ago, I have just done with one design project and received a praise for it. I am really glad and looking forward to collaborate more with people. All because of twitter.

In this life, if you believe in what you love doing and you work hard on it because you love it, the luck will come eventually. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but one day it will. All you need is to be patient. Now I’ve put my ball down and pass it on to you. I am not stopping here but I would like you to start embracing this opportunity. Get it?

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Why name tag?

I have read a book by Audy Bounds, The Jelly Effect and in this books he said that there are three things that you need to bring to a networking event – business card, pen and a name tag.

I don’t want to talk about networking here instead I would like to share with you the name tag template that I have created and used during the Ignite Cardiff on the 8th March 2009.

Download the PSD file – 600KB

How to use it?

• Download the PSD file above.
• Modify as you wish – Change the font*, colour, etc.
• Print and cut trim it accordingly.
• Wear it proudly!

*I use VAG Round for the @mohdrafie and Graphic & Web Designer.

How does it actually look like?

It is pretty simple but I am sure you are going to love it. Yup, on the right is me.

Can I use other twitter birds?

Of course, help yourself. Below are few links to other website that design twitter birds and you can use download and use it.

• 8 Free cute and simple twitter bird vector graphics by SpoonGraphics
• Function free icon set by function
• It’s twitter time by Productive Dreams
• Twitter bird logo by Vector Art

If you don’t like any of them, you can create your own twitter bird by following the tutorial from VectorTuts.

Before you go, it would be great if you could:

• provide a link back towards this page.
• share your picture if you use it.
• and tweet about it!

Thank you very much and happy tweeting!

Follow me on twitter

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Below are two similar design that I have produced last night. I’ve submitted both design just in case they didn’t accept the WPTWITWOOT which have the modified WordPress logo on the design.

Why WordPress?

WordPress has been revolutionized from being a blogging platform to become a publishing platform that is robust enough to let designers and developers focus on the aesthetics, web standards, and usability of a website. There are so many designers, developers (plug-ins) and supporters of WordPress and the community is growing day by day.

Why Twitter?

Tweet… tweet… What is twitter? It’s a micro-blogging platform that let you update your status (like the Facebook status). It’s not to say everyone would like to know what you are doing, but sometimes it is quite useful (I even get a free haircut by using twitter). Chris Pirillo said that, “If you hate twitter, it’s like you hate the cloud. They never do anything to you but you still hate them.” If you are on twitter, you can follow me on twitter – @mohdrafie.

Why WooThemes?

WooThemes is a place where you can find the cutting edge WordPress template. Well, you might just want to check out their themes because I can bet that you are going to love them! just transferred this design competition to 99designs and I will not let my ‘bird’ fly there. I might sell this design though. For more info, please contact me.

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