About Me, the Website, and Legal Stuff You Might Want to Read

Simon Ong is a 20 something project designer for a prestigeous architectural firm. A Graduate of Architecture at Far Eastern University. One of the BEST schools offering architecture in the Philippines.

He’s been interested in architecture since high school, and took it seriously when he entered college. Simon’s been working as a freelancer during college days, using his knowledge in CAD to create, edit/revise construction drawings for individuals who seeks a CAD operator to do their job within a limited time.

His time revolves in work, family and his girlfriend, hobbies include designing (web and architecture), playing video games, sudoku (he’s an addict!) watching TV, or maybe grab the guitar and play, if he’s not working or not doing anything at all, expect him to be on his cellphone talking to his girlfriend .

Web design became his hobby when he started learning about the Internet. He used to do things with tables, but when he was introduced to CSS, Simon got hooked on it and up to know it is still a learning process. For the past two years, he’s been using the power of XHTML/CSS to create websites and help others to learn CSS as well.

Copyright

All contents, whether text, image, audio, video, etc. are owned and maintained by Simon Ong, unless stated otherwise. No portion of this website can be used in part or as a whole, manipulated in other form, or copied partially or “as is” without any permission from him. If you want to use anything that is seen here on the website, you can send Simon a message regarding this matter. The official theme of this website is not available to be used in any website not owned by Simon Ong.

About The Site

He started with a blog called “In A Different Perspective”, hosted under Blogger. This was his first attempt in web design and he literally suck at it . Simon then got a free hosting account at FH-Net, there he began to learn more about web design and started using WordPress as his primary blog software. After FH-Net shutted down, Simon got another free account on another web hosting company but later decided to get a paid hosing at Philhosting.net. From there he carried on his own name, Simon Ong. This is the third version of the website, which he decided to run fully using WordPress. It’s his first attempt to fully utilize the power of WordPress to work as a full blown CMS and not just a blogging software alone.

This layout (Version 3.1), was launched April 2008, updated (v3.1.1) on June 2008.

About the Blog

The blog section covers all entries made since November 2007. Entries before that were already archived. Uploading them online is still taken into consideration. Some of the entries made are in PRIVATE mode, it means that the entries cannot be viewed by everybody, except given permission by Simon Ong. Only registered users can view the entire blog section. If you want to register, you can sign-up to the register section on this website by clicking this link or look for the register link somewhere in this website.

Accessibility

This website’s design and layout, as much as possible, was made to be as accessible as possible for everybody with or without disabilities.

TEXT SIZE

You can easily change font size to view the text properly:

For Internet Explorer:
View > Text Size > Smallest / Small / Medium / Larger / Largest

For Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape:
View > Text Size > Increase or Decrease

For Safari:
View > Make Text Bigger / Normal Size / Smaller

IMAGES

Images have corresponding ALT texts, can be easily used by people with disabilities.

W3C COMPLIANT

Simon Ong made sure that the website is designed and maintained with accordance to the standards mandated by W3C. Since the site requires to be dynamic because of the blog section, the site undergoes monthly XHTML/CSS validations provided by W3C to ensure that everything is in compliance with web standards.