KOH KHO KING

ShaShinKi.com Design Version 2

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT, Photography.

I have again spent my last weekend in updating the design of ShaShinKi.com, trying to give a more advance and elegant look to it.

The homepage or door to ShaShinKi.com store is still the same. The major changes is the shop part.

In my initial design theme, the main colour is black, with gradient grey and white. My wife said that it is not so good to make the website looks so dark, so I change the background to something more refreshing, but not too bright or unfriendly for the eyes.

I chose red as the main colour of the background, not the bright eye piercing red but dark elegant red. I want the feel of big curtain in an orchestra hall, presenting the store of ShaShinKi.com to the world.

Here’s a thumbnail view of the site:

Besides the background, I have also changed the infobox bar colour to something more 3D and also enlarging the font so that it can be read easier.

http://shashinki.com/shop/nikon-full-frame-digital-12mp-live-view-9fps-p-1167.html

Search ShaShinKi.com for photography products

Posted on April 20th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT, Photography.

Search ShaShinKi.com for photography products - Cameras, Lenses, Accessories…

Testing to see if the codes will work or not.

Update: Yes, it works!

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New Product Page Design at ShaShinKi.com

Posted on April 14th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT, Photography.

I spent the last weekend in redesigning the product page at ShaShinKi.com, I am pretty happy and satisfied with the results…so here to share with you all my excitement.
I have always wanted to make the product page more user friendly, clearer and easier to browse. With my limited knowledge in php, I have to spend extra time to try and error.:P

Here’s the results:

What are the changes?

1. Product image has moved from right to left.

2. Bigger product image (250 x 250px) now, give clearly view of the product.

3. Clear listing of Brand, Category, Model #, Stock Status, Price and Quantity selection.

4. For product/s with Option, it will be shown below the Price before Quantity.

5. Boxed Picture. Personally I find this makes the image neater to show.

6. Brand name Clickable, to browse products under the same brand.

7. Added a title bar “Product” to the right column of the product page.

I hope this gives a better shopping experience to my customers at ShaShinKi.com. You can see the actual product page in action at:

Happy shopping!

Digital Camera Focus Accuracy Test Method - INDEPTH FOCUS TEST

Posted on March 20th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Photography.

After testing over hundreds of lenses…I have come out with a focus test method that I felt is most convincing to myself. I call it:

INDEPTH FOCUS TEST

There are many focus test chart flying around in the internet, I have printed out some and test them using my Nikon D200 DSLR. However, I found those test chart to be NOT ACCURATE, as it mainly influenced by the position and accuracy of the focus sensor of your DSLR. Some DSLR tends to focus on the subject that is of higher contrast or nearer to the sensor. Some differs.

In order to eliminate the camera focusing sensor position “error”, I developed the INDEPTH Focus Test method, there the camera focus sensor will have no problem in locking focus onto the target, and can give accurate focus photo for evaluation.

Below is how I tested lenses that I ordered for my customers at ShaShinKi.com.

Put two cards (with wordings, eg. namecard, so that you can check sharpness of the wordings later) on your table, one with a lens cap at the bottom so that it is around 1cm higher than the other. Focus on the lower card and take a shot (make sure your shutter speed is above 1/200s, or use flash to freeze motion). Take another shot with focus on the upper card.

Distance between card is around 5mm, separated by a lens cap.

When you focus on Card A, Card B should be blurred (out of focus).

When you focused on Card B, Card A should be blurred (out of focus).

Check the sharpness of both shots. It should show sharp on your focused card and blur on the opposite one. Same as the second shot.

Repeat the above test at different focal length if your lens is a zoom.

After the close distance test, try take a few shots at infinity or far distance. Again, choose a subject which have some clear wordings on it so that you can check the sharpness and clarity on your camera LCD screen later.

If your lens is good, all should be sharp.

(Updated on 20th March 2008 with picture. A picture is worth a thousand words…)

New Ads Design for ShaShinKi.com

Posted on March 15th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Photography.

I just did a new ads design for ShaShinKi.com.

230 x 260 pixels - 100kb

Yeah, it is a GIF animation ads. Linking to of course ShaShinKi.com.

I do hope to learn FLASH ads in future, but at the moment I have no idea of experience with FLASH…so can only stick to animated GIF or JPEG.

Comments welcome for the improvement of the ads design.

Tamron SP 17-50mm F2.8 A16 for Pentax KA!

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Photography.

Yes, finally…eventually…at last…

Tamron has release the SP 17-50mm F2.8 lens in Pentax K mount! Don’t believe it? Here’s the photos of the stock that I have already received!

There is a “for PENTAX” wording on the box. Click to view in larger size.

Can’t lie now… see the rear lens with Pentax design/pins on it.

New ShaShinKi.com ads banner at PhotoMalaysia.com

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Family.

I have just edited and uploaded a new ShaShinKi.com ads banner advertised at PhotoMalaysia.com.

I just love the red…very pleasing red to me…

Malaysia General Election on 8th March 2008

Posted on March 6th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Malaysia.

Just a few more day…Malaysia will held its 12th general election on th 8th March 2008.

Too bad I am in Japan now…can’t vote. I did call to the embassy in Japan, the person in charge said that I need to register as oversea voter with them few months earlier before I can vote. Not sure how true it is…

To remind all my visitors and ShaShinKi.com customers, I have created a special banner/logo at ShaShinKi.com:

Vote for your country…vote wisely.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/02/19/toshiba.hdd/index.html

Toshiba quits HD-DVD

Posted on February 20th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Computer / IT.

Yes…this might be the hottest news in the technology world recently. Toshiba has announced that they are officially quiting the HD-DVD format, leaving few others players behind.

In case you are wondering…this it the world for the next generation high storage DVD format, between HD DVD and Blu-Ray (Sony).

Toshiba’s HD DVD is backed by Paramount, Universal Pictures, Microsoft, Sanyo, and NEC.

Sony’s Blu-ray is backed by Disney, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Dell, Panasonic, and Philips.

In Japan, the TV news even conduct a very comprehensive war analysis between the two formats…but my memory not so good to remember all. In summary, Sony Blu-Ray seems to have more promising future, with HD DVD dying slowly. PlayStation 3 is definitely playing big help in promoting Blu-Ray format.

You can read CNN news on Toshiba quiting the HD DVD format at:

It is a small world…

Posted on February 20th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Family.

My sister’s friend, Louis, who happened to browse ShaShinKi.com few days ago only found out that I am the brother of his friend’s Adeline (my sister) last night. My sisters and nieces visited his house for CNY gathering.

This is the shot that they took last night.

I can see ShaShinKi.com on the monitor screen. Thanks Louis for emailing me this photo.

(Sis, you seems pretty tired…please take care of yourself. May God bless you and protect you, and give you peace. In Jesus name I prayed. Amen.)

诺诺的一天(中)

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Family.

中午时分，我们到楼下Saijo Plaza的Yumemokuba去玩。原来离上次来时已有两个月了！里面真的好好玩，不信你你进去看一看。。。

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Valentine Dinner…

Posted on February 14th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Foong Can Cook.

What I have for dinner tonight…

1. Fried fish

2. Tauhu

3. Chicken soup

4. Tauke

Did not take photo of 3 and 4…already too late as they are now in my stomach…

Happy Valentine!

Duck drumstick…

Posted on February 12th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Foong Can Cook.

This is my dinner tonight…Yummy!

Side view…

Not clear enough? How about a top closeup?

Trust me…it is DELICIOUS!

(my wife said don’t post online…nanti paiseh people said she showed off…but still I think it is good to blog about something my wife did for me everyday… )

Foong Can Cook!

Posted on February 12th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Foong Can Cook.

Today is the new opening of a new corner at my blog…

Foong Can Cook

Cooking is my wife’s favorite…or strength. So I thought why not create a special category so that she can share her cooking in the blog?!

Hope will benefit some…but of course…don’t get envy…because all the food you saw in this FCC are in my stomach by the time you read this…

Here’s one that I enjoy just now for my dinner…

What is it? It probably has become shit now …but let me tell you…it is delicious sweet and sour fried bone meat. There are some potato wedges in the sweat and sour sos, very delicious. We did not mix the meat with the sos, as it will kill the crispiness of the meat. When serving, dip the meat into the sos and consume it. Yummy!

I will let my wife explain more in future…now need to go do some “business”…

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Megumi Show again…

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Family.

(Text below are typed by KhoKing…but are from the bottom of Lydia’s heart…)

This is my hubby…I love him very much…he is very handsome…see my baby agree also…

Megumi’s Show…

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Family.

My wife uploaded the photos of Megumi in the Chinese New Year shirt today, so I must blog about it a little and let them see the light!

My wife said the shirt is so nice…so must show more.

My wife is wearing her Chinese *New* Year cloth too…

Statistics

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

I installed WordPress.com Stats few weeks ago, it is an official blog statistics software by Wordpress, which I find it easy to install and use.

It is good to know how busy or popular your blog is, by studying the statistics.

Here’s the statistic of my blog for the last one week…average around 100 visitors per day…hmm…quite low. Anyway, that’s not my purpose of blogging (just want to have a place to release some of my thought from the little brain).

I got quite addicted to blog recently…thinking of starting a forum to discuss about blog (installing, features sharing, promoting…etc.). However, no time for it at the moment…and the burden is going to be quite a lot maintaining a site…so let’s keep it aside first.

(Got another project in mind at the moment…)

BlogMalaysia - Update

Posted on February 11th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Blog.

Just did some update to BlogMalaysia.com.

There are around 0~3 new bloggers sign up to BlogMalaysia.com daily. Yeah, sometimes it is 0…

I noticed that some bloggers are using reciprocal link of BlogMalaysia.com at their website, which is good. However, the previous reciprocal link is just text of BlogMalaysia.com, which is hard to notice…not so presentable…so I did some modification and added the below codes today:

<p><a href=”http://BlogMalaysia.com/”><img src=”http://blogmalaysia.com/images/reciprocal.gif” alt=”BlogMalaysia.com” border=”0″></a></p>

The above codes will show the reciprocal link and picture below:

So…what do you think? Better huh?

Nike Air Force 180 Premium 25th Anniversary Shoes

Posted on February 10th, 2008 by KhoKing.
Categories: Rojak.

My brother in law asked about this shoe today…I thought it is kinda interesting and nice. Seems pretty cheap at ebay, less thanUS$100, while it is selling at over US$300 in Japan!

Descriptions

Nike celebrates Finish Line’s 25th Anniversary with an exclusive collection like no other. Inspired by athletic achivement and iconic moments of the last few decades, they’ve blended performance with style, unique materials and color together with stories that have shaped both companies times. Each shoe in this exclusive collection is about dreams becoming reality and athletes becoming heroes. Charles Barkley and his team dominated the court in Nike Air Force 180 shoes to become legends. Draped in red, white, blue and gold, this premium hoops shoe is about to conquer the court fo a second time.

Shipping from USA to Japan is a hefty US$40 charged by the ebay seller…more than 50% of the selling price…hmm…total will be around US$120…hmm…I don’t wear sport shoe actually. Need to think again…and again…and again…