Abdelrahman Osama C.V.

Personal data

First name:
Abdelrahman Osama
Last name:
Abdelwahab
Nationality:
Egyptian
Address:
St.41 No.9 Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt
Mobile:
+20123616914
Email:
ao@point-studios.com

Biography

Abdelrahman Osama maybe the first web designer in the Middle East to make the jump to web standards and start studying and analyzing usability & accessibility issues to be a user experience consultant through his web consultancy firm Point studios.

Before the switch to the standards Abdelrahman has received many awards and worked with brand names since 1999.

Skills

Well about my skills they are many one of them is user experience it means how to make it pleasure for a visitor to visit a web site or use a web app, many factors get under this title

to name a few and all those factors are acheived by complying the web standards, complying web standards doesn't just mean the markup or the CSS have to be valid, no it go a lot more beyond this markup should be semantic and meaningful and better contain microformats when needed. CSS should give perfect results while it is as compact as possible a CSS code can be written to give a specific presentable style but this exact style could also be achieved by a more compact CSS code. I also master browsers hacks to give nearly the same result on all browsers.

Another title I could fit in is technologist, I know a lot about all those new technologies out there.

Web 2.0

Actually as Andy Budd stated Web 2.0 isn't a thing, it's a state of mind a new way of thinking of the web more as a platform in other more clear way it's the transition of web sites to web apps example of that is Basecamp or Backpack , Netvibes.com, meebo.com, Writely.com a lot of dozens of apps that pop ups only this year and a lot of them are bought by Google & Yahoo.

I'm not a developer but I can use developers and maybe one of the API's available and come up with a perfect web 2.0 app that doesn't have to be very complex but have to be very needed, a lot of people develops very simple apps and get rich in less than one year, example of that is Del.icio.us that is bought by Yahoo, rumors says they paid 30 million dollars for it.

AJAX

Well AJAX is something concerns client side and server side, it's main objective is to send a call to a server and get the result back without refreshing the page, I don't know how to implement that but I know how to use it in it's right place.

But if you are speaking about the client side AJAX that is technically not AJAX but it's only Java Script, I use it a lot and I know how to implement it, it's very helpful for enhancing user experience through simply hiding and showing Div's, I used JS in. Kanz.

microformats

microformats are what you can call it extensions to markup to give even more meaning to markup, example of those microformats are the hCard microformat that I use it in my about page. to know more how it is implemented try entering my about page URl in Technorati Contacts Feed Services.

I'm also familiar with XFN microformat, I even developed a technique for showing it.

CMS's

Familiar with templating systems like Blogger, WorldPress & Movable Type.

Branding

I believe I have a great background about branding starting from naming through choosing domain name to the logo and color scheme. I think I'm a great designer but I like simple designs over complicated ones, here are some logos I've designed over the years.

Others

Well I'm familiar with lots of technologies I don't think I mentioned all of them here but some of the other technologies I'm familiar with are RSS and know how to validate it, SEO, Zoom layouts, Liquid layouts, S5 slides & Print CSS try printing any of point pages or this page and see the result.

I believe I have strong project management skills too, I also aware of branding and marketing concepts.

Standards based projects

ausedcar.net

ausedcar.netausedcar.net is a place where you can buy/sell used cars, but it's not like any cars directory, you'll be surprised by how easy and fun it's to use this product, ausedcar.net is the first web app done by point, thanks to Mostafa S. Amin for his great efforts on AJAXing the whole thing letting it more pleasure and easy to use.

Rules:

visit site

FRESH PX
Screen shot of FRESH PX home page

As you know the number of blogs around the web are exploding there are over 20 million or maybe 50 million blogs out there and its increasing dramatically.

As you know also a blog is an affordable way for individuals to share there ideas and opinions, It is free while using blogger or WP and cheap while using MT etc...

But the missing side is DESIGN. Every blogger like to have a different look to his blog that reflects his personality also in an affordable way. If we are speaking about blogger it already have 30 fantastic designs, but aren't 30 designs very few for this huge number of blogs I mean if you choose one of them your blog look will not be that different.

So we came up with the idea to create a blog templates store with low prices maybe 5$ or 10$ per template. FRESH PX is a mid point between web designers and millions of bloggers.

Take a look on the Test home page or the test DCP.

Rules:
Freestyler template for FRESH PX
Screen shot of Freestyler template

A blogger template the first template made for FRESH PX utilizes some of the CSS neat tricks and I think it suites youth who want to express there opinions freely on the web.

Preview template

Magna Carta Solutions

Click on the document icon to activate style

Magna Carta Solutions is a Social housing job board in the UK, in a country were accessibility guide lines are the law a big organization like this can't risk to build a web site unless it is fully accessible beside the highly usable & professionally looking interface the client approve my suggestion on adding a zoom layout that you can see if you click on the lens icon.

Rules:
Kanz

Kanz is a manufacturer of fabulous hand made leather products. They needed a web site that is highly usable and user centered for every user wether he is an advanced user or even technology illiterate can use the site functionalities and buy there products. There is an arabic version of the site too that may be one of the first properly marked up arabic pages.

Due to the high rank in search engines that Kanz has reached the company sales has increased enormously and started exporting to foreign countries.

visit site

Under construction projects

Non-standards projects

Here is a list of old projects I've done through my working experience.

Awards
  1. Golden Web Awards 2003-2004Golden Web Awards 2003-2004 from the International Association of Web Masters and Designers (I.A.W.M.D) for point studios site (the old one).
  2. Visual DesignerVisual Designer for point studios site (the old one).
  3. DESIGN FIRMS Award Winner 05-06Design Firms award 05-06 with score of 92 out of 99 for Yasser Gaessa website.
  4. Design Firms award 05-06 with score of 95 out of 99 for Explore Egypt website.

Training

I run 3 training courses for beginners & professional web designers about web standards, and I was an instructor of Flash MX (action script) & Photoshop 7 in New horizons computer learning center few years ago.

You might like also to read about web standards or even read more about standards, or you might like to read my blog and see some of my thoughts

If you need any additional information please contact me.