Web Design Bureau of Mauritius' best posts of 2009
A look on the posts that made it great for the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius over the past year 2009. Great outcome and nice previsions for 2010.
Archive for 2009
18/12/2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Speed up your web pages via the CSS file.
Here is a small but useful tutorial on how to publish your CSS file to reduce your page loading time.
15/12/2009 | 2 comments | View Post
Why will web design clichés stay forever?
Web design is pimped with trends… actually they are more like clichés than anything else. How will these carry on renewing for ever? Simple, through Web design showcases.
18/11/2009 | 0 comments | View Post
When form follows function in Web design.
You’ve integrated the concept of SEO and beautiful, hype web designing, now integrate this one: people buy products and services, not search engines! The need to have functional websites is getting more important.
16/11/2009 | 2 comments | View Post
…and there were books.
I do read a lot of books. There’s a story to this habit. Not the most enthralling one maybe but a really informative one if you read how it came to be like this.
06/11/2009 | 10 comments | View Post
I increased my traffic by 179%, find out how.
How I increased this site’s traffic by 179% and what are the benefits in the long run.
06/11/2009 | 6 comments | View Post
Transforming the visitor into a customer.
Call to action buttons are really important and are efficient tools to make a site sell its goods. These are not really present in the Mauritian Web design context. So here is a review, with an example of how such a button can be implemented in a site.
02/11/2009 | 6 comments | View Post
The Mauritian in me.
Some ramblings on my growing up in the small village of Cottage in Mauritius. How we saw the “foreign” Mauritians, those who lived abroad and how I feel about it now.
29/10/2009 | 36 comments | View Post
Are your site's images carrying the right message?
Choosing the wrong image to illustrate a concept on a page can be a drawback to a site’s conversion rate. Here is an example and its analysis. How to and why choose each page’s image carefully.
27/10/2009 | 4 comments | View Post
Tweet me, tweet you.
Are you really into Twitter? What are your feelings on this tool. I have a love and hate affair with it but hey, its one of those things that rule the web world, isn’t it? Why I like Twitter and what makes me hate it.
20/10/2009 | 6 comments | View Post
Improve the quality of Adsense ads.
Sometimes the Adsense ads published on a website are completely foreign to the content of the site. Here is a way to improve the quality of Adsense ads published on your website.
14/10/2009 | 4 comments | View Post
Community managers: the new kids on the block.
Community Management might just be the new dream job for the coming generations. Find out how an online community manager works and how things are moving on in the Mauritian context.
13/10/2009 | 7 comments | View Post
Are Mauritians that bad at design?
Mauritians can’t be that bad at designing. How come a European company designs the Mauritian logo and does its branding?
12/10/2009 | 9 comments | View Post
Working out of the agency.
Many a web designer out there hold blogs telling you how they made the move and stepped off the web design agency hook to go full freelance. These experiences are great and offer you an overview of the alternate career you could be leading if you’re in the web design industry.
My experience is rather different. [...]
08/10/2009 | 7 comments | View Post
What Mauritian companies are missing on the web : the DCDM example.
I had a discussion with a Mauritian blogger yesterday who was explaining that no Mauritian company has really undergone a major advertising policy change to invest in online ads. Sure there are some communication agencies that would surely pay some rupees to get their clients on L’Express‘ site but none really has an aggressive online [...]
01/10/2009 | 7 comments | View Post
Easy Adsense inclusion with WordPress shortcode.
Inserting Google Adsense code can be a real ordeal. Here’s how to do it magically in 1 line (and even in 1 word) in your blog posts.
28/09/2009 | 5 comments | View Post
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