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Archive for October, 2009

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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