Working in one’s dream job.
Ever had a dream of doing a specific job? For me it was never ever clear what I would be doing in my life but the world changed around me and made me work in my dream job. This is a “dream job” story.
Google’s advanced suggest tool and SEO.
Google has added an advanced Google suggest feature on the term “what is”. This might be replacing the “define” operator. Find out all about it.
How can your small (Mauritian) business benefit from the Internet ?
How can a local small scale business benefit from the Internet? This is the question that many business owners would like to have an answer to. Here is an article that will convince you that the Internet is beneficial for small local businesses with a real life example of small industry success.
[GMU Redux] Decluttering navigation.
New turn in the GMU Redux project 2010. Analysis of navigation and the issues on user experience.
When social media killed Google.
Social media, also known as social networks, are the new craze over the web. In the past decade we’ve seen the rise of 3 main entities: Google, Facebook and Twitter. What is the new trend now? The new social tools are getting the better of the search engine.
Changes in the way I blog.
Some tools have some great impact on the way we blog. My blogging life is really being influenced by some star bloggers and great new features that help me preparing my blog posts in advance. Share your blogging experience with us.
Test your web pages in Adobe Browser Lab.
So you’ve spent a lot of time designing your new web pages but are still wondering how they would look like in different browsers. Adobe Browser Lab is the new free tool from Adobe for easier, faster cross browser testing.
An article on blogs in Mauritius: what a shock!
Blogs in an article in a well known Mauritian newspaper. The author publishes a shallow article on blogs without really delving into the Mauritian blog scene.
Build mega dropdown menus.
Since usability guru Jakob Nielsen recommended the use of mega drop down menus as useful on large scale websites, it has become impossible to ignore the way these menus are built. One of the best tutorials available is that of Soh Tanaka which drives you step by step into the building of mega drop down [...]
Web Font Specimen, helping your typography.
Typography is not the easiest part of web design to master. It however is the core of web design. Tim Brown has set up Web Font Specimen which allows web designers to test, via simple files the rendering of the selected fonts on different browsers. A really useful tool!
Mollify, open source web file manager.
Mollify is a great open source web file manager with a sleek user interface and fast loading allowing you to give access to different users on a file hosting server. Access can be managed by different levels of permissions making this tool extremely useful.
Include color blind persons when designing.
In web design, there’s one category of users that is constantly set aside, colour blind persons. We are Colour Blind is a great resource to help you choose the colours and patterns to help you reduce strain for them.
[GMU Redux] Testing bandwidth and load times.
First part in the GMU Redux project where the load time and bandwidth problem is tackled. Local testers have tested the site’s loading time on the fly through available Mauritian networks and ISPs.
Put a primer coat to your CSS.
Every web designer had his/her way of writing mark-up. If you usually start out writing your mark-up with all your classes and ids, PrimerCSS is the tool for you. Just drop in your mark-up and it’ll extract a primer stylesheet with all of these to get you up and running in no time.
What new year resolutions taught me on blogging.
You made some new year resolutions. See how new year resolutions influenced the way I blog.
My favourite blog of 2009.
You sometimes find yourself reading a blog in one go. These are blogs so interesting that you just can’t get enough of them. Ideas are bright, the text is great and the overall tone is just engaging. This is the whole spirit of Mauricianismes. The great cool Mauritian “dipain, diber, fromaz” blog. Above all blogs [...]
