Happy New Year 2010!

New year wishes for everybody.

Announcing the 2010 project.

A project for 2010, PS style (Public Service Style). In need for a challenge, why not integrate the Mauritian web users in the redux of the Government of Mauritius website ?

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.

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.

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.

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.

…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.

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.

15 Google Wave invite winners.

15 lucky Google Wave invite winners here. Its on your way guys!

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.

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.

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.

Win a free Google Wave invite.

The Web Design Bureau of Mauritius is giving away 15 Google Wave invites. Why not try to win yours here?

1 year rapidshare premium account winner is

Announcing the free 1 year rapidshare premium account winner exclusively reserved to Mauritians. Ashvin is the great winner. Congratulations to him.

Adobe V/S Envato concerning Flash.

Adobe has done it: a simple ruling to Envato to ask it to change its famous website’s, FlashDen’s, name into another one as Flash is a registered trade mark to Adobe. This is some kind of weird, FlashDen having been one of the premier sites promoting Adobe’s technology since now.

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.