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MBC's new website: a corporate failure?

New MBC website launched today and a lot to talk about. We will not be dealing with the website itself here but with the whole “project” management that seems to have been left aside by the MBC directory board.

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.

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.

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.

What new year resolutions taught me on blogging.

You made some new year resolutions. See how new year resolutions influenced the way I blog.

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.

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.

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