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.
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
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
Excellence is in the detail.
How can bad grammar and spelling cast doubts about your qualities as a web designer or designer in general.
28/09/2009 | 2 comments | View Post
The "home page" dilemma.
I was reading an article published in May 2009 on the fundamentals of web designing when I came across this excerpt:
Pay attention to your homepage. That is what the viewers will first see. The home page should be attractive and provide useful information. If it doesn’t satisfy the mentioned criteria then the readers will move [...]
22/09/2009 | 2 comments | View Post
New version of the HTML 5 draft.
A new version of the HTML 5 draft is currently available. It has been published yesterday (9th of September 2009) and is still in its working note form. It is interesting to read about the conception of this new version of the future web. Most of it is based on the HTML Design Principles that [...]
10/09/2009 | 0 comments | View Post
How many plugins do you use on your blog?
Welcome to the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius new “Chit Chat” corner where there will be a lot of nonsense or senseless banter. I needed a part of this blog to be more open to diverse subjects that were not really Web Design oriented. This will also let allow me to get some flow out [...]
08/09/2009 | 5 comments | View Post
Improve your knowledge of typography.
Some months ago I was promoting this entry on the major presence of typography in web design: 95% of web design is typography. It is true and proven that typography is what builds layout. The major problem with typography is that the average visitor is used to the stock fonts found on the Windows. Now [...]
19/08/2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Why so much SEO?
I received a private message concerning the Web Design Bureau asking me one simple, yet to the point, question. The question in itself could have a lot of meanings but this is how things work. To summarize it, the question stated that the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius gives out a lot of information apart [...]
10/08/2009 | 2 comments | View Post
Showing off your design work.
Web designers aiming for high end contacts and freelance work need something really important: visibility. Not any kind of visibility but some core HTML/CSS/Design reviews of their work to be able to get the possible clients to come to their sites. This is usually done through showcase websites. These websites are showrooms where the best [...]
06/08/2009 | 4 comments | View Post
Web designer = Web consumer.
All of my company’s network is down today. So I took some time to open a folder and re-read some chapters I kept around from diverse books. I happenned to come by a quote I did from Mark Boulton’s Five Simple Steps on the use of web applications that made me ponder on how we, [...]
16/07/2009 | 4 comments | View Post
HTML 5 wins over XHTML 2.
This post actually echoes my first post on the subject (in French). Here we are, another hedge to cross for Mauritian web designers and companies. Too bad, just at the moment when Mauritian companies like E-services have started going towards web standards (repect for that though there’s still a lot to do). So, what is [...]
15/07/2009 | 4 comments | View Post
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