Most Performing Adsense Ads Size To Use

Most of you uses Adsense right? Whether it is to earn some bucks for a beer or even to make a part time income, Adsense is great but customizing it for the best earning potential is better. So here is one of the best tip to start with the Adsense Customization by looking at the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

First showcase gallery.

The Web Design Bureau of Mauritius has made it to its first showcase gallery over the web. After the last HTML 5 redesign of the Web Design Bureau, the WordPress theme running this blog has been submitted to the HTML5Gallery, the premier HTML 5 showcase and it has been listed. There’s still a lot to [...]

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 [...]

The list trend.

So, here is a humoristic approach to the trends making the day on the web. You have surely understood that we are talking about the lists trend. It seems like every site and especially blogs has a type of list in its branch. A list of shops, a list of tools, a list of inspirational [...]

Changing the rules : $200 of design stuff to win.

It seems that people are not really active over the giveaways so I think that we’ll open the boundaries. The contest goes public and worldwide now. The rules stay the same but the contest will remain open for some more time. Closing date is now the 17th of September. Head over to this post to [...]

What you could do if you won one of our giveaways.

If you were one of our lucky participants, you might use your winner packs to try this superb tutorial on how to create a richly ornate typographic illustration. What about that? Dive in the contest then.

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 [...]

We’re giving away over Rs 6000/$200 of vector and brush packs!

EDIT (17th of August 2009): Due to the lack of contestants, this contest is now open to everybody. We are therefore giving away $200 worth of design stuff by Designious. The rules remain the same and closing date is the 17th of September 2009. Mauritians rejoice, here is a great giveaway contest for Mauritius only [...]

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 [...]

About the Microsoft-Yahoo! partnership.

So, here we are. As I was saying only 10 days after the launch of the new Microsoft search engine, Bing was catching up on Yahoo!’s market. This has been the final blow to the 18 months of love-hate affair between these two companies. Yahoo! yields and has accepted the partnership with Microsoft. Why is [...]

Check out your SEO knowledge – Part 1.

Let’s have some fun in doing SEO. This will also help the readers understand and discuss SEO and even do some research on it. I have found the official article of a Mauritian company specialising in Web design and SEO and they have an article on the subject (this has actually been copied from another [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Is Google stepping up to Microsoft Bing?

A good number of SEOs must have found this title intriguing. Many would say: “What’s the point? Microsoft Bing might be catching up but Google IS the leader!” True enough. And another thing on that, we “advanced” Internet users are aware that Bing exists and getting hyped by the novelty of it (this doesn’t mean [...]