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 [...]
Ladies and gents. If you’re in any part of the professional web world and haven’t heard of Microsoft’s new search engine “Bing” then you’ve got no excuse, apart if you’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks. Bing, also known as But Its Not Google has had its launch a bit messed [...]
Back to SEO basics. How should you do your site/blog’s search engine optimisation? Many elements get into the picture but there are some simple rules to follow to optimise a page. Let’s start with the head part.
The head part of a page is the one that will have the most impact on your visitors via [...]
Web design gets close to all aspects of marketing when you go further in the application. One of these aspects is marketing and a by product of it is email marketing. Email marketing allows you to keep in constant contact with your prospects, remind yourself to clients or communicate more and more on your product [...]
I remember a girl who wanted to write, during my university days, a research paper on “Science and technical students and their approach to canon literature.” The first thing to be done, as she was being guided by her tutors, was to define “canon literature”. It happens that she dismissed science fiction, hence dismissing J.R.R [...]
Project management seems to be one of the major problems web designers as well as web design companies seem to face in Mauritius. This is because there is still a change in perspective to be made as companies in Mauritius still see the Web as a copy of print communication. This is the first problem. [...]
Being a musician, I couldn’t go by without reading Heavy Bag Media’s evaluation of web strategies in the musical instrument business. The evaluation is to the point and shows that the Web is gaining on in terms of solutions in the musical instrument business. This however underlines some major issues. Businesses like instrument building are [...]
SEO strategists out there do know that one of the classic ways of netlinking build up has been launched by blogs with their blogrolls. Evolution has it that blogrolls are now mini RSS threads not only linking to a said blog but also to a specific page and sometimes to blog post excerpts. This had [...]
I’ve been hanging around CSS tricks which I didn’t visit for quite some time. It happens that Chris Coyier, Css Tricks editor, made a survey on the use of CSS frameworks. These are used to rapidly prototype website designs. I have jotted on some of them around on the Web Design Bureau : 960gs and [...]
If you’re a keen reader of the Web Design Bureau, you might have understood that I don’t like Flash. Its not an aversion to Flash in itself nor am I preparing to burn a cross down with Flash written in Comics Sans on it. It is just that I don’t like Flash the way certain [...]
A month ago, I wrote an article on web design education in Mauritius which got me some sour reactions from so-called “web design professionals” from Mauritius. Sure, the first reaction in Mauritius is to insult then think. But do you do it when you’re a professional? Anyway, this is their way of doing the business: [...]
The current issue (276) of A List Apart concentrates on the difficulties people have to study web design and above all, the quality of web design education. The two articles published triggered quite a lot of questionning and thoughts. Let’s face it, Web design education doesn’t practically exist. One of the major drawbacks according to [...]
Is that fast or what ?
One thing that some web masters/web managers tend to forget is one of the basic rules of SEO (search engine optimisation). This rule, which should even be called this mantra, is “build content for your visitors FIRST”. Most of the people wishing to do SEO concentrate on SEO and search [...]
The title is a quote from Jeffrey Zeldman. If you are a Web designer and have never heard of this man, just drop it. Leave the field and try some other job. If you’re a Web company CEO, advisor, project manager or anything having some kind of responsibility in a web agency and have never [...]
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