Category Archives: Web design

WEB DESIGN: Edge the new browser from Microsoft!

Edge is the new Microsoft browser (code name: Spartan). It will be released with Windows 10 whose launch is announced for July 29. The publisher has Edge as a new generation of browser, powerful, innovative, and especially designed for the modern web. It is already possible to test it in beta by downloading the Windows 10 desktop Preview, or Windows 10 beta Mobile (designed for smartphones and tablets). Edge will not replace Microsoft Internet Explorer completely, but will be offered as an alternative to it. It will be integrated with Windows 10 alongside IE that will remain present in the desktop version of the OS.

A browser that is more efficient than Chrome and Firefox

Microsoft insists on the optimization work conducted around the motor of its browser. Objective: To accelerate the implementation of websites, including improved JavaScript JIT compiler Chakra. According to the publisher, the optimization allow Edge to go well beyond the JavaScript execution performance of Chrome and Firefox. In support of its analysis, it highlights the results recorded by the browser during the Jet Stream tests (developed by Apple) and Octane 2.0 (proposed by Google).

The results of the Jet Stream test states that Microsoft Edge runs web applications 1.6 times faster than Internet Explorer 11. According Octane test, it would even be 2 times more efficient in this exercise as its predecessor. Both comparisons were made with a variation of browsers on an HP machine (equipped with Windows 10) with 12 GB of RAM and a next generation processor (Intel Core i7 860 CPU clocked at 2.80GHz).

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Why Web companies is the best web agency of the Indian Ocean?

An unseen confident look never before. Patrick Arnaldi talks about his 20 years at the head of Web companies, the best web agency of the whole Indian Ocean if not the only web agency. Quality Service – Only one keyword for him. To have resisted so long on the web market has not been an easy task. Patrick talks about his experience with fluidity and seems to master every side of the business with acute precision. His love for the job can be seen from his eyes.

Web-companies is the only web agency in the Indian Ocean which seem to still resist.

How did Web Companies evolve?

As a true pioneer of web-based development in Mauritius in 1995, WEB Ltd has evolved into a regional ICT company. Now the recognized leader in web services, WEB Companies Group is a leading independent integrator of medium and large customer accounts in the Indian Ocean.

WEB Companies can now emerge as a global supplier to leading companies through its structure of complementary services.

The constant evolution of existing technologies and the emergence of new technologies make increasingly more complex information systems and require constant change. All services are designed to provide long-term business benefits to our through the use of the Internet.

Web-companies is now represented in more than 3 countries including Mauritius, the Seychelles, Réunion Island and newly set up branch in Vietnam.

What factors has played a crucial role in the development of web-companies as the most flourishing web agency of the Indian Ocean?

It began its operation in Mauritius in the year 1997 and was the only web-agency to operate in the Island. Being the first counseling and internet agency of both Mauritius and its sister island- Reunion.

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Why should companies invest in SEO?

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Nowadays, most companies know the wisdom behind investing into developing solid, SEO optimized web infrastructure that is search-engine friendly in order to successfully compete online. Having a solid and well-thought of SEO strategy is all but a necessity.

Given the engines’ continued improvement of their algorithm systems over time, companies have no other choices left than to invest into SEO to compete online.

In this jungle of investors and competitors, having the best product or services does not mean anything without visibility. In order to prove yourself, you have to be visible to the world. If a company does not invest into SEO, how will the world know what they have to offer?

Master planned SEO campaigns are the success factor for billion dollars companies. How a product or service went from an unknown status to a world known buzz can all be due to SEO.

“Search Engine Optimization is the advertising of the 21^st century.”

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Search Engine Optimization: How to?

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What is Search Engine Optimization?

Basically, Search Engine Optimization or simply SEO is all about helping websites rank higher on the organic (or “natural) search results of search engines.

The higher the site ranks, the more visitors and hence the more customers you will get!

Search Engine optimization is the art of building a website in such a way so as to please both the customer and the search engine.

Why do we need Search Engine Optimization?

We live in an internet era in which consumers can tune through the surfeit of information. As matter of fact, 92% internet users use search engines on which a stunning amount of 100 Billion web searches are being carried out every month and 78 % buyers use search engines before buying their products.

Being visible on the internet will have no other effects than increasing your sales and hence your revenues.

Having good content, information, architecture, content management system and website infrastructure are ways of generating traffic on your website.

This is what exactly Search Engine Optimization is about.

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Google Glass: What you need to know.

What is Google Glass?

Google glass is a wearable technology with an optical head-mounted display (OHMD). That revolutionary smart eyewear looks like its buzzing many people around until they experience the awfully nice sensation of wearing it.

It displays information just like conventional Smartphone does but in a hands-free holographic format via a small prism found on the frame. Unlike casual Smartphone information is input through voice commands instead of the traditional input methods (Touch screen or keys).

How does Google Glass work?

Google Glass interface uses voice commands as well as an integrated button which facilitates the execution of certain commands. The message “Ok glass” is the most common one you see, it activates as you tilt your head up or tap the side.

Components inside google Glass

The device runs on Android 4.4.2, has an OMAP 4430 SoC, dual-core CPU with 1GB of RAM and a total storage capacity of 16GB out of which only 12GB are usable.

Google glass also comes fitted with an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a magnetometer, an ambient light sensor, and a proximity sensor.

Google offers a companion Android and iOS app called MyGlass, which allows the user to configure and manage the device.

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How to create the best website ever?

“Don’t worry about creating the perfect website. Just work on making it better. If we’re constantly evolving with the changing technology we’re going in the right direction.”

This idea has guided our team over the years and has encouraged us to always look for new adaptive approaches to web design.

Who knows? Maybe someday someone might build the “perfect website”. In the meantime, we will focus on progress, consistently striving for perfection, as we continue to make small but significant improvements along the way.

Now, coming to your website creation, here are some fundamental questions you should be asking yourself before getting started:

Why are you creating this website?
What audience (s) are you trying to reach?
What do you hope to achieve with this website?
What action do you want the audience to take as a result of visiting?

Designing the website can be deceptively difficult, as it involves achieving a design that is both usable and pleasing, conveys information and enhances brand equity, is technically sound and visually coherent. Let us consider some of the basic principles that will help you achieve web greatness.

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