Brussels web design blog

Clean, cutting-edge UI design cuts McAfee’s support calls by 90%

With all the current fuzz about how bad design is supposedly a better selling tool, read this interesting story from mcAfee explaining how a well designed user interface can divide helpdesk workload by 10…

The main point is to build wireframes and prototypes and confront end users to these prototypes/wireframes BEFORE you actually build the product (software, website, whatever needs a GUI…) . Again, another proof from the battlefield that analysis and study are the key aspects to a successful production.

Read the full story at SoftwareCEO : Clean, cutting-edge UI design cuts McAfee’s support calls by 90% – SoftwareCEO Feature

pandora-personalized-radio-station-maker

Wow, a nice customer of mine sent me an outstanding link: pandora.com. This is a music listening and discovery service which enables users to easily create streaming stations that explore their favorite parts of the music universe.

And so i made my online radio, just like that

To immediately listen to this music station I’ve created (named “pixeline radio”) simply click on this link

The Form Builder – Create Web Forms

Web developers of the world,

I tried this xhtml form generator today, it works pretty well ! It is free, at least for now. Looking at the terms of services, it seems that you will have to pay for it, in the future .

The Form Builder – Create Web Forms

hope this is useful to someone !

website development courses in Belgium

If you do not know me yet, here is what i do: website conception, design and development for companies of all sizes. I love my work: it has many exciting points, and i get my kick by giving my customers the best possible online presence allowing them to leverage the internet to meet their objectives: be it visibility, image building, search engine exposure or plain product sales.

Every now and then the desire to share this knowledge i gathered through now, wow, six year of professional internet publishing – and still learning – is growing inside of me. And who knows? My psychologist of a father used to tell me that i belong to the human category of “teachers”. Whether he was flattering himself, myself or was this a plain objective statement, i do not know and probably never will. But i’m willing to give it a try, so here is the big news: from now on, i’m open to anyone interested in learning website development , preferably based in Brussels (I can come at your place) or elsewhere (you come to my place) .

My teaching methodology will be greatly influenced by my baseball coaching experience: listen, repeat, do it, evaluate the results. Then try harder and improve. You have questions, i am here, any time. You need support, i back you up.

So if you are based in Brussels, Belgium, and would like to learn everything web design, do contact me. I will be as dedicated to you learning from my experience, as I am with commercial customers.

prevent spam in online forms

i’ve been getting so much comment spam and contact form spam lately that i had to find a solution.

Enters “Bad Behaviors”.

Bad Behavior was designed and built by watching actual spambots which harvested email addresses, posted comment spam, and used fake referrers. By logging their entire HTTP requests and comparing them to HTTP requests of legitimate users, it is possible to detect most spambots. Bad Behavior blocks spambots with a 412 error. It also has three configurable User-Agent lists for spambots and other malicious bots which actually identify themselves. Bad Behavior can use string matching or regular expression matching against a User-Agent.

Bad Behavior intends to target any malicious software directed at a Web site, whether it be a spambot, ill-designed search engine bot, or system crackers. In that spirit, it is not limited to WordPress users; a generic interface has been provided whereby it can be integrated into virtually any PHP-based software.

You can find out more and download it here:
Installing and Using Bad Behavior