Guy Labbé — blog about Web & graphic design

I am writing articles in French and English since october 2008, so I review my experience about multi-language blogging; what are the pros and what are the cons.

The major reason which you may decide to write articles in two languages is pretty simple and obvious :to reach more visitors. Especially in my case, as a French-speaker person, writing articles only in French is « limiting » me to much fewer visitors from 24 French-speaking countries. 

With its 55 millions members, Facebook IS an interesting network to make your business move forward. Wisely used for right purpose, this network can be extremely powerful to increase your visibility, and probably your sales.

In any normal e-commerce website, it is a good thing to obviously show which products are new. This way you attract attention of your regular visitors and maybe you sell more and you extend the lifetime customer value. Anyway, it is pretty normal to put these new products in front of others in the catalog, or at least to make them conspicuous.

Although Magento allows you to configure start and end dates for a product in order to show it as new, the default Magento template doesn't show it. This is the goal of this mini-tutorial : to show you how to show new products among old ones in a category list.

Many differences are dividing French-speaking countries for all what is about language level and spelling rules. Belgium, Switzerland, France and Quebec province – if you give me the right to include it as a country – possess their own language specific rules.

On a website that uses Magento as CMS, the price will show up (by default) in layer navigation, left column. Price layer navigation is a nice feature of Magento, but it may not always be something you need for your e-commerce. Especially if most of your products have a similar price.

Here is a mini-tutorial to know how to remove prices in layer navigation!

This year again, lots of new graduates in graphic design will arrive on job market.

Lots of new fresh talents... just have a look at their work, you'll agree with that for sure. Enjoy work of several graduates from Quebec schools :

Here are two code snippets to verify email addresses, which is quite useful when you wish to validate a form with Javascript or PHP, avoiding users to write anything as email.

Black Hat SEO is about a more or less illegal (for google) technic, to boost a website into SERPs.

Besides classic Black Hat technics (Spamdexing, Cloacking, etc.), real Black hatters have a lot of imagination when they seek new ways to increase artificial popularity of a website..l. it's sometimes simply amazing!

Magento is a great e-commerce CMS, with tons of incredible possibilities.

You'd like to invest yourself in Webdesign skills?

Here are some ideas to avoid committing common mistakes.