Category Archives: Web Development

Better Title tags for SEO & Accessibility

By Samuel Lavoie | Published: April 14, 2009
As many professional SEO people already know, Web accessibility and SEO are often tied together. Those area of expertise are just starting to hit mainstream Web Development if we can say so. Moving forward to develop better website, search engine optimization knowledge and more recently accessibility are important assets. Let see how title tags and [...]
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Predict my 500th Twitter follower and Win

By Samuel Lavoie | Published: February 15, 2009
Approaching the incredible 500th follower pretty quick on Twitter, I had the crazy idea to make a little and fun contest A quick and easy contest for all my followers. How to enter and win ? Follow me on Twitter.com/sammyQc if you aren’t already doing so. Predict the day and time I’m going to hit [...]
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Accessibility worth it for businesses

By Samuel Lavoie | Published: August 26, 2008
Bruce Lawson from Opera is right, the gap between web worker working on “traditionnal” agency and on the edge consultant isn’t going to narrow anytime soon. Web workers need to really get their hand (and their directors and the upper management team) on accessibility. Web Accessibility and Web Standards are good for SEO You need to get [...]
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Why use Microformats from a business perspective

By Samuel Lavoie | Published: July 17, 2008
Greg Wolejko wrote a post giving reasons why to jump in the Microformats wagon for entrepreneurs and business owner. Some really good reason and I’m more than happy to see more conversations going on about Microformats in a business way. It’s too often only geeky stuff. Better markup – more meaningful markup allowing more semantic info [...]
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What to expect from Digg in the near future

By Samuel Lavoie | Published: May 12, 2008
A quick post about some of the new features coming out the #2 Digg Town hall and my personal thought : Announcement of a more integrated Facebook feature, integrated friends. They are currently working on a new comment system. What? another redesign, I found the current one really usable. Digg may implement a new system to manage micro [...]
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