Is the web home of Ahmed Bassel
What a book, very light, professional, and FREE. It’s a must read book and will take 3 minutes max.
The book tells a story on a young man who want to learn about how to become a great designer, in smooth way the author takes you in a user-centred design journey explaining it’s secrets and benefit’s. Continue Reading »
Google launched a new fade-in homepage that deliver a new experience to their users, users according to Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience are coming to Google either to search or to use one of their products like Gmail. The new fade-in experience remove distraction for the user intent on searching. Continue Reading »
The title is really scary, is it a finding that need to be discussed?
I really wanted to talk about this for a while now, I though of discussing the traffic analysis effect on business in the Middle east. I looked around and found that almost no one in the Middle East interested in this field as i went through 100 websites from different sectors such as banking, government, education, health and finance and checked their websites and found no evidence on any analytic tools.
These findings made me wonder on why the owners of these websites don’t find interests in tracking their user’s behavior through the web traffic analysis.
There is no doubt that traffic analysis is an essential to the success of the website, there are tones of data that can benefit the site owners and their businesses.
Steve Ballmer attending the Innovation Day organized by Microsoft Egypt at the intercontinental City Stars in Cairo 22 April 2009.
I was there, finally saw the legendary Steve Ballmer on his keynote and he is really an amazing guy. I was inspired with his passionate to people, science and technology. His dreams and vision for tomorrow is very interesting, I will leave you with the keynote to see your selves.
As a web designer what you should know in order to build a search engine friendly website, what points you need to cover and what tools you need to use.
First let’s all agree that we professional web designers do write good semantic markup and not the old fashion table based designs. This is something essential, why? Because search engines are just like people, they don’t like to read a lot of unnecessary markup and get board quickly that they might leave your website before they crawl it all. They also can’t determine which part of the markup is important and which is not such as lists, menu or titles. Continue Reading »