eBabel Blog

New bespoke website launched for biofeedback activity monitoring equipment company

2010-06-21T00:25:00Z

I have launched a bespoke website for a new customer: Luke Murrell from MMVSENSE . I first met Luke Murrell ...

Focusing on English and French websites

2010-06-14T13:15:00Z

I have decided to focus the languages I support on English and French. The other languages are interesting but don't ...

Business as usual

2010-06-12T05:24:00Z

I have moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, but I still take care of all my customers websites remotely. I ...

New bespoke website launched for a Forensic Accountant: Verity Crosbie Frost

2010-05-05T17:05:00Z

I have launched a new bespoke website for Verity Crosbie Frost, a Forensic Accountant . Verity is an ex HMRC ...

New bespoke website launched for robshone creative

2010-05-04T12:45:00Z

I have launched a new bespoke website for robshone creative. Rob Shone is an exhibition display designer and a photographer. ...

Finishing touches on a bespoke design for a new website

2010-04-30T16:17:00Z

I'm putting the finishing touches to a bespoke website for one of my customers. The new website for rob shone ...

Support for Spanish coming soon

2010-04-29T14:18:00Z

I'm working with a translator to start supporting Spanish in my multilingual website builder. Spanish is a popular international language. ...

Counselling questionnaire added to the young people centre website

2010-04-28T19:39:00Z

The Young People Centre offers a range of youth services in central Brighton. One of these services is counselling , ...

Feedback on my multilingual website builder

2010-04-27T16:44:00Z

A friend of mine, Steve, runs a Software as a Service CRM company and is therefore familiar with web applications. ...

New bespoke website launched: translation agency Kinmokusei

2010-04-26T09:59:00Z

I have launched a new bespoke design website for a translation agency: Kinmokusei. Karin Yoshida, who runs Kinmokusei, asked me ...

Wired Sussex event in Lewes for digital companies

2010-04-23T11:27:00Z

Yesterday evening, I went to an event organised by Wired Sussex in Lewes. It was fun an interesting to meet ...

Unplanned disruption on 21st April 2010 for half an hour

2010-04-22T11:30:00Z

I use monitoring tools that regularly check that all my websites are up and running. There was an unplanned maintenance ...

How to make a website more useful for its users and easier to find in search engines?

2010-04-21T17:38:00Z

I had a meeting with a charity who uses my multilingual website builder to manage their website today: the Young ...

Building a bespoke website is quick and fun

2010-04-20T17:09:00Z

I had a great meeting with Verity from Verity Crosbie Frost, a forensic accounting business. I first met Verity at ...

Japanese multilingual websites

2010-04-19T10:43:00Z

My multilingual website builder now supports making websites in Japanese . I've made it simpler and faster to create a ...

Impact on your website traffic from blogging vs a link from a high profile website

2010-04-17T10:35:00Z

I started my blog on the 11th March 2010 (point 1 in graph below). My traffic didn't increase right away, ...

How to check competitor keywords and decide how to challenge their ranking in search engines

2010-04-16T10:32:00Z

I've been working with Andrea Holley on improving her search engine optimization. Andrea website competes with other businesses in the ...

Free 2 weeks trial for 8 customers who want to make a multilingual website

2010-04-15T10:44:00Z

This morning, I've enabled 8 new multilingual websites on 2 weeks trials. These 8 new websites are from customers who ...

How to calculate the keywords density of your website

2010-04-14T06:46:00Z

Once you have decided which keywords your webpage should target, written the right content, placed your keywords in the correct ...

Keywords density: how important is it to your website search engine optimization?

2010-04-13T10:22:00Z

I'm working with Andrea Holley from Culture Guide on how to optimize her website for search engines. Culture Guide helps ...

Bespoke search engine optimization training for Culture Guide

2010-04-12T14:49:00Z

I worked with Andrea Holley from Culture Guide today to improve her website findability in search engines. Andrea's Culture Guide ...

Make it simpler and faster to create multilingual websites that are search engine optimized

2010-04-10T17:31:00Z

Having a multilingual website brings great benefits to your credibility if you're targeting a global market. Although your prospects may ...

Business networking in Lewes with First Friday

2010-04-09T17:32:00Z

I went to a business network event in Lewes today. It was a good event in a really nice pub: ...

How to benchmark your website speed against other websites

2010-04-08T09:14:00Z

A fast website is an excellent way to make sure your customers are more likely to look at more of ...

Bespoke e-commerce website selling fluffy toys

2010-04-07T03:39:00Z

I'm currently developing an e-commerce website to sell fluffy toys for a new client. My bespoke design is squarely aimed ...

Talking to clients in their own language

2010-04-06T09:17:00Z

Midori Lawler , the Microsoft BizSpark Marketing Manager, has raised an interesting question on LinkedIn: Do you think you could ...

Bespoke website for studiothree

2010-04-05T09:13:00Z

Rob Shone from studiothree has commissioned me to build a bespoke website to showcase his professional photography service. I have ...

French-English website about technology

2010-04-04T00:05:00Z

My partner, Dave, has decided to launch a website in French and English about technology. He's planning to write daily ...

Catching up with Karin from Kinmokusei

2010-04-03T23:50:00Z

I met with Karin Yoshida today, the manager of Kinmokusei . Her firm translates multilingual websites and other mediums from ...

eBabel is BizSpark Startup of the Day

2010-04-02T18:14:00Z

On Good Friday, eBabel has been nominated the BizSpark Startup of the Day by Microsoft Startup Zone website. BizSpark Startup ...

Why you should use my website builder

2010-04-01T20:19:00Z

Making a website shouldn't be rocket science. I have worked for about 10 years in web development, and since the ...

Multilingual website navigation

2010-03-31T13:44:00Z

A multilingual website needs to take several issues into consideration when it comes to navigation: Browsing content in a single ...

Pitch at BizSparkCamp 2010 in London

2010-03-30T11:51:00Z

Yesterday afternoon, I pitched my multilingual website builder business at BizSparkCamp in London. I discussed with several other entrepreneurs and ...

SQL Azure vs Table Storage

2010-03-29T06:25:00Z

With a new technology like the Azure Platform, it’s hard to make architectural decisions like between putting your data on ...

Brighton Twestival 2010

2010-03-28T08:57:00Z

I attended Twestival in Brighton, at the Hi Fi lounge . The party was organized to raise funds for building ...

Pitching at BizSparkCamp in London

2010-03-27T17:24:00Z

eBabel has been selected as one of the 8 promising BizSpark startups to pitch at BizSparkCamp. The competition will assess ...

eBabel websites to run on Table Storage

2010-03-26T10:23:00Z

Currently, my multilingual websites are running on Azure SQL, a version of Microsoft Database optimized for the cloud. However, there ...

Multilingual websites new design

2010-03-25T10:42:00Z

I've added a new design for eBabel multilingual websites maker. I had cleaning outsourcing companies in mind when I thought ...

Business workshop with Paul Dallibar

2010-03-24T08:02:00Z

Last week I went to a half-day workshop with Paul Dallibar, at the Brighton Hilton. His business workshop focused on ...

70-536 exam: Delegate functions

2010-03-23T09:33:00Z

The concepts behind delegates are advanced. The following relatively simple example from Wikipedia shows how a delegate method works A ...

IDictionary[] and Hashtable results cast

2010-03-22T14:17:00Z

The following code will not build: string hold_value; Hashtable openWith = new Hashtable(); openWith.Add('txt', 'notepad.exe'); openWith.Add('bmp', 'paint.exe'); openWith.Add('dib', 'paint.exe'); openWith.Add('rtf', ...

IDictionary .Contains and .ContainsKey

2010-03-21T12:32:00Z

I have already discussed the Hashtable class which is a built-in .NET class (in mscorlib.dll) which implements the IDictionary interface. ...

70-536 exam: if-then-else condition

2010-03-20T14:13:00Z

The if-then-else condition is part of the C# Language Specification , and so is somehow a deeper part of C# ...

70-536 exam: switch statement

2010-03-19T12:00:00Z

The switch statement is part of the C# Language Specification , and so is somehow a deeper part of C# ...

70-536 exam: do while loop

2010-03-18T07:31:00Z

The do while loop is part of the C# Language Specification , and so is somehow a deeper part of ...

70-536 exam: IEnumerable interface

2010-03-17T08:16:00Z

Namespace: System.Collections Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll) [ComVisibleAttribute(true)] [GuidAttribute('496B0ABE-CDEE-11d3-88E8-00902754C43A')] public interface IEnumerable Source: Microsoft As per my previous blog article on ...

Strongly Typed SortedList(TKey, TValue)

2010-03-16T10:31:00Z

The SortedList signature allows it to be strongly typed, i.e. key/values where the object type of the value is checked. ...

System.Exception vs ApplicationException

2010-03-15T11:36:00Z

System.SystemException SystemException, like ApplicationException, is also part of the .Net classes. Namespace: System Assembly: Mscorlib (in Mscorlib.dll) The SystemException class ...

70-536 exam: General Exception Handling

2010-03-14T08:49:00Z

.Net exception handling follows generic computer science principles: In general, an exception is handled (resolved) by saving the current state ...

70-536 exam: Queue class

2010-03-13T09:51:00Z

Queues are a very popular data structure for both in memory processes and also database physical design. Starting with a ...

70-536 exam: StringCollection class

2010-03-12T10:35:00Z

Following on my blog post about Hashtables, for the .NET fundamentals exam you should be familiar with Collections and Specialised ...

70-536 exam: Hashtable class

2010-03-11T08:51:00Z

The exam 70-536 requires you are familiar with standard/core library .NET system classes like the Hashtable: Namespace: System.Collections Assembly: mscorlib ...