- Unshamed -

The designer has contacted us explaining that that whole thing is a misunderstanding and that he meant it only as a practice site with no intention of selling it to a real client.

With the new look, we decided we also wanted to change the tone of the website. We wanted the website to not only showcase our services, but also to lend a human voice to the website. And hence, this blog was born.

So how has blogging helped us so far? Well, this blog is still very young, but already we can see some of the benefits that blogging can bring. Case in point, one of the earlier posts about the annoying “border” around embedded Flash objects has gotten itself bookmarked by many fellow surfers. While we were not the direct source of the solution (the credit all goes to Mix-FX) we are glad that we are adding some value to the solution, by pointing people in the right direction while we document our experience in dealing with the same problems.

Blogging can really add much-needed human touch to the website. We feel that it can be beneficial to businesses as the blog creates an informal platform for voicing your opinions on current trends and observations. This is extremely helpful in today’s climate where everything moves at top speed, so the blog can keep your website as up to date as you can possibly keep. Customers, both prospective and existing ones, will be able to see a different (hopefully positive) side of the people behind the company.

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Guess who we support!

There has been a lot of talk about web standards and the benefits they bring to web design and applications. We thought we could post this up to see what it really means to web designers and developers out there (or anyone who believes in WS). So tell us what web standards mean to you in a word or short sentence (no essays please).

We start the ball rolling…

Simplicity

Well, what do you know. It is 6/6/06 today. Freaky for some but another wonderful but tiring day for us and another blog entry to thepixelage blog.

Saw something today, but not sure if this is old news, but it is news to me - Google Sitemap. It allows you to submit all your URLs to Google and you can get detailed reports about the visibility of your web pages on Google search. Here’s what they say about Google Sitemap:

“Search engines such as Google discover information about your site by employing software known as “spiders” to crawl the web. Once the spiders find a site, they follow links within the site to gather information about all the pages. The spiders periodically revisit sites to find new or changed content.

Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. By using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and speed up the discovery and addition of pages to our index.”

Visit Google Sitemaps.

It always feels wonderful when people appreciate the efforts that you put into a website. Better yet, when they not only love the design, but also the codes behind the design.

“It looks great both visually and behind the scenes — beautiful inside and out”

- Unmatched Style

That is really something! The first review we have for this site and it is way cool and what’s more, he got our company name right, thepixelage, one-word, no caps. Thanks Unmatched Style!

If you guys enjoy visiting our site, do vote for us and leave your comments there :).

We are always excited to see websites in a new light. Websites as Graphs (from cool programmer Sala) renders your web page as beautiful graphs. Check out these cool graphs for our home page, portfolio page and the blog page of our website.

Check out what your favourite websites look like! Send us (to blogstuff AT this domain) some cool graphs, and we can feature them here if we think they look really cool.