Job Promotion + We are Hiring!

Jul 282007
 

I’m very excited, there will be a lot of change in the Front End department where I worked as a project manager for the last 5 month.
My direct superior, Marco, who is heading the department, leaves to another job… My director announced my last weekend that I will be taking his places as the head of Front End Department end of September.

We are an old startup from 8 years of experiences, specialized in the recruitment of MBAs and the recruitment of graduate students.

We are willing to hire more skills to our team (Front End and Back End), so if your are located in the near of Geneva/Switzerland read below:

Web Content Writer/Manager

- Manage and maintain both road-mapped and on-the-fly content development for all web of the site.
- Own the entire content lifecycle : creation, refresh, archival, expiration.
- Develop/write compelling content that is keyword-rich and will attract in-bound links and drive conversions.
- Utilize best-practice search engine optimized content development techniques and search automation software to develop and update content based on search engine relevancy results and customer/prospect feedback.

To succeed in this position, we believe you would need :

- Successful professional experience in content writing and editing.
- Preferred candidate will have background in web technology (HTML and Adobe Dreamweaver).

Front End Web Developer

User Interface/HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash, JavaScript

To succeed in this position, we believe you would need :

- Successful professional experience of user interface / front end development.
- Excellent Html skills (W3C Xhtml validity).
- Experience of ActionScript (Adobe Flash).
- Knowledge of JavaScript.
- Experience of using cascading stylesheets.
- Understanding of information architecture, accessibility and usability.
- Web Editing software (e.g. Dreamweaver).
- Basic knowledge in Search Engines Optimization is an advantage.
- Understanding of PHP/ MYSQL would be a real asset but is not required.
- Good organizational skills, structured, detail oriented.
- Creative flair with a very good sense of user experience and how to optimize it.
- Excellent and clear communication skills.
- Fluency in English, both oral and written.

Web Developer in PHP/MYSQL

To succeed in this position, we believe you would need :

- Successful professional experience of at least 2-3 years
- Minimum 1-2 years in PHP/MYSQL
- Strong editing experience
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript and Ajax
- Networking and IIS Server administration experience would be a plus
- Understanding of information architecture, accessibility and usability
- Attention to detail, flexibility and pro-active approach
- Good organizational skills
- Excellent Communication skills, oral and written
- Fluency in English and French (oral & written)

If you are interested, please send your CV to: ahmet @ mba-exchange DOT com
We are looking forward to read about your competences!

Ahmet

Creating movie clips with reflections in ActionScript 3.0

Jul 282007
 

New article in Flash Developer Center: The reflect Class from Ben Pritchard

[...]This tutorial steps you through the creation of the Reflect class, a custom ActionScript 3.0 class that you can apply to reflections on movie clips [...].

The Reflect class is intended for any developer or designer who would like to achieve an effect that gives a great impact to your design, but with little effort.[...]

You will need the latest version of the Flash Player (9,0,45,0) to view the demo contained in this article.

Ahmet

Building a Better Search Engine

Jul 272007
 

Via Technology review,

[...]After 30 years, it’s finally reached a point where it can be brought into the world[...]

A search engine that would finds the best answer by considering the meaning and context of the question and related Web pages, I’m dreaming about it, they said they nearly achieve it!
We will have to wait until September to test it, but after 30 years I really hope they made something great. Now I just have to work on my English or the search engines will not understand my queries anyway… they did not write about multiple languages support.

[...]Powerset extracts deep concepts and relationships from the texts, and the users query and match them efficiently to deliver a better search[...]

I’m looking forward to say goodbye to our keywords oriented search engines (G.Y.L) :)

Related Links:
Full article from Technologies review
Powerset Labs
IBM research center

Test drive the future: Nokia Beta Labs

Jul 262007
 

Nokia Beta Labs
Just read via Balagopal NKnair’s blog the opening of the Nokia Beta Labs.
The latest beta app is a Mobile Server to access your mobile directly via Internet:

Mobile Web Server lets you name your device and make it accessible in the Internet with a browser. The software includes several applications from content creation to remote usage, as well as it enables creating your own applications and content.

That made me even sadder to have bought the N90, with it’s old 2G platform…

Ahmet

Dreamweaver Extension – SWFObject Insertions

Jul 252007
 

SWFObject Dreamweaver Extension
As I use more and more the SWFObject, I took some time to create a Dreamweaver extension that insert the SWFObject Script and the Div with most of the options I ever need with it.
I just tested it on DW CS3, and it worked well as long as you are in design or split mode. It’s not always working in code view for a reason I didn’t understand yet. The resources about building extension on Internet are really rare so it’s hard to code it exactly as I wanted. For example how to use appendChild to create different Tag in different places of the document??

Please test SWFObject Dreamweaver Extension and tell me if it works or not and what I’ve forgot to embed.

Update 0.1.1: Have corrected some minors bug. This version seems to work nicely with DW8 win & mac and DWCS3 win & mac.

Ahmet

SEO Keywords Position: Already an Update!

Jul 192007
 

Search Engines Optimization
Two days ago I published my attempt to build a tool helping me to analyze the positioning of a website in function of the keywords used.
Now this SEO tool can do much more:

  • Analyze the results from Google.com, Yahoo.com and Live.com
  • Analyze up to 4 website positioning in the same time
  • Analyze an array of keywords separated by a comma (first keywords, second keywords, keyword)
  • Analyze depth can vary from first 100 results to 500.
  • Display the first results for each search engines and for each keywords
  • Display information from Google (pagerank, number of link, number of indexed pages, number of pages with the keywords in the url or in the title)
  • Present the number of people that saved the URL in Del.icio.us
  • Present the tag cloud from Del.icio.us
  • Display the number of blog linking to this URL (via Technorati.com)
  • Display the authority of the highest blog linking to the URL

    • The analyze can be long depending of the option you choose, so take a coffee, play music or make a smaller analyze ;)

    Try it by yourself: Seo Keywords Positions Tool
    Feedbacks are welcome!

    Ahmet

    SEO Keywords Positioning (You VS Competitors)

    Jul 172007
     

    More and more web designer make early work for integrating the SEO techniques to their design (files name, title, link and image attributes…). But unfortunately we often have to face a website already existing. In my point of view the number one priority is to know who are the most important competitors (in terms of market and keywords).

    Knowing your competitor keywords positions is not a long work but is really boring, that why I preferred to build a simple tool that analyze the position of my website for given keywords as well as the position of our competitors on the same keywords. It gives me a comprehensible result of what sort of keywords we have to work on.

    You can use that tool that will analyze the first 500 results from Google.com, Yahoo.com and Live.com on my newly created SEO page. Just a warning this is an alpha version, I’m still working on it, but early feedback would be greatly appreciated 

    Get your Keywords position.

    Ahmet

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