In the recent months I have had a few people asking me if I offered smartphone app development services. In some instances, clients confused a smartphone app and a smartphone compatible website. The difference between the two is not the focus of this post, but I will cover it nevertheless. A smartphone is a high-end  [ Read More ]

Let the bilingualism start! Finally we’ve taken a step further and decided to put all our services in French too. This comes not as a surprise to most of you who have been visiting our website because back in 2010 we had announced something similar. The plan was hampered by the challenges such a change  [ Read More ]

I personally don’t blog much, in part because I am more of a coder than talker, and quite frankly I don’t have my ways with words. At least orally. However, I have been following the recent trends in web development and since I started taking this design thing seriously every single website I have worked  [ Read More ]

While WordPress is the main CMS we use at JanvierDesigns.com , I have to agree that I had never realized how far it could take us if we gave it all our best. With the introduction of WP 3.0 a few  features  came to strengthen yet  again the already powerful wordpress platform. For instance, we  [ Read More ]

I am blowing my vuvuzela too. Not for the world cup, but rather to give it up to the 200+ contributors who saw to it that wordpress 3.0 would see the day. My excitement is that today, June 17th 2010 the wordpress MU doesn’t exist “officially”  anymore, though it lives on via regular wordpress thanks  [ Read More ]

For those of you who have followed my movements recently, you probably realized I mention “wordpress 3.0″  more often than necessary probably. The excitement stems both from my love for the world’s best Open Source CMS , and that of new features to be added  to it. The beta 1 came out  but I did  [ Read More ]

Soh Tanaka is definitely one of those designers out there whose websites you would like to visit over and over again. At least as fr as I am concerned. In a recent visit to his site I came accross the amazing Facebook like foot panel tutorial. din’t think tice about it because it was something  [ Read More ]

As the web ages, the need for faster more efficient applications is needed to handle the ever increasing amount of information both in terms of volume and deliverability grows even  higher. When Janvier designs launched officially last, I was focusing on showing the world what I could do with the wordpress + Buddypress combination. I  [ Read More ]

When Nikki asked me to design a site for her but that she needed something unique, I switched to my thinking gears! Back in the days before starting to work with wordpress – which just won the best Open source CMS award 2009 – when I painfully  hand coded every single line,  I had worked  [ Read More ]

WordPress has been my content management system of choice for the last 2+  years. I have many reasons for that crucial choice and of the many choices in my life, I know this is among the good ones. Though the point of this post is other than wordpress functionality, I will touch bits of it.  [ Read More ]