It has been 1 month since www.orange.mu was launched and overall I’am quite satisfied with the new portal, compared to the old Servihoo one.

The main features which I’am very satisfied, from a technical point of view :

• built on bleeding edge technology (does anyone hear memcache here )
• almost all pages are valid XHTML 1.0 transitional (i do mention almost here)
• CSS layout, built on the fantastic YUI CSS grids and Blueprint CSS (look ma, no tables )
• heavy, very heavy use of javascript and namely the great, the fantastic and the one and only Yahoo! YUI library.
• various AJAX calls via YUI Connection manager. For example  taux de change on the homepage, where the info is retrieved via AJAX displayed in a cool YUI panel.
• follow Yahoo! rules for high performance websites (thanks YUI theater and Steve Souders for that). Not later than yesterday, expires headers were added to javascript components and a notable increase in performance has been noted. Naturally a lot is still to be done but we’re working on that.
• clean URLS

P.S I did watch Steve’s video from start to finish and I’ll recommend it to other web dev out there. The YUI theater is just great resource.