Elie Sloim
Elie worked for over 20 years on the quality of websites, making him one of the undisputed pioneers of this discipline. A monomaniac of Web Quality, Elie divides his time between managing and running the Opquast network, giving training and participation in web conferences (Csun San Diego, DevCon Mauritius, ParisWeb, Confoo Montreal, Accessibility Québec, Codeurs en Seine, TuniSeo, Data on the Web London).
What is your favourite best practice and why?
It’s very difficult to choose one in particular, it changes a little every time 😉. Let us settle on best practice No. 145: The naming of internal downloadable files makes it possible to identify the content and origin. It allows users to not end up with nonsensical filenames in their home area such as ‘invoice5.pdf, document12.word, etc. This is an excellent example we use in training.
Julie Morana
Julie is office Manager. It is Julie who runs the house for a large part of the administrative and day-to-day management of the company. She improves the day-to-day running and organisation of the company. She also coordinates the company’s quality approach and certifications (Datadock, Qualiopi, CPF etc.).
What is your favourite best practice and why?
I especially appreciate the sites that respect No. 197, Passwords can be chosen and changed by the user. I avoid sites that require me to use a complex and random password like “”Gzp_T28bloups”” while stating that it is for the sake of my safety. I ask where am I suppose to write this password down, I already am an assiduous practitioner of passwords created from a common matrix which are then customized according to each site.
Laurent Denis
Laurent Denis is an expert in quality and accessibility with a background in humanities and education. He was initially specialized in accessibility and standard web formats, he then refocused on creating repositories of sites as well as the training content.
Laurent has designed and carried out multiple face-to-face and distance training courses. He is co-author of Qualité Web, a reference book on improving online services, as well as the Memento Sites Web : Les Bonnes Pratiques at Eyrolles. He also prefaced Mathieu Nebra (founder OpenClassRooms), Réussir son site web avec XHTML et CSS and Intégration web – Les bonnes pratiques : Le guide de survie de l’intégrateur, by Corinne Schillinger at Eyrolles.
What is your favourite best practice and why?
It’s difficult to choose but a real epidermic annoyance of mine is solved by No. 90: Copy and paste is available in all form fields. I hate it when i am not given choices in the management of my data, especially in the email or password fields, for example.
Mickaël Hoareau
Mickaël Hoareau holds a Master of Science and Information Technology and Communication (ICT) and holds a Masters in Engineering Mathematics and Computing (ICST) and the title of Master Engineer. He is now the head of I.T. management at Opquast. In this capacity, he coordinates the IT development of various internal and external projects.
What is your favourite best practice and why?
No. 5: The first occurrence of an abbreviation or an acronym in the body of any page gives access to an explanation of its meaning. As we all talk technical languages in our respective professions it can quickly becomes incomprehensible for newcomers.
Patricia Cardesa
With a background in marketing and communications, Patricia is the head of customer satisfaction at Opquast. Of Spanish origin, she worked for several international startups and joined Opquast in 2017. Since then, she spends her days making sure that everything goes well for those taking the Opquast certification.
What is your favourite best practice and why?
As an avid user of e-commerce sites it has to be best practice No. 29: A product or service can be purchased without creating an account. It seems essential to me. Indeed, many users are willing to abandon a purchase if they are obliged to register an account.
Samuel Martin
Samuel is a web developer and I.T. architect. He graduated from the IMAC Multimedia School of Engineers of Marne La Vallée. A Specialist in open source web technologies, he has several years experience on php, mysql, linux, Python, Django. He designs, develops and enhances applications for Opquast and its customers.
What is your favourite best practice and why?
No. 219: The server transmits compressed contents to the clients which accept them. Of an estimated two billion total websites globally, one-third of the sites are not using compression. It’s a shame because the compression activation process takes less than ten minutes for a system administrator to apply. After which compression is estimated to save on average of 20-30% on each site file. With 4.2+ billion users, this is a very nice area for improvement.
Véronique Lapierre
- What is your favourite good practice and why?
- I particularly like the rule N° 6: The publication date of the contents is indicated when needed . I hate it every time I look for recent information on a subject, and nowhere is the date of these contents indicated. This sometimes leads to wasting time reading a completely obsolete content before noticing (or not).