Heard it on the news few minutes ago, MBC has a new web site since yesterday (yes, AGAIN!)
Anyway, I find it nice, much better than the previous versions
This shows once more that wordpress really rocks!
To whom it may concern, a few things which need a small fix under Firefox 3.0:
- The drop down menu is hidden by the video player when you want to play something
- Remove the rating indicator near the post title while viewing it. It is confusing since the user cannot actually click on it. He/She must scroll down to be able to rate the page.
A final note, it is a good thing that they have hosted it on a Mauritian server, lets hope that the server can handle all those requests n streaming… Oops, a few minutes, the database connection was lost, probably due to high traffic 🙂
So, what do you think about the new site, powered by the blogging platform WordPress?
Yashvinblogs 
ahem kindly put the link here.
Zot in imper copier lor canal+ so site.
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Thanks for the heads up Yashvin! 🙂
The problem with the drop down menu appearing behind the video is with the Windows Media format. There’s no wmode=”transparent” to use as in flash videos. The parameter “windowlessVideo” doesn’t seem to help either. I’ve also tried setting the menu’s z-index property to a very high value – again, no use.
As for the rating stars, I think it’s pretty standard. You can only rate something after having gone through it, right? 😉 That’s why it’s found at the bottom.
Cheers.
Akash
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@Avishna
Mo assure twa mo pan copier lor personne so site. Zame mo ti rentrer meme lor canal+ so site. hehe.. (Pa kwar ki mo ene ignorant aster! :P)
Akash
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mo pas ti meme kner ti ena ene avant! oh btw guet infozen zot tout demain:D:D mo pas meme kner lor ki chaine sa : / maisgueT!
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MBC scuks…acoz sa mem mo pa get so banne program…
aster ki fer mo bizin al get so site web..pffff pli ridicule encore!
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kot ban episodes ‘balad dan villages’ la ine aller???
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MBC pa play kot moi. .
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so Akash you are the one who created the site? Also by seeing your family name i guess that you are somewhat related to the director of the station…who knows? well anyways, good job in giving me another reason for not visiting this site…
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This is my view as an experienced user and I can clearly say; this is most definitely a failed attempt to make a web2.0 site.
1. No smooth gradient.
2. No consistent color scheme.
3. Typography is messy.
4. CSS is broke, IE users would miss out the rounded corners lol, anyways.
5. This guy does not know the existence of CDN’s like Google.
6. The valid W3C XHTML icon makes me believe someone new to XHTML did that website.
7. CSS is not compressed, http://www.csscompressor.com 😀
8. You should definitely take a color theory class.
9. Complete exaggeration of jQuery plugins.
This is a grotesque work. I know I have been a real bummer but hey, I know my stuffs, I work mostly in the UX/UI part of websites and this is a cruel world.
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In rekumans tou a zero.. Au fur et a mesure mo kwar banla pou remet ban anciens posts la dans archive..
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LMAO! It’s like a personal vlog. LOL. In other words, it’s crap!
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Alala!
Mais bon keep trying! Based on the critics, they might improve.
I don’t watch MBC, in fact MBC does not play at my place, jamais gagne bon transmission!
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My 2 cents opinion:
I’m no expert in making websites but I can surely manage despite being a lazy ass. But to make a website for a big company like MBC and using a already-made theme is just a fail.
The theme used is Video Element. . #fail #epicfail
http://www.press75.com/v4/the-video-elements-wordpress-theme/
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The Mbc theme was not designed by the guy on the site. Original theme is found at http://www.press75.com/v4/the-video-elements-wordpress-theme/ was designed by press75.com
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@Josh
Would you be kind enough to let me know where I could take HTML, CSS, color theory, JQuery, PHP, MySQL, Javascript and XML classes? Please??
Thanks! 😉
Akash
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@Magman
I created the website for free. I didn’t gain anything from this (if only my name appearing in the footer – mais ca c la moindre des choses).
Why would you not visit the website because of my name? Are you a racist by any chance? Or you just don’t like names beginning with ‘A’?
Akash
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Hi All,
This is Nathan V, I am currently in Canada working as a consultant for WordPress. I saw MBC website and I found the following problems:
(a) It is a tweaked and pirated WordPress version.
(b) The copyright information has also been tweaked and this will surely lead to copyright infringement issues. This is a wordpress theme and it belongs to WordPress. Why is the guy claiming that he is the one coded the site, I hope he has not re-sold the website by any chance?.
(c) Broken CSS used in this template, definitely not a good idea as this may lead to loopholes like CSSinjections and all.
(d) Not a good idea to use a nulled wordpress template for a MBC, this website may easily infect visitor’s computers with trojans especially esck.m type of viruses.
I would recommend MBC to seek a valid licence for this website, and please, please don’t use nulled website templates for your websites.
For your information.
Regards,
Nathan.
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Tarrrrrrr…. nice 😛 pa ti coner li ena site lol…thanks dou for informing us about it…
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Lol.. This guy won’t stop harassing me… Here’s a note I’ve written on him on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=366809623658
I’ll let you be the judge.
Akash
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It’s funny how a search for “Nathan Vythilingum” on Google doesn’t give anything. Damn… are you sure you work for WordPress over there? Or is it the Canadian secret service?? Lol..
Give me a break, will ya?
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@Akash : I just checked the link provided by the guys named “Lightofdeath” and “Lam” : http://www.press75.com/v4/the-video-elements-wordpress-theme/
IMHO, there are similarities between these two…
Is your MBC theme a modified version of the one mentioned above?
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@Lam, lightofdeath
Well, what more did you expect doing it for free? Something like the BBC? No. You have to be realistic.
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@Yashvin
Yes. It’s a heavily-modified (licensed) version of that theme, Yashvin.
Akash
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@Akash
You are completely wrong.I see nothing racist in my posts,like you’re trying to deduct..and i meant to say that i would’nt visit the MBC’s site oh and btw i really dont give a f### about yours either..since you’re copying from other sites mentionned here, that’s not very professional to me.
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@Magman
You said you wouldn’t visit the website because I’m related to the MD. God knows how that even makes sense!
I’m not copying. I bought the theme with my own money, and modified it heavily to suit MBC’s needs. There’s a huge difference.
Akash
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@ Akash
If you’re going to HTML, CSS, color theory, JQuery, PHP, MySQL, Javascript and XML classes, you should take an English class as well because you do not seem to understand the meaning of “Racist” and i hope you do find it there.
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@Magman
Whatever you say Magman. 😉
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I like the new site.
Cheers
Bhooks
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careful bane zene..
tension bane mbc fer 1 emission crime watch lor nous haha
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1. Keep that scornful attitude for yourself, you wanna beef? OK, That’s your right to be a sped. Anyways LIKE I SAID I do mostly front-end design stuff. If you are not aware, PHP and MySQL are back-end technologies and you are completely out of bound.
2. Judging from your front-end design skills, I doubt you did some PHP tweaks on the core itself. Even if you did that would be definitely be a hive infested with PHP RFI’s.
3. I cant believe you actually asked this question ” Would you be kind enough to let me know where I could take HTML, CSS, color theory, JQuery, PHP, MySQL, Javascript and XML classes? Please??”
Wow I sincerely have not seen all colors of stupidity. This is the internet dude! Here’s a site http://www.justfuckinggoogleit.com
4. A webdesigner’s job is not only to design fancy sites, its mainly User experience, User Interface, User Interactivity.. yeah USER everywhere! Because he or she will be using the site more than you. Albeit all the critics and comments, I and the other people have focused on, you still have not reached to that point.
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It’s nice to see the MBC site redesigned. The old version badly needed scrapping.
But when I read the comments, the MBC theme does look very much like the Press75 one. Akash himself has said he bought the theme and modified it to accomodate the MBC.
I don’t think these lines have their place in the source code though:
[Start quote]
MBC Theme – Version 2.2
Designed and Built by Akash Callikan – http://www.akashcallikan.com
[End quote]
If you have taken a theme, you have not “designed and built” it. You have modified it. Therefore, I believe
“Customized for MBC by Akash Callikan – http://www.akashcallikan.com” would be in order.
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@Josh
Thankfully not every user’s a smart-ass like you. 😉
Chill out. Grab a beer mate. Lol.
Akash
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@Inf
You’re absolutely right. I will change that as soon as I can.
Thanks.
Akash
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By the way someone informed me of an XSS vulnerability on MBC’s search form today. I fixed it in two minutes. I notified the plugin author, provided him the solution and he made an update.
I was also made aware of an SQL injection vulnerability in another plugin. Again, fixed it in less than a minute and notified the plugin author.
If you browse the forums of Press75, you will know how many contributions I made… how many bugs I eliminated from the original theme.
I don’t mean to brag Josh. I’m just saying you shouldn’t judge people/websites/whatever just by looks.
As for my PHP/MySQL capabilities, I’m sending you a few addresses:
– http://www.lematinal.com/marketplace.html
– http://www.lematinal.com/jobs.html
– http://www.lematinal.com/messagerie.html
All custom-built scripts by myself for Le Matinal. And that’s just 3 out of more than 50.
Have a nice day. 🙂
Akash
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ah bon MBC ena ene web site … lol (joking)
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Nice website! Beautiful! But about the videos which is more important … Windows Media Player is obsolete now … Right? Correct me if I’m wrong but most websites use Adobe Flash to render their videos and it’s really much better if you forget the iPhone. Actually you cannot watch Windows Media Player videos on Linux OS like Ubuntu. It’s irritating! Designing the website is somehow easy but doing the complicated work of making the videos more playable is challenging.
@akash Are you related to the director BTW? If so, can you tell him to add some more beautiful movies on MBC … Not the flops like Tasveer. Thanks. 😛
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@Akash
Dude, the thing that doesnt make sense here is how come you did this for free?
Please provide some explanations..
Thanks!
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@Akash
Me also i wanna know why you are taking all these trouble and you even mention you bought the theme with your money and just gifting it to the MBC.
Plz can you ask the MD to play some nice cartoon like DBZ etc…thanks
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Offtopic:
Interesting recent searches:
“roushdat president mauritius broadcasting corporation mbc”
was searched twice…
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1 ti bug:http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/8430/littlebug.jpg
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@Roushdat : Ki to p rode faire do ta lol!
@Inf :Hope to gagne reponse la, c roushdat ki p rode faire monte so nom lo stats LOL! hahaaaaaaaaaa
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Akash mo pas conner si mo bisin riyer ou plorer quand mo get to bannes travail. Mais selmant ene zaffaire li mari claire to pas ene developeur toi , to ene traser. Ki fer mo dire traser a cose to zis capow modifier bannes CMS , edit impe zimage et seki to fer plus bien au fait c met to nom dans footer. Ah oui peut etre met Designed by Akash Callikan demande ene notion de web en particulier.
Nu check ene coute to palmares:
Le Matinal
http://lematinal.com
Powered by : Vivo CMS
Demo : http://www.one.myvivvo.com
Defimedia
http://defimedia.info
Powered by : Interspire Website Publisher
http://www.interspire.com/websitepublisher
Mbc.tv
http://www.mbc.tv
Powered by WordPress
Original theme ripped from : http://www.press75.com/v4/the-video-elements-wordpress-theme/
Akash pas prend li ene attack personel lor toi et ni mo pe rode rass to boute dipain au contraire mo pe fer toi gagne nutella dans dipain. Cuma?
Lot cout to rode ‘fer’ ene site , mandaye li bien…dimoune ena ene bon lizieu pou details surtout morisien nu expert la dans.. pas kit trace man..
Aster pas zis change partout a cose ena copyright laws si to pas au courant , tone edit Logo WordPress dans admin MBC (http://www.mbcradio.tv/wp-login.php)
CSS
http://www.mbcradio.tv/wp-content/themes/mbc/style.css
tone blier tire
Theme Name: Video Elements
Theme URI: http://www.press75.com/
Baser lor bannes commentaires to paret mega arrogant et mo ena impression to pe penser to cass ene mari paker (KER) mais li ti pou bon si to ti capow fer plus ki mandaye CMS et themes et evite fer pass travail les zots pou toi.
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I prefer the Arras Theme with the cool flash anim on the top. http://demo.arrastheme.com/. you were also able to view the source code to download the Journal Televisé.
another nice theme would be : http://www.woothemes.com/demo/?t=23 or http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/eVid/
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Again i’ll post smthing which maybe most people wont like. But I just wish to rationalise things a bit. Mo dakor site la could be better, there is always room for improvement. But before stumping so rudely on the guy, who amongst you would go through all the trouble to actually make a FREE website for MBC ?
I’m not defending anyone’s interest here, but just trying to give this debate a wider angle. It’s always easy to criticize, but criticism always has several perspectives. A more mature audience would rather give CONSTRUCTIVE ADVICE on how to improve the site. I’m sure any work anyone does always has some glitches and defects. I know my works are not perfect. But comments like that wont ever inspire me to improve.
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The past MBC website really was terrible and needed to be ‘modernised.’ All the best to Akash for being to bag the project (really free?)… I have to agree with Josh’s criticisms to a certain extent, it’s so obvious that it comes from WordPress… That said, it’s not a bad thing.
Windows Media does have much lower penetration rate that Flash player. You may have your reasons for that? Does MBC store videos in WMV?
Also people, take note that any website depends a lot on the client’s feedback. You might do the best, most suitable appropriate website but your client might say no… this I don’t like (even if it doesn’t make sense)… Did you have such problems Akash?
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@ bhoot : so true. I’ve had some similar problems in the past. I usually design several layout proposals for a website. But the clients always seem to choose the less attractive ones. lol.
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lexpress zordi:
DEUX CALLIKAN POUR UN SITE WEB
La MBC a dévoilé jeudi le nouvel habillage de son site web, qui fut jadis victime de hackerz friands de pornographie. Couleurs blue océan, nouvelles rubriques, tout un design exécuté pas… Akash Callikan, neveu du directeur général. D’ailleurs, le site de la MBC propose un lien vers le site du jeune homme, web developer et graphic designer.
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It’s a nice website where you can at least catch up with some archive news whenever you missed something on the news.
These days, even bollywood or hollywood are being copied and modified. So what’s the harm if Akash copied a theme and modified it? There’s no harm in it.
IMHO, he’s a good lad to help MBC get at least a “blog” where you can rate some archive news/videos.
Well, i haven’t surfed the website well but apparently it’s a nice one. Only problem is the advertising part. I clicked on it to see if we can advertise our website but it seems to be not working.
Please advice.
Kind regards,
Jim
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BBC? Ki ena difisil arsa?
[…]
{Part moderated by Yashvin :
Sorry Nit, I had to remove this part since I don’t think it is related to this subject. The past remains the past and I don’t want any blame here.
Hope u don’t mind.
}
Mbc pan paye toi pou sa nuvio site la? To pe couyon moricien. Retir toi depi lor la scene camouad.
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@Yadhav
I hate it too. But the MBC encodes & streams everything in WMV. I had no choice. I actually had to do extensive research on its object type. If anyone (Josh is an expert in UI, right?) knows how to make the menus appear above the videos, I’d be glad to hear from them.
Yes, I’m his nephew.
@Kaviraj
I know it doesn’t make sense but (I think) like everyone here, I despised the old MBC website. I thought it was a disgrace for our national station to have such a website! So I just proposed to Dan to let me build one for them. He said he wouldn’t be able to pay me since that would create an uproar (hasn’t it already?). I told him I didn’t mind. I just wanted to give them a better website. Then I made a few proposals to them and finally they chose this one.
Fair enough?
@Roushdat
Zame mon trouve ca mwa. Ca v dir dans plugin poll la ca. Mo pou tester li localement zordi. Merci.
@Adam Woozeer
Eski to kone em ki v dir “rip”? Ca v dir kokain. Si to p akiz mwa ki mon kokain ca theme la, b li ene zafer bien grave. Mo kav poursuiv twa la. (Pa kas tete, mo pa pou fer li selment.) Mais ca em problem ar zot – zot pa penser avant zot koze, zot judgemental, zot presser pou attack dimoun. Parye meme mo ti fer n website pou ene ONG ki occupe ban handicape mentaux gratuit, la aussi zot ti pou trouve kitsoz pou critiquer.. na? Mauricien li pa kontan ni kan donne li kitsoz gratuit.. ni kan fer li payer. Mo pena nanyen pou dire plis ki ca.
@Doorgesh
Thx buddy. I couldn’t have put it any better. 🙂
@bhoot
Thanks. Questions answered above.
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@Akash : Mo d’accord r seki to p dir.
But I think that some people do not agree on the fact that you have written the words designed n coded… Perhaps it should really be “Customized by”, you already mentioned that you will change it, if am not mistaken.
@Others :
Guys, let us be a bit more mature. We are not putting blames on anyone and please, do not leave childish comments. I had to moderate n delete a few of them.
As Akash told us, he did it free and I can’t see any problem with that.
Thanks to all of you for your comments.
There can’t be any better platform to discuss things freely, whether they are suggestions, critics and of course, encouragements 😉
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