Guillaume Belfiore

Web Design Labs

I intend to share my web design projects as well as the templates I have made for Tumblr. Some of them are free. For others I ask for a small fee to make up for the long hours of work. All are free to modify according to your needs Note that since I'm no professional, I may not always be available for support. Though you may try to catch me...if you can ;)

I usually code all the templates that are being used over here. After sometimes I usually make my former themes available to download. Though I do try to respect web standards but in some case I simply can't do anything about certain errors. Tumblr, for example would add a weird iFrame at the bottom of your code.

Another of my project is newscenter, a personal magazine based on a PHP RSS feed agregator developed by SimplePie

The geek shall survive

What I am working with / playing with / surfing on :

• - iMac 21,5" - Core i5 - 2,5 GHz
• - 13" MacBook Pro - Core i7 - 2.8 GHZ
• - iPhone 4
• - BlackBerry PlayBook

Independent technology writer & translator

I used to work as a freelance writer on several online and paper technology-oriented magazines.

• - SVM Mac
• - SVM iPod
• - VNUnet.fr (ITExpresso)
• - A Vos Mac
• - MobiFrance.com (Sojeng)
• - iPhonetik (Sojeng)
• - Live.fr (TigerSun)
• - OpenSource Magazine
• - Zebulon.fr
• - Translation works for Techcrunch France
• - Translation works for Tom's Hardware Guide.

Classroom & dormroom assistant

I first considered pursuing a career in Education. I wanted to get familiar with the challenges by working classroom & dormroom assistant in high school and middle school

French Teacher in the USA

I used to work as a French teacher in Rochester, NY both in high school and middle school. Also, I created a continuing education program and taught French to adults in night classes.

For the most part my work consisted in :

• - Preparing work materials for six teachers
• - Teaching French to Beginners or intermediate and advanced users (9yo to 50yo)
• - Preparing courses and written and oral exams. Correcting tests.
• - Managing a group of people (Children or adults)
• - Speaking at internationl socio-cultural conferences

Web Development

I learned by myself how to develop websites. AT first I got familiar with third party-tools (Dreameaver, Namoweb…) then learned how to directly writ the code by hand

• - Competences : HTML, CSS - SEO
• - Notions of JavaScript and PHP
• - Developing graphical user interfaces for different types of CMS : Wordpress, Movable Type, Tumblr.
• - Graphic software : Pixelmator

Community Management

I have created and manage the official Yahoo! Mail Group. This place gathers more than 5000 members who discuss the web service. Users can exchange on the new features implemented by Yahoo, ask their questions and share their knowledge.

A few dozens of Sunnyvale employees take part in this forum on a regular basis, collect user feedbacks and usually offer members to test new beta features.

Certified Microsoft Most Valuable Professional

Awarded fr my involvment in several testing programs led by Microsoft as well as for the benevolent customer support.

• - Testing several kinds of products : hardware, software, web services
• - Offering benevolent support for the MSN Explorer/Premium client in user communities

Computing platforms

Windows (all), Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux