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The anti-SOPA movement is in full effect with SOPA Blackout Day

Today, January 18 is SOPA Blackout Day, and international internet strike aimed at voicing opposition to the internet censorship bill SOPA/PIPA being pushed through by the US government. WordPress are fully behind the anti-SOPA movement, as well as many other major web players like Wikipedia. WordPress.com is purposely censored today in protest. Wikipedia is about [...]

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Impressed with WordPress 3.3 UI changes

WordPress has just releases version 3.3 with an impressive list of UI enhancements to further improve the ease of use of our favourite CMS

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My First WordPress Tut on wptutsplus.com – WordPress Training Wheels

I’ve been teaching WordPress theme development for the past few years, not an extremely advanced curriculum, but the nuts and bolts. Yesterday I had my first tutorial published on envato networks new wptutsplus.com site. It’s great to see your work published in recogonised spaces. I hope to roll out at least another 8 – 10 [...]

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Co-Working Spaces Hit Cape Town at TheiPlex.co.za

Having designed the website for TheiPlex.co.za recently, and being a solo artist working from home, coffee shops etc, I decided to give their co-working spaces a bash out of desperation to find a space to concentrate better on work. TheiPlex is situated in the newly developed Boulevard Complex in Woodstock just outside of the CBD [...]

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WordCamp Cape Town 2011 Presentation – WordPress IS a CMS

This presentation was prepared in less than a day after emergency notice standing in for a cancelled speaker. For the full presentation website visit www.the-colab.com/wordpress-cms

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12 Hours at WordCamp Cape Town

Just about recovered from what was the biggest WordCamp Cape Town has hosted to date. You heard me, 12 hours. I was one of the first to arrive and left just before the after party hit, which makes me think, there’s a few people who would have been there for more than 12 hours. WordPress [...]

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WordCamp Cape Town coming very soon

It’s been a while since the local WordPress obsessed have gotten together to talk shop and share their latest thoughts on their favourite CMS. Ashley Shaw who runs Lightspeed has done a superb job, no doubt a tough one, in getting tons of interest going. I know personally when attempting to organise another meeting about [...]

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WDC2014 taking Cape Town Design onto the World Stage

You may not have heard but there’s a City down South, at the very tip of Africa that’s been buzzing with the sound of creative innovation for some time. It’s a really beautiful place like none other, almost laid back and extremely friendly and hospitable. It recently hosted thousands of International visitors as part of [...]

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Time to secure my wordpress sites more seriously

My WordPress site has been hacked by the Pharma Hack. It’s sad yes, I know, I should have properly secured my site years ago. I assume one of the reasons my site was hacked was due to a large portion of my print design portfolio containing Pharmaceutical Ad Campaigns. The hack was spotted by a [...]

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Mixing in HTML5, CSS3 and @Media Queries for studentology minisite

A few days ago I was approach by a good friend, Jamaal Khan who runs www.jayz.co.za to design & develop a splash page for one of his clients, Studentology. The site he required needed to be completed within 24 hours, which was a tough ask at that point but I obliged seeing things were relatively [...]

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nurahmadfurlong.com domain registered for my online resume

Sending out my resume is one of the things I do consistently no matter what’s happening in my career. Whether I’m happy in my current situation, looking for a job or just casually scouting around to see what’s happening out there. It’s benefited me in a number of ways, one being making connections and becoming [...]

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HTML 5 and digital generative art ALA Joshua Davis

Heard the name Joshua Davis? If you’ve been into any kind of digital creative for some time you might have encountered the legendary digital artist who’s inspired some of the biggest brands out there to make use of his computer generated abstract art in their marketing efforts. Some of these Brands include – BMW, Motorola, [...]

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