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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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m starting to get carried away with look & feel design on the nomad-one redesign. This is even before my wire-framing is properly completed, but I just can’t help myself at the moment. I’ve just really enjoyed working on this design. There are a load of changes I want to make to my site, graphic [...]

Being snowed under for way too long as meant that some of the initial elements I wanted to add to the previous re-design of this site were left out. To be honest the design hadn’t lived up to my expectations form the very begining and has some serious usability problems as well. Having lived with [...]

A few days ago with the release of release candidate 1 for wordpress 2.7, I tested it out on my local install and without any bugginess decided to go live. One or 2 plugins conflicted with the new install which rendered nomad-one.com a blank white screen for a few hours. I also forgot to reset [...]

I was spurred into action to revive my Web Guru Spotlight Series of interviews when I came across the release of Quirk e-Marketing’s latest online marketing e-book. Rob Stokes, the brains behind Quirk has been a key figure in shaping the online marketing landscape in South Africa. I have been watching Quirk with interested over [...]

The Quirk e-marketing textbook has been doing it’s rounds locally and internationally. The textbook is jam packed with years of knowledge and experience and takes the reader through from the very beginning to more advanced strategies in online marketing. This month’s Heavy Chef session will see Rob Stokes, author of the e-marketing textbook and founder [...]

following in the spirit of open education and with a firm commitment to the Open Education Declaration, one of the star online Marketing outfits in South Africa, Quirk eMarketing, has released a comprehensive e-book detailing the ins & outs of online marketing from their wealth of experience in the field. They haven’t forgotten to follow [...]

Throughout my career as a designer in South Africa, I have been faced with racial issues in and around the media & advertising industry. It’s a space very much dominated by white males even to this day, which is also very much reflected in the work being produced and ideas which are spread within it. [...]

Whether you are a small business just starting out, or an organisation which does not currently have the funds to develop or host your own website, you’re probably still investigating ways of getting online in some way or another. It’s a fact of life for most businesses in this modern age, that being online is [...]

Today just keeps getting better for me, my blog has also been nominated in the category Best Blog about Design in the SA Blog Awards. Thanks to all those who nominated me, much appreciated, though the guys I am competing with make it really difficult to get past this point. So give me some help [...]

I’m running a special where you could earn 10% of projects you refer to me. This is a finders fee so if you find Design & Web projects for me, you’ll get paid 10% of anything I earn. Bear in mind client’s who do not pay, will not earn you a finders fee! Visit my [...]