I found this really funny article the other day, http://boagworld.com/design/10-things-a-web-designer-would-never-tell-you. Being in the web design industry myself, I found this to be totally hilarious. Very witty. We get some strange requests sometimes. This article just highlights all the things we need to explain to our clients prior to starting any development.
What constitutes a 6.5 million rand website? Curious? Well so am I! Recently Durban (South Africa) spent R6.5 million for the development of it’s 2010 website which will showcase the country’s FIFA World Cup developments to the country and its visitors.
According to IT news website, ITWeb (article here), the website www.fifaworldcup.durban.gov.za, will have features such [...]
Having your own personalised email address is not as expensive as you might think. All internet service providers offer their clients free email addresses. But these aren’t very brand orientated.
You do not have to have a website in order to own your own domain name. Domains are not expensive and neither are hosting accounts, especially [...]
My site has been long overdue for an update. So not too long ago I started working on it in-between projects. You can view it here, Web Designer in Port Elizabeth.
On the new site I also added a feed to this blog for SEO (search engine optimisation) purposes. I also wanted the site to be [...]
For a long time now I have been trying to get concrete evidence on the whole dynamic vs. static URL issue. Some webmasters say, you absolutely have to have static URL’s for good ranking in Google, while others say, it is a thing of the past. Well at last I have found that concrete evidence [...]
One of my clients, Pin High Group, deals solely with the marketing and sales of golf estates and golf developments. This is very unique. There are not many companies that specialise in this area. The director of the company is in his element of course because he is all about golf.With staff all over the [...]
It seems like just the other day that I was wondering when AVG will be upgrading their old logo. Now with Vista and all the other new software and their new looks, AVG’s little icon in my system tray looked pretty dull.
So to my surprise it was not long afterwards that a notifcation came through [...]
Local comedian, Barry Hilton, has taken the initiative and started an online DVD portal here in Port Elizabeth. Now I don’t know about you but I think this is the next best thing since sliced bread.
We tend to lag behind a bit here in PE so it is great to see a new innovation like [...]
I just had to let everybody know about this cool desktop application I discovered that helps you keep up to date with Eskom’s load shedding schedules. If you are from South Africa, this might just be the thing you were looking for.The application is very small and sits in your system tray once installed. You [...]
Geeks, developers and web designers have always been known to have quite a dry (but good) sense of humor.
Here is one of those inside jokes which I really consider to be a classic. I received the image below in an email stating, "Geek joke, well formed xml tags".
