I recently launched a new site called Longboarding South Africa. After recently taking up longboarding myself, I found that there aren’t much resources available online here in South Africa for longboarders. I am hoping to change that with the launch of this site. My aim with this site is to help longboarding grow here in [...]
So the social media madness continues. During a bout of boredom I decided to go take a peek at how all my RSS feeds are doing. I was not really surprised to find that the one site that was supposed to be updating is down (RSS2Twitter) and that the other just does not do any [...]
Very recently I have been getting quite a lot of sites hacked by guys who leave an include in files like js and php files. This include calls a script from their own servers located at inkrainbow.ru and pocketbloke.ru.
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

