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Our Content and Online Strategy guru, Sam, will be speaking at Pecha Kucha about crowd-sourcing content to give your event or organisation website a boost. Great opportunities for creative contributors, and an exciting way to expand your site's content...
YouTube is great - its a simple and effective way to store and display dynamic information about your business and services. Barak Obama uses it to chat to America every week. One of our clients uses it to show their work in progress. Embedding YouTube...
"Why can’t I paste from Word?" This is a question which comes up surprisingly often from our clients, so I thought a little explanation would be useful. The issue arises when a client writes the content for their site in Word, then uses copy-and-paste...
It may seem that we just picked a name that sounded a bit fancier than ‘web designers’ or ‘web developers’. Well, kind of. There are a lot of designers and developers out there, so it’s smart to choose a name that sets us apart a bit. But we chose the...
February has seen us investing a bit more time in reworking our CMS and setting up a schedule for creating blog posts (unfortunately there's no way around actually writing regular blog posts other than scheduling them in...). We've been doing a lot more...
Spend less, earn more customer loyalty. The obvious answer to why you should be online is 'because everybody is'. Just as with traditional marketing, you can't afford not to be visible in places where your competition is visible. This doesn't mean, though,...
We've been looking around the web for Usability Testing software. In South Africa, most web development companies just plain don't do usability testing - which would be fine except that most web development companies in South Africa aren't that clued...
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is vitally important when it comes to building a website. Google drives more traffic through the internet than any other site, so it's naturally important that a website gets found on Google. But that's only half the picture....
Earlier this year we went live with a site for a family & kids photographer, This Other Eden. It's a great site that is helping the new photography business get off the ground. Find out more
Michele found this great infographic. South Africans have obviously taken to Pinterest in a big way.
It's nearly time for Design Indaba. We're looking forward to the Young Designers Simulcast here in Durban. So many amazing, inspirational speakers to get your creative juices flowing! Since 1995, the Design Indaba Conference has invited the world’s top...
These tips also great for SA-based companies as new online privacy and security rules come into play... www.aclunc.org Last year was jam-packed with stories of companies making costly mistakes on user privacy and free speech. To help companies get a fresh...
Local girl Nadia van der Mescht has recently rebranded from her craft-oriented Cupcake Couture to a more sophisticated name, look and feel for her creative consulting business. She's working with Fathima, who does design work for us as well. We're so...
John at Gala has really put time into getting his home page slides right, and it pays off! Check out the great image he developed to highlight their new job vacancy... gala.co.za Home page for Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action website.
We've just built a new online carbon registry for PACE. Check out Credible Carbon - a socially responsible carbon transaction site. crediblecarbon.com Credible Carbon is a voluntary market carbon registry that certifies and trades African carbon projects...
Twitter app to shoot great quality short vids and post them to your feed. Can't wait to try it out. itunes.apple.com Get Vine - Make a scene on the App Store. See screenshots and ratings, and read customer reviews.
Interesting post with some useful explanation of Facebook's Edgerank. Most important line to my mind: "I’ll boil it down to one simple concept — fresh, interesting content wins. But there’s a little twist: you have to continue to be interesting." www.copyblogger.com...
RIP Aaron Swartz, internet hero: developer of RSS, creator of Reddit and tireless defender of internet freedom. A sad, sad story. www.huffingtonpost.com Open democracy advocate and internet pioneer Aaron Swartz was found dead Friday in an apparent suicide,...
We recently went live with a new site for the Centre for Economic Governance and Aids in Africa. The site is full of useful resources and we enjoyed the challenge of finding user-friendly ways to present all their materials. cegaa.org
The Bay Café - on Glen might need to rework their profile pic, but have used the Cover Photo space beautifully! Don't you just want to go eat there right now? Ivan Cameron who has been cooking since he was 11 according to his Mum and was trained at the...
Another winner website/social media tie-in campaign that matches up beautifully with their valentines day instore offering. Nice work WOOLWORTHS SA. www.secretkiss.co.za
Timeline coming for Facebook Pages. Start preparing your Pages now folks, and you can take full advantage of the awesome features. techcrunch.com What does the launch of Facebook Timeline for Pages mean for your brand? Unprecedented control, an opportunity...
Woolworths is really doing great online stuff. A wonderful example of brand-building through feelgood activity + great design.
So impressed with the US government for providing this comprehensive and neat site for their agencies to maximise digital: www.howto.gov HowTo.gov is a website to help government workers deliver a better customer experience to citizens.
That's a lot of numbers. Africa still at the bottom of the heap for internet access. royal.pingdom.com We have explored all the corners of the Internet to collect all kinds of fantastic numbers that describe the Internet in 2012.
