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More sites go live

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:49:08 +0000

Pedigog have launched their site this week, focusing on Afrikaans teaching aids, and expanding eventually in many other South African languages. Check it out here.

Sound Systems, the South African BOSE equipment supplier, have launched their revamped site. We’re very happy that visually, functionally and experientially, this site far surpasses the previous one. Take a look at Sound Systems.

Working more with agencies

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:10:10 +0000

It’s been a pleasant surprise to find out how well we can team up with various design agencies and work together, with their clients, on their terms, their deadlines, our skills and tools, resulting in combined quality output! Cow Africa is our most recent addition in this space, which has allowed us to work on brands such as Vodacom, Bacardi, Van Dycks to name a few. Before this Flint Studio has been a great agency to work with, and we’re looking forward to long lasting relationships that offer more to the end client. Grant from Digital Fuel and our guys often team up to take on bigger projects, or projects with high turn-around times. In short, we’re getting all the benefits of being a big agency, without actually being one – definitely a great situation…

Exciting advances in technology have also allowed us to increase our offerings and at the same time focus more on what we truly enjoy doing – providing great web sites and web applications to our clients…

This includes various new media being explored: iPad books, web apps and Android apps.

Our internal development continues to expand:

I (Billy) am putting time into Android development, more Rails time, and starting to eye CakePHP as my framework of choice in PHP. I’m also exploring the authoring of iPad Textbooks, some JQuery, WordPress Themes and plugins..
George, while progressing leaps and bounds with WordPress (both implementation and with plugins and customisation and theme generation), is also spending some time getting into After Effects for video editing.
Danie is upping his HTML, CSS and WordPress skills in order to handle smaller projects.

We’re also taking full advantages of the many tools available to us: Trello, Dropbox, Evernote..

On our client side:

Watch soundimports.co.za for their new site launch, within a few weeks; their Bose products will be housed in the premium site that the brand warrants.
Bophelo Benefit will also go live within a week or two, be sure to check back for their new site!
DebtSafe continues to be a really great client, always working to improve the experience for their customers on a monthly basis.

All things considered, this is going to be a busy, fruitful and exciting year!

Rails, Magento, FB and more..

admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:12:32 +0000

They say a plumber’s drain is always blocked; and I guess it’s the same with a web developers site! Much has happened this year that is newsworthy. I’ve got a new contractor working with me on many of my projects. George is hard working, good at solving this web glitches that happen from time to time, and he’s learning at a phenomenal rate.. He’s also my guitar teacher!

Also, working with Nikki has been great, we’ve built a pretty nifty tool in PHP for Air Liquide.

Check out the HogWild site, it launched a while ago now: www.hogwild.co.za. They have incredible toys! This was our first Magento project, I think you’ll agree it was a major success.

Currently, I’m spending the majority of my time doing Rails 3 development on a new initiative in the property market. In between, we’ll be churning out some WordPress sites, a possible auction site, maybe some Facebook app dev too.

I’m still itching to get into some Android dev – but my spare time is pretty much taken with other things, so hopefully I can get a crack at that before the year is up..

I’ve recently met up with some cool people from Flint Studio’s, looking forward to coordinating with them on some projects in future.

2011 brings in the work

admin — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 18:43:34 +0000

Hit the ground running this year! Work includes some contract work at Eliance doing some Zend Framework. Some Magento ECommerce sites including one which will launch this month and is going to be a winner! A couple of custom WordPress sites and starting my first Ruby on Rails project. Lots of learning, exciting times!

I also have two contractors joining me on a regular basis to alleviate some of the workload. They will focus on project management and Open Source solutions.

Mo’vember madness

admin — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:33:58 +0000

Am I the only one who can’t wait for the mo to be no more? It’s a great cause, but kinda leaves me feeling I’m stuck in some one horse yankee town…

News this month: The Intersexions Mobi site went live this last week. Be sure to check out the Poll, the Video, and if you need, all the broadcasting times are there. -> mobi.intersexions.co.za.

Toy Store site in progress, be live soon.

Been doing some work over at Eliance, some exciting stuff happening there.

Investigating a new possible project, could go Symfony, could be my first Ruby project. Looking into that!

Please be advised that my doors will be closed from 20 December through to the 3rd of January.

Go Mobi, and more

admin — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:43:59 +0000

The temporary holding page for Intersexions is now available on phones. More and more, Mobi is becoming an exciting offering and it’s a fun platform to work on. Please check out http://intersexions-tv.co.za/mobi/ on your mobile phone and give some feedback. Fill in the form on the site to be notified of the launch of the site. If you have trouble with the site, please report it, along with your phone model and make, and what the trouble was.
Development has started on a Magento site for kids toys called Hog Wild, we expect the site to be live for Christmas sales… watch this space.
We’re looking to expand in 2011, with two new contractors stepping in to relieve workload. More on this when things get finalised.

Many new projects coming in…

admin — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:33:33 +0000

With the acceptance of a bunch of quotations, October’s going to be quite busy. Many new clients, exciting projects using great technologies, including: Magento, Symfony 2 and Code Igniter…

More work – looking for more freelancers!

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:05:06 +0000

A stack of new work has flooded in, predominently Joomla and WordPress sites. I am looking for freelance Joomla, Worpress and HTML developers so that I can continue bringing in additional work and not be overwhelmed.

You should be able to:

Take a PSD or PNG and build a Joomla 1.5 and WordPress 3.0 template.
Insert content and add plugins.
Setup a stage environment and work on that.
Deploy to live with minimal hiccups.
Work quickly with attention to detail.

JHB or PTA vicinity a plus. Contact me if this is you…