Let me first start by saying, I am not a designer by trade, but I do enjoy reading about it and trying to understand it better. In general I know what looks good. Getting my own work to look good is the tougher part. I have 3 rules I follow to get the job done and it’s something I learned from a designer friend of mine.

It’s referred to the 3 C’s of design: Consistency, Conservation (Clutter-busting) and Contrast

The one I use the most every day is “consistency”. You can face design pretty darn well by just making sure your layout is consistent.

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OK, so I’m in the process of recoding the Win This! website. This time around I did everything on the site, The design, the HTML/CSS/JavaScript and I’m now busy doing the PHP integration from the back-end I built for the initial launch.

So here are some teaser images for what you can expect from the new site:

Check back soon to see the final product.

This is why I like working for Stonewall+..

To get the ball rolling on the Vodacom FAME site, we decided to make a video and upload it to the site. I got a day for shooting and about another day for editing it down to something watchable.

All I can say is that the response is quite overwhelming. Over 3000 people have watched me shake my ass lol!

Check it out here!

Update: The campaign is now over and the videos was taken down too, so the above link doesn’t work anymore

It was a few months ago that me and my buddy Clement came up with the idea of building a site that could list all the local online competitions. He was going to do the design and I was going to do the coding.

Initially I thought that I was going to build the whole thing on WordPress, but after some consideration we decided to build a custom system that would cater specifically to our needs. Lucky for me I had a basic skeleton already (which I customized for ScientificFeed) and the building started.

This is now a fully operational back-end that allows us to upload pictures for the various competitions and also to specify if a competition should be featured at the top of the site or not. It also have a fully integrated mailing list sign up system and messaging system.

In addition to all that I also coded it to export a RSS feed for the site to allow people to follow the site from a reader of their choice.

Check out the WinThis site!

The new Lola’s closet website went live last week.. and this one is a goodie!

The tech that was used in the production is as follows, my homey Deon built the back end in PHP using the Zend framework, and I built the front end using HTML, CSS and JavaScript (using the jQuery framework to be exact). The flash bits was done by my other homey Harold.

The design was done by Lisa and Jade.. I love seeing nice designs like this come alive with JavaScript and Flash.. It makes me appreciate my job!

Check out the site!