Purple Hazard

Web Design and Marketing South Africa

Sarel Jan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:31:57 +0000

I’m fortunate enough to be doing an internship at a very exciting and professional Web Design and Marketing company located just-off-the-beach in Gordons Bay, South Africa. The focus of PixelFuel is to provide professional and clean Online Identities, powered by WordPress, to the individual, small to medium-sized business owners as well as larger corporate groups. [...]

My BuddyPress Plugins 2012

Sarel Jan — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:26:43 +0000

Why does this look like a WordPress plugin admin page? Well because it is. This is a copy – and – paste list of the plugins I’m currently running on my new BuddyPress Install. Naturally some of them are unnecessary or obsolete and won’t be there for long, but I felt it’s a nice thing [...]

WordPress Themes 2012

Sarel Jan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:56:02 +0000

Here’s a list of the most recent themes Free WordPress themes submitted to our Free WordPress Themes Tumblr. Unfortunately I just don’t have time to test out all of them, but as they all come from familiar sources there shouldn’t be any problems. Either way please let me know if you experience something funny. I [...]

Tumblr Focused Social Network

Sarel Jan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:29:27 +0000

A while back I wrote about a new Tumblr Directory I was working on. I decided to up the ante a bit by turning it into a fully functioning Tumblr Social Network and Directory. The whole focus of this network is to provide Tumblr users with the latest free and premium Tumblr resources as well [...]

Completely Free Hosting

Sarel Jan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:17:19 +0000

This is just a quick update to tell everyone about a new and completely free hosting provider. Apart from the stats below the hosting includes a free sub-domain, with the majority of popular terms still available, as well as a hosting control panel and auto installer. Package Includes: 2000 MB Disk Space * 20 GB [...]

The must have mobile apps for bloggers

Sarel Jan — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:45:06 +0000

The must have mobile apps for bloggers – Broadband Genie’s picks Now that many of us have gone mobile when it comes to producing our own blogs, there’s no doubt that there has been a resulting explosion of apps that help get the job done. Of course, everyone has their own ideas about what constitutes [...]

Securing perimiters remotely with technology

Guest Author — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:08:20 +0000

Technology is improving the way in which a business can protect itself against unwanted intruders, company damage and theft in both the digital and physical realms. While perimeter security measures such as electrified fences and barbed wire are good physical defences against break ins, there are other modern ways of remotely monitoring an environment that [...]

Local SEO – tips for targeting multiple locations

Guest Author — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:41:27 +0000

When trying to rank highly in Google, it is extremely important for small business to target locations. For example, it would be far more beneficial for a bakery store with a single store based in Portsmouth to target long-tail keywords like ‘bakery Portsmouth’ rather than ‘cakes’ or ‘gingerbread men.’ However, there still seems to be quite a bit [...]

Five ways to improve your open rates

Guest Author — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:30:16 +0000

Although email marketing has been proven to be the most cost-effective marketing methods, it is also easily disposable. One of the greatest challenges that email marketers face is the fact that email recipients are able to delete a message never to be seen again with one click of a button. For this reason, they arguably have to [...]

Digital PR Campaign: How to use QR codes

Guest Author — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:36:30 +0000

QR stands for ‘quick response’, quick response codes are a two dimensional code that can be scanned with smart phones. This code then links to pictures, videos and URLs that the creator has chosen. QR codes are becoming more prevalent in the UK & with half of the UK population owning a smart phone their [...]