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michaelbain has successfully developed and deployed a photo-blogging website for the freelance photographer, Jessie Slabbert.

Jessie needed a photo-blogging and journaling platform to use as a showcase for her freelance photography website, SnappedPhotos – and on a tight budget too!

She needed social media integration and reader interactivity as well as an easy way to manage and update her own content: WordPress theming and customisation to the rescue!

The design called for a smart, but not too busy approach so that the website itself does not detract from the real art – her photographs – but still provide a modern, relaxed, yet professional showcase for her work.

In Jessie’s words:

I am all about freelance photography.
SnappedPhotos is all about freelance photography.

Contact michaelbain so that we may discuss your particular needs and tailor-make a solution for you.

michaelbain has successfully delivered a complete website solution for Tartan Manor.

The website features the following functionality and components, all neatly tied together:

• The tried and tested WordPress CMS with which the administrator can manage their own content
• A custom design with an easily manageable image slider
• Featured content area on the homepage
• Social media integration
• News items and blogging
• Visitor commenting and interaction
• An events calender
• Image galleries

Tarton Manor is a fun and dynamic new stable yard, just 4km from Greenhills, Randfontein, a stone’s throw from Maple Ridge and 20mins away from Featherbrooke.

Visit the Tarton Manor site for more information and contact michaelbain to discuss your needs for your website project.

michaelbain has successfully completed a website project for www.hajime.co.za.

Hajime needed:

• The WordPress content management system installed
• A custom theme designed and developed
• Their content transferred
• Their photo and video galleries set up
• Their Facebook page integrated with the website

michaelbain obliged with all of the above within a very short time period and within an extremely affordable budget.

Contact michaelbain for your website, content management and web development needs.

michaelbain in conjunction with pixelmagic is proud to launch the DarkCarnival Online Store.

The store is part of phase 2 of the www.darkcarnival.co.za project.

We have provided DarkCarnival with a full-on interactive shopping experience for their customers and a acomplete self-managed store management system for the website administrators to manage the store with.

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michaelbain in conjunction with pixelmagic has successfully completed a website revamp and modernisation project for the two sister sites, Dunblane Lifestyle Estate and Dunblane Equestrian Centre.

The client had a web presence in the form of static websites that they could not update and maintain themselves. Useful functionality like update picture galleries, news items and articles was not possible. They needed  a content management system and a publishing platform with some added functionality and a revamped layout and design to fit their image and marketing strategy.

The following was delivered:

• A customised WordPress content management system with which the client can manage their own content, picture galleries, news items and articles
• An events calendar managed through the admin interface
• A newsletter subscription and publishing service to collect newsletter subscribers and send out newsletters, managed through the admin interface
• Consistent and related (in function and form) navigation, layout and widgets across both sites to tie them together (theme design by pixelmagic)

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michaelbain has successfully completed a WordPress project for www.inter-arise.com

The project involved a WordPress installation, configuration and code modification to meet Inter-Arise‘s functional needs.  The michaelbain-developed Get-Post-Image plugin was also used in the theme to get the look and feel needed.

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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could make a physical object in the real world, like your car door, a street pole, your office front door, your product or your business card clickable so that it opens a link on the web when you click it?

Well – now you can – with mobile phone technology and these:

See below / full article for more.

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