Nicholas Soper

In 2007 my company built a new website for NewLook Windows. At the time they were the only company in Cape Town selling PVC Double Glazed windows. The website was a marketing tool for them, so the site was coded in xhtml/css and had plenty of keywords for Double Glazing. After a month of being [...]

Back in 2006 I helped Apurimac Media build their website. Working with Will and Andre who were running the business at the time was a pleasure. The website was coded in xhtml/css and included a cool little flash header that represented the Apurimac River and the key words of the business. Here are some of [...]

In 2007 my company at the time redesigned the Pennypinchers website. It was a fairly large project which some unique problems to solve. The first was the website was hosted internally on a 128kbit Diginet line that was shared by the support office. This resulted in very poor connectivity to the outside world, with multiple [...]

Great work by Saatch & Saatchi [LA] and Resn who created site for The Camry Effect. Camry Owners across the US were asked to share their stories, their experiences and their special moments which happened behind the wheel of their Camry’s. These collective moments created a greater whole they call the ‘Camry Effect‘. The site is [...]

This is a neat little trick I learned while using MAMP over a network that I wanted to share. It is not intended to be a post for beginners, but for someone who already knows how to use mamp and setup a database. If you want to browse your working files in MAMP you normally open [...]

In a world where the internet is growing at an astounding rate, we have access to much more content than we ever did before. Every day there is more content online. Every day search engines are indexing more and more pages, and that means publishers are competing even harder for their share of voice in [...]

This is a new video making the rounds from John St., a Toronto digital marketing agency. It’s a hilarious take on viral video marketing.

Found this great article on CNET about Google hitting a billion visitors in May. What I found pretty interesting was that out of the 1,009,699,000 visitors in May 2011, 13.5 percent of the visitors were made up by South African users. That’s roughly 13.6 Million visitors from South Africa. What’s interesting is that the population [...]

Reminiscent of that award winning Honda Accord advert, Ford’s Park Assist ad is a great idea that has been executed really well. It ties together stuff doing the domino thing, and cute (but really smart) animals doing cute and clever stuff, to eventually parallel park a car. So easy

I work a lot in the mobile space and there is currently a boom happening in South Africa – brands are scrambling to go mobile. This is excellent as far as making brands accessible to many more South Africans without desktop internet access (which represents a huge number). As service providers we need to play [...]