Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

For SA Rocks I was requested to rebrand their online presence and capture the spirit of what SA Rocks is about.

What was involved was heavily customizing the Gazette Premium News Wordpress Theme, coding additional modules to the design, splashing the template with bright South African colours, and testing the theme in numerous web browsers.

The end result is a happy, colourful branded website that will hopefully improve the user’s experience on this wonderful website that is proudly promoting South Africa and all of it’s wacky characteristics.

“After reading the incredibly upsetting anti-SA blogs from expats around the world I decided to make a stand. This blog is that stand. I am standing up for all the good in SA. For all the great things that SA citizens do and for all the people who love this country. I love this country and I believe in it and the success that is soon to come.” Source: SA Rocks About Page

The final logo that Nic and me agreed upon has a strong resemblance to the Superman logo. It portrays a powerful, striking image that portrays a message of hope for South Africa. It hopefully portrays Nic’s stand to fight for his country and spread the good news :)

The site template uses every facet of Wordpress’s extended functionality and allows it to function more as a magazine/newspaper site than your typical journal entry blog.

“Fairy Godmother Inc. is a company that is committed to helping individuals, companies and organisations get clear, inspired and focused on their vision, dreams and goals and we then support them in turning those dreams and goals into reality.”

Fairy Godmother Inc is run by the fabulous Donna McCallum who is quickly building quite a name for herself and “sprinkling fair dust” on the TV, in magazines, on websites and even at the Opening of Parliament.

The Fairy Godmother website resides on a wordpress content management system and has a completely customized template that makes use of custom fields and various plugins. The website design hopefully portrays a magical, colourful image, all the while attracting both individuals and businesses to attend her workshops and inspiring talks.

This wordpress template is feature rich with a mootools slideshow displaying featured articles professionally and attractively, lots of advertising banner spaces with complete control over what is displayed from within the wordpress backend panel, a clever little video player that can be positioned on the home page, and different colour options & home page layout structures for the theme at the click of a button. (more…)

Enshrine equips business entrepreneurs with skills, resources and leadership to engineer and sustain South Africa’s infrastructure development plans.

The design is a 3 column, widget enabled wordpress template, based on the popular Neoclassical search-engine optimized code. The template includes numerous custom designed header images that alternate upon page load.