The Yellow Llama | Web Design South Africa
The Yellow Llama | Web Design South Africa

Archive for the category "Portfolio"

  • Date: February 12th, 2008
  • Time: 4:26 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Deals 4 Lunch

Wow, this was a fun project. deals4lunch.com is a venture whereby users can sign up for free to receive daily lunch coupons. All you do is sign up with your ZIP code and each morning you’ll receive a lunch coupon to a restaurant in your zip code area. We designed a fun website for deals4lunch.com that features a full user & admin management system. Restaurants are able to login, create & style coupons that are then added to the …

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  • Date: January 30th, 2008
  • Time: 10:16 am
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Ginger Restaurant

The Ginger Restaurant website project was a fun project to work on. I had creative license to create a top quality website that would echo the elegant vibe & atmostphere of the restaurant itself. The site had to have a level of elegance, whilst at the same time being slick and fun. The angled edges that are ‘out of the box’ provide the edgy feel that the client was looking for, whilst the smooth javascript image fader provides a …

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  • Date: January 4th, 2008
  • Time: 4:07 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Port Elizabeth Business Guide

As a personal project, we decided to launch an advertising brochure in the Port Elizabeth area where I live. The brochure will be printed in full color on gloss paper. 10 000 Issues will be distributed each month at various strategic points in PE. The Port Elizabeth Business Guide website is a very basic site designed to provide information on the brochure and allow interested ones to request info etc.

Photoshop Design
XHTML
CSS
Javascript accordion
Flash page flipper
Powered by Wordpress

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  • Date: November 11th, 2007
  • Time: 6:05 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Legal Eyes Clothing

The Legal Eyes Clothing website is a ‘one pager’ designed for Brett Rudolph, a client of Cafe Print. The website had little need for oodles of content and thus we felt that a CMS was not required. a jQuery thickbox was used to showcase the 3 product ranges of Legal Eyes.

The design is bold and funky and proved to be much to the clients liking.

What we did for them:

Photoshop Design
XHTML/CSS Coding
jQuery Thickbox

Visit the Legal Eyes Clothing website

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  • Date: September 20th, 2007
  • Time: 1:28 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Pages4Agents

The need for quick-start websites for real estate agents in the US is growing. Our client, Pages4Agents , wanted a site to market his company & its services, as well as 5 templates that will be offered to his potential clients. Each of the templates were designed and coded and plugged into a Realty Management system that will allow users to easily add and edit properties for sale. Each of the templates are available in a range of color …

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  • Date: September 14th, 2007
  • Time: 2:31 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 2

Ilovani House

Ilovani house was designed for our client who wanted a web presence to direct potential renters of his incredible St Francis Bay home. The site makes a lot of use of AJAX and some flash for the stunning photo galleries on the site. Scriptaculous powers the ’slide-down’ enquiry form which is processed using AJAX. All in all, a powerful, elegant and interactive site for Ilovani House.

Photoshop Design
Handcoded in XHTML & CSS
Slide-down effect on enquiry form with Scriptaculous
Form …

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  • Date: August 16th, 2007
  • Time: 11:54 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

SnapCoders

We kinda jumped on the bandwagon with this one, following a trend in the US for design companies to offer a low cost, speedy coding service that provides quality coding with a fast turnaround time. The response to the design has been good, with it being showcased on CSSMania (thanks guys). SnapCoders used some new AJAX techniques thanks to the guys at Stickman Labs. The home page features the Lightbox 2 AJAX technique, and the …

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  • Date: July 5th, 2007
  • Time: 11:57 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Nelson Mandela Bay

A new and much anticipated initiative to create a reversal of the braindrain on Port Elizabeth was launched this year. NelsonMandelaBay.biz is the front of this drive and it aims to create a better awareness of the wonders that is Port Elizabeth. As this is my current home town, I was privileged to be given the chance of designing this site and thus far the response has been quite positive.

XHTML
CSS (with exceptions due to OpenAds)
OpenAds
BBClone
Wordpress

Visit the NelsonMandelaBay.biz website

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  • Date: July 5th, 2007
  • Time: 11:50 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

Kidz Africa

After the first redesign forever ago, we approached James and he agreed to go ahead with a fresh new look for his Kidz Africa website. After some deliberation, we decided to jump to the opposite side of the spectrum with a darker color scheme that encorporates a richer feel and has a slicker, more professional appeal.

A nice selection of stock photography, combined with a randomizing PHP script, creates a fresh feel with new pictures on every page.

Photoshop
XHTML
CSS
WP
iStock Photography

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  • Date: July 5th, 2007
  • Time: 11:44 pm
  • Written by: MarkB
  • Comments: 0

WikkidApps

I’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of awesome web based applications that are being developed. With technologies like Ruby on Rails, AJAX, XML powered Flash… etc, companies and developers alike are churning out awesome web applications every week. The more applications I uncovered, the more I realized that a showcase was needed.Thus WikkidApps was born.

Photoshop
XHTML
CSS (with exceptions because of OpenAds)
OpenAds
BBClone Stats Monitoring

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The WordPress Guru is launched

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Looking for trouble…

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26 Reasons why dogs bite people

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Examples of Kulula attendants’ sense of humor

Kulula is an Airline with head office situated in Johannesburg. Kulula airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture" and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some Real examples that have been heard or reported: On a Kulula flight, (there is no assigned seating, ...

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