Chuffed - Brand co.

28/07/2021

With a slight name change reflecting their updated offering, we decided to carry over as much brand nostalgia as possible. We added in some iconic imagery and colour to help the brand stand out. See more: https://chuffed.co.za/2021/07/20/brand-update-for-an-established-family-owned-scrapyard/

18/06/2021

On July 1st 2021 the POPI act will be enforced on businesses residing in South Africa and businesses providing services to South Africans. How does this affect your WordPress website? Well, we were going to make a post but Bluegrass Digital did it already and did a great job! A must-read for everyone with a website. It's a relatively long read, but it's much shorter (and less confusing) than going through the POPIA act and much cheaper than a lawyer!

The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have a significant impact on websites and other digital platforms.

27/05/2021

Career Lounge - Brand Design, Corporate ID, Copywriting, Website
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With a team of 2 people, we managed to take this Business Idea from a Concept to reality in just 3 weeks. It was a pleasure working on this with our long term customer, Mr Lance Gold. We are looking forward to people engaging with his vision and experiencing the care and professionalism of Lance, as he takes them past their Career Roadblocks.

20/05/2021

Learn how to automate the maintenance of your business website with freely available and easy to use tools:

https://chuffed.co.za/2021/05/20/wordpress-websites-dont-need-maintenance/

19/05/2021

Please if you are on Internet Explorer, Upgrade to a new browser ASAP.

Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) was released over 7 years ago and is currently used by less than 1% of all users on the Internet with usage rapidly declining. A large majority of popular websites have …

07/05/2021

How Faster websites Can Help Save The Planet

"The internet has the same carbon footprint as global Airtravel"

A great talk by Jack Lenox in 2019, now more relevant than ever. In the last 2 years Chuffed has focused its effort on website optimisation and we will continue to grow our expertise in this area as we believe it makes a positive impact on the planet and user experiences.

At the end of June I gave a talk at WordCamp Europe in Berlin about web design and its relationship to environmental issues.

29/04/2021

If you own an online store this article does a great job of summarising the latest changes to the apple ecosystem and how it affects store owners.

Dramatic changes are coming to online advertising. Will your ads be impacted? How can you prepare? What’s next? Facebook, Google, and Snapchat share details.

28/04/2021

Wordpress Full Site editing around the corner... what does this mean for Business Owners and Web Developers?

• Quicker Website Turnaround times
• More Flexibility for Website owners and Developers
• The opportunity for Small Businesses to take control of their web presence like never before

Wordpress is moving fast in 2021 and we are Super Excited to be a part of it and plug our customers in to the latest innovations.

The second major release of the year is right around the corner. You might have heard a bit of buzz about full site editing around your WordPress circles, so this post will give you some big pictur…

26/03/2021

Some user interface trivia to brighten your day:)

Comment "I do" if you already know about this: indeed, In UI-UX , menus have names! That said, these are not standard names. For example, the meatball menu is more often used on iOS while the kebab menu is more for Android. And the hamburger menu comes from Xerox in the 80s! 😄

25/03/2021

If you are using a “Facebook Pixel” on your Wordpress website it’s highly likely you have installed this plugin and need to update it ASAP.

On December 22, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed a vulnerability in Facebook for WordPress, formerly known as Official Facebook Pixel, a WordPress plugin installed on over 500,000 sites. This flaw made it possible for unauthenticated attackers with access to a site’s secret...

24/03/2021

Refresh rather than redo. This was the brief while designing the new "Pearson Painting" brand. Maintaining the shape of the logo and the colours, we created an updated logo and paired it with a fitting set of fonts and colours to take it forward.

See More: https://chuffed.co.za/2021/03/14/refreshed-brand-for-established-painting-contractor/

23/03/2021

This guy's WordPress themes just get better and better! A great option for small businesses and startups looking for a quick launch. Here is the latest from Anders Noren, just released on the WordPress repository:

Download: https://www.andersnoren.se/teman/eksell-wordpress-theme/

Demo: https://andersnoren.se/themes/eksell/