http://www.noboxmedia.com The AJAX, DHTML & JavaScript site Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:20:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A while ago a friend asked if I could design a female character for her. It was to be used as a mascot for a site she was developing. In the end the illustration was not used and odds are I will never used it. So rather than leaving the ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/girl-i-made-in-photoshop/ Well, I have left my comfy spot at a local digital media agency and joined the Avusa iLab team. Over the past few years I have built up a decent rack of skills and experience, working with great A-list brands and leading online publications. However, working with iLab on Avusa ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/i-now-work-for-the-avusa-ilab/ It's not too often we see large media companies embracing Open Source technologies, so it is really great to see one of South Africa's large media houses embracing Drupal, an Open Source CMS. This morning I read an Aricle on bizcommunity outlining the launch of gotravel24.co.za. In general the site promotes travel ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/media24-goes-opensource-with-drupal/ Well perhaps it is not so much a launch as a re-launch. Mid 2007 Google launched an educational program. At the time it was called 'Google Code for Educators'. Google has now re-designed the site and re-launched as the Google Code University. The site is aimed at helping educators and ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/google-launches-code-university/ I recently updated NoboxMedias design. I don't want to go on too much about my design, however, Nobox is not alone. Along with my new design I assisted TechMongrel.com and TheOpenSurgery.com in jazzing up their blogs. We got together one night for a few drinks, a braai and look at their ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/local-blogs-get-a-face-lift/ This is a simple PHP script I compiled for a little side project. The script returns the title and meta data of a page by using a function called 'get_meta_tags' and a string search for the title. I imagine it is similar to what many social bookmarking sites and content aggregators do to pull information ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/pull-meta-and-title-from-a-page-using-php/ Well it is the first day I have checked Google since I posted my Springleap article. I see Bandwidthblog is still holding strong, however, viralmarketer and imod slowly creeping up there. I also see Nobox up there in 8th place - whoohoo! When I posted the Springleap article we were initially listed ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/springleap-seo-competition-update/ For a while now I have been wanting to share a few scripts to help visitors with image manipulation. Only thing is I did not want to list out all the tricks I have learned without any context. Recently, a South African site called Springleap launched. Springleap allows visitors to ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/the-springleapcom-web-based-image-manipulation-bundle/ This is a little script I've been playing with. I'm using it on my pet project GoGuide.co.za, a social bookmarking site. The plan is for the site to pull a thumbnail image of a submitted URL's page. The script scans specified sites for the first image with ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/pull-and-save-an-image-on-your-server-from-any-site/ Wow,  I'm thrilled to be nominated as a finalist in no less than two categories of the SABlogAwards! I launched Nobox in November last year and as such this is my first time as a nominee. I must say it is quite an honor to be listed with some of SA's coolest blogs, ... http://www.noboxmedia.com/nobox-first-time-sablogawards-finalist/