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Kohana – Facilitating Development Frontiers

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

What is Kohana?

Kohana Framework

Kohana is a relatively new PHP Framework. The popular CodeIgniter has been a common choice for developers worldwide and sports a very active community. It has grown substancially, and while this may produce various benefits, it no longer satisfies the development of light-weight yet powerful web-based systems. Some of the core CodeIgniter developers recognized this and, taking the already powerful CodeIgniter, stripped it of the fat leaving behind only the powerful core. Kohana was born.

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Griffin Studios – Expanded

Sunday, June 5th, 2011

Griffin Studios is proud to announce the launch of its new website!

There have been some additions to Griffin Studios. We now offer in-house hosting instead of using a third party. This helps us to ensure that all hosting environments are configured to the clients specifications and quick correction of any problems which may arise from hosting.

The second addition, and the more interesting one, is that Griffin Studios now has a web software development department. The internet is fast becoming the transport of choice for many companies, with systems going fully web-based. Our new department is highly skilled in a fantastic framework called Kohana which is built off the popular Code Igniter. It is leaner, faster and simpler to use, ensuring that web software developed by Griffin Studios is up and running sooner.

Although Griffin Studios still sits on a South Africa domain name (.co.za), we have expanded to international clients. The beauty of web development is that it can be done from anywhere and we plan to utilize this feature to its maximum.

Griffin Studios is looking forward to a very bright future.

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SEO Basics for Beginners

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

When I first got into web design, as far as I was concerned, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) was the inclusion of the META KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION tags within a webpage. With just that, I was experiencing poor results when viewing my Google Analytics. I jumped into SEO research to discover why this was so. SEO is not as simple as it seems. The purpose of this post is to bring some simple yet effective measures to be taken to improve a websites visibility on the internet.

This post addresses some of the core aspects of SEO such as:

  • robots.txt
  • sitemap.xml
  • dublin.rdf
  • Social Networking
  • Blogging
  • Online Directories
  • Google Adwords

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Griffins Web Dev Tools

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

There are thousands of applications available which are specific to website design. Different designers each have their own preferences as to what programs to use. Some will swear by Adobe Dreamweaver, others Microsoft Publisher. Personally, such tools I find restricting. I will not touch Microsoft Publisher with a barge pole. So, at Griffin Studios, what tools do I use for website development? (more…)

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Website Design at a Distance

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Griffin Studios is still a relatively new company and as such, our target market has been within the local area in which Griffin Studios is based.  Often this can be restricting,  preventing a web designer’s portfolio from increasing ;  however, it can have its benefits. Below, the issue of distance between a web designer and their client will be addressed, with the possible pros and cons that arise from a long distance relationship with a client. (more…)

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