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28
Jan

Internet Economy

The value of the web economy in will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group research. It will grow from $2.3 trillion to $4.3 trillion. Google research forcasts that by 2016 3 billion people will be using the Internet for researching information or purchasing a product or service. Right now, every year about [...]

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12
Jan

Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft has celebrated the imminent demise of version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser by baking a cake. The software giant held the light-hearted celebration as it revealed that the program was used by less than 1% of US internet surfers. It is keen to kill off the old version of the browser and persuade [...]

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21
Dec

Closed for Christmas and New Year

Pixels Webdesign will be closed from the 23rd of December to the 9th of January 2012. Only emergency support will be available. if you are a client and have an website or hosting emergency please email us. We will fix your problem ASAP. A very merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to all [...]

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07
Oct

RIP Steve Jobs

The world lost a visionary yesterday. After a long battle with cancer Steve Jobs passed away. As Obama quoted the world learnt of his passing away on a device he invented. The global outpouring has been huge. Even in his death he has created records. Tweets were coming at 10,000 per second on the news! [...]

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11
Sep

Remembering 9/11

We all remember the 10th anniversary of 9/11 solemnly and reflect on the loved ones lost. This brings back a lot of memories for me. I was living in California at that time. I had dropped my son at school and was on the computer checking emails. A friend rang and told me to switch [...]

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07
Sep

A frustrating experience

I had a very frustrating experience yesterday. I needed to print some postcards for a marketing campaign of mine. I got the yellow pages out. Circled a few ads , and got on the phone to get some quotes. I rang about 8-9 places that had large ads. Two telephone numbers were disconnected! Out of [...]

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04
Sep

New site finally alive!

Phew! I finally switched to the new site. Took me like  two months to to get it ready to be up and running. (Lack of time mainly) The layout is new the colours are new. Kept everything minimalist. Pixels is providing many new services like SEO – specific website packages with tools to grow your [...]

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28
Jun

Pixels webdesign is re branding

I am re-branding and in the process the website is being revamped as well. My business model is changing drastically. I did a feedback survey of my existing customers. – and took their feedback very seriously. The focus will be on the needs of  small businesses. The approach “grow your website as you grow your [...]

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07
Jun

Google to abandon older browsers

A recent news item stated “Google to abandon older browsers “. Google is phasing out support for older browsers from 1 August. Those using IE7, Safari 3, Firefox 3.5 and their predecessors to view Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites will then lose some functions. Eventually, it warned, these web services will stop working [...]

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29
May

Christchurch business hosting offer

I have come up with a heavily discounted offer for Christchurch businesses. As a small business owner I know how difficult it is when hard times come. A while ago I had an email from one of my existing customers, stating that a business owner she knew is Christchurch could not access his website as [...]

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