Those who work in software development are familiar with the initial questions a prospective client will ask: “What’s it going to cost?” “How long will it take?” and “When can you start?” Simple questions, yet the answers can lead to significant stress, both for the client and us, the service provider. Give the client bloated [...]

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Following today’s launch of Google Street View in South Africa, RE/MAX of Southern Africa, in partnership with local web application development specialists White Wall Web, have become the first Real Estate franchise in SA to fully integrate this technology into their website. Google Street View is a service linked to Google Maps and Google Earth [...]

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As best described by Wikipedia, “HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the core mark-up language of the World Wide Web.” Realistically, not every website will make use of HTML5, but for those developers who will, their websites will have better support across modern desktop and mobile browsers.

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More than 83 percent of Internet users are likely to leave a website if they feel they have to make too many clicks to find what they’re looking for. (Arthur Andersen, 2001) One of the most important aspects of any website or web application is the end-user experience. However, website usability is often neglected during [...]

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We are on show at the Cape IT Initiative (CITI) exhibition showcasing the Cape Software industry. The exhibition will run concurrently with the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2010), and will take place from Wednesday, 5 May to Friday, 7 May 2010 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (Ballroom West). Entrepreneurs and their [...]

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White Wall Web is a proud sponsor of the 2nd annual Net Prophet conference, which takes place on the 13th of May, 2010 at the Old Mutual Campus Courtyard, West Campus, Mutual Park. Net Prophet, a non-profit conference hosted by the RAMP Foundation, is all about inspiring, equipping and empowering entrepreneurs operating in the local [...]

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Noel Ross-Gillespie’s first post in our Business Metrics Series, An Introduction to Business Metrics, provided a brief overview into how we implement Business Metrics into the various departments at White Wall Web. In this post, we discuss the practical implications of measuring the performance of our Product and Support department.

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CSS3, the latest style sheet format, may still be a work in progress and in a continuous development stage, however, it is deemed as a powerful and comfortable tool for developers. CSS3 builds upon the principles of styles, selectors and the cascade which developers have become accustomed to in previous versions. Setting up a layout [...]

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