In celebration of our tenth birthday we decided to give you an awesome free Wordpress theme. Greyzed is a stylistically bold and grungy theme ideal for personal blogs.

You can read about its features, view the demo and download the theme here.

Tell us what you think in the comments. We love to hear your feedback.

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Even when he cries for attention or discovers an insane keyboard shortcut that leaves your browser locked at 100px and your computer’s default language Mandarin, you cant help but still love him.

The raffle was a great success and the weekend away at The Retreat was thoroughly enjoyed by Tim, a youth paster, and his wife Leslie. Leslie and Tim kindly sent through a couple photographs.

We are thrilled that you had a good weekend away and are pleased to have been involved!

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Here are some important elements we incorporated into the new website:

• Showcase her photo shoots and blog posts in a neat and easy way for visitors to view.
• Allow site visitors to easily get in touch with her.
• Include her social networking areas (Facebook and Twitter).
• Display related content on various photo shoots to increase user activity on the website.
• Create a control for each photo shoot that allows for the mention of each Service Provider, eg. Make-up, Flowers, Cake, etc.
• Provide social bookmarking tools to all visitors to share the site content with their friends on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed and others, to increase the awareness of the website.

Click here to take a look at the new Hannalee Photography website!

Visit Hannalee Photography

To qualify for this opportunity, you must be highly energetic and able to work in a busy team environment. You are a person with the ability to manage multiple deadline-orientated tasks with emphasis on attention to detail and thorough task completion, with minimal guidance. Own transport is essential.

Basic knowledge of SEO and online marketing strategy would be to your advantage.

Details:
Type: 3 month contract with possible permanent employment
Level: Entry
Remuneration: Neg
Location: Cape Town

Your CV MUST include:

• a link to your online portfolio or links to at least 3 live sites. Please detail your contribution to each project.
• contactable references
• your availability
• ref: WD201001

Requirements:

• Photoshop
• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript

Nice to Haves:

• PHP
• mySQL
• ASP (VBScript)
• Flash
• Freehand

Send your CV to work@theforge.co.za

Only successful applicants will be contacted for interviews and practicals.

So without further ado, here is the wallpaper for January (apologies for it being a little late).

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As a point of interest, this photograph was taken from The Forge headquarters (we are extremely thankful to have a pool during hot Cape Town summers). And what we aim to do as a wallpaper theme for this year, is to whenever possible make the wallpapers reflect an aspect of The Forge environment.

We like to think of Organic as a free PREMIUM theme for Wordpress in that it offers some options normally only available in premium themes but is available to you as a 100% free download.

To find out more about Organic, please click here to access the page that outlines all its features, a demo and the download link (Don’t forget the plugins, you can find the download links here).

Enjoy!

2009 has been incredible for us here at The Forge Web Creations – a year of exciting growth, bringing with it new challenges, terrific opportunities and enormous personal reward for our whole team.

To all our valuable Clients: I’d would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support of our business over he last 12 months.

After this eventful year, it’s time for us to take a much-needed break so that we can recharge our batteries and return refreshed and ready to tackle the challenges of 2010.

Our last day of business is today, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 and we shall re-open Tuesday, 12 January 2010.

On behalf of my entire team, I wish you and your loved ones all the very best over the Festive Season and we look forward to working with you again in the New Year.

Happy Holidays!

Sue Rutherford