Francois Olwage's Groups
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Agile Cape
72 members
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We Love Start-ups
62 members
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SA Innovation Network
41 members
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Location, Location, Loca…
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Apple South Africa
75 members
Francois Olwage's Discussions
Advice needed for building a big user based website.
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Basically I'm building a big website which will have many users. I am using Dreamweaver CS5 on mac. It will have a similiar kind of set up as the silicon cape website. So should I use any advice will…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Neil Hinrichsen Aug 10, 2011.
Help with the buying and registration of a domain name?
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Please would you explain the process of buying a domain name form someone.Would just like to know what steps to take in the process as this is the first time I am I am buying a domain name.Any help…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Francois Olwage Apr 13, 2011.
Anything Negative about Facebook?
Would just like to see people's views on what they see as negative about facebook.
Started Apr 9, 2011
Francois Olwage's Page
Profile Information
- Who are you?
- I am a 16 year old who has a great idea, and can't wait to finish school so that I can start my own business.
Christian
Entrepreneur
Social Media
If your not scared of your vision, its not big enough.
- Where can you be found on the web, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc?
- Twitter @FrancoisOlwage
- What is your current activity, project or occupation?
- Finishing off school
Developing ideas and designing my logo.
Designing/Building website
Will be looking to establish contacts in the coming months to start building up a team.
- In what place did you last go to school or other institute of learning?
- I just finished school at Robert May's School in Odiham, Hampshire, UK and will be going to Farnborough Sixth Form College next school year
Latest Activity
Neil Hinrichsen replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."There are lots of great resources on scalability at http://highscalability.com."
jonathancrossland replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."
Sites looks good. :)
stylesheet and some images are not loading on idezynit.com
read Nerudo Mregi comment just above - on Google Chrome (F12), Firefox too, allows you to profile your site and see what errors, speed…"
Nerudo Mregi replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."I think during development try using tools like Chrome to better optimise your sites. I love the design. Awsome stuff. Google Chrome Audit can really help."
Neil Blakey-Milner replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."Wow, that's 2MB transferred with 144 resources (network requests for images, JavaScript, CSS, and Flash). You definitely need to do something to decrease both those numbers. You definitely wouldn't want to try load that site up…"
Tatenda Muregi replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."Love the discussion going on here Rick, Jonathan, Peter, George! A simple topic arouses such an enlightening discussion. I may be a bit off-topic here, but for the sake of how you guys analyze a site, we have just launched a new service built on the…"
jonathancrossland replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."
I will have a proper look again when I get chance. but it's already a lot better. :)
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Rick Harington replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."Just a general thank you for the great response from everyone. We have made the changes mentioned and we believe www.market-fleas.com is defintaly for the better. Please let us know how we can improve the site in anyy way. We're always keen on…"
jonathancrossland replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."
nice to see that feature is covered :)"
Neil Blakey-Milner replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."In this case, the Drupal administrator just forgot to turn on CSS and JS aggregation in their performance tab."
George Gombay replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."Thank you or that thorough exposé, Jonhatan."
Rick Harington replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."Oh and good luck."
Rick Harington replied to Francois Olwage's discussion Advice needed for building a big user based website."Francois, we started on the same path that you are on about 3 years ago. Just learning the basics of code and dreaming big. That's great and don't ever forget what you are aiming for.
We can save you a h*** of a lot of time. DRUPAL.…"
Francois Olwage replied to Rizaan Lakay's discussion New website opinion??"Hi Rizaan
I like the idea and everything its the speed thats the problem for me.
Have you thought of of having the options of just being able to look at apartments for example or houses. Maybe just add these to the bar under search."
Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 11:08 on May 6, 2011,
Anthony Cohen said… check out the following groups on Mygeni I think they might interest you
http://mygeni.org/club/love_your_planet.mygeni
http://mygeni.org/club/beyond_oil.mygeni
- At 14:50 on April 20, 2011,
Gutembert Nganpet said… - Good to be here!
- At 13:07 on April 7, 2011,
Paul Roberts said… Hi Francois,
Let us know if I can help you. I am in the translation and localisation business. The company I work for, Folio, translates software and UI into different languages.
Good luck!
Paul
- At 20:54 on March 30, 2011,
Carl Muller said…
- At 13:45 on March 27, 2011,
James Hurford said… No, we don't copyright names. But I do know it's pretty easy to do yourself.
You can copyright name even if no one's heard of it.
- At 12:41 on March 27, 2011, James Hurford said…
- Yes you can copyright a brand name.
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