We’re excited to announce a great new WordPress / WooCommerce website and online store project – www.nzefi.com. The Christchurch-based tuning and performance shop had been using WordPress and another e-commerce system for some years — but it was seriously lacking in many areas. NZ EFI knew they wanted to stick with WordPress and had heard [...]
Android Market is dead! Long live Google Play
Not being the kind of company to lay idle – out of the blue comes a huge revamp of the Android Market and rebranding: it is now Google Play. Google are really talking up and focusing on the cloud storage and syncing aspects of Google Play — clearly designed to challenge Apple’s iCloud service. Of [...]
Settling in nicely
There’s been big changes going on at Stomp Box… not least of which is our lovely new office in sunny rainy Mount Eden!. We are very excited to be expanding our business and enjoying the new digs. Our office is located in a beautiful heritage building – the original Mount Eden Fire Brigade Station on [...]
Another E-Commerce project rolls out
Just as we’re getting so cosy and familiar with our new favourite e-commerce platform; WooCommerce, along comes a WP-ECommerce project (also known as GetShopped.org). Local online fashion start-up Fash Stash found a nice WP-Ecommerce theme that suited them perfectly – they just needed a bit of help with some minor customisations and site configuration. Things [...]
Google releases Chrome browser for Android (finally!)
I can certainly say I’ve been waiting for this for a while now. Chrome is a fantastic browser (it has almost clawed me away from my current default browser: Firefox) and it has always seemed odd that there wasn’t a mobile version. The wait is over… but hold the phone… turns out the beta is [...]
Brilliant new band / artist theme from WooThemes
Something we have never done at Stomp Box is build a musician or band website — which is odd really. Today WooThemes have released a superb new super-charged WordPress theme — called Unsigned, packed with fantastic modules perfectly suited to building a band or music artist website in WordPress in next-to-no-time. So, now we have [...]
New Stomp Box site is live
A new year usually means putting a little time aside to update our own site (this one!). Whilst I was still pretty happy with the design and most things about our site – there were a few niggling problems that I decided I’d had enough of wrestling with – the framework the site was built [...]
Awesome new JavaScript 3D engine — three.js
There is a fantastic new 3D JavaScript API available aptly named ‘three.js’. From the ‘three.js’ website: You can try some of the excellent demos to see the power of 3D in your browser – use Firefox 9, Safari or Chrome for the best performance. Some of my favourites: WebGL Post Processing 3D Earth Video on [...]
WordPress 3.3 is here
A little early Christmas present for all WordPress users: version 3.3 has landed and is packed with some superb new features. The most talked about seems to be the new drag-and-drop media uploader. This works a treat, and this upgrade along with the improved image editing from a few versions back really makes uploading and [...]
Adobe drops Flash support for mobile devices
Pretty big news this week in mobile web development: Adobe is discontinuing support for Flash on Android devices. As anyone with an iPhone or iPad knows, Flash has never been supported on iOS and the late Steve Jobs made no secret of his views on Flash technology. You can read the post on the Adobe [...]
