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Job Opportunity: Web Interface Designer posted on April 18, 2011 - 11:25am

Please Note:

  1. This is a DESIGN position. While knowledge of PHP, Joomla, WordPress and other back-end systems is an added bonus, they are not necessary.
  2. Please don’t use  your certificates, degrees and diplomas as the sole basis for your qualification. While we appreciate a good education, we’re more interested in your design portfolio, so send us samples of your best, pixel perfect web-design work.

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Design Kingdom offline for maintanence posted on May 25, 2010 - 5:00pm

Our fellow Knights of the kingdom,
As some of you may have noticed, DK has been offline since Friday the 21st, last week. The reason for this is we have discovered some serious security holes that have made DK vulnerable.
As such, we have taken DK down for some mojo maintanance and upgrading which we cannot do while it’s online.
We ask for your patience and to keep checking back. We promise you when we’re back up, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the improved site.
In the meantime, please keep doing excellent design work that we can later share and profile on DK. If your an artist and feel your work is awesome enough to be our next featured artist, send us your portfolio to andrew@designkingdom.ug
And remember the Alamo!
The Design Kingdom Team.

As you may already know, Node Six is a leading internet solutions company. We do hosting, web design and development with a preference for community/ social sites plus a few high impact flash sites. We’ve got so many exciting things we’d like to do and not enough people.
So, we are looking for fresh young talent to fill two positions to help us bring to light our exciting new projects.

  1. Web Interface Designer
    First up, we need someone with exceptional creative thinking, a passion for Ironman, Star Trek type interfaces and possibly even Picaso. You will be working on small beautiful “brochure sites” as well as large community facebook killers. So you need to be good. Really good.
Introducing Blogspirit Version 1.5.1 a.k.a Koi Koi posted on September 2, 2009 - 5:17pm

We at Node Six are very proud to present our latest in a series of Web Applications that we are dedicating considerable time to. Fresh on the heels of Design Kingdom and straight out of the Node Six Media Network Labs, we give you Blogspirit Version 1.5.1 codenamed Koi Koi as we bring the riddle of blogging to blogville and then attempt to solve it. Yes, do not look shocked, we can do all that just for you dear blogren!

Updates: posted on August 5, 2009 - 11:35am

Hello World.
Just dropping by to give you a brief update about what we’re doing.
1. Design Kingdom
Design Kingdom Version 2 launched on 24th July. It’s bigger and it’s better. So far, the users really love it! We’ll continue to add tutorials, articles, featured artists and we hope that you will join the discussions, forums, and community.
2. Seacom’s Broadband
We were proud to be invited to the Seacom Media Launch. I must admit I was blown away by the speeds that we were able to get on the fibre optic cable. But there still remains a lot of work to be done before that speed gets to the end user. See my blog post on this for more information.

Design Kingdom - We need you! posted on July 10, 2009 - 10:00am

First off, some exciting news! The new Design Kingdom website goes live on July 24th!
We ( Node Six ) have been working feverishly behind the scenes to create a bigger and better online community for Ugandan designers to connect, share, explore and grow in skill and in passion.
So, we’re almost done with the new Design Kingdom website, but…
We need volunteers to post tutorials, articles, news, and generally share stuff. You can either submit your own tutorial, or send us a link to an excellent tutorial or article you’ve seen online.
You can contribute once a month, once a year, or a million times a week, as long as it’s design related, we will appreciate your contribution!
Our current focus is in the following areas:

Greetings from the newbie posted on May 13, 2009 - 2:45pm

Ok, so I’ve been waiting for a whole week for my boss/partner to write a blog of introduction for me but seeing as I just wrote something on my own blog about being proactive, I decided to do something a little out of the ordinary and write one for myself.

Security Incident - 27th April 2009 posted on April 28, 2009 - 1:41pm

On Sunday, 26th, April, one of our laptops was stolen from the Node Six premises.

Blogspirit Update posted on March 9, 2009 - 8:07am

This is a small update for those Beta Testing BlogSpirit Version 2, and generally for anyone interested in news about the new BlogSpirit.
We’ve received verbal and written feedback concerning the functionality of BlogSpirit. From this feedback, we’ve noticed that:
1. Most of you would like to immediately view the blogs. This business of selecting feeds you’re interested in is not working.
2. Others however, love the ability to customise their own feeds, it gives them the control they need.
3. Some people are not getting activation emails.
4. Internet Explorer functionality is still an issue. This one we know about, but we’re working on it.
5. Adding new feeds is not as intuitive as we’d like it to be.
So, in order to move forward, we’re going to backtrack a little and change some things slightly.

Hosting Status Report - EEJ-940271 - Server Downtime posted on January 24, 2009 - 4:37pm

Between 14:00HRS and 15:30HRS East African Time, our three servers were offline for critical security updates. Each server was off for approximately 30 minutes while the hardware nodes were rebooted after updating the servers.
Here is the notification we recieved from our server provider, which they sent out to all their clients:
From 11pm-8am CST(05:00-14:00GMT) tonight, we will be rebooting Virtuozzo hardware nodes. This is to perform a critical security update to the Virtuozzo software. Total downtime for each server is expected to be 10-30 minutes.
We do regret the short notice of this announcement. However, we feel the need to act quickly to insure the protection of your precious data. We appreciate your understanding, and apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.