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Jigowatt are recruiting, again!

Due to an overwhelming amount of work being undertaken and more coming in, Jigowatt are on the lookout for a kickass design ninja and web developer to join our team on a freelance basis.
Instead of …

Introducing Magentosphere

Today we soft launched our latest project, Magentosphere.
After our successful foray into the digital product marketplace through the envato marketplaces (ThemeForest & CodeCanyon), we decided to set up our own store selling Magento related products, …

Add Magento Category Links to your Footer Template

A useful bit of code for those who want to start optimising their website towards visitors and importantly Google for great SEO.
In your footer template file add the following code snippet where you want to …

AJAX Contact Form; Add / Validate Checkboxes

For all our AJAX Contact Form customers on CodeCanyon, here’s a quick tutorial on how to add / validate checkboxes.
As some have found, the standard Javascript .val() request does not work with checkboxes, for this …

AJAX Contact Form; Add or Remove Custom Fields

In a burst of Wordpress fever we decided to write another blog post to help all of our ThemeForest / CodeCanyon customers.
Alongside our ThemeForest and CodeCanyon success comes Customer Support. We get a lot of …

Introducing our Acronis / RAID Web Server

Despite being busier than ever at Jigowatt HQ we thought we’d sneak in some time to introduce our new Acronis / RAID server setup (we don’t expect that to mean anything until you’ve read a …

WordPress – List subpages including their post tumbnails

We’re building a WordPress web site for a local hairdressers which is obviously quite gallery intensive. To tackle this issue using WordPress we’ve used the Cleaner Gallery plugin which is great, but our issue was …

Shopp tutorial; only display top level categories

We love WordPress, and use it as a platform for many of our clients web sites. There are even eCommerce plugins available which we utilise for customers whose budget wont stretch to a full-blown Magento …

FREE – Credit Card icons for your Magento store

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An essential part of every online shop is clarity in which payment types/credit cards are accepted at the shop. There’s nothing more infuriating than picking a product, choosing …

Display WordPress blog posts in a Magento page

Due to Magentos lack of a solid news system and WordPress’ general awesomeness we often find ourselves integrating the two which is a fairly painless process. Once integrated, one of the first and most important …

5% later, a ThemeForest product update

It’s been a while since our previous ThemeForest update and the truth is that we’ve been so busy with other projects that we haven’t actually had time to add anything new to ThemeForest over the …

Blueprint Theme – A naked WordPress theme based BluePrint CSS

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When we create a new WordPress theme we base the CSS on the popular BluePrint CSS Framework of which the benefits are obvious and numerous! …

An atypical Saturday night…

Jigowatt (minus Jay – slacker!) donned their dickie bows and frocks on Saturday the 24th of Oct as special guests and official sponsors at the African Joy Autumn Charity Ball. We were overwhelmed when almost …

Introducing Nanowatt

Jigowatt are happy to introduce a brand new service; Nanowatt. As the name suggests, Nanowatt is Jigowatt’s little brother and is a service aimed at giving new and small businesses powerful web site solutions with …

Change the first day on our PHP Event Calendar Script

Just a quick post for any of our ThemeForest customers who’ve purchased our PHP Event Calendar Script and would like to change the first day of the week to Sunday.
If you want Sunday to be …

Great news from Jigowatt HQ

Experienced print designer and fellow Back to the Future disciple Leo Gehlcken is set to join the team. Leo will utilise his extensive design skills and manage many of our customers’ advertising and print design …

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