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.

Job Description

As part of the Node Six Design Team, the Web Interface Designer is tasked with designing Website and Application Interfaces for internal and external projects. These projects will involve very simple projects like Safflower.co.ug to relatively complex projects like NodeSix.com to content heavy projects like Proggie.ug, BlogSpirit.ug and DesignKingdom.ug

Node Six is extremely quality oriented and you will be interacting extensively with clients and the team and you will be expected to maintain exceptional standards of design quality and communication relating to client relationships.

You will be spearheading the design and concept of both internal and external projects and you will take part in the planning phase of projects, establishing and maintaining high design and creative standards within Node Six

You must have a very strong work-ethic, with constant awareness of deadlines and time limitations which may require occasional over-time.

Required Knowledge & Skills

1. Passionate about pixel perfect visual appearance of websites and applications. (very very important)
2. Very strong knowledge of Photoshop, GIMP, Illustrator or any design tool for web and application interface design.
3. Very strong design sensibilities and an eye for design detail.
4. Knowledge of design to HTML / CSS conversion processes.
5. Passion for all aspects of interactive design across different mediums with a strong desire for innovation and excellence in design.
6. A strong portfolio show-casing design for web and/or applications.
7. Knowledgeable about user experience best practices and user-centered design.
8. Passionate about latest trends in interactive experiences across a variety of mediums.
9. Comfortable with working in a team setting and able to demonstrate occasional leadership skills during some projects.
10. Clear, effective communication and project analysis for both internal and external client projects.
11. Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical, written, problem solving, oral and diagrammatic communication skills

Bonus Skills

The following are NOT required for this position, but having them will make us like you more,

1. Knowledge of wire-frame and rapid prototyping of websites and applications.
2. Understanding of the capabilities and limitations of HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash

Qualifications

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 portfolio, so send us samples of your best, pixel perfect web-design work.

To apply, please send your applications to jobs@nodesix.com or call +256-793080533

Yesterday, Google launched a massive salvo in the ongoing Browser Wars, when it released a public beta version of its much anticipated browser, Chrome.

For those in the tech-world, it was simply a matter of time before the internet search and advertising giant threw down the gauntlet (again) in Microsoft’s face.

Riddled with bloatware, bugs and security flaws, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been slowly, but steadily losing the fight for dominance in the web browser battles.

Statistics vary ( see here, here and here ), but the general consensus is, Internet Explorer is on its way out. The smaller but more powerful and more relatively secure Mozilla Firefox has long been a contender for first place, and has been steadily gaining ground.

Until Google unveiled Chrome. From all the buzz surrounding it, it may fast become the browser of choice, first among technophiles, then later, the masses.

An online comic, apparently leaked from the Google team, explains the technology behind Chrome in a fairly enlightening way. So much so that I learnt a whole lot about browser structure and processes from it. Be warned, fairly geek language.

Fueled by the comic, and the buzz, I downloaded Chrome for a first look.

The Million Dollar Question: Would it become my browser of choice?

The Simple Answer: Yes. From what I’ve seen so far, a resounding yes. But not just yet.
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“BlogSpirit” is just a working title, name ideas would be helpful.

We have a functional beta ready. The inhouse feed aggregator was not going to stand up to the stress of a million blogren logging on at once, so we’re building on another open source RSS framework called Gregarius.

http://www.nodesix.net/blogspirit/

We’ll be adding the additional features with time.

Let us know what you think so far.

We have a couple of exciting announcements.. First, we’ve added subdomains to all packages except nx-Micro. Then we’re moving our blog to a subdomain, and lastly, we’re unveiling our Sandbox.

Sub-domains

We’re very excited to finally be offering our clients sub-domains on their hosting packages. Many of you have been requesting for sub-domains for a while now, but we always make sure we are able to deliver and support a feature before we offer it to our clients. So for us to be able to offer a value added service at no additional cost means we firmly believe we’re heading in the right direction.

The Node Six Sandbox

The Node Six Sandbox is a place where we’ll be putting up working versions of some of the cool projects that we’re working on in-house. Think of it as a window to our geek lab.

Node Six Sandbox Projects will mostly be web based applications. Some of them will exported for desktop use, or whatever crazy ideas we come up with.

Below are a couple of upcoming sandbox products which will be released to the general public as alpha preview versions. Please note that they are currently using production code names.

Pathfinder
A visual directory system for Uganda businesses. Powered by Flash, PHP, mySQL and massive legwork.

Design Kingdom
An online designer’s resource featuring design, visual effects, 3D animation, film, web development etc. For Ugandans, by Ugandans. Powered by WordPress, mySQL, PHP and humans.

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