{"id":6015,"date":"2014-08-21T11:04:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/?p=6015"},"modified":"2023-06-01T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T13:40:09","slug":"evolution-web-africas-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/general\/evolution-web-africas-website\/","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of Web Africa\u2019s website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very proud of our new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webafrica.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> (which we launched in January of this year)&nbsp;so&nbsp;we decided to take a look back at what it looked like when we started out in 1997<span style=\"color: #008080;\">&nbsp;<\/span>and how it has evolved over the last 17 years. Anyone who owns or runs a website will know that you need to constantly keep your website looking fresh and up to date with the latest trends.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main reasons we redeveloped our website this time was to accommodate the increase in <strong>mobile browsing<\/strong>. We saw over the last 4 years that mobile visits to our website have increased from about 1% of total visits in 2011 to <strong>over 15% in 2014<\/strong>. If you have a look at our website&nbsp;you will see it is <strong>fully responsive<\/strong> (sizes well) on the majority of devices and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>If your website hasn&#8217;t gone responsive yet, maybe you should look at going that route. If you feel your website is in need of a refresh or you want it to look good on any device then let our awesome <a title=\"Web Design\" href=\"https:\/\/www.webafrica.co.za\/website-design.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web design team<\/a> take your online asset to the next level.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6022\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1.png\" alt=\"Web-Africas-website1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"2460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1.png 1000w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1-122x300.png 122w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1-416x1024.png 416w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1-613x1508.png 613w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1-840x2066.png 840w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1-400x984.png 400w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1-60x148.png 60w, https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1-680x1673.png 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very proud of our new website (which we launched in January of this year)&nbsp;so&nbsp;we decided to take a look back at what it looked like when we started out in 1997&nbsp;and how it has evolved over the last 17 years. Anyone who owns or runs a website will know that you need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":6022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Web-Africas-website1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdAWxt-1z1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13228,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6015\/revisions\/13228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}