I was recently hired to design a website for the JoeTex Group, a primarily mango-farming outfit based in Somanya. The proprietor, Joe Tetteh, is a large-scale landowner who engages in different types of businesses, including real estate and car sales. So I’ve also been tasked with helping him move some of those products and services. In doing so, I decided it’d be a good idea to post some adverts on…
Facebook is more than just a social media platform; it's a social phenomenon. Other popular social media sites - such as Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. - are such that they tend to be utilized, by us users, to appeal to a larger, general audience. But Facebook is intended in such a way that the people who view our content are primarily those whom we have an actual, interpersonal relationship with,…
Most of the telephone hyperlinks in GHfind’s database are not formatted for international calls. In other words, these links are not prefixed with the necessary country code (00233 or +233) to instantly call Ghana from an outside country. When I first started this project, I included the country code on all telephone links. But doing so was making the database more cumbersome. Also, once the link is pressed, the way…
After being offline for the past couple of months, I was finally able to get GHfind back up and running. Originally, the issue was a financial one. But later down the line, it proved to be more technical. And it's the latter that really hurts. For instance, I backed the site up right before it went down in February. I had created another backup the month prior, in January. But…