Maxiware is a small, South African business specialising in providing competitive Drupal-based eCommerce & web development solutions for small-to-medium companies locally & abroad. Welcome to our blog!

Google Wave for Project Planning & Brainstorming

Google Wave is Google's new collaboration and communication tool. It allows you to share your thoughts, videos, documents and a LOT more - LIVE - with everyone else participating in your wave.

So, for example, if you want a new web site, and you have some ideas you'd like to flesh out with the help of your web developer, you'd start a new Google Wave, load up examples of what you like, don't like, etc, invite them on board and continue brainstorming until you have something you're happy with.


Free BlackJack Game

Maxiware is proud to announce a new free blackjack game! No registration necessary and you can tweet your score on Twitter with the click of a button! Please try it out and give us some feedback so we can improve!

(The game came about 2 nights ago when we found ourselves without internet and bored beyond tears ;))


Free Fax to Email

If you'd like a free email fax number, look no further than: http://emailfax.lookie.co.za/

We've just launched this mini web site that allows anyone in South Africa to have a free fax to email number, up and running, in 5 seconds or less :) Just type in your email address and click 'Go!'


Effective Quick-Start SEO

Someone asked me for the "rules" of SEO. How many meta keywords should we use in our pages, etc. My response:

Well, you want the rules? The rules are that meta keywords suck and are pretty useless. Here in SA we're living in the dark-ages where we still focus on meta keywords.

However, having said that, KEYWORDS are still important. Here's what you should be doing with them...

  1. Go to Google's Keyword tool.
  2. Click "Edit" next to: Results are tailored to English, United States.

Featured Websites

In the news...

We've been busy!

Earlier this year, in June, we sold www.FreeArticles.co.za. The new owner, Peter Mansfield, has a ton of experience in running online businesses and has a small team dedicated to just FreeArticles.co.za. I'm confident that the site will grow in his hands and reach new heights!

Last week we started beta-testing www.Just1.co.za - a new business that makes it possible for anyone to get a web site up and running in a matter of days and for only R350. Beta-testing has gone well. Our next step is to find partners who will help us resell the product under their branding.


Web site updates

We've just updated the site to make it easier for you to see what we're good at :) Our portfolio has been updated to be prettier and now has a number of recent projects listed. You can also quickly get a glimpse of recent projects we've done from the home page. Over the next few months we plan on expanding our web site to show you everything we can help you with. Keep your eyes peeled ;)

Our Partners

Earlier this week, we added a partner-page to our web site so you can see who we use and why.