WHO ARE WE?
We are a digital solutions company providing our clients with web design, development, maintenance, and hosting expertise. This includes the development
of HTML projects and online campaigns. All our work is developed in a fully-licenced Microsoft environment on Dell equipment, except for our hosting which is managed through Vox DataPro. Our chosen development platform is the Microsoft .NET Framework using C# and Microsoft SQL Server. We are Microsoft Silver Certified Partners. For the presentation layer of our websites we use W3C standards-compliant HTML 4 and 5 with CSS2 and above, as well as the jQuery framework.
FENELLA RIVALLAND
CLIENT SERVICE & MARKETING DIRECTOR
Fenella is co-owner of Loud Crowd Media
and heads up our Marketing, Communication
and Client Service divisions. Fenella spent 3 years at Unilever before moving on to the ad agency side of marketing where she worked at one of the leading Durban agencies for 10 years. Before creating Loud Crowd Media, Fenella was also an equal share holder at Nologo Studios.
Fenella’s experience ensures that the technical skill of Loud Crowd Media is married together with our clients’ required effective communication to their target market.
DARREN STRYDOM
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Darren is co-owner of Loud Crowd Media and oversees all technical aspects of our business. Darren started out his programming career at Pilotfish Digital and has now been developing websites and application layouts for the last 8 years. His understanding of the web and its intricacies coupled with an ever increasing desire for new technologies and attention to detail, help him deliver work that is both sound in layout and beautiful in presentation.
Prior to the launch of Loud Crowd Media, Darren was also an equal share holder at Nologo Studios.
THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Our developers are highly skilled in the following technologies:
- Web development using Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 in C#
- Web Services
- Credit Card Gateway and PayPal integration
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008
- Telerik SiteFinity and the contained frameworks
- Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010
- Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Fireworks
- Adobe Flash