Dragonfly Media Curacao

Last week we launched two new websites. The first one was for a local E-zone consultancy company, Ezonedesk. This company helps other companies that want to set up business in one of the economic zones of Curacao. Apparently, being in the ezone greatly reduces profit taxes (2%) but there are a lot of restrictions. We checked, and regretfully we would not be allowed to settle there so we’ll just continue paying our taxes.

The second website was for the dive and watersports operator on Cas Abao Beach.  Cas Abao is often named as the most beautiful beach of Curacao (with which we agree). Its crystal clear blue water and fine sand are great for a day at the beach and since a few months there’s also a well-run bar/restaurant and a lot to do.

We are really happy with both websites and would like to wish both our clients good luck with them.

A few months ago we came into contact with Janera Soerel, a Curacaoan woman living in New York. At that time her website was in Beta and needed improvements for it to be officially launched. After an interesting meeting and a lot of emails we could start overhauling nearly the entire website.

Janera.com is an online publication and international social network for Global Nomads. A rough description of a global nomad is; “a person who identifies with more than his/her national origins and sees himself/herself as a citizen of all countries”.  Consequently the website’s members come from the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America and I believe there’s a few African people as well. (more…)

The second website we launched this month is the new web design for Vidanova. Vidanova is one of the largest Antillean pension funds and they are growing at a rapid pace. Because of this growth they needed a new website. The previous one did not comply with their marketing message anymore.

Vidanova’s new website needed to better convey the idea that retirement is something that you should think about before you actually need it. So, the new design is more youthful and shows the benefits of arranging for your retirement early (with Vidanova of course).

It’s the last month of the year and this is traditionally not only the time of year where people party and eat too much, but also the time of year where people want to finish projects. The web design business in Curacao is no different in this respect so we will be launching several websites and website enhancements this month.

The new website for local newspaper Extra is the first website we put live this month. For the people outside Curacao who read this: Extra is the most popular newspaper of Curacao. The Extra is written in Papiamentu (Curacao’s local language) and they print 25,000 copies per day. On a population of ~150,000 this means that one in six Curacaoans buys this newspaper. (more…)

No, that’s no typo. We just released the website for the Curacaoan motion picture No Kai (it’s Papiamentu and means “Don’t Fall”). Whenever we can , we want to do something back for our community. The last project we did in this respect was a marketing and tourism-related website and this time it’s an art project.

No Kai is a movie produced by the Curacao Talent and Showbizz Foundation and we are one of the sponsors of the movie project.  The movie is about love, the need for appreciation and jealousy. It’s dramatic, action-packed and of very high quality for Caribbean standards. The Americans and Dutch people reading this website will probably have some difficulty reading the website because it’s all in Papiamentu.

You can see the trailer on the website or on YouTube.