Archive for December 2010

Style vs Design – Why Understanding The Difference Is What It’s All About – Jeffrey Zeldman via the Adobe Design Center An absolute must-read article on the state of web design by the leader in usability and web-standard, Jeffrey Zeldman. How to Keep Up with News & Emerging Trends [Marketing Cast] – Hubspot Information overload is a [...]

If you missed David Meerman Scott’s keynote presentation on ‘Real Time Marketing & PR‘ here is your chance to watch it online (but only until the end of 2010). It is well worth setting 45 minutes aside to watch the entire presentation. But if you don’t have time just skip to the video that sounds [...]

I was amazed to discover that 6.5 out of 10 Australian business DO NOT have a website. That’s right – no website at all.  Even though there’s a heap of web designers that will knock something basic up for you for well under $1,000. Why do you think this is the case? Surely these business owners are spending well [...]

Pete Blasina is well known on Australian TV as the Gadget Guy. I was thrilled to meet Pete when we were on the same panel at the “Man vs Machine” debate in Sydney’s lower town hall recently. After the debate, I interviewed Pete ‘The Gadget Guy’ about his favourite new business toy – Apple’s iPad. Discover [...]

And the winner is……… The winner of this year’s Bluewire Media Award for Web Design is Tyler Alberti for his photography portfolio website. Here’s what Tyler had to say about winning the award: “As a freelance photographer and graphic designer, I have always been an advocate for self promotion and marketing. My first point of [...]

Jack Daly tells a wonderful tale of how powerful Facebook has been for him. Prior to a trip to Toronto and then to New York, Jack updated his facebook status.  Big deal, you say? Watch the video to find out how this simple Facebook status update triggered messages and enquiries that led to Jack booking [...]

For quite some time, I’ve felt that PR is one of the most closely aligned industries with the web. Why? Because the web has a huge demand for content and great PR is about developing interesting, relevant and timely content. I still believe this is the case, that’s why I was really pleased when Catriona [...]

If you’re from a web agency in Brisbane, you’re probably aware of how competitive the number one Google ranking for “Web Design Brisbane” is. The spot has long been dominated by John Hacking, with other, much larger companies stuggling to stay in the top 5 for longer than a few months. Recently, Bluewire Media has [...]

Capital Finance got in touch with Bluewire Media to give their tired, static website a refresh. Initially we were engaged to only do a CSS re-skin of the existing site but it then turned into a full blown rebuild, including a CMS, after we managed to highlight the benefits of having the website in a form that the Capital [...]