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Posted by Sarah Hyne on 6.06.2009

Weekly round-up

MSN vs GOOGLE – Search Engine Rap Battle Turn your own handwriting into a font! — Fontifier How to listen to the user and hear the experience — Usability Post Australian businesses are missing out on the internet’s untapped potential — BRW 15 essential issues for the creative community — Inspired Magazine Apple vs Microsoft: [...]

Posted on 6.06.2009 at 10:59 am. See other posts by   No Comments »  
Design, Digital strategy, Fun, google, Innovation, Inspiring, social media, technology, Trends, Web 2.0, web design.
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 2.06.2009

Excuse me Mister, but your website is bloody awful!!

The problem with poorly designed websites might not be incompetent user-experience and graphic designers, but a stifling corporate culture. This is what blogger Dustin Curtis discovered when he wrote an open letter on his blog to the team behind the American Airlines website. In his letter, he spoke of the dissatisfying experience he had booking [...]

Posted on 2.06.2009 at 9:07 am. See other posts by   1 Comment »  
Design, Fun, Innovation, Inspiring, social media, Trends, Web 2.0, web design.
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 30.05.2009

Weekly round-up

Web design industry jargon glossary and resources — Smashing Magazine 20 Facebook tips you might not know — Hongkiat AudioBoo is new talk of the net — The Guardian 11 striking findings from an eye tracking study — Problogger Using Google Earth to visualise the toll of war — Google Lat Long Blog 50 excellent [...]

Posted by Adam Franklin on 26.05.2009

Work from anywhere using Web 2.0

One of the beauties of being alive in the Information Age is the way technology can transform the way we do business & live our lives. As companies embracing Web 2.0 technology can prove, it is incredibly easy to empower staff with the freedom to work from anywhere – and be more productive!  We’ve been testing it & getting [...]

Posted on 26.05.2009 at 10:40 am. See other posts by   2 Comments »  
Business, Innovation, technology, Web 2.0.
Posted by Adam Franklin on 30.04.2009

15 Famous Australian Twitterers!

Hugh Jackman will see Oprah on Friday… PM Kevin Rudd says the Dawn Service was very moving… How come I know? My little birdie told me! No way! I am not their friend or on their staff. I know this because I have been following them on Twitter! If you still haven’t quite got your [...]

Posted on 30.04.2009 at 3:23 pm. See other posts by   No Comments »  
Fun, social media, twitter, Web 2.0.
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 25.04.2009

Weekly round-up

The future of the computer desktop? In defense of eye candy — A List Apart How long will you continue support for Internet Explorer 6? — For the Lose 6 reasons to consider a microsite strategy — William Web Design Economy be damned: Apple posts its best second quarter earnings ever — TechCrunch CSS tip: [...]

Posted on 25.04.2009 at 10:51 am. See other posts by   No Comments »  
Design, Digital strategy, Email Marketing, Fun, Inspiring, SEO, social media, technology, Trends, Web 2.0, web design.
Posted by Adam Franklin on 22.04.2009

3 ways a virtual assistant (VA) can make your job easier

Recently I was amazed to discover that a friend of mine Jenny* a BDM at a large company was spending the first half of her day researching prospective clients to call on. This research consisted of googling companies in certain suburbs or buildings and then manually entering in the company, contact name, phone number & [...]

Posted on 22.04.2009 at 9:40 am. See other posts by   5 Comments »  
Digital strategy, Innovation, technology, Trends, Web 2.0.
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 21.04.2009

Web DIY – the best tools out there

1. Shrink O’Matic Resize your images quickly and easily — 2. GIMP Like Photoshop, but free — 3. Wufoo Free HTML form builder — 4. Pic Markr Place watermarks on your photos — 5. BG Patterns Create your own patterned background tile — 6. smush.it! Optimise your images for the web — 7. Color Scheme [...]

Posted on 21.04.2009 at 8:45 am. See other posts by   No Comments »  
Design, Email Marketing, Fun, Inspiring, technology, Trends, Web 2.0, web design.
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 18.04.2009

Weekly round-up

The Webby Award nominees have been announced — Webby Awards Top 10 moments caught on Google Maps Street View — URLesque 6 tips to help you get the most out of Google Docs — Six Revisions Is self-centred web copy hurting your website? — Web Designer Depot 8 characteristics of successful user interfaces — Usability [...]

Posted on 18.04.2009 at 10:09 am. See other posts by   No Comments »  
Design, Digital strategy, Email Marketing, Fun, Inspiring, SEO, social media, technology, Trends, Web 2.0, web design.
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 11.04.2009

Weekly round-up

Happy Easter! Image via jpockele 10 useful flash components for graphing data — Six Revisions 8 simple ways to improve typography in your design — Smashing Magazine 9 information design tips to make you a better web designer — PSD Tuts + The top free 500 free fonts from around the world — Fonts 500 [...]

Posted on 11.04.2009 at 9:21 am. See other posts by   No Comments »  
Design, Digital strategy, Email Marketing, technology, Web 2.0, web design.