Ever wondered how cool if would be to have 95,907 web designers at your service?   What about if you only had to pay one and only if you liked their work?
Welcome to crowdsourcing.  It’s a new phenomenon enabled by the web & one that is proving very popular!
The idea behind it is that you “put your [...]

6 Crucial Social Media Tips for Traditional Media – Mashable
If you’re used to traditional media like newspapers or television, here are some tips for how to use social media. Read how to share value-filled content, curate conversations about your brand, engage audiences, promote your presence in social media, customise users’ experiences and track everything!
10 Tips [...]

Have you ever heard of or seen the “the long tail” below?

It’s a statistical phenomenon that has been popularised by Chris Anderson to describe the impact of the web on the business world. I’ve just finished reading the updated version of his book called “The Long Tail” (surprise surprise!).
To quickly illustrate the “Long Tail” concept, I’ll [...]

March has seen the launch of the brand new online face of St Patrick’s College, Shorncliffe. Last year, the school decided they needed to have a website that reflected their values and the high quality of their education. So, Bluewire Media came in to take them through an internet strategy designed to discover the best [...]

In a busy week for Bluewire Media Developers, two projects wrapped up on Wednesday with the new St Patrick’s College and Summit Events Centre websites launching within hours of each other.

The Summit Events Centre is the only high-end, 100% customisable and versatile, fully serviced events and function centre in Brisbane and without a website they weren’t [...]

I haven’t had a report card since school days, but I came across these ‘Grader’ tools which essentially rate your marketing effectiveness.  I was curious to see how we fared…

Twitter Grader: Helps you determine how influential you are on Twitter.  You simply enter your Twitter handle & it analyses your followers, number of tweets, retweets [...]

We’ve just won an International web design award for Outstanding Achievement for the Queensland Fertility Group website!
The Interactive Media Awards are judged using five specific criteria:

Design
Content
Feature Functionality
Usability
Standards Compliance & Cross Browser Compatibility

Particular merit was given to usability & functionality, a nod to the features designed to make the customer experience as pain-free as [...]

Site search trends for e-commerce websites — Vandelay Design
Negative space in logo design — Logo Design Love
Ten commandments of social media — Noupe
Twitter rated 2009 word of the year — Sydney Morning Herald
Complete beginners guide to interaction design — The UX Booth
You can’t innovate like Apple – Pragmatic Marketing
3 Steps for Effectively Using Social Media [...]

I’ve just finished reading Steve Krug’s excellent book on web usability called Don’t Make Me Think. It’s often the case that people (clients and web designers alike) know their websites too well. So well they can’t see them from an objective viewpoint anymore. That’s why I really like Steve’s reasoning for doing user testing:
“Testing reminds [...]

Redesign: When to relaunch the site and best practices — Smashing Magazine
The top 10 web applications for web designers in 2009 — WEBDESIGNDEV
The lazy designer’s guide to success (according to Pentagram’s Michael Beirut) — Azure
On web typography — A List Apart
The death of the boring blog post — Smashing Magazine
10 useful bookmarklets for web designers [...]