A new year and a new office location – we’ve moved to Koonawarra in the Illawarra.

After living in Sydney for longer than I care to admit I felt a move was overdue so packed up my home and office just before Christmas for the big move south. Its only an hour back to Sydney so I am still availble to meet as needed.

Other than the new location it is business as usual for 2011. The move helps with plans to grow the business. There’s a new computer and camera on order and we’ll be looking for one or two new staff to help with work flow. If you are a web developer or designer looking for freelance work or a job please send through your resume.

Contact information is all the same other than address. Mail is being redirected from the old address while I update customers.

Terrey Hills Village Market
A new website for a new market run by Terrey Hills Rotary club. Featuring a WordPress CMS back end. Maps were drawn and we even attended the first market to take photos for the website.

Tiger Light
A new look and a new content management system has been developed for Tiger Light featuring their range of environment friendly LED lights. We have also helped Tiger Light with some photography of new products including a 150W High Bay with no bulb at all – just a 5cm square LED  that lasts for some ridiculous amount of time like 50,000 hours. The site is worth a look for the amazing products as well as the website design.

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Homesearch Solutions
Slick new design and content management system developed for Homesearch Solutions. Having designed the original website years ago it was great to bring this websites technology and design up-to-date.

Best practices for web development have changed a great deal over the last few years. The website incorporates all the SEO meta data required and now that it is easy for Homesearch to update themselves they will gain the SEO benefit of having fresh content.

Usage is tracked with Google Analytics and the site is hosted by Australian based servers.

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Andersen Wright Real Estate
This flash based website is a precursor to a database driven site in development.

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Google is implementing a major update to its search engine, called Caffeine (love the name). The main change is that it will promote newer pages to the top of search results. How long since you updated your web site?

This is a much needed update as the content on the web is becoming older and in many cases search results are cluttered by content that is no longer relevant.

The easiest way to ensure your website is updated frequently is to use a Content Management System (CMS) such as Word Press, Joomla, Drupal or VPASP if you require e-commerce. For most websites we are promoting WordPress for its ease of use and extendibility. The easier it is to use the more likely you will use it.

You can read more about Google Caffeine on the Sydney Morning Herald website.

Mostly Massage Zine
Previously Mostly Massage Magazine was published as a print document. Mostly Massage are now saving thousands of dollars in print and mailing costs by publishing online with this new WordPress based website. We assisted with design, build, hosting and entering many years of past articles.

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Well as my link to the old version of this has dropped off YouTube I guess it is time to link to the new version. Not quite as exciting as the old one in my opinion but still it has some interesting statistics on where technology is taking us.

Having helped customers publish e-books and self publish on Amazon, a big player like Google entering the market is very interesting. I wonder how it fits in with their business of putting books online for free if at all. With the might of Google behind it I will definitely be paying close attention.

Read more on The Sydney Morning Herald

Web site Design
Custom designed web sites to suite any need. W3c Standards compliant CSS based development. Flash animation and applications. Email newsletters and templates. Content management systems, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, VPASP. Read more