Personalised, custom design cards can be printed onsite in our office, meaning:

• Fast turnaround
• Absolute quality
• You get exactly what you want

• A Konika-Minolta BizHub digital printing press
• A GBC celloglazing machine
• A GBC slitter/cutter/creaser

In English – this means we can now offer short or long-run digital printing in-house!

Forget about old-fashioned minimum print runs and wait times. Need 20 business cards customised for a special event? No problem. Booklets, brochures, pamphlets, fliers… the list goes on.

Contact us for more information!

Makeshift furniture

On the 26th and 27th December, we had contaminated storm water surge through our office, damaging carpets, desks, a few computers, basically anything sitting on the floor.

We have some people working from home, and others in and out of the office – so until we get back to normal the best contact is via email, or:

• Yolinda on 0439 767 186 for print/sign/sticker enquiries
• Jason on 0417 767 186 for web related enquiries

Thanks for your patience!

If features:

• Promotional videos of the region
• The trip itinerary, including a map with flight times
• An electronic version of a brochure we also designed, allowing the user to zoom in on any piece of detail
• Information on the Sports Academy
• A video recording of the Q&A Forum held at CQU on Tuesday night. This was especially tricky as we had to obtain a copy of the recording from the Uni on Wednesday morning, convert it and then build it into the iPad app, and then quickly “borrow” Mr Gallop’s iPad from him to transfer it back on!

We were recently approved into Apple’s Developer Program and this now allows us to create custom applications for iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches. If you have a mobile workforce, we can now give them access to your internal tools and workflows while they are on the go!

That’s all speculation at this point, but overnight Google announced a new tool that lets you measure your website’s speed, based on data provided by people using the advanced features in their toolbar.

Perhaps they are gearing up for such a change, perhaps not – but importantly as explained on their blog:

Studies have repeatedly shown that speeding up your site leads to increased user retention and activity, higher revenue and lower costs.

It’s worth considering this the next time you’re thinking about large images and special effects that take longer to load. Put yourself in your visitor’s shoes. “Would I really want to wait for this?”

(Image credit: Photo Monkey)

The [Wall Street] Journal said Kumo is designed to cut down on the length of typical web searches by grouping the results into categories.

A search for a particular model of car, for example, would be separated into categories like parts, used car listings, online discussion forums and videos showing the vehicle, it said.

Sounds like an interesting idea – but I think it will take something substantial to wrestle away the grip that Google has on the search landscape.

Time will tell… Will anyone care?

For some time we’ve offered Search Engine Ranking reports to our customers for a fee, but I’m pleased to announce that they are now free!

Every three months, our web clients can receive a report via email listing where they rank in the major Australian search engines for their selected keywords. As the old saying goes, “If you don’t measure it, you can’t improve it!”

This service is part of our overall philosophy: your online success is our success, and we’ll do our best to help you achieve that.

Contact us if you’d like to know more.

After success in 2005 and 2006, our design for His N Hers Surf and Leisure‘s new logo took out the Best Logo Design – Retail Award at a gala dinner in Cairns last month.

The judges’ comments: “Great simplicity and energy in the design. Sure to be a hit with the surf community.”

It’s rewarding to receive these accolades, knowing we were competing with many entries from across the state.

The following article is from the Morning Bulletin, Friday 23rd November 2007:

From time to time Google changes the formula they use, and the Sydney Morning Herald reports they have just done it again.

So don’t be too surprised to see your ranking change from time to time, in fact you can safely expect it to happen!

Contact us if any such changes concern you.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a woman in the US has been sued US$220,000 for sharing 24 songs through a file sharing service called Kazaa.

That’s a lot of money for 24 songs, which ever way you look at it. Whether you agree or disagree, it makes you think twice about what you do online!

The Lesson

We recently attended a conference in Sydney called Web Directions, and one of the points made was that people will use the web in a way that they see fit. Not necessarily how you or I would design it for them. The record companies here are doing their best to resist the change that the internet has brought, instead of adapting to it.

Is that something you can think about regarding your business?

If it’s you against the world (which is pretty much the case when you’re talking about the internet) you can’t really successfully fight it. Instead of saying, “we don’t want our website to work that way”, think about how your customers want it to work. And enable them to do it. Because whether you like it or not, they will find a way. Maybe via a competitor.

It might mean some changes, but you’ll reap the rewards on the long run.

In the words of the Borg, “resistance is futile”.