Earlier this year I was approached by an organisation I volunteer for, Cochlear Implant Club and ADvisory Association (CICADA Qld), to help with a request to help them conduct an inexpensive website freshen up for their existing website, built using a product called Zoho Sites. Their main concerns were the dated, lacklustre appearance of the site, cluttered content, and confusing navigation. I admit I have never heard of Zoho, as …
A Taiwanese case shows how expensive it can be to pretend to be someone you’re not online if you are a corporate, as Samsung has found. And while it’s a Taiwanese case, the same situation could well apply in Australia.
QPro Developments is a new development company based in Brisbane, Queensland, but with a view to introducing overseas investors to opportunities in regional Queensland. While much of the world is suffering a financial crisis and property slump, thanks to the mining industry parts of Australia are experiencing a boom bigger than any they have seen before.
WattsNet are our neighbours here in Fortitude Valley Brisbane, and they’re also the developers of very effective business management software called “Heads-up“.
One of the great things about open-source CMS Joomla is that it has so many pre-existing free or inexpensive extensions available, allowing the Joomla core to be easily adapted to incorporate just about any functionality you might need, for all kinds of different websites.
Newscorp has just sold MySpace for $35 million. That might sound like a lot of money, but six years ago they paid $580 million for it. I used it as an example in some of my university lectures of how different the online world was from the offline because it has somewhere around 294 profiles set-up by Rupert Murdoch impersonators. And these impersonators aren’t there because they love Murdoch. So …
The federal seat of Ryan in Brisbane’s western suburbs is the most internet-connected electorate in Queensland (and the third most internet-connected in Australia). So you would expect Jane Prentice, its newly elected MP, to have a busy website.
Father and son team Alan and Harry Oates run Bikers World, a shop with a comprehensive range of gear for motorbike riders. They already had a website, but wanted to replace it with one that would perform better at attracting and converting browsers.
Maybe they are targetting the only demographic sympathetic to their cause, but amazingly the retailers campaigning for GST to be applied to overseas online purchases are running their campaign exclusively in the print media at the moment.
