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Funny how these things happen just after I write about them. I’m a member of the ‘The Lord’s Taverners’ – a cricketing charity group who raise funds for disadvantaged and underprivileged youth. One of the ways the charity raises money is via raffles. In the mail today I received a letter with a raffle ticket […]

At the moment we’re doing 8 web sites sites. Only one is below $5,000 (it’s $4,400). I was looking at competitor sites last night and man, are they cheap! A lot of them do a 10 page web design for $900. And the sites can look okay. I look at that pricing and just shake […]

If you read this web site regularly, or listen to our podcast, you might remember me mentioning a site we redid where the client didn’t like what we’d done. She changed her mind on agreeing to the site design and the strategy we’d devised. I eventually talked her around to testing our new design and […]

On Saturday night I went for dinner with some friends to a local Thai restaurant. We were sitting outside in an Arcade type set up when one of the women in the group (there were 6 of us at dinner) noticed this sign on the window of a Beauty Salon. The 3 wives at the […]

Okay, take a look here. See the comment from some guy called Anthony Dever. Oooooooh. “This is who I say who you should get, Brendon. Oooooh I’m so good, I’m Anthony Dever! I was interviewed by Amanda Keller. I started the Fuglies. Ooooooooh.” So what Clown Boy! Who the hell is Anthony Dever and why […]

Because of the recent running I’ve done I’ve been visiting a few running type forums. One thing I always enjoy seeing is the fantastic sense of community these places build up. I have been reading a few posts and people have been talking about injuries – whether it’s aching legs, foot fungus, runner’s bowel or […]

I’ve had a number of people email and ask why screen resolution matters to a web designer. Here’s the answer. Below is the same web site shown how they look in different resolutions. 800 x 600 screen resolution   1024 x 768 screen resolution   1280 x 1024 screen resolution   About 12% of people […]

Here in Australia the entire country (including me) has jumped on the Socceroos bandwagon as we’ve progressed in the World Cup. Just about every business is using soccer analogies to promote their stuff. But How About you Do This How about your business becomes the anti-soccer/football voice. “Had enough of the World Cup? Come into […]

That’s always a bad reason to do something, but it sprung to mind on the weekend. I went to buy a carton of beer on the weekend. The beer was $25.99 for a carton of 24 small bottles. But if I bought only 6 small bottles, the price was $9.99 (equating to $39.96 for a […]

  When we complete a web development project for a client we provide them with a Web User Manual that includes my personal home number. I tell the clients to ring me at any time of the day or night should there be a problem with their web site. The reason is simple: If you’re […]