Become the master of your website with a CMS The Internet Age is the Golden Age for all web design providers.  As the demand for online visibility increases, more and more designers are encouraged to offer their services equipped with the latest technologies applicable to website designing and the much-needed know-how.  With the abundance of [...]

The Growth of the Australian eCommerce Web Design Industry The emergence of eCommerce was greeted with skepticism by Australians in the 1990′s.  While Europe and the US immediately jumped into the eCommerce bandwagon, Australia held back and only a few companies saw the need to make their products and services available online.  Online shoppers were [...]

5 Essential Tips in Preparing a Web Design Brief As they always say, “Failing to plan is planning to fail“. Everything starts with a plan and this is also true in getting a customised website for your business. You just don’t wake up one sunny morning and say, “Hey! It’s time to create an online [...]

Free website creation tools your web designer won’t tell you about. The discussion today started on the topic of low cost websites and what better price than free? After years as a web designer I have been asked this question plenty of times! So i should note it down for anyone interested some of the [...]

You have a wordpress site and want it to rank better in google searches.‚ Here’s a few tips to get you started.‚‚ I will use the example of an architects website. The way to start is to install all-in-one-SEO-pack for wordpress.‚ This allows you to edit Page titles and the url address.‚ Follow this tutorial [...]

I recently applied for a local small business competition, this is a Q and A that i sent about my business Creative Web Design Sydney. Ed: What is your business? (please describe in 100 words or less) Scott: Empowering Business online. Providing business the tools to control their internet marketing with easy to use websites [...]

Internet Explorer 8 has arrived… Is your site ready? Here are some useful links to check your sites compatibility with IE8. The short answer is to run your site in IE8 compatibility mode described in the link below. A quick fix is to add a meta tag on any page which you want to render [...]

This is a great article about the showdown between 3 content management systems. In an Iron Chef-like match up, a team of developers from Drupal (news, site), Joomla! (news, site) and WordPress (news, site) had 100 hours to build a website based on a specific list of specifications and design. “It was a battle to [...]

The search for the open source group office is on.  Surveying the web there were a few categories on offer.  Some more on the project management side and some the true online office. Collaborative software (also referred to as groupware or workgroup support systems) is software designed to help people involved in a common task [...]

Here’s the 4 secret steps of building a simple content managed website: 1. Choose your system CMS , Content Management System Although Known as a Blog, WordPress is very powerful for managing static pages like a standard website.  This is my favorite system as it is easy for the customer to use enabling them to [...]