BlueSpore - Melbourne Web & Ui Designer

After a 4 day crunch, Team SolarDog’s website is completed and now live. Check it out: http://solardog.com.au/. The guys needed a website to promote their expedition to Antarctica where they’ll be travelling from Union Glacier to The South Pole. Originally undertaken by Dick Smith in 2001, who spawned the idea, Team SolarDog inherited the initial vehicle design in 2011 after Dick no longer had time to spend on the project. Their goal is huge and their journey will be cold, but damn it looks like
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Your presence on the web and indeed the effectiveness of your presence is powered strongly by your marketing. Internet marketing helps target specific demographics, increase your search engine ranking and based on it’s results; improve your quality of service for your customers. Advertisement unit guidelines You see them everywhere. Digital advertisements, pop-ups and flash banners are a pretty standard part of the internet these days. Let’s face it – the web is a marketing tool that attracts millions of users every single day. If you’re
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This collection of standards, resources tools are aimed at helping improve production quality and increase the speed of your work flow. By adhering to common web standards it not only takes away the pain of measuring, ruling, coding and programming tedious tasks that are required as the base and beginning for any project, it also means you’ll be guaranteed cross browser performance. This kit will ensure you can concentrate on what matters, the design, functionality and effectiveness of your website whilst the tedious tasks are
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Make no mistakes – Project design is one of the most important things in the development process. The development of code and its functionality is just as important, but the design is what the front end user will constantly interact with. It creates the look and feel of a project and encapsulates the ideas and beliefs that it stands for and aims to achieve. Sometimes the drive to actually begin working on a project is already there but you’re stuck for ideas on how to
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First and foremost – What has happened in the last two months is absolutely horrible and left many people and indeed entire communities without elements of their lives that they’ve worked so hard for so many years for. What thousands was once called home soon became the desolate, toxic water damaged expanse that was witnessed all over the national Australian and even international news world wide. With over 67 communities affected, even the most strenuous efforts were reduced to simply sitting and watching as life,
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Errr… maybe? Social networking has a filthy habit of creeping into our lives and stealing away the time we would have once spent actually seeing friends or generally being more productive. We’re all guilty of it. I began using MySpace in 2004 when a friend had introduced me to it wherein I saw the potential of using a website to network in such a way. To be honest, it was more a glorified email service that also allowed you to view what your friends had
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Lately I’ve been noticing a spurt in creativity and finesse with promotional design and product packaging. The way in which a company’s product is perceived to their consumers is more vital than I’m sure some would like to think. There are a huge number of products that don’t actually advertise and rely solely on store positioning and attractive packaging to draw people in. The thing is, it actually works. There’s an entire psychology behind the way in which consumer navigates a shop, scans an aisle
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Something that caught my eye recently whilst bouncing around the net was a post on BuzzFeed by Elmar Burchia informing the world of the origin of the Firefox logo. For those who are not aware of what Firefox is: it is in my humble oppinion, the best open-source web browser available for the web. In my experience it has just been more pleasant to use versus Internet Explorer and comes with a plethora of plugins available for download all over the internet due to being
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I’m a semi hardcore gamer these days and I definitely enjoy hitting up a few rounds of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and even the odd game of Halo every so often. Although Halo more so for the fact that everyone and his dog seems to play it these days and it’s increasingly hard to find anyone who’s willing to play anything else online, which is a huge disappointment giving how many awesome games there are out there even the aforementioned Call of Duty
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