The launch of the new "Web 2.0" style Austrian Tourism website has really grabbed me. It's simple and clean - exactly what you would expect from something Austrian - almost clinical in it's efficiency. Yet, it also has personality and best of all it does all the l...
The Rainforest Group in Franz Josef consists of three separate brands on a massive property. Our job was to create three websites that shared the same Rainforest brand but were independent for their respective markets. ...

Four Great Quotes

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If you don't know by now I love Twitter. I actually don't tweet that much but the 100 or so people I follow regularly share links or interesting stuff that I find relevant almost everyday in work. Yesterday Darren Rowse of Problogger was attending a Search Engine Boot Camp in Melbourne and live ...

Browser Wars Explained

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So Google has released it's own web browser (Chrome) - and all us web geeks simultaneously went yeehaa (as opposed to Yahoo!) and argh, another bloody browser to test everything in. But what I have realised talking to "normal" people is that most don't give a toss and just don't get what it all mea...

“Flow” in a Website

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From my preceding post on our wonderful experience in Mount Cook building the new Travel Generation website I have done some more reading about the concept of "flow" in website design. According to Chicago University Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "CHICK-sent-me-high-ee"), a great we...
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I have been working on the Travel Generation design, and those that know about the project will know a how much it means to me. Anyways, I came across an interesting list of how a non-designer should think in order to have a designer point of view. The list is actually 50 points long and is part o...
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Using Flickr for website images

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We recently upgraded the look and feel of the Base Backpackers hostel pages and introduced a feature we had been developing for awhile (those who have seem the Adventure Tours Australia website would have seen it before) - that is, the displaying of images onto the website that sit on Flickr....

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