Propeller Graphic Design & Marketing, Brisbane

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• 15 06/2009 To mode or not to mode?

  As regular visitors will have realised, we’ve recently re-built our site from the ground up, deleting old features and out-of-date content and introducing some new features along the way. After perusing Modal Windows In Modern Web Design at Smashing Magazine it got me thinking about using a modal window for our contact form or PropellerMail login form.

• 30 01/2009 Web Standards: Where the ROI is

  As proud and nationally recognised proponents of web standards, Propeller have been quietly basing all of our work on and occasionally loudly selling the many benefits of designing with web standards since our inception in 2004.

• 23 12/2008 Virgin Blue to Court again for Discrimination

  A Complaint by Les Kerr, 53, Wooloowin, Brisbane for Disability Discrimination against Virgin Blue over the accessibility of their various websites will be lodged in the Federal Court of Australia in the first week of the New Year.

• 03 11/2008 Only 4.13% of the web's code is valid!

  A new study from Opera finds that the overwhelming majority of web sites don’t adequately support web standards. The good news is that compared to previous studies, more web sites are valid today than they were in previous years. The bad news is that just 4.13% of the URLs included in the studies sample size — which was over 3.5 million web pages — passed the W3C validator.

• 25 08/2008 Federal disability commissioner threatens to “name and shame” government departments and agencies

  The federal disability commissioner has threatened to “name and shame” government departments and agencies which do not make public information accessible to people with disabilities.

• 08 08/2008 Grocery website 'discriminates'

  A DISABLED Brisbane man has lodged an official complaint against the Federal Government’s new grocery price watch website, claiming the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act.

  Les Kerr, 53, of the suburb of Wooloowin, is vision and mobility impaired and says the GROCERYchoice website is inaccessible. His complaint is about the difficulty in using the website.

• 13 11/2007 The new 'cutting edge' Ch7 Sunrise website, standards not worth the effort?

  As a regular viewer of Channel 7’s ‘Sunrise’ breakfast show I was interested this morning when they roped in Pete Blasina to run through their new and supposedly ‘cutting edge’ website and tell us how great it is.

  Graphically the site isnt the worst I’ve seen though its not the best either and is extremely cluttered and disorganised. It almost looks as though they made a list of features they needed to include then threw them at a magnetic board…

• 05 09/2007 Why we need standards support in HTML email

  A good friend and colleague of ours, David Greiner from Campaign Monitor posted an article this morning resulting from an ensuing debate over the application of web standards in html email.

• 20 06/2007 The Business Case for Web Standards

  As a web standards compliant developer we at Propeller can outline numerous major advantages in building websites which are compliant to current web standards. Accessibility, Search Engine Optimisation, Ease of Expansion and Future Proofing to name but a few. There are a whole host of business benefits in using web standards though if our client doesn’t understand the technology or the basis for the arguments, it can be a difficult message to communicate.