• 31 12/2008 The Man who said 'no' to Wal-Mart

    “What struck Jim Wier first, as he entered the Wal-Mart vice president’s office, was the seating area for visitors. “It was just some lawn chairs that some other peddler had left behind as samples.” The vice president’s office was furnished with a folding lawn chair and a chaise lounge.”

  • 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.

  • 10 12/2008 Choose your resolution

    When dealing with web design, screen size and resolution is one of the most mis-understood factors we come across. Most clients – especially those upgrading from older websites will generally ask for their new website to ‘fill the whole screen’. Whilst their thinking in wanting to maximise the website to full effect and not have ‘wasted space’ around it, is understandable, what is not considered is for who’s screen we’re talking?

  • Fitclub

    05 12/2008 FitClub - Train | Achieve | Succeed

    Nestled in the heart of the Brisbane CBD, FitClub offer a new way to train. With a range of boxing-based classes, FitClub will help you to ‘Train | Achieve | Succeed’.

  • Solution Central

    05 12/2008 Solution Central now open for business!

    Having reached the finals of the 2007 McFarlane Prize, the Solution Central website has undergone a re-birthing. More of a transition than a full re-design, Solution Central has been transferred from its static-paged format to Shopify, Propeller’s preferred hosted e-commerce platform.

  • 27 11/2008 Holiday shopping spree or economic crisis?

    Shopify developers, Jaded Pixel are reporting that in the current market hurricane, eCommerce appears to be the eye of the storm…

  • 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.

  • 17 10/2008 Next up with TXPQ Magazine - Propeller's 'right brain', Renee

    Renee Buckley is the right side of the brain that is Propeller Global the award-winning graphic design and marketing company based in Brisbane, Australia. You may have already read about the left half in the Damien Buckley interview.

  • 09 10/2008 myAnalytics - GA for your iPhone

    Propeller have been building Google Analytics into most websites for over a year now and along with the relatively simple browser-based portal, a Mac Dashboard widget is also available, allowing you instant at-a-glance reference to how your website is performing.

  • 09 10/2008 Interview with TXPQ Magazine

    Excerpt from a recent interview I did with Peter Moulding from TXPQ magazine.

    Damien Buckley is one half of Propeller Global, a one stop web & graphic design studio based in Brisbane, Australia that does advertising, brochures, business cards, copy writing, creative artwork, digital imaging, domain name registration, e-commerce, email marketing, flash animation, flyers, hosting, leaflets, logo design, packaging, point of sale, posters, print, stationery, shopify themes, web design and web hosting amongst other things

From the blog

  • Slideshow Pro Director Mobile now available

    We mentioned back in July that Slideshow Pro would soon offer an HTML5-driven mobile alternative to their superb Flash-powered gallery and slideshow software.

    This is great news as up to now the application relied solely on users machines having the Flash player, effectively locking out all users of iPod, iPhone and iPad due to Apple’s refusal to allow Flash on its mobile machines.

  • Contact First

    Propeller’s second Expression Engine website, Contact First is a big leap forward in website functionality compared to our standard Textpattern CMS.

  • Pro Plaster reach milestone 50th order

    Following a major overhaul to fully enable online purchases earlier this year, the 2008 McFarlane Prize winning Pro Plaster website this week reached a major milestone, receiving their 50th order.

  • WARNING: Domain Registration invoice scam from "Domain Register Pty Ltd"

    Planetdomain Domain Administration team was recently made aware of a new Domain Registration invoice scam operating currently via “Domain Register Pty Ltd” (ABN: 17 127 506 807), registered in Perth WA (despite listing a Melbourne, VIC office address).

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