25 01/2010 Firefox & Safari incorrectly sizing table on hide/show

The tables in question have a fixed width and render perfectly without the hide/show mechanism and also (bizarrely) render correctly with the hide/show engaged in IE(Internet Explorer) but in Firefox and Safari, we get an odd gap on the right hand side of the table.

15 01/2010 Looking Forward, Looking Back

And so another year and another decade commences! We hope you have enjoyed the festive season and are back on deck feeling ready to enjoy 2010.

2009 was an eventful year for team Propeller; on a personal note we were delighted to welcome our first baby (Ava) into the world, while professionally we achieved success at this years’ McFarlane Prize in which we had 3 sites listed out of 6 finalists (for the RedFest, Running Errands and Propeller websites), as well as making the finals of the 2009 Australian Web Awards (for the Anglican Parish of Waterloo Bay website).

26 11/2009 Productive Gardens Record their 500th Online Sale

Just to let you know of a bit of a milestone for us this weekend with the 500th order coming through on Shopify. I’m really pleased with the Shopify platform and how the website is performing in the rankings.

05 11/2009 The eight scams peddled by SEO consultants

Given the amount of nonsense circulating and seminars on SEO reaching plague proportions out there at the moment this great article on scams peddled by SEO consultants by Lucio Ribeiro couldn’t have come at a better time.

07 10/2009 Propeller Short-Listed in Finals of the 2009 Australian Web Awards

Following our success in this years’ McFarlane Prize in which we have 3 sites listed out of 6 finalists, Propeller are delighted to have made the finals of the 2009 Australian Web Awards.

29 09/2009 Propeller Short-Listed for 3 websites in 2009 McFarlane Prize

Following last years win Propeller are thrilled to have 3 websites short-listed out of 6 available final positions in the 2009 McFarlane Prize. Just announced on the Web Directions blog Propeller were short-listed for;

Propeller, RedFest, Running Errands

04 09/2009 FitClub Win 2009 Business Achiever Awards

Long time Propeller clients’ FitClub are delighted to have won the 2009 Business Achiever Awards. Annie & Geoff had this to say about it…

01 09/2009 Great article from Andy Rutledge on RFP's

Andy Rutledge has written a great article – The Trouble with RFP’s in which he points out the shortcomings of submitting to RFP’s for freelancers and other web professionals. The article is written mainly for people looking to hire web professionals and is an excellent read not only in that it explains the shortcomings of hiring by RFP but also offers some sound advice on finding and hiring the right people for your job.

11 07/2009 One Page Wonderful

Have you shied away from having a website because you don’t have a lot of money to spend or thought that one page wasn’t worth it? The fact is that today people will often look you up on the web regardless of where and how they heard about you. Whether you gave them a business card, they may pick up your brochure or simply walk by your door, whether or not they end up as a client will often be dictated by whether or not they find you on the web – and as they say ‘you’ve got to be in it to win it’.

09 07/2009 New Website Packages

Propeller offer a fully customised web design & development service, tailoring each website to suit your requirements and budget. That said, our pricing is modular and based on the size and feature set of the website in question. So, what does a website from the 2008 Winners of the McFarlane Prize cost?