06 12/2010 Changes to Google Search

We reported back in April that Google’s Webmaster Central Blog had confirmed Google’s intention to factor page loading speed into its search ranking algorithms’.

22 11/2010 Typekit - bring forth the fonts…

Not many people realise it but websites have traditionally been bound by the regular fonts installed on the users computer. Hence until recently web designers have been restricted to a rather small list of around 8-10 fonts which can reasonably be expected to be present on most users’ machines.

22 11/2010 Hillman Meat Company

Hillman contacted Propeller to give Hillman Meats a marketing refresh with a revised logo, new website and an email marketing facility. We first tackled Hillman’s logo, bringing it up to date and adding a touch of polish, before moving on to the company’s new website…

10 11/2010 Accessibility myths in 2010

Five and a half years ago I posted an article about Accessibility myths and misconceptions where I tried to explain why some commonly held beliefs about web accessibility are incorrect. Early this year, Ian Pouncey posted a few other Web accessibility myths.

02 11/2010 Planbiz Launched!

When good friends David & Julie Kearns at PlanBiz Financial asked us to work towards a website redesign with them, we suggested a cautious approach to first ascertain what was and wasn’t working with their previous website which had been provided as part of a package via their licensing agency

02 11/2010 Shopify CRM feature launched!

Shopify have announced the general availability of their new CRM feature.

13 10/2010 Propeller make the Finals of the 2010 Australian Web Awards

Following our success in the 2009 Australian Web Awards with the Anglican Parish of Waterloo Bay Propeller are delighted to have made the finals of the 2010 Australian Web Awards.

15 09/2010 New PropellerMail (non-Flash) Charts

Flash has previously been used for all the charting within PropellerMail. When we were testing out the best approach to this, the Flash-based option really was the best solution for creating great looking, reasonably complex charts.

08 09/2010 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.

23 07/2010 Contact First

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