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New (Financial) Year - New PropellerMail Pricing

Jul 06, 2008

With so many of our clients enjoying the benefits of html email marketing, hence increasing volumes, Propeller have been able to secure a better deal for bulk email distribution.

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Shopify - Product Import & Export

Jul 02, 2008

By popular demand Jaded Pixel have today introduced bulk product import & export to Shopify.

You are now able to export your product database as a csv file and import it back. The CSV file can reference urls to product images which will be automatically downloaded as part of the import process.

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Redland City Chamber of Commerce

Jun 29, 2008

Redland City Chamber of Commerce website

Provided as part of Propeller Graphic Design & Marketings’ sponsorship, the new Redland City Chamber of Commerce website is now live!

In addition to perusing a full listing of the Chamber’s member businesses, visitors to the website can view news on local and national issues plus news about the Chamber, Redlands Women in Business, AussieHost and the Redland City Council. Visitors are encouraged to get involved by commenting on news or take it one step further by joining the discussion forum.

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Firefox 3 Now Available

Jun 18, 2008

Borrowed from the BBC

Version 3 of the popular Firefox web browser is going on general release on 17 June.

Wide take-up of the new version would further boost the market share of the browser which is currently used by about 15% of net users.

With the release, Firefox developer Mozilla is attempting to set a record for the most downloads over 24 hours.
“It’s a global effort to make history,” said Paul Kim, head of marketing at Mozilla.

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Emergency Hosting Outage

Jun 06, 2008

Between 1:15pm AEST, Sunday, 1st June 2008 and 7.45pm AEST Tuesday 3rd June 2008 some clients were affected by an incident at the data centre resulting in an outage.

In summary, the electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding one of our data centers’ electrical equipment room. Unfortunately our data center administrators were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department.

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Australian Marine Conservation Society - Sharkwater

May 08, 2008

As keen scuba divers in our spare time, we at Propeller are passionate about the conservation of our amazing marine environment and are proud to support the Australian Marine Conservation Society where we can with some occasional graphic design work.

The AMCS is currently campaigning to save our precious sharks from becoming shark fin soup as the result of an alarming new proposal by the Queensland Government to establish a dedicated shark fin fishery in the Great Barrier Reef.

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Medilaw

May 08, 2008

Medilaw website

With design reviews and content delivery being an inexact science in web design, it can occasionally seem like we’re working behind the scenes for months with nothing to show for it and 2008 has been no different, with very few launches in the first couple of months and then bam! Bringing up the rear of a hectic May rollout schedule, Medilaw brings our 2008 website launches to 8.

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CJ's Pasta

May 06, 2008

CJ's Pasta website

We are proud to announce the launch of a new website for the creators of Brisbane’s yummiest pasta – CJ’s Pasta!

After we gave them a fresh new look with an updated logo last year, the team at CJ’s Pasta decided it was time to re-vamp their website to fit in with their new branding and make it easier for their customers to see their daily specials and latest menus.

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A Mouth Watering Catalogue

May 06, 2008

Propeller were recently commissioned to produce a new catalogue for local food manufacturers Euronatural. The brief was to update the look from the previous catalogue and create a clean, contemporary design.

The great part about this job was that Euronatural had professional photography taken of their products that were displayed beautifully by a professional food stylist.

By working in concert with the photographer and stylist, we were able to ensure that the styling, imagery and layout fitted with the brief and the initial concept.

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Shopify goes into warp with CDN

Apr 26, 2008

As regular readers and many of our e-commerce clients will know, Propeller are huge fans and approved developers for Shopify. Never resting on their laurels for long, Shopify’s developers, Jaded Pixel have just announced the turn-on of their Content Delivery Network or CDN to those in the tech fraternity.

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