Now in its third year, the McFarlane Prize, named in honour of Australian open source and web standards pioneer Nigel McFarlane is now open for nominations.
Have you commissioned Propeller to build or significantly upgrade your website between August 1 2007 and August 31 2008 or do you simply love the work we do?
Now’s your opportunity to bask in the glory of having your website or seeing a website you like, become a finalist or even perhaps win, this years’ McFarlane Prize.
Until the end of August 2008, all clients placing orders for new websites will receive their choice of one of the two following packages;
1) Google Sitemap / Analytics Setup
2) PropellerMail Lite Account Setup & Website Integration
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.

Propeller have recently moved. No doubt many of you will visit us in our shiny new office soon though for the mean time we have a couple of contact details which have changed;
As of 7 February, our new telephone / fax number is 07 3286 3963. Our old number will redirect for 6 months and we will shortly be adding a VOIP line or two to the mix. Our mobile, postal address, web and email remain unchanged.
As always we look forward to hearing from you and we’ll have a newsletter out shortly with more great projects and news for your enjoyment.

In the last 12 months we’ve worked on some fantastic projects and with our website’s portfolio section (our work) freshly revamped I’m pleased to be able to share some of it with you.
Our previous portfolio was a simple one-page affair with email, web and print work grouped together but with many more great projects to display we thought it was time to re-organise and have broken the portfolio down as follows;

Propeller are delighted to get 2007 off to a great start with the news that we’ve been appointed as Preferred Designers for the Shopify hosted e-commerce platform.
What is Shopify we hear you ask? Let us explain…

This year Propeller are delighted to be major sponsors of the More 2 Fashion: Redlands Excellence Fashion Awards – An exciting new fashion design competition for amateur, student and professional designers.
As part of our sponsorship, Propeller produced a colourful series of logos, designed to express the movement, colour, flair and innovative forms of designer fashion.
Propeller have also created posters & email newsletters to advertise the competition and will continue to assist the More 2 Fashion event organisers with programs and further printed materials, as the competition progresses.

Over the past two years, Propeller have become known for excellence in professional permission based email marketing with our full service email marketing system.