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I don’t normally re-post articles regarding website data-entry and styling but I find myself having to re-iterate warnings against the over-use of uppercase or block-caps to clients continually, so this article from Roger Johansson, one of the web’s foremost authorities on accessibility issues, was nicely timed.

Propeller continues to work with the Moreton Bay Trailer Boat Club on the production of their in-house magazine, Trailer Boating. The colourful 44 page magazine features a host of articles on the happenings within the club and what a hive of activity it is!

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’.

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.

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.

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.

Google announced on Friday 9th April via its Webmaster Central Blog that website page loading speed is now to be factored into its search results and Pagerank.

Our latest logo creation is for Boat Style, an online store that supplies luxury interior appointments, soft furnishings and accessories for boats. The brief was to create a sleek, contemporary logo which could be used in different colours or styles across a range of media from printed stationery and tags, online and on a large scale screen printed onto sails and banners.

At last years Web Directions South conference (Australia’s largest web industry conference), it was announced that the 2009 McFarlane Prize would be commemorated by producing a beautiful, high quality hardcover book containing all 48 of the shortlisted entires and last week the eagerly awaited book arrived.

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.