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Discussing web design budgets with clients can sometimes be a difficult issue. Its the old ‘how long is a piece of string’ nature of costing a website vs. clients either being unaware of what a website is likely to cost or simply being unwilling to disclose their budget, often in fear that we will somehow make the project fit the budget.

In the face of increasing perversion of search results by black-hat SEO ‘experts’, one year on Google is now taking further steps towards rewarding high-quality sites and penalising ‘over optimised’ websites.

Google have today rolled out their new high-quality sites algorithm to all English-language Google users.

According to Google, these changes are designed to help provide the most relevant answers as quickly as possible.

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.

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.