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Following our success in this years’ McFarlane Prize in which we have 3 sites listed out of 6 finalists, Propeller are delighted to have made the finals of the 2009 Australian Web Awards.

Following last years win Propeller are thrilled to have 3 websites short-listed out of 6 available final positions in the 2009 McFarlane Prize. Just announced on the Web Directions blog Propeller were short-listed for;

Propeller, RedFest, Running Errands

Andy Rutledge has written a great article – The Trouble with RFP’s in which he points out the shortcomings of submitting to RFP’s for freelancers and other web professionals. The article is written mainly for people looking to hire web professionals and is an excellent read not only in that it explains the shortcomings of hiring by RFP but also offers some sound advice on finding and hiring the right people for your job.

CSS Sprites are nothing new so I’m not going to reinvent the wheel – rather I’m going to explain how we’ve employed them in the new propellerglobal.com to reduce HTTP requests, decrease total image file-sizes and limit the overall page weight. All combined these small improvements dramatically reduce the time it takes a browser to download and render the page.

A recent Webcopyplus online poll has revealed that almost 25% of web users surveyed indicated “poor visual presentation” along with 50.9% of users indicating “slow load times” were the main reasons to abandon a website. “Weak web copy” sat alongside design as a major factor.

The Redland Spring Festival is excited to announce the new official RedFest website is now live! The Redland Spring Festival is Redland City's largest icon event and is organised by the community for the community.

Whilst ‘click-here’ and ‘more >>’ may be fairly obvious to most web users, its’ certainly not best practice. It can be difficult to avoid…

As proud and nationally recognised proponents of web standards, Propeller have been quietly basing all of our work on and occasionally loudly selling the many benefits of designing with web standards since our inception in 2004.

Excerpt from a recent interview I did with Peter Moulding from TXPQ magazine.

Damien Buckley is one half of Propeller Global, a one stop web & graphic design studio based in Brisbane, Australia that does advertising, brochures, business cards, copy writing, creative artwork, digital imaging, domain name registration, e-commerce, email marketing, flash animation, flyers, hosting, leaflets, logo design, packaging, point of sale, posters, print, stationery, shopify themes, web design and web hosting amongst other things

Having been shortlisted for the McFarlane Prize for the second year running, Propeller packed up and headed to Sydney for Web Directions South 2008.

WDS08 was well attended and featured a stellar cast of the net’s finest with over 30 sessions hosted by international speakers such as Jina Bolton, Jeffrey Veen, August de los Reyes, Jeff Croft and Cameron Adams amongst others. WDS08 was sponsored by Microsoft, Adobe, the W3C, Xero, Gruden, 99 Designs, Sitepoint, Molten, Wacom and Opera.

Following a fascinating insight into Microsofts’ new ‘surface’ technology by August de los Reyes, conference organisers John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin presented this years' McFarlane Prize