A website’s footer is one of the most neglected and overlooked components of website design, so in this article i’m going to discuss how the footer is evolving in modern web design and how the footer space can be taken full advantage of to open up more opportunities for:
Creativity
SEO optimisation
Improved site usability
Traditionally, the footer is [...]
Can be seen here. Makes for some pretty interesting viewing.
More...“…with the “youth” market spending more time online than watching TV, and the youth market gradually turning into the adult market, there’s got to be a shift away from TV centric brand campaigns, towards properly integrated brand campaigns. I’m not saying anything new, I am saying that it’s time to start believing the hype…”
More...BBC.com’s keynote presentation was worth recording. Launched in 2007, the site is run by BBC Worldwide and is the BBC’s international website outside the UK.
Kym Niblock, Managing Director BBC.com talked through the BBC.com reach numbers (which were impressive!), 26 million monthly UVs and the number one international site in Australia (1.2 million Australian UVs per [...]
In the pursuit of making websites super-sticky, they’ve become loaded with content with dubious uses. The truth is, there’s a lot to be said for really simple sites.
There’s nothing wrong with developing a site that is a one-trick pony. As long as that trick is impressive.
As Lia Timson outlines in this month’s Australian Creative
magazine, an [...]
In celebration of their 10th birthday Google has reactivated it’s search page from January 2001 when the engine searched a paltry 1,326,920,000 pages (it’s over 10 billion today). Take a minute to look around and you will see favorites like Digg, Flickr and Twitter are nowhere to be seen.
More...Running in Great Britain since 2006, the concept of eDemocracy lets voters keep a closer eye on their parliamentary representatives by monitoring their online activity. Brought to Australia by GetUp under the banner of Project Democracy users can also access Senate speeches, bios, and media reports about a chosen senator then view and contribute to forums. I [...]
More...Here’s an interesting concept, a US company, Songvest has developed an online auction to allow consumers to buy the music rights to their favourite songs.
Songvest says “Highest bidder at our song auctions owns a share of the rights, including a nice chunk of the song royalties that come streaming in every time it gets played—plus [...]