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Web Quicklinks, Monday 15 October 2007

Wither the Browser?
Forbes - 12 Oct 2007

Firefox firebrand Mitchell Baker says browsers are too important to be left to companies to build. Winifred Mitchell Baker has all the scars of the netscape-microsoft browser war of the late 1990s.

Google is global search gorilla
Sydney Morning Herald - 11 Oct 2007

Google powered more than half of all search requests carried out around the world in August, according to a report released today.

Put your content in my pocket
A List Apart - Blog

Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave with Osama bin Laden, you know that Apple is selling an iPhone and that it’s a hit. Apple is well on its way to selling ten million mobile Internet devices by the end of 2008. Besides being a great phone, the iPhone also includes a sophisticated new Safari browser. This version is touted as “the most advanced web browser on a portable device” and from what I’ve seen, it deserves this accolade.

So what does this mean for you? Millions of visitors accessing your content on a small display with very high resolution. At some point in the near future, you’re going to want to take a look at your current site design to make sure that it looks good and works well on this new device and its Mobile Safari browser.

!00 free Web 2.0 Design Generators and Resources
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Here the list of online generators specifically for web 2.0 design: enjoy it!

Do you own, build, study or have an interest in web sites that goes beyond just surfing? Maybe you just like to keep up to date with new technologies and trends relating to web design and development.

If so, chances are good you’ve already stumbled across Vitaly Friedman’s The Web Developers Handbook. If you haven’t, the WDH is an absolute must-have bookmark. The site claims bookmarks to over 730 resources for web designers and developers across an impressive range of topics, all vetted and useful to practising designers and developers.

Nice design too - very Web 2.0.

I wanted to list on a one single page the most useful web-sites, which make the life of web designers easier. If you ask the old uncle Google where you can find proper web design-instruments he shows an infinite list, whereby “his” links aren’t actually that useful. At the same time really helpful pages aren’t shown at all…

Vitaly has the story on the Handbook and its development in this blog post.

Thanks Vitaly

One of the great things about being a designer in the age of the World Wide Web is that you need never be stuck for inspiration.

And often the best sources of inspiration can be found in work outside your own design field. Modern Design Blog looks like it might be a future favourite around here.

Care to share your favourite places or things that help you bust through bouts of ‘designer’s-block’?

Who we are

Flip is a small, talented website design team based in Brisbane Australia.

What we do

Our focus is on website design, blog design, web content writing services and web site hosting for small to medium sized businesses.

What our clients say about us

Here are just a couple of examples of the great feedback we receive, demonstrating our focus on becoming a valued and trusted online partner to our clients through excellence in service and advice.

Rob Phelan of Flip Interactive has not only efficiently supplied me
with the core technical, marketing and design expertise I have needed
since 2002, during that time he has been a trusted adviser and
sounding board.

A true professional, Rob Phelan puts his client’s
interests first by not holding back on, but instead sharing his
empowering knowledge.

Robert Garvey, Solicitor

Role: Flip Interactive contracted as Principal Project Manager (Client Service Delivery Strategy), Queensland Department of Transport

It has been very challenging at times but we have always worked as a team, everyone contributed unselfishly and I am proud and thankful to have had you as a member. I wish to extend my sincere appreciation for your effort, enthusiasm and contribution. We have achieved a lot under difficult circumstances.
Debra Graham
Director (Client Service Delivery Strategy)
Queensland Transport

More testimonials available here.

How can we help your organization?

Custom web site design » » Web site redesign

We partner with our clients to co-create professional, clean and stylish web site designs that engage target audiences and deliver a high grade user experience.

Collectively we’ve built and consulted on web sites and online services for many types of organizations, from government departments, international, national and state corporations, professional firms, a retail chain, through to one-person, home-based consultancy businesses and everything in between.

Find out about our web design services and why Flip Interactive is the right choice of partner to work with you on your next web site design, redesign or upgrade project here.

Weblog (blog) design

It’s an exciting time to be working in the web industry right now. Why? Well, weblogs or blogs are a big part of the answer to that question.

Smart businesses are now able to transform their web sites into far more interactive, dynamic and powerful platforms than possible with the “static” web. When properly implemented, a weblog can provide an informal communications channel that really drives your marketing strategy and maximizes return on investment from your web site.

Why not use all the tools available to get and keep the attention of your prospective customers?. Weblogs are powerful enablers of communication and interaction. Use weblogs to your advantage.

Find out how Flip can tailor a smart blog design and content strategy just right for your organisation.

Read more about our blog design services here.

Professional web copywriting » » Blog writing (blogging) services

Need help with your web site copywriting? An engaging, articulate voice for your corporate blog?

Writing for online viewing is different. People read and consume in a different way online. As users we all expect to be able to find and then extract from a site what we want as quickly and simply as possible. It’s crucial that your web site’s copy and content makes this fundamental task easy.

Flip Interactive can help you create smart content strategies and snappy, warm and engaging copy and content voiced just right for your organization. Your readers expect it.

Learn more about our web and offline copywriting services here.

Weblog and Business Log Design

There is great potential for the use of weblogs in all types of businesses and organizations, including yours.

A great weblog design and smart content combine to offer you many benefits, including:

• improving your communications
• improving your public image
• boosting your credibility in the market
• attracting more customers
• providing better customer service
• managing your web site more cost-effectively
• capturing valuable client feedback to help improve your marketing efforts
• extending the value of and ROI from your web site

A weblog gives you the power to regularly self-publish fresh, timely and relevant content to your web site, written in an informal, personable style, at a time of your choosing. As easily as writing an email. No web developers to hire, no delays in publishing.

Viewers return to sites that are trusted, credible providers of information. A weblog is a cost-effective yet powerful way of building trust and dialogue using your web site as a dynamic communications channel.

With a blog, your communications are always timely and on message. It’s also a great way to generate invaluable feedback on your how you’re doing on the customer and public relations fronts.

That’s where we come in. Flip can design and install a customized, self-managed blogging system for your organization, and give you the training you need to launch into publishing with confidence.

And we bring our web design and coding expertise and flair to all blog design projects we undertake to lend some visual elegance and ease of use.

Start publishing with a new weblog or weblog design

Get in touch with us today to get started on your own weblog. We’ll guide you through all the steps, and show you the ropes so you’re up and running quickly and easily.

Contact us here.

About blogs

Heard some of the talk about blogs, but need to know some more before you make up your mind?

Here’s a selection of links to off-site resources that describe weblogs and how they are being used by smart organizations of all types and sizes as the killer communications tool.

Of course our own blog is also a good resource for keeping an eye on what’s happening in the online industry.

Check out:

• Wikipedia article on blogs
• Does Your Company Belong in the Blogosphere? from the Harvard Business School’s newsletter Working Knowledge
• Blogs & Wikis: Technologies for Enterprise Applications? The Gilbane Report
• Blogs for Small and Medium Business Fast Company Magazine

Website Design

Our web sites win eyeballs.

We design, code and build accessible, robust and standards-compliant* web sites.

We’re proud that our one and only design rule is: if in doubt, leave it out.

And we work hard to ensure the web site you need is the one we build for you. We achieve this by using rigorous project management practices, a structured information discovery process, the latest industry-standard development tools and a strong collaborative relationship with each client.

Your business or organization will benefit by tapping our expertise and services in the following web site design and development areas:

• custom designed web sites
• web site redesigns, makeovers and upgrades
• self-managed web sites
• content management systems
• online shopping and e–commerce systems
• online services and applications
• online training and development systems

We are experienced in working with all types and sizes of businesses and organizations so we understand that when it comes to web development projects, everybody’s needs are different.

We strive to be a great business to do business with. The first step is to get in touch with us and tell us about your requirements and the results you want to achieve from your web site project.

* A note about standards-based design

We advocate strongly standards-based design as the way to go because it effectively future-proofs your investment in a web site against changes in - amongst other things - web designers and site inter-operability with ever-evolving web technologies like scripting languages, server systems, database and content management tools and so forth.

That way you’ll always be assured of an upgrade path for your site, so it’ll remain scalable and extendable.

More importantly, it shows you care for your visitors by ensuring their experience at your site is guaranteed to be wrinkle-free.