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  • Making your website tick

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Having a website is great for business. In fact these days, it’s probably one of the most important things to have. But, it’s absolutely vital that your website is fast. Why? So your users will stay there and not get frustrated by waiting for your site to load. What’s the process behind the speed of…

  • Building a brand: SpareTicket.com.au – a case study

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    Creating a new brand is an intensive, yet highly satisfying journey. Recently the Brio Group team had the pleasure of bringing to life SpareTicket.com.au – an online entertainment hub where Australians can buy, sell or share tickets to a whole host of events: music, theatre, sport, etc. Launched in late 2010, this relatively new brand…

  • History of browsers infographic

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    You may or may not know this, but March was a big month for browsers. Three of the big four web browsers – Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer – all released their latest versions! What they bring for us are improved standards compliance, support for all of the latest technologies including HTML5 and…

  • #epicwinning with ASOS Facebook competition

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    I won, I won, I won!!!! Can you tell that I’m super excited? It’s because I’ve won $300 worth of ASOS gear for free! In the words of one wise Charlie Sheen I think that makes me a “#biwinner”. “#epicwinning” indeed! After I ‘liked’ ASOS on Facebook – one of the largest online fashion retailers which…

  • Do you know your target market?

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    The Neo Property Marketing Team possibly knew they were targeting bachelors when they conceptualised this advertising campaign for the sale of the property at 15 Queen Anne Court on the Gold Coast. Some might even say it’s spot on for the Gold Coast demographic. [briotube]http://www.youtube.com/v/q9LBQZ3nxCU[/briotube] This advert is just shy of 500,000 hits on youtube…

  • WordPress Plugins – Lessons learned

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    After reading this article on Smashing Magazine, I could only think about the issues I have had when building a WordPress plugin. It gives great insight into building a great plugin that not only works, but has catered for the majority of users. From using the correct URLs, using filters, option arrays for plugin data…

  • Accidentally legendary

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    Tanya Heading

    A good friend of mine brought a very interesting site called 9-eyes.com to my attention recently. This site shows a collection of fantastic images that were caught by Google maps with Street View. I’ve shown you a few of my favourites here, but there are plenty more. It just goes to show some of the…

  • Design your own shoes with Shoes of Prey

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    When I signed up for a Small Budget Web Success Seminar with Interactive Minds I saw one of the speakers was Mike Knapp from Shoes of Prey. I thought ‘what a great name’ and got on the old google machine to find out who they were. What I discovered literally made my jaw drop (it…

  • When maths and design cross paths

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    Belinda Vesey-Brown

    In the Brio office recently, an interesting conversation led not only to some confusion but also to the concept of what happens when math and design cross paths. It was all sparked by the recent release of GoogleLab’s “Julia Map” project, a tool for exploring fractals using the Julia set numbers, a HTML 5 and…