Posts by Mark Gibson
Keeping an eye on your competitors
Be honest, how much time do you spend keeping an eye on your competitors to see what they are up to? You should never obsess over your competition, but you should be aware of what they are up to. One of the things we do during our planning sessions is to have a look at…
Read MoreHave you met Edgar? He’s a whiz with social media.
Have you met Edgar? A few months ago I started hearing all this buzz about some guy called Edgar. It seems he was a bit of a whiz at social media. I recently became acquainted with Edgar first hand and it turns out that reputation was quite deserved, he’s a whiz indeed! I’ve only known…
Read MoreThe Cobbler’s children have no shoes.
“The Cobbler’s children have no shoes.” It’s a tired old cliche but there’s a huge amount of truth in that saying. What it means, in essence, is that the Cobbler is so busy making shoes for his Customers that his kids are running around bare foot. We had the same problem. We spend so much time…
Read MoreCarmelina’s Art – Taking Fine Art Online
This website was an absolute joy to work on for Carmelina. She is an incredible local artist who needed some help in taking her talents for fine art online. www.carmelinasart.com Where we started. Carmelina already had a simple website which was made on Wix. While it certainly looked fine, after all she does have a…
Read MoreAustralian Music Database
Australian Music Database is a companion site to Australian Music History. While the original site was built using WordPress, this site needed to do a lot of database cross-referencing and so it was built as a custom web application using a Postgres database and Ruby On Rails. It contains over 50,000 individual database entries detailing…
Read MoreeBearShow.com
eBearShow.com is an online Bear, Doll and Critter show featuring some of the most talented artists in their field from all around the World. The site is a custom built automated web app. This allows the site to automatically change into different modes before, during and after each show without any intervention from the owner.…
Read MoreAustralian Music History
Australian Music History is a site that we have looked after since it was founded in 2007. It was originally built using WordPress and has stayed on that platform. The site receives significant amounts of traffic which has grown from year to year prompting us to move it to premium web hosting a few years ago…
Read MoreNew website for music shop R&B Music
We’ve just built a brand new website for music shop R&B Music which is a family owned business located on the edge of the Southern Highlands of NSW. Where we started. The original site was a simple collection of static HTML pages. It had a few details on lessons and some basic contact information but no products.…
Read MoreHow is your Myspace page doing?
Myspace you say? It almost seems like a funny thing to ask these days but only a few short years ago it would have been a perfectly reasonable question. Yet despite the fact that MySpace, Geocities and many others have now failed, too many people continue to rely on free sites and social media pages…
Read MoreTaking your own advice
Sometimes the best thing you could do is to look at yourself in the mirror and take your own advice. I was once again made aware of this fact just this week. After writing an article only last week entitled “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should” I completely ignored that advice and wasted a good chunk of a weekend. I was working on a website, this one actually, and I needed a logo for it. The logo was something we knew we needed but hadn’t quite got to yet but it was becoming urgent now.
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