So most of you probably woke up today wondering why you missed the memo that Armageddon had arrived. Sydney’s dust storm is the talk of the town for the morning, so I thought I’d pop up a few photos taken by our staff around town in the early hours. Photographers AND coders, who knew?! Share [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
To App, or not to App? iPhone applications and your business
The success of Apple’s iPhone app store has led to a stampede of brands creating games, services, and other applications as marketing tools. It’s an entirely new platform for most, and it is quickly becoming a powerful way to influence consumers. More and more, our clients are asking our advice on the value of iPhone apps. [...]
Gruden launches SkillsDMC on Sitecore CMS Platform
SkillsDMC is a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates education and training across the Resource and Infrastructure sectors. The SkillsDMC website provides tools, research and competency-based training resources to assist skills-short mining and infrastructure enterprises. The underlying foundation of this resource is a scalable, flexible and easily updatable content management system, Sitecore CMS. Sitecore CMS allowed Gruden to build [...]
Web Directions South 09
October is going to be a huge month for the web in Australia with both the Web Directions South conference and the inaugural Web Week. Web Directions brings together the many disciplines that shape the web – web design, front-end and back-end development, information architecture, interaction design, accessibility, data visualization and much more – and [...]





Leverage external benchmarking
Most websites utilise web analytics to track usage and visitor behaviour. Some companies even take this one step further by studying competitor sites using a tool such as Hitwise. This is known as competitor intelligence (CI) or external benchmarking. But Hitwise isn’t free, and what if your company doesn’t have an analytics budget? This post [...]