- Add a widget to a WordPress page or post via a shortcode – with default values
- Adding column number CSS classes to WordPress widgets
- Transferring WordPress sql data between localhost and production
- Balancing opinions and data in User Experience design
- Android CSS background image blurriness
- Semantic HTML
- Facebook pages suck, personas are better for marketing
- Updating from AS2 to AS3 with Find and replace
- Flash site templates that work on iPhone (& iPad)
- Finding a specific node in an AS3 XML object
Projects
Section Designs for SMH & The Age
As a Senior Designer in the Creative Services Unit of Fairfax Media I was responsible for quite a few section redesigns of the main SMH & The Age ‘broadsheet’ newspaper web sites. These sites are constantly changing with an average of 18 months between each redesign. In 2006/7 I worked on these sections: BusinessDay section [...]
Also posted in 2006 and earlier, 2007, CSS, SEO, web sites
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High traffic sports news sites
Real Footy The brief for RealFooty was for a site that needed to be fun, big, brash and bright, making great use of team colours (but not the logos due to licensing restrictions). However the site also had to work within the technical limitations of the existing publishing system. The design process for RealFooty was [...]
Also posted in 2007, Code, CSS, web sites
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Social voting with Chopsumi
Chopsumi.com is a new online tool for easily organising your friends and improving your social life. The problem that Chopsumi solves is pinning down as many of your friends as possible to a specific date and location for your event. Previously this was achieved via long email discussions and a lot of work on by [...]
Also posted in 2012, Featured, product management, UX/Design
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MyCareer.com.au 1024px redesign
The MyCareer.com.au web site was originally built when 800×600 was the most common browser size. By December 2006, an expansion of the site to a wider aspect was needed. The business case was predominantly to cater for standardised ad sizes, specifically a Leaderboard in the header area and 300px columns to suit medium-rectangle sizes. However [...]
Also posted in 2007, CSS, web sites
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House swap travel sites
The client brief for this House Swap Holidays was for it to feel Australian but not overly ‘ocker’ or stereotypical/cringeworthy. Virgin Blue was cited as a good starting point – a little bit cheeky but ‘modern’.
Also posted in 2009, Code, Featured, web sites
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Environmental NGO online strategy
CRACYP is an Ecuadorean Environmental NGO that acts as an umbrella organisation for many community development projects. Their most successful venture so far in is landing a contract with BodyShop to supply organic industrial alcohol for perfume production. I originally answered a call to help CRACYP out with their SEO strategy, however it soon became [...]
Also posted in 2009, consulting
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smh.com.au redesign 2007
The revamp of the smh.com.au was a task that the Fairfax Media Creative Services Unit was asked to undertake in mid 2007.
Also posted in 2007, CSS, web sites
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Growing an executive employment site by 10x
The Big Chair is was an executive employment site that was launched in April 2007, it’s launch was leveraged of the existing generalist jobs site MyCareer.com.au.
Also posted in 2007, 2008, product management
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Website partnership relationship management or trying to be upbeat when you have to say ‘no’
As Product Manager for jobsinretail.com.au I was the key Fairfax Media representative in this partnership with Westfield.
Also posted in 2007, 2008, product management
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The perils and pitfalls of an employment classified locations structure
In late 2007 Fairfax Media merged with Rural Press, creating a much more national footprint for Fairfax’s offerings. As Product Manager on the MyCareer locations project, I needed to negotiate a re-categorisation of the location search criteria on mycareer.com.au and liaise with the Rural Press team to create a well integrated job search solution for [...]
Also posted in 2007, product management
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