Web Design Adelaide Blog

This morning I was reading an interesting article on Internet Explorer usage at Onestat.com. This article shows the different percentage of browsers used in certain countries around the world.

It was only when I scrolled down to Australia that I noticed Austalians have an extremely high usage of Mozilla’s FireFox browser and also the Opera browser compared to the other listed countires? Why is then, that the world wide avergage of 85% IE, 11% FireFox and barely 1% Opera is Australia sitting at 65% IE, 26% FireFox and 4% Opera??

This reminded me of a coversation I had with a client earlier this week as to why he prefers to use FireFox. I’ll give you some brief background information, my client is in his 50’s, runs his own business in a very traditional not technical based trade.

In response to my question he stated that he liked FireFox because it loads web pages quickly, logs into banking websites quicker and is nicer to use! Sounds like a few good reasons to me! He said he still uses IE occasionally, but only if something is not displaying correctly in FireFox (damn those non standards compliant websites!!)

So… for the rest of Australia, who knows what their reasons are. I think I’m going to look into this further, have I stumbled across some sort of anti-microsoft browser rebellion? Or is there a secret hidden force driving Australian web users towards the less popular browsers?

I’ll be in touch!

That is the question! We have had mixed success with designing rough website templates for clients to send in with our web proposals. Now here is my concern…

We recently missed out on a potential web project because another bidder had included a ‘Possible Design Template’ of what the client’s web site could look like with their proposal. Sounds fair enough you might say, people are visual creatures and like to see things and get excited.

Now the reason why we didn’t include a ‘Possible Design Template’ is that we have indeed done this in the past, and recently have ceased spending hours of time roughing out a web site layout for clients who have decided to go ahead with the project but don’t want their web site to look anything like the ideas we had thought of.

So… do you spend the time doing a rough design without any ideas from the client (before an initial design meeting) that may not even get a second thought and hope that it may increase your chances of winning a project?  Or do you hope that you previous work, experience and proposal writing skills will get you through?

I’d love to hear any thoughts from both designers as well as business who have chosen a designer and their basis for doing so… have a great day

Hi there! A couple of weeks ago we attended Search Summit 2007 for 2 days of fun and exitement hearing all the latest thoughts, news and techniques from the leaders in the area of Search Engine Marketing.

We got to rub shoulders with the likes of Andy Beal who’s Marketing Pilgrim Blog is always an informative read. Chris Sherman, partner and Executive Editor of Search Engine Land, and Adam Lasnik, Search Evangilist from Google to name a few!

The summit consisted of presentations, interactive workshops and time to chat with the presenters at the end of each day. All in all it was a great couple of days with everyone learning a lot and enjoying discussions on the different methods of improving search engine rankings and what the next online craze might be.

Welcome to the DBG Technologies Blog where we will be posting information on web topics such as web design,  web technologies, search engine optimization other web hype that we hear.

We decided to start this blog after reading Why Corporations Truly Need To Blog by Marketing Pilgrim. We figure we can probably do with some feedback to improve our services (can’t we all!) and decided to waste no more time and jump right on in head first!

So here we are with the DBG Blog version 1.0… enjoy!