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Laurastar Lift – Parallax Scrolling Website
Laurastar Australia are the leading ironing system and portable steam station provider in Australia.
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Something Wicked Cocktails – Branding, Design & Development
Something Wicked Cocktails are Melbourne’s Original Mobile Bar, a great option for hens nights, sports club and charity fund-raisers, office functions, and momentous piss-ups like twenty-firsts, engagements, weddings, or any other excuse. Click here for a list of clubs and organisations that dig our services.
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Rachel Andrews (Dj Rexy) – Website Design & Development
Rachel Andrews (Dj Rexy) has made a sound impact on Australia’s club scene. Picking up the headphones and diving into mixing three years ago, Rexy has moved quickly around the scene, with her devotion to good music.
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Akismet, Anti Spam Warrior
Got a blog and sick of comment spam?
You need Akismet, my favourite anti-spam warrior that automatically shoves comment spam into a junk box.
Look at the stats, over 23 billion spam comments stopped, more than 35 million in the last 24 hours.
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Every WordPress blog I build includes Akismet. You can see from the screenshot why I do.
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WordPress.Com Transition To WordPress.Org
WordPress.com is a great platform for users who want to easily create a free website or blog. With more than 23 billion pageviews in 2010, the service is a hit with millions of users.
Even though premium themes are now available for WordPress.com, users of the system are limited to whatever the platform will support. There is a lot more freedom if you move your WordPress.com blog to the self-hosted WordPress.org software alternative.
Over at Mashable, the good folks there have created an easy-to-follow tutorial for people transitioning from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. Even if you have built lots of content and multimedia already hosted on WordPress.com, moving across is not that onerous as the video below attests.
Head over to Mashable for the rest of the story.
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A War Of WordPress Words
Over at technorati, blogger Todd Fast has the WordPress blogging community in a furore over his post WordPress Censoring Blogs?
“For all you bloggers out there, be be warned—WordPress can and will censor your blog. How do I know this? I know this because WordPress censored my blog, today actually, over one of my recent articles.”
The furore was caused after Todd attempted to publish his article about Lady Gaga. It is quite a read for anyone who wants to liven up a Friday.
“Politically, she’s an outspoken supporter of gay rights; gays and lesbians make up a large part of her fan base… But even more shocking is her explicit use of homosexuality, bestiality, sexual slavery, S&M, rape, pornography, and the occult—all themes woven throughout her hypnotic music videos…”
(After watching some of her videos) “While I had a basic understanding of the meaning and power of symbols (colors too), the occult, and Satanism and or Luciferianism, nothing could prepare me for what I was watching. Gaga wasn’t suggesting, she was literally reenacting occult and luciferian sacrifice rituals right in the video.”
Then he assigned his tags. You can take your pick from evil, gay, lesbian, luciferianism, the occult (etc), as to which one you think might have tripped the WordPress platform to freeze publication.
As Alan Kurtz replied in his blog post “Crying Wolf About WordPress“, there is an entirely alternate theory as to why Todd might have found his post placed on hold for a few hours. Without raining on anyone’s parade, sadly the alternate doesn’t involve any conspiracy whatsoever.
“The First Amendment has nothing whatever to do with this. The government did not censor Todd Fast. WordPress temporarily and correctly froze his homophobic smear in place until they could determine that it did not expose WordPress to legal liability. It was corporate prudence, not Big Brother at work.”
Please Note: This post relates to content posted on www.WordPress.com which is the third-party blogging platform that WordPress provides to anyone to create a blog. It is not www.WordPress.org where the WordPress software can be downloaded and installed in your own host environment.
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Wieselmann Salon Web Design & Web Development
Wieselmann is an award-winning hairdresser with hair salons in South Yarra and Toorak, Melbourne. They pride themselves on providing an elite hair service, focused on quality, craftsmanship and client satisfaction so, when they wanted their website redesigned, it should come as little surprise that they sought exactly the same qualities in their web team.
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Laurastar Website Design & Development
The Laurastar team came to me with the vision of creating a site befitting a market leader. As innovators that set industry standards for innovation and quality, Laurastar wanted a website to reflect their market position. The team sought a place that, not only demonstrated the quality of their ironing products, but provided their 65,000 clients with customer service like no other, incorporating online training videos and numerous options to access their 5 star customer service team, both online and offline.
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WordPress, More Than 30M Downloads
If you’re thinking about a CMS for your website, you’d be hard-pressed to ignore WordPress, the world’s favourite blogging platform which is, of course, much more than a pure blogging platform.
Back in November, following head-to-head voting against Joomla and Drupal, WordPress won the 2010 Open Source CMS Hall of Fame award.
To give you a taste of just how many people know how great WordPress is, take a look at at the WordPress download counter. I just did and took the screengrab below.
It’s easy for me to say choose WordPress because I know how great it is – but here’s more proof of how great it is.
30 million people cannot all be wrong.
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How WordPress Themes Work
WordPress developer and all-around web geek Joost de Valk has just graced the Internet with a highly useful infographic.
For a medium that leans toward the amusing, infographics can occasionally be enlightening or even helpful for later reference.
This one serves as a sort of “cheat sheet for how your blog works” and takes the reader through the basics of a normal WordPress theme.
It’s a posts-to-plugins look at the anatomy of a typical WordPress theme.
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