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dogstar

After suffering through unsatisfying relationships with a series of inept web development companies, boutique Brisbane fashion label dogstar came to us with a tight budget and brief: We were to tie up the loose ends left by prior site attempts, build a website they could update themselves, and help them to reach their fans around the world with a simple, cost-effective online store solution.

dogstar Winter 08

Within 2 days of launch, the dogstar online store had sold enough clothing to cover its development costs! Now that’s connecting a business with its market.

Ads For Your Blog: Simple Code for Calling OpenX’s Single Page Call Within Wordpress Using current_post

Advertising is one of those “necessary evils” of the web, and of non-ecommerce blogs in particular. For blogs which aren’t associated with a particular product or revenue-generating business, advertising is the main way to pay the bills. It’s not something which generally enhances a site, but we try our hardest to ensure that it’s not [...]

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Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists, or: Why Oxygen Kiosk doesn’t offer SEO Services

I had a chat with a new client the other day about why we don’t consider “Search Engine Optimization” an optional extra, or even a service that we offer.
This morning there was a great string of posts on Merlin Mann’s twitter:
If you’re “insulted” by criticism of SEO, go write a novel or work at a [...]

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Open Migration: Rescuing Content and Images from Squarespace

We’re currently helping our clients at Dubspot migrate their blog from Squarespace to a new system which will be built around a multi-user setup of Wordpress.
Squarespace’s propaganda goes on about “Total Data Portability”, and how “your data is yours to keep”. However, when it comes to moving to another system, there’s no automated method to [...]

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