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RSPCA Tasmania

After our work with the national RSPCA Australia, we were contacted by the guys from RSPCA Tasmania, who needed a new website. They had been stuck with a website based on a closed-source, proprietary content management system, that was awkward, difficult to use, and as such the site was stagnating.

After working with the team, Oxygen Kiosk created a new website for them, that better emphasised the important work that they do in Tasmania.

The new RSPCA Tasmania website design

This new site is based on the MODx content management system, and the team are finding it so easy to use that their content updating has increased 400%!

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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