Rules
- Call it a philosophy if you like
- Before starting The Oxygen Kiosk, we worked for several other web design companies. We were amazed at the lack of ethics, aesthetics and understanding by which these companies were run. While there are many ways to create a website, we follow our own set of rules. Rules which we believe will give you the best results possible. Minimising time and expense while maximising usability and leaving a clear upgrade path for the future.
- Code is poetry
- All code should be beautiful. It should be clean, human-readable and structured. All too often people rely on their tools to do the thinking for them, turning their websites into a mess of ugly, machine-generated code that doesn’t make sense to a human. We do our coding the old-fashioned way – by hand.
- Search Engine Optimisation isn’t an optional extra
- We build your site properly the first time, so we don’t need to charge you thousands of dollars to “optimise” the source code. We do it right, from the start, so you can go ahead and fill your site with compelling content and let the search engines find out what you’re about.
- The web is a tool, not a goal in itself
- The internet is an awesome place. We spend a lot of time here. Having a virtual presence is not an end in itself however. If you’ve been thinking you need a brochure site with a list of products and your contact details, then we think you should have a chat to us about all of the other things the internet can do for you and your customers.
Oxygen Kiosk at Unconvention Brisbane
Over the weekend, Oxygen Kiosk was involved in Unconvention Brisbane, a “not for profit grassroots led music conference for DIY and Independent promoters, labels, entrepreneurs, writers, technologists, innovators and artists.” I setup a webcast for both days of conference panels, played an audiovisual set as half of Cowper, spoke on the Music as Product panel [...]
We’re Hiring! Junior Web Ninja
We’re looking for a junior web developer/silent killer to work remotely or from our Sydney office. Official transmission follows: Oxygen Kiosk, the sleek web boutique in Sydney and Brisbane is looking for a junior web developer for a 6-month contract (with a view to executing a permanent position). We’re geekily obsessive about code and hype-free [...]
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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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