Brisbane Web Design is a meetup group that I’ve been involved with as assistant organiser and occasional speaker for just over 3 years, and somehow during the crazy December 2009 time of last year it occurred to me that I had never really spoken about the web design group in much detail here on the Creative World blog – so I began … Read more »
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By Leon Poole on Feb 24, 2010
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Brisbane Chinatown Mall welcomes the Tiger
By Leon Poole on Feb 15, 2010
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The Brisbane Chinatown Mall was officially re-opened yesterday, Sunday 14th February 2010 just in time for the year of the Tiger with Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman centre stage for the launch.
The highlight of the day was the unveiling of the mall’s new Carp statue by local Chinese artist Catherine Chui. The statue is a playful and dynamic design consisting of two … Read more »
Brisbane’s New Chinatown Mall
By Leon Poole on Feb 11, 2010
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For some time now Brisbane’s Chinatown Mall has been under going a major facelift. With only a few days until the mall is officially reopened I was lucky enough to be passing by to see some of the light sequences during testing on the new Street Gate entrance.
The Chinatown Mall officially opens this Sunday 14th February 2010 in sync with Chinese New Year … Read more »
Creative World adds to activeCollab Giveaway
By Leon Poole on Dec 07, 2009
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Creative World is excited to announce that we’re joining in on the activeCollab Giveaway! It’s a great time of year to give and it also syncs nicely with the launch of our new Modern theme.
17 Dec 2009 This giveaway is now over! Congrats to all winners and thank you to ActiveCollab for putting on the Giveaway and allowing us to participate. … Read more »
Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong!
By Leon Poole on Oct 13, 2009
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Recently I listed to a great talk by Dan Willis from Sapient on how “Everything you know about web design is wrong”. Presented at a 2009 SXSWi, he talks about how web design is much more than just creating “pretty pictures”, and if designers are to be successful we need to try new things.
… what does … Read more »
10 Reasons You Should Use WordPress
By Leon Poole on Oct 04, 2009
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Recently at a Brisbane Web Design meetup I participated in an active discussion on CMS‘s. It was a great night with people speaking for at least 5 different CMS’s! I was batting for WordPress which was no problem at all – I’m a huge fan!
I thought other people might enjoy knowing the benefits of using WordPress to run your website too, so I’ve … Read more »
Access 1.1 Released
By Leon Poole on Aug 06, 2009
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After only 3 days of the Access 1.0 release we got a message from Brandon that we had completely missed stylings for the “Compare Versions” page in the Pages module – how embarrassing after all that web designing and beta testing!
In light of this, we decided to quickly edited the theme and release Access 1.1 to addresses this issue. View the … Read more »
Access 1.0 Final
By Leon Poole on Aug 04, 2009
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Since March this year, Access 1.0 for activecollab has endured 2 tough rounds of beta versions (Beta 1 and Beta 2) that were developed to work with the new advancements in ActiveCollab 2.0+. From these betas, the feedback we received has been fantastic. Thank you to everyone who reported bugs, suggested ideas and supported us throughout the development process!
We’re now … Read more »
Access 1.0 Beta 2 Released
By Leon Poole on Jun 27, 2009
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Finally a more up-to-date version of Access theme for activecollab that integrates better with the new enhancements since the release of activeCollab 2.1!
What’s new?
Re-think of the panel based layout on the Project Overview page
New styling for buttons (mainly change/edit/add types)
Colours have been tweaked sitewide – including background, links, highlights and hovers
Improved styling for category tabs
Overhaul of the ‘action’ links for on the detail pages
Plus lots … Read more »
