Fine Web Design & Graphics
Sibagraphics is celebrating the announcement that the site of superlative wedding and conference venue, Maleny Manor, has won the Restaurant & Catering Australia Best Web Site 2005 award!
The Maleny Manor site is a large and comprehensive directory of the venue’s services, menus and facilities for prospective bridal couples and conference organisers. Coded in XHTML and using advanced CSS, the site aims for quick loading, ease of navigation and search engine friendliness.
In the 2005 Queensland Restaurant & Catering Awards, Maleny Manor, premier venue for Queensland weddings, has won Function/Convention Centre Catering and Caterer of the Year.
Sibagraphics has completed the code revamp and optimisation for the site of famous Australian children’s and family entertainer, Mike Jackson. Well known for his Dr Knickerbocker song, Mike is now launching his new Uke ‘n Play book and CD kit.
The site has been upgraded to a 3 column div layout in XHTML 1.0 which has streamlined the markup, reducing page size and loading times. Pages have been individually metatagged and matched with content.
Soil enrichment specialists, LimePlus have launched their new site which promotes their supply, delivery and spreading of organic and inorganic fertilisers on the Sunshine Coast.
The site employs advanced CSS list rollovers and positioning.
For those wishing to learn a new skill or revise their learning, Westciv is commencing their excellent free basic lessons in HTML and CSS. A new lesson is released every week.
There’s a very funny and applicable list of gripes which will be familiar to most graphic designers at Adland.
My favourites are
15. If three designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen or any combination of worst components of each.
16. If two designs are shown, a third will be requested. If provided, then one of the first two will be chosen.
And there’s more notes about bad design projects at Andy Budd’s blog.
Again, Maleny Manor has excelled in the ABIA awards, taking out the Golden awards for 2005 for both ceremony and reception venue. This top wedding venue was also finalist for Best Function Co-ordinator. Congratulations to Marlene and Simon!
Results of the ENABLED survey on web developer usage and knowledge of designing sites accessible for the disabled are now available.
58% of respondents were not aware of the Web Accessibility Initiative, and only 36% attempt to make their sites accessible. I’m not surprised, because to do so requires gaining knowledge and skills way above the use of a WSIWG program.
Country and gospel singer Paul McCloud’s site has been chosen for archiving in the Australian National Library Archive.
Two new prestigious accolades have been awarded to the Sibagraphics site … Tim’s Spider Merit Award and Invision-Graphics 2005-2006 Award. View these and others in the Sibagraphics awards section.