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Search Engine Optimization Campaign

POSTED 14 November 2008

We have officially started optimizing bubblefish.com.au! It took quite an effort to set up, and involves tedious text-rewording to incorporate keywords that we want to optimize for...

Search Engine Optimization Campaign

POSTED 14 November 2008

We have officially started optimizing bubblefish.com.au! It took quite an effort to set up, and involves tedious text-rewording to incorporate keywords that we want to optimize for. Try incorporate offset printing design sydney in a sentence and see how far you go.

Other keywords like packaging designer sydney are less difficult to implement. In a couple of months we should be able to judge whether or not our efforts at optimizing have been successful.

In April of 2009 (next year), I should be able to type in corporate identity design sydney into a search engine and get this website on the first page. Here's hoping it works.

CSS Tips

POSTED 17 June 2008

Below is a list of CSS tips that can help preserve your sanity; I apologize in advance if the topics I bring up sound trivial to experts in the audience, but these are the issues I struggled with the most when I was learning CSS.

CSS Tips

POSTED 17 June 2008

Below is a list of CSS tips that can help preserve your sanity; I apologize in advance if the topics I bring up sound trivial to experts in the audience, but these are the issues I struggled with the most when I was learning CSS.

TIP_01
If you use a wrapper DIV for all your content and want to position an element with absolute positioning [position:absolute], then your wrapper DIV has to be relatively positioned [position:relative].

TIP_02
When defining the behaviors of hyperlinks, they have to be defined in a particular order or they will not work. The order is as follows: a:link, a:visited, a:hover and a:active. Here's an easier way to remember it: LOVE HATE for L(ink)OV(isited)E H(over)A(ctive)TE.

TIP_03
Following the previous point, when defining colors for hyperlinks, do not use abbreviations, write #FFFFFF for white instead of #FFF.

TIP_04
The Z-Index property is great for layering elements on top of one another, but remember you can only use it for positioned elements i.e. elements to whom you've assigned a [position:...] property.

TIP_05
When laying out elements on a HTML page by using margin or top, right, bottom, left property, refrain from using the margin-right, margin-bottom or right and bottom property because sometimes it throws IE (Internet Explorer) out of whack. The only exception I can think of right now is when you use [float:right] but otherwise you can generally replace a [right] property with a [left] with a bit of calculation.

Thanks for reading my mini CSS guide. Any questions please contact me.

Sony Bravia - Play Doh Ad

POSTED 10 June 2008

Visit the Sony Bravia site

Sony BRAVIA AD FACT: The third TV commercial for BRAVIA is the most ambitious piece of stop-motion animation ever undertaken.

Sony Bravia - Play Doh Ad

POSTED 10 June 2008

Visit the Sony Bravia site

Sony BRAVIA AD FACT: The third TV commercial for BRAVIA is the most ambitious piece of stop-motion animation ever undertaken. The ad was shot over three weeks in New york, the commercial employed 40 animators and used 2.5 tonnes of modelling material.

The project is truly impressive and the end result nothing short of remarkable. Every aspect of this project is the pinnacle of what good designers strive to become eventually.

FreeRice.com

POSTED 23 May 2008

A website where you can test your vocabulary at the same time feed the world...

FreeRice.com

POSTED 23 May 2008

A website where you can test your vocabulary at the same time feed the world. For each word you get right, FreeRice donate 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program to help end the hunger. If you can do good deeds at the same time testing your brains: Why Not? or simply things to do when you're bored listening to the lecturer or that meeting?

"What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does... the totals have grown exponentially." - Washington Post

PLEO !!!

POSTED 21 May 2008

I came across this new product/gadget when I was browsing a few days ago: PLEO!

Made by a US company called Ugobe, PLEO is a virtual pet dinosaur that can convey emotions ...

PLEO !!!

POSTED 21 May 2008

I came across this new product/gadget when I was browsing a few days ago: PLEO!

Made by a US company called Ugobe, PLEO is a virtual pet dinosaur that can convey emotions, can develop its own personality depending on its owner and environment, can graze, nap and toddle about on his own. It all sounds very promising and very AI-like to me.

Apparently it is already available in Australia, although it hasn't received nearly as much press and attention like it has in the US. I'm kind of on the fence on this one: the idea of having one is admittedly very enticing, but being a dog-person I am slightly reluctant when faced with the idea of investing my emotions in something artificial. Nonetheless, Ugobe has certainly produced a great product; it is reasonably priced at US$349 and I certainly won't be the only one that finds it appealing.

IE (Internet Explorer) Bugs

POSTED 14 May 2008

Users of this website running on Internet Explorer 5 or 6 and even 7 (to some extent) may find some bugs and errors when viewing it. ...

IE (Internet Explorer) Bugs

POSTED 14 May 2008

Users of this website running on Internet Explorer 5 or 6 and even 7 (to some extent) may find some bugs and errors when viewing it. This bug particularly affects the portfolio pages, the mood photos page and this page; the bug renders the frame of these pages invisible or blue in colour. The reason being is that IE (Internet Explorer) lacks the ability to view transparent PNG image files. This is just adding insult to injury from IE's many other non-CSS-compliant bugs. Dean Edwards' IE-fix script can't work here too because the PNG images are loaded from the CSS script and not from the HTML file itself.

A simple solution would be to use a box without any transparency as frames but we are not really keen on changing the look of the website at this point because we like it so much.

Writing CSS scripts and developing HTML pages for IE browsers continue to be a pain shared among developers world-wide. I understand that market monopoly gave you the right to some degree of arrogance, but come on Bill, fix your browser.

NEWS PAGE DONE

POSTED 13 May 2008

We've completed our news page. View this page for news on graphic design, website development ...

NEWS PAGE DONE

POSTED 13 May 2008

We've completed our news page. View this page for news on graphic design, website development, gadgets and various other things of interest.

We will also have tips for students of graphic design and multimedia.

If any particular article interests you, please contact us via email to design@bubblefish.com.au.

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