Looking for holiday accommodation in Noosa for your Queensland wedding and honeymoon? The Noosa Wedding Ring can recommend the best places to stay in Noosa Heads and Noosaville, close to beaches and restaurants. Featured in the holiday accommodation directory are On the Beach Noosa at famous Hastings Street, The Islander Noosa Resort and Villa Aqua Holiday Villas in Noosaville.

Noosa is the best place in Queensland for affordable, yet indulgent Australian holidays. With uncrowded long beaches for surfing and relaxing, a preserved natural beauty with unsurpassed diversity of flora and fauna, world class national parks close by, superb restaurants, eclectic shops and relaxed, friendly lifestyle, Noosa has an abundance of activities to offer international tourists and domestic visitors in search of a uniquely memorable Australian holiday experience.

Finally got a chance to spring clean my hard drive and retrieve all the web site backgrounds and borders I’ve made and not used on client sites. These new free web backgrounds and borders - red, blue, pale blue, navy, grey, orange, pink, green and multi-coloured - are available for download in the Sibagraphics backgrounds and borders sections.

Yet another security update to Wordpress and Siblog accomplished with ease. I was surprised this fix took a week to come out since I first noticed the flaw on the FrSIRT list.

Kudos to the Firefox team though, who had a fix for the latest critical Mozilla flaws out on the same day they appeared on FrIST.

This week I was treated to a delectable high tea at Sibagraphics client, the incomparable high societea Tea House in Clayfield.

Diana from the Noosa Wedding Ring enjoyed the splendid Savoury high tea whilst I savoured the sumptuous Royal Ascot with Pimms, accompanied by tea sipped from superb Royal Albert china. With the attentions of the lovely teahouse staff amidst the olde worlde surroundings, I felt like royalty. high societea is thoroughly recommended for perfectly elegant Brisbane dining!

There’s a new Noosa golf holiday villa for sale at the prestigious gated community of Noosa Springs. Our client, Lianne Wamsteeker, is the exclusive agent for this lovely Noosa home, which has golf frontage, two terraces for entertaining, 3 bedrooms and spacious living areas.

The very handy Future Google Pagerank Tool has now been installed on Sibagraphics to avoid opening IE in order to view page rank and since the google page ranker in my Firefox URLInfo has died.

This tool also has the advantage of being able to measure PR of hyphenated URLs, which the Googlebar doesn’t seem to manage.

Bigdaddy seems to have sorted some wheat from the chaff, reducing the value of reciprocal links and most particularly from unrelated sites. Matt Cutts’ post on the results thus far of the earthquake that was Big Daddy is good value for search engine optimisers.

Good quality, useful content that attracts inbound links naturally rules from now on it seems, though to get the ball rolling reciprocals are still necessary.

While I have long been a fan of fixed width 3 column site layouts, here’s a reference site which has a library of percentage based column layouts.

Looking forward to trying them with images in some of the columns. I have employed my own three column div layout designs on several of my sites using a fixed width method - for example view source at Success Foods, the Medicine Room, Ground Events, Mike Jackson, Eurofilter Asia Pacific and Richard’s Corner.

With the Queensland State government’s irresponsible fire sale of South East Queensland to southern immigrants and developers who feast from the spoils of unrestrained growth, the latest shortsighted move is to foist the self-inflicted water shortage problems of the profligate, ever-expanding Gold Coast and Brisbane slums onto areas close to our heart - the Noosa/Gympie region.

This is the third attempt to dam the Mary River and I predict the exploiters will lose this time too.

Apart from the direct impact on prime agricultural land and 900 outraged landowners, the area is home to at least three endangered animal species, including the Mary River lungfish, Mary River turtle and Mary River cod, let alone representatives from our national treasure chest of plant species with their potential valuable pharmaceutical use. The region’s forests form part of one of the biodiversity hotspots identified by Professor Norman Myers. This proposed travesty of a dam at Traveston Crossing is also likely to impinge on the health of fisheries along Wide Bay.

And what about the region’s old cattle dips and their arsenic loads which will leech into the dam? Humans are the only species who don’t seem to mind poisoning themselves in the name of so-called ‘progress’ - the long term self-defeating result of suspect economic irrationalism which relies ignorantly and unquestioningly on increase in population and production for prosperity. Prosperity for whom? our children’s children? I don’t think so.

No more dams! There are plenty of other more sustainable, responsible options to address water consumption needs in South East Queensland.

For more information, visit the Save the Mary River site, NUSER and the Sunshine Coast Environment Council.

Lois Wattis is a highly qualified professional independent midwife based on the Sunshine Coast. She offers support and care for expectant parents including during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatally.

Her new Birthjourney site provides articles on breastfeeding, circumcision, childbirth, homebirths and water births. The site features flash and some innovative php slideshows.

Ex-Cooranites, Greg Burch and Kate Landsberry, are now producing commercial photography for corporate and real estate promotions in New South Wales through their new business, SitePics.

Greg’s keen photographic eye is complemented by Kate’s flair for visuals.

Their full new site is coming soon.

With an increase in extreme climate events impacting on people’s lives, homes which can copy with severe weather conditions are an investment in your family’s future.

Innovative new Australian enterprise, Alpha Living Techologies, create sustainable housing systems which integrate 100% recycling of liquid and solid waste with climate resistant structures.

The full site is coming soon.

In an effort to reduce and prevent litter in South East Queensland, the Queensland Litter Prevention Alliance incorporates community, government and corporate groups.

Litter Champion, Leisa Gillham coordinates the QLPA. On the new site, IP free photos are available for download.

Lynette Gordon, professional Sydney wedding celebrant, has now revived her lovely frangipani themed web site to reflect her new centre of operations - the eastern suburbs of Sydney.

Lynette is a skilled word smith who can assist in the design and performance of a variety of ceremonies - weddings, commitments, namings, funerals and renewal of vows.

Don’t miss the latest treasury of art works by Judy Hall-Grieve and Ian Grieve now on show for a week, and for sale at their Paradise art gallery and studios at Justin Road, Doonan.

Judy is exhibiting her colourful impressions of the early women’s movement in the Australian city environment, while Ian is displaying Noosa beach, river and hinterland paintings, as well as some delicious still lifes and his wonderful ceramic gecko vases, golden unicorn and gold panners.

Judy and Ian are Australian artists par excellence and their beautiful works are highly collectable both for investment and sheer pleasure.