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Minimal Colour

Siba — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:12:50 +0000

The way the eye interprets colour and shapes according to allegory, parable, myth and fable is fascinating.

Check out what Minimalissimo does with a few coloured blocks to stimulate your imagination here.

Sunshine Coast Facepainting, Entertainment & Fairy Products

Siba — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:00:28 +0000

Gabrielle Shootingstar has a new site courtesy of Sibagraphics, incorporating a blog, to promote her facepainting and entertainment for children’s and adult’s parties, festivals, weddings and venues on the Sunshine Coast and throughout South East Queensland. Brighten up your next special occasion with a facepaint event with Gabrielle!

Gabrielle also creates and designs fantastic hand-knitted beanies in rainbow and forest colours, warm and cosy accessories to complement all wardrobes. WonderWings – genuine fairy wings for special occasions and costumery, are a new magical product.

All Gabrielle’s services and products can be booked and ordered online.

Freedom Wheels Harley Davidson Tours

Siba — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:48:15 +0000

Relax on the Sunshine Coast with the wind rushing through your hair – take yourself and your friends off on an adventure with Freedom Wheels on their beautiful Harley trikes and bikes. Freedom Wheels can take you to many exciting attractions and views all over the Sunshine Coast. You can try their package tours or design your own.

Freedom Wheels invites everyone to experience their extraordinary holiday tours – corporate and group tours are their specialty. Check out their unique gift vouchers for the special person or people in your life.

This new site features a blog and great navigable interface and lots of photos of the Sunshine Coast and Harley Davidsons.

Designing for Dyslexics

Siba — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:54:48 +0000

Interesting article with tips for accessibility for dyslexics. Wondering if white text on black backgrounds is also a problem for these people, like black text on white backgrounds.

WordPress directions at #wordcampau

Siba — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:56:04 +0000

#wordcampau participants were lucky to catch up with advances in the popular, versatile blogging software, WordPress with a keynote address by Matt Mullenweg, the developer of WP. WordPress 2.7 will be available in December with loads more features. Matt alerted participants to a new WordPress template http://monotonedemo.wordpress.com/, where page colours and widths alter according to the colour and size photos which are added – could be a winner for a photography site. He tantalised the audience with a reference to the WordPress 2.6 Maxtrix Easter Egg.

The impending release of collaborative plugin BuddyPress was foreshadowed, an innovation set to energise and transform WordPressMU (the multi-user version of WordPress) with social interaction.

The beauty of WordPress is the user friendliness of its CMS (Content Management System), its extensibility with a wide choice of plugins, easy to read Help section and ready availability of templates. A collaborative networking facility will be the icing on the cake.

The online presentation was nifty, demonstrating the versatility of WordPress with integration of video streaming via Stickam, photos via Flickr and the inclusion of a Twitter stream using Monitter.

Other useful hints – collaborative tool ProjectPier, SlideShare, a site for sharing online slide presentations and of significant interest to businesses, the WordPress e-Commerce Plugin highlighted by developer Dan Milward.

Firefox 3.0 upgrade

Siba — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:53:28 +0000

Leaving a reasonable time for addons, extensions and themes to catch up, we’ve now installed Firefox 3.0.

Immediately, an anomaly appeared on the front page of the Sibagraphics site – a bottom scroll bar. This turned out to be from the top flash animations, one of which was floated right and the other left from id css instructions within the objects themselves.

This was simply solved by removing the ids and putting them in divs around the objects!

The site validates and is similar in all browsers, even the annoying and insecure IE6 which 24% of viewers worldwide still apparently use. Many of these would be corporate users who have unique company software reliant on that dodgy old M$ version.

Rather than use the M$ Virtual PC software in order to run two versions of IE, we found the very handy free Tredisoft solution, which will install standalone versions of IE from IE3 – IE6 if desired. Works a treat and naturally is not bulky and cumbersome!