Entries to the 2023 Australian Web Awards are now open!

Throughout the research and design processes, our unconscious biases are the greatest risk to delivering inclusive experiences. From who we include and exclude in our research to how we plan and conduct research, it’s crucial that we understand how our unacknowledged biases can perpetuate systems of exclusion.

.au direct (e.g. getyour.au) Australia’s newest .au namespace is providing Australians with greater choice when building their online presence. For Australian businesses, .au direct provides short, simple and uniquely Australian domain names, a wider choice of website or email address ending in .au, as well as addresses that are easier to type into mobile devices.

Time is running out to use your priority allocation to register yourname.au. Direct registration without the .com is the biggest evolution of the Australian domain name space in nearly 30 years. 

Let’s just take a moment to acknowledge your success and say ‘yay you’. Collaborating on a website redesign takes time, effort and a whole heap of internal resources and energy, so it can’t hurt to thank your team and yourself for making it this far.

But what now? Is that it? Next project? Well, not really. Let’s talk accounting (abstract, I know, but bear with me…)

Almost every business out there has jumped on the social media band wagon, and we often get asked by business owners “what are the top social media management for small businesses” that they can implement themselves to take their social presence to the next level.

A lot of discussion recently has been around how we can help clients to do better on the web - particularly, how we can be doing better with web accessibility. For businesses and organisations of all sizes, making sure your website is accessible to everyone is essential, especially given our challenging new circumstances.