Rob Hawkes joins us at the next Melbourne Geek Night
09 May 2012
We are really (really, really) excited to announce that Rob Hawkes, Technical Evangelist at Mozilla, will be giving a special presentation at the May 2012 Melbourne Geek Night.
Progress bar with CSS and Javascript
03 May 2012
Over the past few months we’ve been redesigning the Thirst Studios website. As part of this redesign, we’ve added a shiny new project planner. We wanted the progress bar to function in two ways, firstly was to update as the next and previous buttons are clicked and we wanted the ability for users to click back to a section they had already completed in case there was an error or they wanted to make amendments.
New team member - welcome Daniel!
13 Apr 2012
It's always exciting when a new staff member starts, and this is no exception! We are all pleased to welcome our latest nerdy super-star Daniel Nitsikopoulos.
7 Guiding principles for designing a better user experience
01 Mar 2010
In conducting a number of web site usability reviews of late I've noticed a series of emergent issues that are common to all. These issues can be broadly grouped into the following list of 7 'principles' that affect the user interface and information architecture of almost every interactive online product, whether it be it a simple web site or large complex application.
Our very own dev guru in the ‘Spotlight’
10 Feb 2010
The great folks over at devot:ee have put together a new "Spotlight" article on our very own dev guru Andrew. The article has Andrew talking about how he used ExpressionEngine on our recently released site for Eastern Ranges GP Association.
Improving The Age site search field usability in 5 minutes
28 May 2009
Despite being someone who uses the web daily (and a regular reader of The Age) I find myself getting caught-out by the design of their site search every time. Here's how I'd tweak the design to improve it's usability in 5 minutes.
Review: Campaign Monitor, Email Newsletter Software
30 Mar 2009
I was recently asked to write a review of the Campaign Monitor email marketing software for popular industry magazine, Think Vitamin.
Tutorials: Petitions with ExpressionEngine and Freeform
30 Mar 2009
A recent project had a lot of requirements. Most were straightforward, and things we come across in our daily lives as web developers... blog, news, about us, contact form, etc. As with all clients, they also had a few requirements that were not quite "out of the box".