Where do you store your bike?

March 2, 2009
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A few months ago, we had Jack and Brendon’s amazing ride across Australia.  Like any trips, when you get home there’s a lot of tidying up to do.  You have to empty out the car, clean your equipment, and find somewhere to store it. If you are cycling on a bicycle with the wrong frame […]

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Relaunch of Tailored.com.au

February 18, 2009

For the past few weeks, we’ve been working on re-launching the Tailored Web Services site.  For a long time its been a painful mix of Blogger and static pages.  The design was also a bit outdated.  There’s a ton of content on this site, but poor navigation and structuring makes the good stuff very hard […]

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Your Website Is NOT an Expense OR an Investment…

April 24, 2008

Brendon wrote that what we see when we look at a webpage depends on our perspective.  As web developers we look at a site and see all the aspects that make the whole, while others can look at the page and just see a picture.  Then they judge the site by whether the picture appeals […]

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Your own marketers are giving you a bad name

February 26, 2008

I just got off the phone with a nice Indian-sounding gentleman named Kevin, who was trying to convince me to change my electricity supplier to his company sounds like he is desperate for a loan.  He was trying to point out spilleautomater på nett by how much my bill has increased in the last few […]

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Funny Spam

February 26, 2008

Generally, I hate receiving spam. Probably 80% of the email my work account receives is spam, which makes Monday mornings a drag as I sort through my emails. But every now and then, I get one that stops me in my tracks. If you think about it, you could come up with all sorts of […]

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Christmas and Ugg Boots

November 21, 2007

I’ve probably posted before how Brendon and Mel operate Brandboots.com – a site selling Ugg Boots. Brendon writes on Tailored about how Ugg Australia was driving his Online Ugg Boot Store out of business by providing a higher quality of boot at lower prices, with better customer support to match. From my point of view, […]

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Another Angle on Phishing…

October 4, 2007

Last night I got another strange email: Dear xxx, My Name is xxx, I am an Software Engineer, and i belongs to Kerala, India.  while i was searching for an article, I just came to know about you through the website www.tailored.com.au , So we both are working in the same field. I would like […]

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Even if you're an expert

September 26, 2007

We sometimes forget that even experts must occasionally consult the documentation, lest they slip and fall.

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IE Operation Aborted – javascript issues

September 26, 2007

I’ve been battling for a while now with a certain bug on a certain site. I don’t see this bug anywhere else, and I wasn’t able to figure out what the issue was. I eventually (trial and error) narrowed it down to some javascript. If I removed the script, the site worked. (Minus the scripted […]

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SEO – Poor Public Relations

September 6, 2007

Reading over Digg, as I sometimes do, I found this submission on Building a Niche Minisite. The first few comments imply something scary to me. …it’s SEO, which are the scum of the earth, just behind spammers. [Above] comment is over generalized but SEO’s are known to hurt the internet experience time and time again. […]

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