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Little Bay Apartments are located at Little Bay, Prince Henry, 20 mins south of Sydney. They provide luxury retirement living at an award-winning masterplanned seaside community. The client, St Luke’s, aim was to combine succint, relevant content (both copy and imagery) with a great user experience. The end result is a clean, easy to use site that gives users a great insight into retirement living at Little Bay.

CCTVCOM is the internet portal of the largest professional television broadcasting media organisation in China. CCTVCOM was the official internet/mobile broadcaster for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, enabling millions of sports fans in mainland China and Macau to vividly experience Olympic videos built on Adobe Flash and Flex technology.

CCTV needed a solution that supported a large-scale, highly flexible, robust balancing network of high concurrent streaming media. Partnering with Adobe allowed them to deliver a compelling consistent Web 2.0 user experience, such as a 3D TV wall and seamless integration of viewing with live chat functions. The architecture involved a multi-city node origin/edge distribution mechanism.

During the games there were over 832 million visits, with over 46.6 million on-demand video playbacks delivered via Flash Media Server technology, with the maximum concurrent users of live chat room reaching 90,000 and over 10,000 video clips, including whole matches, highlights, extra new and interviews.

Read more about CCTV and FMS

Enphase Energy is an exciting new player in the solar energy market in the U.S. As the popularity of their unique solar power system has become increasingly recognized and desired, the need for a fresh new look for their website emerged. This up-and-coming company has become a major player in the energy industry so webqem undertook redesigning their site as one that reflects the professionalism and success of the Enphase brand and philosophy.

“webqem did a phenomenal job creating our website and producing our Flash animations, despite the short time-frame, our high expectations, and an eighteen hour time difference. I highly recommend them.”

Leesa Lee, Director of Marketing, Enphase Energy, USA

webqem is committed to standards and accessibility when developing websites.

As part of that commitment, Rob and Chris attended the WIPA (Web Industry Professionals Association) Accessibility 2.0 Seminar in Sydney on 12 November, to discover the latest news about accessibility.

The seminar covered three main areas:

1. Moving from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
2. Preparing accessible Flash
3. Preparing accessible PDFs

WCAG stands for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which a recommendations from W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, for making web content accessible to people with disabilities. This covers physical, cognitive and technical disabilities.

The WCAG 1.0 Recommendations, have been in effect since May 1999 and needed revision to address changes in technology and future flexibility. WCAG 2.0 is in “Proposed Recommendation” status, and considered highly likely to be approved as a “Recommendation” by the end of the year.
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A new section of the Adventure Kokoda website went live today, Events. Events allows users to purchase tickets to an event, create a table at an event or join a table that has already been created. The main upcoming event is The 2008 Kokoda Reunion Dinner, to be held on November 7, at Parliament House in Sydney.
 
 

Adobe announced the new version of Creative Suite in a massive public launch at 12:01 EST on September 23 2008, with webcasts of the launch event scheduled around the globe.

With the tagline “Shortcut to Brilliant”, the new Creative Suite 4 allows you to express yourself richly in virtually any medium; simplifies workflows for greater efficiency; and to exchange information, ideas and feedback more easily.

Packages include the Design Premium, Web Premium, Production Premium and Master Collection. The Adobe website states that Creative Suite 4 is expected to ship by late October 2008.

Contact webqem for more information about Creative Suite 4, plus the various upgrade paths that will save you money, as well as special education discounts and bundles. webqem is an Adobe Solutions Partner and Adobe Authorised Training Centre and a leading Australian reseller of Adobe products and services.

Team2Design are a leading architectural firm in Sydney, and they required a web presence showcasing the quality of their work. Team2 designed the current webqem offices, which we love, so we thought it only fair we returned the favour with a quality site.

It was decided that Flash would give us the greatest flexibility in laying elements out on the page and Flash image galleries were the best way to display the many high resolution images. The result is a clean, usable site, that displays rich images and succint content in a minimal, white and grey design.

Blackboard is a leading provider of e-Education enterprise software applications and services, servicing schools, universities, corporations, governments and publishers. Blackboard’s online learning application, the Blackboard Learning System, is the most widely-adopted course management system among U.S.tertiary institutions.

Adobe has just announced that the Adobe Acrobat Connect/Blackboard Building Block (integration module) is now available to customers from the Blackboard Building Block website at http://www.blackboard.com/corp/objects/inc/B2Details.asp?ExtensionID=10314

Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro 7 provides a more integrated workflow to common tasks with Blackboard 7.3 and 8, allowing:

• Administrators to easily install the LMS integration module;
• Course Builders create and manage course-specific Adobe Connect Pro Meetings as part of their course offering;
• Students to see upcoming Adobe Connect Pro Meetings and Today’s Meetings.

webqem are the leading Australian Adobe Solutions Partner for Adobe Connect Pro, and will be attending BBWorld AsiaPac 08 in Adelaide on September 8 – 10, sharing knowledge in online learning solutions.

Long time client Fortitude Capital have recently been awarded “Hedge Fund of the Year” at the prestigious 2008 Australian Hedge Fund Awards.  Well done Tim, John and the Fortitude team.

http://usc.edu.au/University/MediaPublications/News/MoreNews/GayleBeijing.htm

University of the Sunshine Coast business lecturer Gayle Mayes used Adobe Connect to bring the Beijing Olympics into her classroom.

Ms Mayes spent two weeks in Beijing for the Olympic Games, and organised live video links with her Sport and Event Marketing classes during their scheduled lecture times, covering the sports marketing topics discussed in her University classes.

Issues included ticket prices, politics and sport, drugs in sport, security, the cultural, economic, political and environmental impacts of mega events, and the challenges of marketing and managing an international event in China.

Ms Mayes uses experiential education as her main teaching strategy. This approach last year earned her a $10,000 grant from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.