After months of hard work and much collaboration between YHA and the team at webqem, we’re very happy to announce that the redesigned YHA site is now live!  The YHA site redesign was a large project, considering the site has over 2,500 pages. We worked extensively with YHA to better align the website look and feel to YHA’s brand, and to provide better visual weighting to all site elements, to improve user interaction and navigation.

There were also a number of technical objectives in the YHA site redesign:

• Utilise CSS layouts as much as possible throughout the site

• Implement the Mura Open Source CMS, to give YHA greater flexibility and control over content editing

• Increase page speed across the site, by utilising site speed optimisation best practice (CSS Sprites,

separate image domains, compression, content caching)

• Utilise latest HTML 5 techniques including dynamic font rendering

• Widen site pages from 800 pixels to 1024 pixels

The end result is a faster, technically and visually cleaner site that YHA have much greater flexibility in managing going forward.

Originally launching in March 2009, Core Equity Services represents the consolidation and history of some of Australia’s pioneers in straight-through equities trading and broking services.

Since that time, Core Equity is a leading provider of wholesale broking solutions to some of Australia’s largest financial institutions, offering a range of products and services.

The new look and feel is aimed to showcase the entire product range that sits under the Core Equity umbrella in a simple and easy to navigate website.

The brand new NAB Private Wealth website was recently launched.

Designed by webqem, the website is a significant upgrade to the existing look and feel and showcases the real point of difference that NAB offer; their people.

The project included requirements definition, wireframing, design and front end build. There is an emphasis on bringing the role NAB play in thought leadership to the front and creating a living template that will allow NAB Private wealth to maintain an up-to-date website in the future with content relevant to their audience.

To help you make the most of this upgrade, this offer also comes with 2 FREE one day training courses (valued at $1749).

The Adobe K-12 School Site Licenses allow installation rights for 250 or 500 school-owned or school-leased computers regardless of school enrollment size. K-12 school site licenses also come with valuable DVDs of curriculum and training materials to help educators implement career and technical education programs around design, web, and video programs.

Take advantage of this great offer now and contact us here at webqem.

webqem launched the new LUMIX Life: Focus on Australia website two weeks ago and submissions are already up over 1200 photos with 2 ½ months to go!

The purpose of the competition is to enter photos that have been taken with a LUMIX camera across Australia in the hopes that your photo will be selected to be in a book entitled Focus on Australia alongside other professional Australia photographers. There is also the chance to win one of three LUMIX GF-1 cameras

So pick up your LUMIX and start snapping some shots for your chance to win!

maxoom is a high performance delivery platform that dynamically generates, manages and delivers your images online better, faster & more cost effective than what you do now!

In addition to reducing time and cost in image production, management and delivery, maxoom also provides you with a suite of rich media and interactive solutions including:

• dynamic imaging – deliver any image, any size on any device, instantly, anywhere
• digital asset management – centrally manage, store, control and distribute all your digital assets allowing controlled third party access
• online catalogues – start another sales channel by turning your print materials into rich interactive online catalogues within minutes
• 3D spin and zoom – increase sales and conversion by allowing your customers to see the fine detail of your product with multiple
• galleries – create enchanting image galleries with the ability to upload & display from anywhere in the world
• web to print functionality – download your digital assets in print ready formats in any popular

Contact us for a FREE 30 day trial

www.realestate.com.au/features

Take a wander around the fictional town, check out the locals and see how all the new features at realestate.com.au can help you in your property search or sale.

The project included requirements definition, wireframing, copywriting, organic SEO, and design and build. There is an emphasis on clean and clear navigation throughout the various page levels on the site, along with testimonials and links to virtual tours, in context. Rich landscape imagery and Flash galleries on specific pages have been used to give life to the pages and to work in concert with the copy to clearly present relevant information to the end user.

The new site gives customer’s the ability to make and amend bookings, submit shipping instructions, approve draft/verify copies of their documentation, download online Bills of Lading, share Certified True Copies of their documents and print invoices relating to their shipments.

The site went live on Oct 19 with a soft launch, followed by an email blast out 2 weeks later that saw traffic quadruple. We’re all very happy to see the site up and running, and thank everyone for their hard work in getting such a complex site build live.

oneworld Alliance has undergone some major changes over the past week. Not only have they welcomed a new airline – Mexicana – but they have restructured their whole website and launched their brand new mobile site.

The integration of Mexicana and the restructure to the site began way back in Feb 2009. After 10 months, oneworld, webqem and a plethora of other agencies involved in translations, tools and design launched the site on Nov 10th to resounding success. At the same time, the newly designed and built mobile site was launched as well.

A big thank you to all of the teams involved in such an epic project.

Congratulations to Virgin Mobile on launching their new eShop! webqem is proud to say that we had a hand in bringing this new and improved online store to fruition.

Starting back in March 2008, webqem was hired to provide UI guidance for design, function and overall usability and customer experience. Consequently, the resulting wireframes and corresponding notes were taken and used by the in-house Virgin design and development team as direction for the site you see today.

Good work from the team at Virgin Mobile!

It not just the iPhone that will be benefit from this: Google Android, Palm WebOS, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Nokia’s Symbian OS, and RIM with their Blackberry OS, will also be able to run a connect meeting from their phones.

For more information, visit the Connect Pro User Group, where there is also is a really good tutorial and a cool interactive demo.

Good news from the Adobe MAX conference – Adobe is now closer than ever to running Flash on the Apple iPhone. At Adobe MAX, the company’s worldwide developer conference, Adobe announced that the new Flash Professional CS5 software will enable developers the ability to create applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The new functionality opens iPhone development to millions of designers and developers who currently use Adobe’s popular Flash authoring tools. Adobe already has some examples of Flash applications available on the Adobe Labs site.

Flash is an integral part of many webqem projects, so we are very excited to hear this news. However, we are still holding out to witness a Connect Meeting on our iPhones – we hear that Adobe is not far off, so let us wait in anticipation!

Adobe has released version 8 of its Photoshop Elements image-editing software and Premiere Elements video-editing software. The bundle offers the most complete photo and video solution by integrating two powerful, yet easy-to-use, products.

With this release, Adobe gives users a completely enhanced ‘Organizer’, which serves as a feature-rich media hub for user’s photos and videos. From the Organizer, user can easily launch directly into Photoshop Elements 8 to create extraordinary photos or Premiere Elements 8 to effortlessly make movies with new, automated features.

Photoshop Elements comes in both Windows and Mac versions, however Premiere Elements is windows only. These new pieces of software are a step down from their Photoshop & Premiere Pro CS4 versions, but still offer lots for your money. For more information please visit the software page of our website.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first many maxoom online seminars. We were overwhelmed by the number of people that attended and by the amount of interest generated.

For those of you that were unable to attend, you missed out on a quality presentation by our operations director, Larry Adler. Larry used a Connect Pro Meeting room to show off the capabilities of the maxoom software, along with useful demonstration videos.

Thankfully we were able to record the meeting, so if you did miss it, we have a recording available now. Enjoy.

Adobe provides a great online resource that is Adobe TV. This website has come back better than ever with its recent relaunch. Launched at the end of  August, the redesigned Adobe TV is now faster and features customization, improved navigation, sharing options, and a more accurate search.

You can watch a full range of programs, from entertainment to instruction to tips & tricks, with videos covering almost every piece of Adobe software – from the Creative Suites, to ColdFusion and Flex, to Photoshop & InDesign. So whether you are a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, Adobe TV has a video that will cater for your needs. You can check out Adobe TV online, you will be pleasantly surprised at the number of great videos available.

webqem has launched the new LUMIX Life website, the latest competition from Panasonic Australia.

The purpose of the site is to bring together the worldwide LUMIX community, in a celebration of photography, culminating in 50 of the best online exhibitions being selected to appear at Global Gallery in Paddington, Sydney, Australia.

The new site was custom built using Flash, ColdFusion and SlideShowPro with kudos to the design team for coming up with a stunning new logo and colour scheme.

Check out the best in amateur and celebrity photography from LUMIX at www.lumixlife.com.au and, if your’e passionate, consider joining the Panasonic Australia LUMIX Flickr group.

The new site is a customised X-Cart shopping cart written in PHP, replacing an old ASP site. The online payment processing is provided by PayCorp, including MasterCard and Visacard.

The site currently has over 500 books available online, organised by multiple levels of categories, including Best Sellers, New Releases and Essential Reading.

The home page features the Book of the Month, and other promotions, all easily maintained through the menu-driven backend administration system.

Australian Institute of Management (AIM) NSW & ACT members receive a 10% discount off the listed price.

The new Digital Training website promotes the 3 core areas of the business:

• Digital Cadet – Entry level digital training
• Digital Academy – Short courses covering everything digital media
• Digital Feast – Bespoke training for leading advertising agencies, online publishers and major corporations

All courses are run by industry experts, with many years of hands-on experience working with some of Australia’s leading digital, media and advertising agencies, and publishing houses.