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Making your home and office Eco friendly has become a major focus for many Australian families and businesses of late which places one of our latest projects right in the limelight.

Ikko.com.au, powered by our sanscode CMS, is a 100% online e-commerce store offering more Eco friendly products than I knew existed for both the home and office.

Not only can you browse and purchase eco friendly products for every corner of your home but Ikko also provide regular updates, tips and recommendations on every aspect of thinking and shopping green.

Please pay Ikko a visit and start to make a difference.

Just to prove that we haven't been sitting on our hands for the last 12 months here is a list of our latest website projects.

I will attempt to brief you on each of them over the next few weeks.

In the meantime, please enjoy!

I can't beleive that the last post I made was to announce the very exciting launch of our first News Portal, Scopical.

What makes this even harder to beleive is that 12 months on Scopical has been closed down and replaced by its second generation, and VASTLY improved brother Streem.com.au.

Streem takes all of the best bits of Scopical such as user contributed news & images and puts them into a new bigger and better package.

With a complete re-design and a host of new features, Streem is the logical next step in the Scopical project.

Streem's new features include:

User Profiles
Users can now create a profile which showcases the articles, images and video uploaded by the user.

User Earnings
Users can now earn cold hard cash for their contributions to the portal.
Simply create an account, write an article, upload an image or video and you start earning immediatly.

Improved Media
A whole new Media Gallery has been developed which now also includes Video.
Just like YouTube, uploaded videos are automaticlly processed and converted to Flash on the fly.

This on the fly video conversion function was actually developed by our team as an alternative to using a branded YouTube player.

For more information on Streem you can check out the Press Release here.

WOW. It has been a REALLY long time since I last posted a Blog.
Both fortunatly and unfortunatly the reason for this is that we have just been so damned busy!

From designing and developing a large number of new websites and the launch of the latest version of our sanscode CMS, to the design and production of a number of catelogues and a countless number of logos, there has been quite alot going on.

So. My apologies on the silence. I will try to catch up on all of the latest Cyber happenings as quickly as I can.

Stay Tuned.

Cheers!

Luke McCallum
Sales & Account Manager

Cyberdesign Works is proud to announce the launch of Australia's newest media portal, Scopical.com.au.

Why are we proud? Well, we designed and built it!
After 4 months of development, countless man hours and alot of late nights this portal with a twist has been unleashed on the world. (in beta of course)

But why do I care about another news portal you ask? Because this ones different I say. This one will pay you to publish content on it! True!

Rather than me woffling on here is the official press release.

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New Australian online media portal launched

Scopical announced today the launch of its all Australian interactive online news and media portal. Delivering the latest in National and World News, Business & Finance, Sport, Politics, Tech/Media and Entertainment, the portal offers a competitive choice to the Australian market.

Scopical delivers up to the minute coverage in textual and image media covering a mix of national and world events, people, times and places. Scopical takes media from agencies, news wires and bloggers throughout Australia and will be the first major portal to offer a real financial return on media additions by all users.

Scopical hosts a key difference in its ability to harness user-generated content in news and media delivery and is the first to fully embrace this increased media form in up to the minute news coverage. Combining objective raw national and world news with the latest in text, image and video media, scopical.com.au is a breaking source of news and analysis for all Australians.
Everyone can now add up to the minute media anytime, anywhere - and starting November*, all users can add and earn for relevant news or entertainment content with up to 50% of advertising revenue being returned.

The company’s Head of Media and Strategy Mr. Elgar Welch said “Scopical offers a competitive, up to the minute source of news and media whilst providing the opportunity for real interactivity and financial returns on text, image and media content,” “The strength of Scopical is it’s ability to deliver live and extremely relevant media. A great deal of people now have camera phones, laptops, digital cameras, broadband access and an eye for what’s happening in the
news sphere, we can now deliver this content and reward all users with a real financial return too.”

The move represents the first major independent addition to the Australian online media market in a number of years. With a competitive daily offering, the portal, available at www.scopical.com.au will provide the latest in news and media coverage all day, every day.
Scopical collects and produces its own textual and image news content whilst posting live coverage from Australian based news agencies, bloggers, freelancers and individuals everywhere.

The company will embark on an aggressive development strategy with further technology and user interactivity flagged in the coming months.

The portal has correspondents based in the UK, New Zealand, North America, Russia, Asia and the Middle East, providing the latest in coverage of world events and adding an additional dimension to the portal.

Scopical will provide:
• The latest, up to the minute news and media coverage
• Additions from agencies, news pro’s, freelancers and ordinary Australians
• Harness user-generated content in news, media and entertainment coverage and beginning November give back 25% of ad-revenue for text and a further 25% for image and video/audio media

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Well I like to think that it's a good problem to have. Too few hours in the day.

Our team of trained monkeys have been slaving away for the last month, at times pulling 48 hour shifts just to get the work out. So to help relieve the pressure ( and hopefully prevent a postal episode) we have just employed two new developers. Welcome guys!

We have managed to push out a couple of new websites for beta launch whilst additional functionality and refinements are being made. These new additions to the Cyber portfolio are:

Sunlite City Hardware & Delmege Commercial Property.

I will go into both of these websites in greater detail in future posts.
With a little luck we will also be launching four more sanscode websites in the next three weeks.

We have also had some big wins which I unfortunatly cannot tell you about just yet but stay tuned for the juicy updates.

The end of August will also see the launch of our biggest project yet. 

As always stay tuned for more info as it comes to hand!

• Photoshop
• Fireworks
• Dreamweaver
• Flash/ActionScript
• or good old fashioned hand coding in notepad!
  

Extensive experience with Semantic (X)HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, XML, Javascript, are a must and SEO is a plus, but not essential.

Everyday will offer a new project with a different client so the ability to perform in a fast project turnover environment is a must.

This is a full-time position ready to start ASAP.
Salary and benefits are negotiable, commensurate with experience.

Please email attached your resume to our contact form

No recruitment agencies please.
All applicants MUST be Australian residents and residing in Australia at time of application.

• Delmege Commercial Property
• Building People Recruitment
• i2i Recruitment &
• Trannys Print Solutions
  

All will be built on our sanscode CMS.

We have launched Platinumpackaging.com.au, a new Jewellery Packaging & Watch Winders wholesaler, and continued to upgrade and expand Mynetfone.com.au.

We have lost one of our fantastic designers, Homaira, who has gone and gotten herself married, and is moving to Germany!

To replace her (as difficult as it was) we have hired an equally fantastic designer who is to start in a few weeks time.

We have also put on a second developer and 4th full time designer.. All in an effort to ensure that we maintain the level of service and quality that you have come to expect from Cyberdesign!

It is looking to be a very busy third quarter as we enter into Catalogue Design season as well.

All of this certinally doesn't mean that we can't handle more work though! Quite the contrary, Bring it on!

After a frantic two months of development, Cyberdesign Works is proud to announce the launch of the new and vastly improved MyNetFone website.

This story begins 9 months ago with a phone call from the MyNetFone Marketing Coordinator, and after a lengthy negotiation and specification process we were appointed to the task of completely overhauling the MyNetFone website and building in a number of new features and functions (these I will get into shortly).

The brief was, "go for broke and wow us", so we got stuck right in, with different concepts coming from each of our designers. Concept refinement saw elements from pretty much every concept combined into the final product that you see now.

Sure it looks great but what does it do?

The new MyNetFone website is built using Cyberdesign's own sanscode CMS. This is the same CMS that underpins the majority of our web design projects. The difference is in the number of additional, custom modules and components that were developed to support the numerous functions and features of the website.

What are these features you ask?

Well from an administration point of view absolutely no programming, html or technical knowledge is required of the MyNetFone administrators in order to maintain the website. Ah the beauty of sanscode. For a sanscode demonstration please contact us.

MyNetFone Administrators can also dynamically control all devices, plans, promotions and specials with the click of a button.

Website users have access to the following features and functions:

• International Call Rate Search
• Savings Calculator
• MyNetFone Support including
  • Downloads
  • FAQ's
  • Terminology
  • Support Ticket submission
• Online Purchasing via a secure shop
  

sanscode also allows for the rapid and inexpensive development and deployment of new functionality as required.

Award winning Design

The MyNetFone.com.au website has also just earned us a Platinum award from the Australian Web Designers Network. Judged by a panel of Judges on Graphics, Artwork, Layout, Navigability, Functionality and Originality the award is a nice pat on the back after alot of very hard work.