Red Ant

We've recently spent some time adding some new features to a site that we built a while back. Part of this involved refactoring or rethinking an existing page design. This post explains the problems, how they came about, and how we fixed them.

Here are a few of the projects that have been keeping us busy lately

One of the things that we're constantly on about here at Red Ant is meaningful interaction. A website is all well and good if it gets a gajillion hits, but, if those hits are from bots or the human equivalent, then the only meaningful thing that you'll have at the end is a large bill from your hosting provider.

This post outlines an idea that we’ve come up with for visualising a list of information in interesting ways. We’ve included some code examples, a live example, and you can download the source code to roll your own.

It's been a few months now since we redesigned our website, and we're thrilled with the responses we've had. We've created a set of desktop wallpapers based on the design. Download yours today!

This year, we've started sponsoring a design prize at the University of Technology, Sydney for excellence in web design.

Analysis of how frequently certain words appear in spam comments left on our blog.

An analysis of the number of steps required to post a job on two job sites.

Some of the projects that we've been beavering away on lately.

Sales people talk about "customer funnels", and there are some examples of how to do this online. But what if you're site isn't about selling stuff?

We use a Wiki to communicate with our clients - this post outlines some of the changes that we've made through doing this.