Hurricane’s Grill & Bar Restaurant, is a popular alfresco restaurant just across the road from the world famous Bondi beach in Sydney. Busy seven nights a week, this place starts cookin from 6pm till late.

Their new website features a revised design to showcase the renovated, expanded restaurant and of course the award-winning Hurricane’s cuisine. It includes Flash modules, a new webmail system and Joomla content management system, which enables the business to update their menus and prices themselves.

Hurricane’s Bondi Beach is a “must go and visit” if you are in Sydney. Just make sure you book well in advance to avoid the long queues.

Bon appétit!

Lifestart is an organisation based in Sydney focused on helping special kids. They run and manage an early childhood intervention and school age services program for children with Down Syndrome, Autism, delays in development, or at risk of delay.

This new, customised website is actually a combination of a blog and traditional website utilising the Wordpress publishing system. Why did we choose this platfom for Lifestart’s new site? Because it totally suits the needs of the organisation which requires an easy to use content management system to distribute the latest news, events and vital information for kids and families requiring their help.

In addition it’s got RSS feeds built in to the system and is very search engine friendly - something every business wants.

You can check out more about Lifestart’s family-centred approach at www.lifestart.org.au or at Wikipedia/Lifestart.

PS. All the drawings at the top of each web page were drawn by children at Lifestart’s Early Childhood Intervention Centres.

Making a commitment to regularly update content ( such as copy, images, video, audio) on your business website or web blog is a big step forward. A dedicated allotment of time, people resources, enthusiasm and discipline is required along with a back-up plan for when you decide you need a holiday.

Setting realistic goals and sticking to them is important. For a small business, 4 hours a month may be all that is required to update a website or blog.

On the other hand a large business that sells travel and tourism products online, may require one or two dedicated staff to spend a few days a week, updating products (eg. rates, itineraries, copy and images) and processing online orders and enquiries.

So whether a website is small or large, content updates require real people. And people (whether it is before or after lunch) require a set number of hours or days each week or month, to create quality content.