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Media Release
Squiz redesign gives DBCDE website a digital facelift
01 December 2009
With the ever increasing importance of the digital economy and the National Broadband Network to all citizens,
the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has undertaken a
comprehensive website redesign in partnership with leading Australian web solutions provider, Squiz. The
redesign focuses on delivering the Federal Government’s key priorities for the portfolio and working towards a
better future for all Australians by facilitating a world-class Australian communications and information
technology sector.
The main focus of the project was to provide clearer access to current key activities by using appropriate visual cues
including images. For the Australian population this means faster access to content along with news, features and better
presentation of quick links and other items of public interest. The site can be accessed at www.dbcde.gov.au.
For the DBCDE website redesign project, Squiz utilised the newly developed “Squiz Solutions” which takes a holistic
approach to project implementation and involved a two phase process. Phase one involved analysis and build
specification work necessary to determine the impact of making the design and implementation changes. Phase two
involved applying the approved Squiz design creative work to the unchanged existing content – affording a completely
new look and feel for the DBCDE website.
Squiz Solutions proved to be a great success with the brief calling for several graphic design concepts with rounds of
minor revisions to the chosen theme. The site design also had to meet WCAG 2.0 compliance level AA, be cross
browser compliant, and incorporate recommendations from the AGIMO web publishing guide.
During the 11 years Squiz has been providing web solutions, they have built a wide portfolio of Australian Federal and
State government customers with DBCDE having been a customer for some time. That success is now being replicated
overseas with a growing customer base in the UK and Europe.
About Squiz
Squiz is an Australian owned private company delivering web content management solutions via offices throughout
Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Europe. Squiz is the author of MySource Matrix, a fully supported
enterprise class open source content management system used by over 600 organisations globally across government
For further information Contact: Steve Walker T: (02) 8507 9900
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