Profile:
Poolio.com is the portfolio of graphic/web designer Leon Poole. Providing design, brand development, strategy & SEO / Online Marketing since 2004. He is currently CEO of design studio Creative World based in Brisbane, Australia.

Put simply, Leon has a deep passion for design. He loves to create vibrant and detailed user interfaces for web while keeping webstandards and usability aspects in mind, and he loves to create smart business identities and branding.

Leon does not usually write in the 3rd person!

Skills:
  • Web design
  • Graphic design.
  • Search engine marketing.
  • Ecommerce.
  • Email marketing.

Mobile: +61 (0)415506850
Email: leon@creativeworld.com.au
Skype: creative_world
Twitter: twitter.com/creativeworld


Blog updates from Creative World:
Creative World

08.03.2010 Twitter in Plain English

There’s been a lot of buzz twittering about Twitter lately, especially since it went gang-busters in 2009. Despite all this noise, there are still people that don’t understand what this “Twitter” stuff is about. Enter Twitter in Plain English – probably the best video that explains this social media phenomenon:

Since the making of this video, Twitter has further evolved. Why not check it out ... Read more » Related posts:

  1. A busy start to 2009
  2. Brisbane Web Design
  3. A New Community: Brisbane Web Design

23.02.2010 Brisbane Web Design

Brisbane Web Design is a meetup group that I’ve been involved with as assistant organiser and occasional speaker for just over 3 years, and somehow during the crazy December 2009 time of last year it occurred to me that I had never really spoken about the web design group in much detail here on the Creative World blog – so I began this ... Read more » No related posts.

14.02.2010 Brisbane Chinatown Mall welcomes the Tiger

The Brisbane Chinatown Mall was officially re-opened yesterday, Sunday 14th February 2010 just in time for the year of the Tiger with Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman centre stage for the launch.

The highlight of the day was the unveiling of the mall’s new Carp statue by local Chinese artist Catherine Chui. The statue is a playful and dynamic design consisting of two primary ... Read more » No related posts.

11.02.2010 Brisbane’s New Chinatown Mall

For some time now Brisbane’s Chinatown Mall has been under going a major facelift. With only a few days until the mall is officially reopened I was lucky enough to be passing by to see some of the light sequences during testing on the new Street Gate entrance.

The Chinatown Mall officially opens this Sunday 14th February 2010 in sync with Chinese New Year Celebrations. ... Read more » Related posts:

  1. Brisbane Chinatown Mall welcomes the Tiger
  2. Brisbane Web Design
  3. A New Community: Brisbane Web Design

06.12.2009 Creative World adds to activeCollab Giveaway

Creative World is excited to announce that we’re joining in on the activeCollab Giveaway! It’s a great time of year to give and it also syncs nicely with the launch of our new Modern theme.

17 Dec 2009 This giveaway is now over! Congrats to all winners and thank you to ActiveCollab for putting on the Giveaway and allowing us to participate. ... Read more » Related posts:

  1. Creative World on Facebook
  2. Access iPhone – Theme for activeCollab
  3. Adobe Online Creative Festival 2008

15.11.2009 Modern 1.0

Features: - Liquid Layout Design - Classic Icon Bars - Easy to Customise - Icon-tastic navigation - ActiveCollab 2.3+ Compatible Buy Now ($69 AUD) | Learn More Related posts:

  1. Access 1.3

23.10.2009 Creating a WebClip Bookmark Icon

Remember the excitement you had when you realised you could customise that little 16×16 icon next to your web address in the browser? (called a favicon) – Well today I’ve re-experienced that feeling with the discovery that we can customise the icon used when you add a bookmark to the homescreen on the iPhone or iPod Touch!

Adding a favicon to your website is simple, and ... Read more » No related posts.

12.10.2009 Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong!

Recently I listed to a great talk by Dan Willis from Sapient on how “Everything you know about web design is wrong”. Presented at a 2009 SXSWi, he talks about how web design is much more than just creating “pretty pictures”, and if designers are to be successful we need to try new things.

… what does design ... Read more » No related posts.

03.10.2009 10 Reasons You Should Use WordPress

Recently at a Brisbane Web Design meetup I participated in an active discussion on CMS’s. It was a great night with people speaking for at least 5 different CMS’s! I was batting for WordPress which was no problem at all – I’m a huge fan!

I thought other people might enjoy knowing the benefits of using WordPress to run your website too, so I’ve posted ... Read more » No related posts.

05.08.2009 Access 1.1 Released

After only 3 days of the Access 1.0 release we got a message from Brandon that we had completely missed stylings for the “Compare Versions” page in the Pages module – how embarrassing after all that beta testing!

In light of this, we decided to quickly edited the theme and release Access 1.1 to addresses this issue. Download the new Access 1.1 ... Read more » No related posts.