We live and dream the web – and how to make it work for you.

After nearly seven years at a large web devel­op­ment com­pany, David Ridg­way and Kay Smol­jak knew where their tal­ents, expert­ise and pas­sions lay – in web devel­op­ment, soft­ware design and inter­net marketing.

With so many busi­nesses in des­per­ate need of smart web spe­cial­ists, they decided to strike out on their own, and in 2006, the Clever Star­fish were born.

Industry Involve­ment

We love to get out and mix with our peers — and we’re lucky that Perth has a very strong web devel­op­ment community.

Clever Star­fish is a busi­ness mem­ber of AWIA, the Aus­tralian Web Industry Asso­ci­ation, and Star­fish Kay sat on the com­mit­tee from 2004−−2009, and helped organ­ise the Edge of the Web con­fer­ence in 2008 and 2009. We’re also involved in the Cold­Fu­sion User Group of West­ern Australia.

Awards

While the most import­ant thing is that our cli­ents — and their cus­tom­ers — are happy with their new sites and the way they per­form, recog­ni­tion from our peers is also very satisfying.

At the 2007 WA Web Awards, Clever Star­fish won Best Small Busi­ness web site for kendrake.com. The Perth Inter­na­tional Arts Fest­ival site, which was a final­ist in the 2007 WA Web Awards, was also a final­ist in the 11th Annual Webby Awards (an inter­na­tional com­pet­i­tion). We had three final­ists in the WA Web Awards in 2008.

In 2009 the WA Web Awards went national. We were thrilled to pick up Best Retail site with the Sophie Kyron Jew­ellery site.