My Australia’s Flag

This week His Royal Highness, Prince William of Wales, future monarch of the Commonwealth realm, visited my country.

Today is Australia Day, a celebration of the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern coast of Australia.

Inspired by the recent combination of visiting royalty, Australian Open, Australia Day and Ray Martin on last night’s Today Tonight, I’ve decided to make an attempt at designing my own Australian flag(s):

 

I then had an idea for a website that lets ordinary web surfers create their own flags. It would work like the emblem customisation in Halo/Guild Wars (and many other games, I’m sure), but with a snappy JavaScript interface (along the lines of stripe generator), downloadable GIF, and easy to share… added features would be the function allowing visitors to browse recent/random flags, and rate them. Perhaps this already exists… a quick Google gives me the first result which requires “Internet Explorer 5.5 or later” … wow, if anything works on IE5.5 the developers deserve a medal. Some enterprising web development studio in Australia could make a simple but functional site. Look at http://slapcorey.com/ and http://www.mario-bros-wii-message.com.au/. Why not?