July 2022 Pricing Changes

June 29, 2022 by Tim

For over 10 years, Kindleman has charged the same base rate of $150/hr + GST. However, it has become increasingly difficult to sustain a profitable and thriving business with these rates, which has been compounded by the effects of Covid, higher costs for our specialist developers, and now inflationary pressures... Read More


Jamstack

May 30, 2022 by Will

What is it JAMStack stands for Javascript Api and Markup. Although really, that's a bit muddled. Once deployed they are primarily markup, with interactive features and API data sprinkled on top with Javascript. JAMStack has made a splash over the last few years because it turns what has become the norm of... Read More


Hierarchical Menu Management with RubyOnRails

March 21, 2022 by Will

Most websites have a set of pages that need to be arranged as a tree, allowing users to drill down into more detailed pages. To manage that in the admin area, it's nice to be able to drag and drop the pages into the tree. Such a fancy feature is pretty... Read More


Adding Embeds to an ActionText Field

February 04, 2022 by Will

When a website requires a lot of custom functionality, we often reach for RubyOnRails rather than something like WordPress or SilverStripe. Rails has a lot of capability that enables us to build CMS features comparable to the best CMS systems. So when you want something unique, you don't have to... Read More


Websites and Climate Change

November 05, 2021 by Will

Climate change. It's real and it's bad. There aren't many human endeavours that aren't contributing to the catastrophe. Do you know how much carbon is released to power the internet? It is estimated there are a billion websites. All those web pages need a web server to store markup, databases, images... Read More


Flexible Content With SilverStripe

September 07, 2020 by Will

Introduction Part 3 in our series of posts about Flexible content covers Flexible Content in Silverstripe CMS. Silverstripe has added Flexible Content as a core supported module, called Elemental. The Elemental module provides the ability for SilverStripe users to break up a web page into smaller modular parts (or ‘blocks’) that allow... Read More


Flexible Content With Wordpress and Gutenburg

August 28, 2020 by Will

Following on from last week's Statamic Article,[/blog/flexible-content-with-statamic-cms/] let's take a look at flexbile content modeling with Wordpress[https://en-gb.wordpress.org/]. Note this is about *content. *It isn't page building in the sense of designing templates like something like BeaverBuilder or Divi does. It is for populating the content column within your page template.... Read More


Flexible Content With Statamic CMS

August 20, 2020 by Will

Flexible Content is a way of composing content using multiple, selectable, orderable field types in a content area. It's become popular with clients and content editors and is available in most modern CMS. Let's have a look at how to do it with Statamic, a modern file based CMS. Statamic... Read More


Lane Cove Music - Community Partnerships

August 11, 2020 by Emily

Partnering with the local community is something Kindleman loves to do. So building a new website for Lane Cove Music was a perfect match. With its beginnings in 1945, Lane Cove Music runs six concerts a year in the Lane Cove Mowbray Anglican Church in the heart of Lane Cove, NSW. While... Read More


Online Approvals

July 28, 2020 by Emily

Getting a panel of experts to review and provide feedback on egg labels is a key offering for the industry body - Australian Eggs. Kindleman’s ‘Two Thumbs’ online approval system was used to enable egg producers to ensure they are compliant with the Egg Labelling Guidelines. The business tool allows egg... Read More



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