October 26, 2017
by
Emily
Do people constantly request the same piece of information from you? Do you constantly send the same document to people? Are you required to produce the same reports every month? Are there repetitive tasks that are required every week, month, quarter?
Does automation of routine business tasks sound like the...
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October 13, 2017
by
Will
A system to please everybody.
A good administration tool needs to be a lot of things. It isn't just about basic crud anymore. You need it to be appealing to users so that it's a selling point for the project and users actually use it. It needs to help developers and...
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September 26, 2017
by
Tim
Something we’ve never really delved very deeply into (until recently) is AD SERVING.
Ad Serving is delivering advertising in the form of banners and textual blocks into a website. And it’s the way a very large portion of the internet makes their money - by hosting the advertisements inside their website.
Fairfax...
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August 15, 2017
by
Will
Working with big CSV's can be a pain. You don't want to open Numbers or Excel because they are slow and have a limit on the rows they can view. You need to be able to view, edit and create shorter versions for testing. Sometimes there are formatting issues to...
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August 01, 2017
by
Tim
Recently I chatted with a Chiropractic business owner. She'd had her website re-done, and off the back of our conversation she said - 'They just asked me what I wanted, and then put it together.' And while I know this is pretty common when dealing with smaller operators, it got...
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June 15, 2017
by
Will
Want to open an eCommerce store with flexible theme, functionality and content?
We have just the platform for you. SpreeCommerce is an Open source eCommerce platform built with RubyOnRails - the best web development framework in the world
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June 12, 2017
by
Will
Shopify is the leading hosted ecommerce solution. It has been running for several years and boasts some impressive figures: 400,000 active stores and $34Bn sales. Shopify is big and in it for the long haul.
What's a hosted solution?
"Hosted eCommerce" means that your website is hosted on Shopify's servers, instead...
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May 05, 2017
by
Will
Mailchimp is our favourite email marketing system. We use it for our client's sites as well as our own. It is nice to use, good value, has great features and great deliverability. We love it!
To help us automate sending form submissions for Silverstripe's user forms module to our Mailchimp lists...
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April 19, 2017
by
Tim
Does this sound like a sales ploy? Well, it sort-of is, and it sort-of isn't.
We've had a lot of requests to take over websites recently. Particularly small-businesses looking for a white knight to save their broken website from a disappeared developer.
Often it's because they're not happy with the overseas developers,...
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April 18, 2017
by
Will
We recently built out a group of websites for educational organisations in Australia for a partner company. The challenge was the client wanted the sites to be run on a single installation of Wordpress, using Wordpress multisite. The goal was to save costs and aid maintainability by reusing code for...
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