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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
April 04, 2017 by Tim
*We've made an (extremely quick) survey so we know what the Aged Care industry is thinking. Please fill it in if you have a few minutes.[/surveying-interest-in-a-cdc-system/]* cdc image On 1 July 2015, it became mandatory for all home care packages to be delivered on a consumer directed care[https://agedcare.health.gov.au/programs/home-care/home-care-packages-programme-resources/consumer-directed-care] (CDC) basis. CDC... Read More
January 03, 2017 by Will
Woot, new year. What's coming up to look out for and look forward to in the world of Web Making? Silverstripe 4 Well, first off - SilverStripe 4. Why is that exciting? Because everybody loves new and shiny work tools, right? Silverstripe is the best open source CMS available and... Read More
December 21, 2016 by Will
So that's it for another year. Work done, final rollout deployed. Uptime robot is showing twinkling green lights across the board. It's time to kick back and do something different.... Like catch up on some web design & development reading. It's a fast paced gig, so we need to keep... Read More
February 11, 2014 by will
Because WordPress is awesome but the loop isn't. One of the building blocks of our starter theme[http://www.kindleman.com.au/kindling] is Timber. Timber brings modern templates to Wordpress. We like it so much we have incorporated it into our workflow for all new WP projects. Timber enables you to Separate out your logic from your... Read More
November 14, 2013 by Will
Not For Profit organisations provide so much value in the community. Thought leadership, community housing, advocacy, research & community care & more are provided by this sector. Even judging by traditional metrics alone the Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that Not For Profits: contributed about $43 billion to gross domestic product (GDP)... Read More
June 07, 2013 by will
It only seems like yesterday when Australia was behind the curve with online payments. Now the banking system has caught up and new modern payment systems have started appearing that make getting online and taking payments far easier than ever before. Things to consider Its easy to get caught up on obvious... Read More
March 13, 2013 by will and Will
Silverstripe CMS has won an all government contract with the NZ government. Over 600 sites will be developed on the platform. Its a huge boost in credibility for our favorite Content Management System and is likely to see an increase in interest, development and capability in the system. Which... Read More
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