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 Read More
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
March 01, 2017 by Will
Is terminal in your Doc? do you use it? If not you are missing out as a web professional. Learning a few commands, or at least being aware of what to look up, makes you more productive and confident on your own (Linux or OSX) machine and when working on... Read More
February 20, 2017 by Will
For simple websites you can get away with emails and phone calls for communications, a photoshop mockup and a quick build by one generalist developer who cuts up the design into html and integrates it with a CMS. That process doesn't scale though. When requirements are complicated and there are multiple stake holders, developers, SEO staff and content generators, you need a lot more structure. 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 is set... 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
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 03, 2013 by will and Will
Silverstripe CMS is our favourite Content Management System for more complicated websites that need a more robust platform. It is very well designed from the ground up to provide a suitable basis for complex, functional sites with requirements for permissions based workflows and custom functionality. It has a great technical architecture and... Read More
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