March 04, 2018 by Will
User Experience (UX) design underpins all good web design. Good UX can be derived from experience, theory and research. To get it right, it pays to validate it through User Testing and to iterate on those learnings. There have been hundreds of books written on the subject but I've picked... Read More
February 02, 2018 by Will
Web apps are great but sometimes, for a variety of reasons, you want a native app. That might be because of functionality, pricing model, distribution or to help drive engagement. ios app development2 There are quite a few very different ways you can build your Native App. Let's have a... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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
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