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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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/]*
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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...
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April 03, 2017
by
Tim
Kindleman have been working with Aged Care providers for nearly 10 years in which time we've learnt a lot.
To cut to the info, under the recent *Living Longer Living Better* reforms there are certain often legislated informational aspects that an Aged Care provider must provide on their website in relation...
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March 30, 2017
by
Tim
Getting a new website made about every 3-5 years in basically inevitable for any business staying ahead of the curve. Technology moves on extremely fast, design and UX trends change, marketing strategies evolve. Particularly for smaller business, the general expectation is that you'll get about 5 years out a website,...
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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...
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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.
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February 13, 2017
by
Tim
Back in November I was selected for the judging panel of the Australian Web Awards. Puffy chest moment being up there with a rather stellar panel - big names, web-industry celebs and esteemed web pros.
We'd entered the awards a few times in the past with some success, but hadn't entered...
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