August 30, 2023
It’s been a decade since we first posted about our favourite CMS - Silverstripe, and all these years later we still consider it a great CMS. silverstripe3 cms interface Here are a few of the features we continue to love. *Flexible Content Management*: Silverstripe provides a flexible content management system that allows... Read More
December 04, 2018 by Will
With Rails 5 we now have ActiveStorage: built in file management with the framework. This is a fantastic adition to the framework as it standardises file management, instead of relying on 3rd party plugins. ActiveStorage adds two tables to your app that handles all the file details (active_storage_blobs) and the... Read More
June 13, 2018 by Emily
What’s the story with hosting? What do I need? What do I need to know? What about my emails? What’s my domain? These are all the many questions we get asked about website hosting and domains. So let’s start at the beginning… What's a Domain name? *Web Domain Names* - These are the URLs... 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
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... 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
July 09, 2013 by tim
If you've got anything visual that needs more than 1 pair of eyes to sign it off, then you probably need an approvals process in place. Imagine your company sells beauty products. New products are being released regularly. Formulas get updated. Regulations change. Certifications and marketing changes. And so then does... Read More
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