Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

It's important to remember that images uploaded for the web actually need to be resized – often an image from the camera will be something like 1.5 – 5mb – which can take up to a minute to download when viewing a web page.  If you put these images on a webpage at full size, the browser will often shrink them so you can't see them at full size, which makes it very hard to see what's going on. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most important functions of an eCommerce site is accepting payments on the web. Surprisingly, very little is written about this and it seems very hard for beginners to find basic information needed to outline the possibilities, and to clarify the benefits and costs of the various approaches. Read the rest of this entry »

We had been offering a simple website building product called Fido Sitebuilder since 2005 however we are phasing out Fido Sitebuilder as a product and to offer you a heavily discounted conversion from Fido to the industry-standard WordPress system.

When we chose to use Fido 6 years ago it was 'state of the art', but slowly over time it has became lacking in several areas some of which are listed below:
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It's every eCommerce website's owner's nightmare – getting hacked! Some of the real-life examples of what can happen when your site is hacked:

• credit card numbers stolen – your customer's card details can be stolen and sold to criminals.
• transactions intercepted – silent interception of your customer's details
• transactions completely stolen – you never see the transactions
• site vandalised
• industrial espionage or vandalism
• site used for phishing – google listed
• your site is hacked, and kept for later "use" in crime, bank fraud or illegal file distribution Read the rest of this entry »

Featured site of the month: www.lukeclarke.com.au

Luke approached us some months ago, as he has an active and interesting health business in a number of areas and wanted a site to allow him to write about that, and to attract new business while keeping existing clients informed. 

We thought we’d share the site with you as an example of one of the sites we do and also as an example of a very interesting health practitioner working in an unusual area – that of staying healthy over the long haul!

Firebug is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to view the source code of the site. Big woop, right? Well, what makes it special is that you can also modify the code so that you can see what the changes look like before altering the actual file. If you don't like it, no worries, you can just refresh the page and the modification is gone. If you do like the change you can then go into the CSS file and update the source code. Read the rest of this entry »

We think that for many projects it is!  Here’s a quick overview of the longer talk we’ll be presenting at The Internet Show. Read the rest of this entry »

Brian Coogan is speaking about eCommerce and Payments at The Internet Show at the Melbourne Convention Centre in Theatre 2 on:

• Wednesday, May 4th, at 11 am and
• Thursday, May 5th, at 12:35 pm

The discussion topic will be, "Halving your development costs with New Generation Open Source." 

If anyone would like an invitation to the event, let us know!!

Here's a digest of a few simple (but non-obvious) thoughts re web design, with some more reading for those interested. Read the rest of this entry »

There's almost nothing worse than your website getting hacked, and possibly having to endure days of problems while the host retrieves your files and/or gets you to repair the site.  It's important to have some basic knowledge about what happens, as you may be able to save yourself some pain, or minimize it if something does happen to your website! Read the rest of this entry »