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Choosing an Ecommerce Platform

Many businesses are looking at today's challenges and examining their business models. Some businesses have moved very quickly into online selling. Others are asking how to move to online. The best way to get started is to embark a discovery process. Doing this will help you plan out what you need now and in the future.

Posted in Thoughts on Jan 13, 2021

Tips to improve your site for free

These are difficult times. We face enormous upheavals. Many businesses are doing it tough. Many are pivoting to being online. Here are some things you can do for free to improve your website.

Posted in Tips on Mar 28, 2020

Questions for my web developer

Business Victoria has great resources on its website. If you are thinking of getting a new site or revamping an old one. There is a great article called "Questions to ask my web developer". I'll attempt to answer those questions: 1) Do I own my website? Yes. All the content is yours. We don't lock you into any particular system. Your data can be moved to wherever you like. We use open source software where possible 2) Which Content Management System will you use? That depends on your requirements. The one we use are WordPress, Drupal and OctoberCMS. They each have their pros and cons.

Posted in Tips on Feb 19, 2020

Site Revamp 2020

The site has undergone a change. The front end hasn't changed much. The changes are under the hood. We've migrated the site to a CMS called OctoberCMS. We've been looking for another CMS that we can can use for us and and for client

Posted in Thoughts on Jan 21, 2020

Will AI Kill Web Design?

Artificial intelligence has been getting a lot of attention. Attention bordering on hype. There are tools available like Tensor Flow that are available to everyone as open source software. The drop in costs of cloud hosting. Easier access to tools like GPU processors have helped push AI along. It's a relatively new technology and is being applied to all sorts of things. One example is called The Grid.

Posted in Technology on Oct 26, 2019

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