Website development has changed a lot, even in the last 5 years, and there are two major ways you can save money on your website. The first is re-using existing tools to get some great results; the second is keeping your site safe. Let me expand on these in the following article. The first – […]
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Google teams up to make WordPress faster
An interesting industry development in recent months is that Google has teamed up with WordPress in an endeavour to improve WordPress’s speed. An estimate is that about 29% of content on the web is published with WordPress. If you use WordPress regularly, you’re probably aware that it is very easy to introduce quite severe slowdowns […]
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We have a new WD3 Facebook Page – like us there to get notified of new information – changes in the web industry, in the way Google works, security news and warnings, tips and tricks etc, as we post them.
Amazon AWS opens up new enterprise options in Australia
Amazon AWS, also known as Amazon’s Web hosting platform, opened in Australia late last year.
AWS offers a platform highly suited to hosting applications that may grow to need large, flexible hosting systems to support high bandwidth or peak needs.
Additionally, they have a variety of options to support highly available service, including CDN service […]
Java being used to infect many PCs, remove it now
Due to a recent security hole in Java, we recommend you take a moment now to uninstall Java from your PC.
This issue is serious enough that your computer can be invisibly infected just by visiting a site and many people are getting infected as a result.
MYOB surveys reveal having a website makes your business more profitable
A fascinating article in The Age recently suggests that having an effective website may be a key differentiator for small-to-medium businesses (SME). Tim Reed, CEO of business software producer MYOB, commented at a business meeting in Sydney last week.
Snippets: the human side of Steve Jobs (short articles)…
Steve Jobs – an icon in our industry A quick snippet that came across our desks today, talking about Steve Jobs the man – just a lovely article …
Snippets: 2 million domains and counting!
Two million .au domains! We received an email a few months back from auDA, the Australian Domain Authority, saying that .there are now over 2 million .au domains! Given our population, this is roughly one domain every ten people! [corrected – Ed!] For comparison's sake, there are now well over 96 million .com domains, according […]
Editorial: the NBN … good for Australia?
I recently found a great article about the Australian NBN that is worth a quick read as it makes some fascinating points that don't seem to get much airtime amongst all the complaining.
News – Feb 2011 – Welcome Slade!
Please welcome our new team member, Slade, who comes to us from the Victorian country town of Sale in Gippsland and is working as our new Helpdesk trainee. Slade is living in Thornbury with his partner Tessa and has completed two certificates in Multimedia studies and enjoys programming part time. As a would-be hacker he naturally excels at Call of Duty. Slade has been with us since early January.
News, Christmas Vouchers, Haleemon relocating
See article for our exciting Christmas blog offer (give a voucher to the person who has everything!) and general News tidbits (Haleemon, Internet IP Addresses, New anti-virus measures).