Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Why our Projects are Successful

January 29th, 2024 by Ammu Nair
Successful IT project management

The balancing art of project management – finding equilibrium between following the process and the imperative of getting it done — is paramount. Project management often gets a bad reputation in any industry; this is because of the popular view that project managers can be very rigid and too structured, adding to the project cost … Read More

Why We Use Laravel for Web Application Development

December 15th, 2023 by Jimmy Bui
Laravel developer

What is the Laravel framework? Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that offers a wide range of features for web application development. PHP is a programming language used by a very large portion of websites across the globe, including all WordPress websites. Laravel provides an elegant syntax and a set of tools for common programming … Read More

Your Strategic Digital Marketing Plan for 2023

January 9th, 2023 by Heather Maloney
creating a strategic marketing plan for 2023

A pragmatic and robust approach to building a strategic marketing plan for 2023 from a digital marketing leader who helps dozens of clients every year with their marketing planning and execution. Hopefully you have already started thinking about how you will be spending your marketing budget, time and resources, in 2023. If you haven’t nailed … Read More

Website and Application Maintenance – why is it so important?

January 3rd, 2023 by Pavithra Kameswaran
website maintenance and application maintenance

After a website or web application is built and launched, you can be tempted to think that all is done, and that it will keep running forever in the same manner it did on the first day. But this is not the case at all. When we buy a house, we set it up the … Read More

WordPress and Elementor Customisations

October 25th, 2022 by Pavithra Kameswaran
Customising WordPress and Elementor Websites

What is Elementor? Elementor is a page builder solution that can be installed within WordPress, to provide efficiencies with regard to the build of a WordPress Website.  The efficiencies are mainly with regard to implementing mobile responsiveness, and quickly implementing modern looking site elements.  Elementor continually provides new user interface elements which are relatively quick … Read More

PHP Major Upgrade to Version 8

October 4th, 2022 by Ammu Nair
upgrading to PHP version 8

Over the past few months, we have been busy upgrading our client websites to PHP version 8; the most recent significant version release. PHP is one of the most widely used programming languages on the internet, powering nearly 80% of all websites, including popular Content Management Systems like WordPress, Drupal, Magento etc. For the most … Read More

Why your business should implement e-Invoicing

August 15th, 2022 by Heather Maloney
e-invoicing implementation

It’s official: theft/fraud by redirecting payments to the scammer’s bank account increased by 77% year on year, in 2021.  Invoice scams cost Australian businesses $227 Million.  This article by the ACCC describes the problem in more detail. In response to increased invoicing fraud, a global framework for e-procurement (including e-invoicing) has been developed, called PEPPOL.  … Read More

3 Tech Concepts to understand before you create your app idea

July 19th, 2022 by Heather Maloney
3 tech concepts to understand before you build an app

You know what you want to create, and you know the people that are crying out for your app idea. Before you start down the path of building the next killer app, first let’s look at 3 tech concepts that you really need to understand. The Cloud. Your app idea may or may not need … Read More

Construction of a Native Mobile User Interface

April 5th, 2022 by Ishan Geeganage
building the interface of an Android mobile app

More 6.64 billion people across the globe are using smart phones (and the apps on them). The majority of people use mobile applications for banking, searching for and ordering from restaurants, health, news, email and engaging on social media platforms. A mobile user interface is the graphical and usually touch-sensitive display on a mobile device, … Read More

10 Pinterest Marketing Tactics for businesses in 2022

March 14th, 2022 by Heather Maloney
Pinterest marketing strategy and 10 pinterest marketing tactics

Pinterest – what is it, and how does it work? Are you a planning a major life event? Or seeking some inspiration to redo your home?  If so, then you’re probably using Pinterest. Pinterest users (aka ‘pinners’) generally create their own boards dedicated to a theme, and then pin images to that board.  Mostly their … Read More

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