January 18, 2011
Just a quick message to help to draw attention to the fact that we’re looking for more Drupal development and theming talent in Itomic, Perth and/or Melbourne. This is due to strong demand in both our offices. If you’ve no idea what Drupal is – no worries! This job is definitely not for you. 🙂…
Ross
January 6, 2011
In October last year at SMX East, a representative of the search engine Bing confirmed that they are actively using click through rate (CTR) to aid their organic ranking of websites. A quick definition of click through rate would be that it is a measure of how many clicks a site has received divided by…
Ross
January 5, 2011
Itomic are big supporters of Drupal, one of the leading open source website content management platforms on the planet. The latest and greatest version of Drupal, Drupal 7, just went live today.Very exciting (for us geeks)! From a business owner perspective, should you care? Quick answer: no. Longer answer: not yet. Drupal basically works like this: there’s…
Ross
December 23, 2010
Our most exciting year ever?! One of the dominant themes was GIRLS! Itomic Director Ben Townsend and his wife Cheri welcomed the (almost) always smiling Sunny into the world in January. Former Sales Manager Mick Edwards and wife Serena gave birth to gorgeous Grace in May. New recruit Adam and wife Sarah said “hi” to…
Ross
December 22, 2010
A very warm welcome to Ben Derham, our new dedicated Client Support person in Perth. Ben joins Itomic after a year in which he’s been traveling, freelancing and trying to get himself on the Bunnings TV adverts! Ben has a commercial background in Web and Graphic design, and has been awarded for his work whilst…
Ross
December 22, 2010
Want to know what the boss is thinking? Ross is the boss of Itomic (alongside his fabulous business partner Ben Townsend who’s based in Melbourne), and a couple of months ago he fired-up his very own blog. http://rossgerring.blogspot.com : a blog about the web, IT, business, leadership and management. He admits to at least one blog…
Ross
December 10, 2010
Itomic celebrated its 10th year in business this year, and it is with this experience and track record behind us that we feel comfortable with out tagline ‘The Web Specialists’. It’s also this experience that has set the benchmark for our Online Marketing and SEO services. Our websites have always been built from the ground…
Ross
December 6, 2010
Please be advised that Itomic’s last official day before Christmas will be Thursday Dec 23rd 2010, returning on Tuesday Jan 4th. If you do require support during the holidays, please call one or other of our regular landline numbers: Perth: 08 9321 3844 Melbourne: 03 9827 8603 We have a 24/7 human telephone answering service,…
Ross
November 23, 2010
Itomic are pleased to announce that we’ve been accepted as Gold Sponsors of a major Drupal conference in Brisbane next year: DrupalDownUnder. Drupal is the major Enterprise-grade open source CMS (Content Management System) that Itomic specialises in supporting. We’ve dedicated a Drupal website to this branch our business: www.drupalise.com.au. The conference will bring together a variety of…
Ross
November 9, 2010
Itomic has topped off its 10th year in business with multiple wins at the Australian Web Industry Awards. Nominated as a finalist in 3 categories, www.swapkidsclothes.com.au went on to win 2 regional awards and 2 national awards in the ‘Virtual Business’ and ‘Innovation’ categories. A great example of when a fantastic client collaborates with the fantastic team…
Ross
November 4, 2010
Itomic is officially supporting the growing club of modern gentlemen who believe in the virtues of fine moustachery, immaculate grooming and growing a moustache for Movember. Movember is about raising funds and awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men. Close to 3,300 men die of prostate cancer in Australia each year…
Ross
November 2, 2010
At time of writing, and according to this site that we just Googled http://christmas.whipnet.net/kids/timeleft.html, there are 1251 hours left until Christmas. Scary, huh?! So if you have website update work that you’d like completed before Christmas, then please start discussing your requirements with Itomic sooner rather than later. Some of our staff are already fully booked…
Ross
November 1, 2010
We’re pleased as punch to announce that a website designed and built by Itomic has been nominated in 3 categories for the 2010 Australian Web Industry Association web awards. The website in question is http://www.swapkidsclothes.com.au/ – where swapping (kids clothing) is the new shopping! Thanks so much to Kim and Michael Robertson (the owners of the site)…
Ben
October 20, 2010
Here at Itomic we truly pride ourselves on our consistently high service levels. We are always on the lookout for ways to raise the bar to new heights. We do this through acquiring excellent new staff, training of (also excellent!) existing staff, and inventing better ways of working. But anyone can say that – and most do. Where’s…
Ross
October 20, 2010
Visitors to the ‘Award Winning Portfolio’ page of our website can view a selection of sites by Industry, Feature, or Theme. In recognition of the fast-growing number of Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed companies who are Itomic clients, we’ve recently introduced ‘ASX Data’ as a new filter in the Feature section. So whilst all companies in this…
Ross
October 4, 2010
Itomic are very pleased to welcome our newest recruits: Nick Santamaria Nick has been working in, on and around the Drupal CMS platform in a commercial capacity since 2006. He loves the challenges that each new project brings and really gets a kick out of solving crazy back-end issues, even if it means being neck-deep…
Ross
October 1, 2010
OK, strictly speaking, it’s not an Itomic staff member in Coral Bay but it is an Itomic t-shirt! The t-shirt in question is being modelled by longstanding “Itomic fan” Graham after an obviously successful fishing trip. Thanks for flying the flag, Graham!
Ross
September 28, 2010
What is Online Marketing? Online marketing is the marketing of products or services using the Internet. Online marketing is conducted through such services as SEO (search engine optimisation), SEM (search engine marketing), Social Media optimisation, PPC (pay per click) and banner advertisements, to name but a few options. Traditional Marketing can be viewed as: Brand…
Ross
September 14, 2010
As an experienced web company that’s been around for a few years (10, at time of writing) we often get invited to tender for some good-sized projects. But in responding, how do we communicate the quality of our work in a ‘testable’ way, and how do we tackle the potentially delicate issue of some aspects…
Ross
September 3, 2010
Ok, we agree, only Internet geeks have the potential to get excited by this news title. Which is why we at Itomic are excited! This from Wikipedia about HTML5: HTML5 is currently under development as the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a…
Ross