October 14, 2022

What to do with that .au

Australian organisations – so you’ve just secured your shiny new .au direct domain name. Great! Now what? Let’s use ourselves, #Itomic, as the example. Our primary domain name is itomic.com.au, and we’ve just officially acquired itomic.au. Our options include: * Do nothing. As long as we keep paying the renewals fees, the domain name is ours, and others…

Ross Ross Gerring

February 22, 2021

Taking Full Advantage of Digital Transformation

Healthy organisations consistently implement new ways to grow and build themselves for the future. If they stop, they risk falling victim to a fast-changing economy and rising competition. Thankfully, digital transformation strategies have cemented the future for many businesses. What is Digital Transformation? Digital Transformation is the transition between aging processes and systems to innovative…

Ben Ben Townsend

March 16, 2020

What we are doing to ensure continuity of our service to you during the COVID-19 pandemic

In these times of global uncertainty brought on by the Coronavirus (COVID-19), we would like to share our plans to maintain consistency of service to you, our valued clients. In brief, it’s business as usual for Itomic and all our team members and affiliates. The only noteworthy difference is that, as per Australian government directives…

Ross Ross Gerring

December 6, 2019

When a CMS like WordPress or Drupal Is a Bad Idea for a Website Project

At Itomic, we’ve been making websites for nearly 20 years. We’ve worked with everyone, from small businesses to government organisations. We’ve also built plenty of simple sites on a CMS like WordPress or Drupal and taken on completely bespoke and highly complex web development projects. The point is, we know what we’re doing. And we know there’s…

Izumi Izumi Mitsui

November 22, 2019

Itomic project helps win IPAA Gold Award for Legalaid WA

Congratulations to Legalaid WA for taking out the 2019 IPAA Gold Award Blurred Borders is a project sponsored by Legalaid WA. They provide legal information in the form of resource kits for legal and community service providers working with Aboriginal people in Western Australia (WA) and Northern Territory (NT) cross-border region. The project provides clear…

Izumi Izumi Mitsui

May 22, 2019

Is a CDN really necessary for your website? 7 questions to consider

When your website is in its infancy and traffic is slow, you can pick and choose your hosting provider without much thought. But as it starts to gain traction and attract more attention, you need to begin looking at other options. This is where a Content Delivery Network (CDN) comes in. Although the Internet appears…

Ross Ross Gerring

May 8, 2019

Why Host Your Website With Itomic?

Your website is the public face of your organisation. It’s the first impression that visitors will make of you. Therefore you want your website to be: Presentable Mobile-friendly (‘responsive’) Functional Fast Easy-to-use Standards-compliant Accessible Secure Available 24/7 Some of these attributes will be hard to consistently achieve if your website hosting isn’t of sufficient quality….

Ross Ross Gerring

May 8, 2019

Shorter Australian Domain Names – What You Need to Know

A major change is looming on the Australian digital horizon. For the first time, it’ll be possible to buy shorter Australian domain names, ones with just a .au suffix. Right now, eligible entities have been restricted to acquiring only second-level domain suffixes, such as .com.au. But what is behind this change, and why now? Continued…

Emma Emma Gerring

April 25, 2019

The One Reason G Suite Resellers Itomic Can’t Let Go of Dropbox: Binary Diff

Firstly, it’s important to stress that we’ve got nothing against Dropbox. It’s an excellent product, great for creating, storing and sharing files, and much more, at affordable prices. Secondly, this article is not intended to be a comprehensive side-by-side comparison of the two services. You can Google for those here. Thirdly, we’re zooming in on…

Ross Ross Gerring

April 24, 2019

Website feature to help protect victims of domestic violence.

To raise awareness of Domestic Violence (DV), this post is dedicated to the ‘Quick Exit’ website feature. The feature is designed to minimise the chance of potential conflict when at-risk users access a website to seek help. What is it? Many victims of DV are reported to be living under the same roof as their…

Izumi Izumi Mitsui

January 29, 2019

How Often Should I Redesign My Website?

It can be easy to forget about your website. While it is one of the first places people go to find out about your organisation, chances are you don’t regularly check it out. So, how often should you should redesign your website? Design trends, changing technologies, the sector you operate in, your organisation’s service/product offerings,…

Ben Ben Townsend

January 1, 2019

Trends in Web Development in Perth in 2019

Your website is one of the most powerful tools that your business has to draw and retain customers. Not only should your website have a great design that is user-friendly and easy to read, but you need to stay on top of the latest trends to stay on top of your competition. As old trends…

Pip Pip B

December 14, 2018

New .app Domain Names – Should I Care?

There are over 1,500 top-level domains (TLDs) to choose from in 2018. The .app TLD is a relative newcomer. What’s it for, and should you care? What’s a .app domain name for? The .app domain name is designed to appeal to organisations who wish to promote one or more of their apps. Back to basics:…

Ross Ross Gerring

November 23, 2018

End of Life (EOL) for PHP v5 is 31 Dec 2018. What does this mean for you?

Official security support – also known as EOL (End of Life) – ends for all 5.x versions (5.0, 5.1, 5.2, etc.) on 31 Dec 2018. According to Wikipedia, “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (or simply PHP) is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, and also used as a general-purpose programming language. It was originally created by…

Ross Ross Gerring

November 21, 2018

Choose the best - Native Apps vs Hybrid Apps vs Native Apps using Flutter for Mobile

Depending on your business goals and requirements, the decision to build your mobile app as either native or hybrid or using Flutter, could make or break the success of your mobile project. There are variety of factors you need to consider. Here are the key considerations. What is a Native Application? A native application is…

Keyur keyur

November 16, 2018

Top 10 Reasons To Choose Flutter For Mobile App Development

There’s a new player in the game of mobile app development and it’s causing quite a stir. Or a Flutter. The mobile framework was developed by Google and is completely open source. It can be used to build mobile apps for Android, iOS and Google Fuchsia. It’s based on Dart, Google’s own programming language, as…

Keyur keyur

November 15, 2018

WordPress 5 – Gutenberg update review

In the next couple of weeks, WordPress 5 will be released. It includes a major rollout of a new page editor called Gutenberg. WordPress has posted the notice across all dashboards:   First impressions The update completely changes the WYSIWYG into a ‘block’ editor. We first trialled Gutenberg when it was initially released a couple of…

Izumi Izumi Mitsui

November 12, 2018

Mobile First Indexing – best practices

Google Mobile First Indexing With the world turning to online solutions for a variety of needs in greater numbers every year, it is important to keep track of the all-important changes in how Google adjusts its algorithms to reflect market changes. Small tweaks with Google policies can have a large ripple effect on business owners…

Izumi Izumi Mitsui

October 29, 2018

Facebook Pixel | A Quick Overview

Facebook has become a business power tool for many SMEs over the last several years. It now allows the easy creation of ads with only a few clicks making it a very popular option for many. When talking Facebook ads it should be paired with discussions of Facebook Pixels. What is a Facebook pixel? A…

Izumi Izumi Mitsui

August 16, 2018

What is UX and Why Should You Care?

There’s a bit of a buzz around UX (short for user experience) right now, most likely because of the huge rise in mobile device usage in recent years. You’ve probably come across a website that isn’t designed properly for mobile, and so reading and browsing it is a frustrating experience. You may well have clicked…

Ben Ben Townsend

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