June 19, 2013
“The Cloud” from an internet perspective is a relatively new word in most people’s vocabulary, even though you might have been using the cloud for years without calling it that, e.g. because you’ve had a Yahoo or Hotmail or Gmail account. In a nutshell, the cloud is just about storing data and/or using software that…
June 17, 2013
Drupal 8 is coming. It’s ready when it’s ready (i.e. there”s no cast iron guaranteed release date), but latest predictions are that the first stable release will be available from January of 2014 or thereabouts. If your site is running Drupal version 6 then it’s time to start thinking about what your upgrade strategy will…
June 4, 2013
BigCommerce and Shopify are both budget, hosted website shopping cart solutions. By “hosted” we mean that you don’t have to concern yourself with website hosting for your own shopping cart software – these guys look after all this for you. Your website is piggy-backing off their large shopping cart systems. This means that you can…
May 20, 2013
In this fast-paced digital world we live in, where businesses have to run just to stand still and the “next big thing” turns out not to be the next big thing 6 months later, it can be extremely challenging for businesses to work out where best to invest their digital dollars. Exactly where are your…
April 2, 2013
We’ve just spotted a website that reports on the “Distribution of content management systems among websites that use .gov“. The results are overwhelmingly in favour of Drupal, at 31.6% of all .gov websites (presumably worldwide) as at 28 March 2013. After Drupal comes Sharepoint, then DotNetNuke, Ektron, Percussion, Joomla, then WordPress. However if you look…
March 27, 2013
I wrote this article about Itomic pre-paid service contracts nearly 3.5 years ago, and it’s still good today! But we still feel a timely reminder/update is in order. There’s no such thing as a finished website. There’s always more you could do. What’s more, sometimes websites “break” all by themselves. Put all that together and it…
March 13, 2013
The Itomic Team are looking forward to attending the Edge of the Web tomorrow and Friday in sunny Perth, Western Australia. “Edge of the Web is a conference for web devs, digital agency execs, creatives, entrepreneurs and futurists with a focus on outsourcing, design thinking, ethics and profitable collaboration.” A plethora of web luminaries and visionaries will…
February 22, 2013
Arguably the top 3 open source website CMS (Content Management Systems) on the planet are: Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla. Unfortunately their huge popularity comes at a price: they’re more attractive to mischief makers (i.e. hackers) than less popular systems. So keeping your site updated with the latest security patches (much like keeping your PC’s anti-virus…
February 14, 2013
Google Chrome continues its upward march in global populatiy, and Internet Explorer (IE) its downward spiral, as this graph clearly shows. It’s incredible that only a few years ago, Internet Explorer was so completely dominant. At time of writing, there’s little to suggest that Google Chrome won’t stop rising, and IE won’t stop falling. But…
February 11, 2013
Building and owning a website can and should be a positive and rewarding experience. But just like starting a new business, it’s tempting to focus on the easy and positive aspects of the new venture, and to ignore the hard (or even negative) parts! Here’s our top 10 list of the “hard parts” that existing…
January 18, 2013
The team at Itomic are pleased to announce our new “one number to rule them all” telephone number: 1300 ITOMIC (or 1300 486642 when you type that on your telephone keypad) Yes, that’s the only number you have to remember to contact either our Perth or our Melbourne office. And if there’s no answer (perhaps….
December 20, 2012
This is to announce that in January 2013, Itomic’s Melbourne office is on the move! We’ve been in the same office in South Yarra since we’re opened our Melbourne doors in 2008, and now it’s time for a change. Why? #1 reason by far is that it will dramatically reduce the commute time for the…
December 20, 2012
The Itomic offices, Perth and Melbourne, are officially closed from Monday December 24th through to Friday January 4th (inclusive). Which means that our official “all hands on deck” day back will be on Monday January 7th. Rest assured that all sites that we host will of course remain monitored for “uptime”. Allthough we can’t guarantee…
November 14, 2012
Why do websites break all by themselves? One of the most frustrating aspects of owning a website is that sometimes they “break”. One day something was working just fine, the next day not. So for example, one day your ‘Contact Us’ form is successfully sending emails to your sales team, and the next day it’s…
October 15, 2012
Earlier this month, Itomic Melbourne were delighted to be in a position to host a Drupal Code Sprint at our offices in South Yarra and to provide the necessary refreshments. About 15 Drupal people gave up their Saturday to attend and contribute (thank you one and all!) “What is a code sprint?” we hear you…
October 12, 2012
Itomic is pleased to announce that we’ve been confirmed as Silver Sponsors of DrupalCon Sydney 2013. DrupalCon Sydney 2013 is the first DrupalCon in the southern hemisphere, and we’re very pleased to be a supporter of this epi-center gathering of Drupal-goodness! Bring it on!
October 11, 2012
We’re very pleased to report that, today, one of our website hosting servers achieved a full year of 100% uptime. That’s 24/7 of uninterrupted operation for all the websites hosted on it. There are a wide range of reasons why the vast majority of servers never achieve 100% uptime for a year or more. Typical…
October 8, 2012
Itomic CEO Ross Gerring is taking part in Melbourne’s first annual “Ride to Conquer Cancer” at the end of this month. But he’s chasing a fundraising total of $2,500 to be able to take part. Perhaps you can help with a kind donation? http://ml12.conquercancer.org.au/site/TR/Events/Melbourne2012?px=1183149&pg=personal&fr_id=1060 We understand that Ross hasn’t trained very much yet, so he’s…
September 10, 2012
Itomic’s Perth HQ currently has vacancies for Senior (5+ years commercial experience) and Mid-weight (2-5 years) Drupal Developers. Please note we’ll only respond to applications from people with existing valid permission to work in Australia, and who already reside in Australia or are about to return to Australia from overseas. Remote or offsite employment is…
July 31, 2012
This is to announce that, as of 1 August 2012, we’re seeking expressions of interest from experienced Drupal developers (minimum 2-3 years commercial experience) for a fulltime position in our Perth office. We’re likely (but not certain!) to post a formal job description shortly. Perhaps if you get your CV in early, we might not…
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