Welcome to the blog of a group of Melbournites with a shared passion for everything web. We encourage you to read, critique and comment on our written thoughts. By the way, we also all work for a pretty cool little web design and development agency in Melbourne called Get Started.
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We are proud to announce the launch of Get Started's 150th website on our preferred CMS – Kentico. We are thrilled that www.onejustworld.org.au was the website that allowed us to reach the significant milestone of 150 Kentico websites. Effectively, we have produced a website developed in Kentico every week for 3 years. Kentico has allowed us to increase the quality of the websites we produce and the service we offer. We enjoy the relationship with Kentico and we love building sites in the Kentico CMS.
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We recently had the pleasure of sponsoring The 2011 Idea Pitch (www.ideapitch.org.au) where student entrepreneurs were able to present their elevator pitch about their big idea. Over two months, entrants underwent an intensive program to formulate, plan and communicate their business/project idea. Entrants could work together in groups of up to four people.
We loved Web Directions South 2011 (#wds11) so much that we felt the need to relive it. A long dry blog post just wasn't going to cut it so the @getstarted crew have put together a not-so-quick Storify for everyone to enjoy. Feedback is of course welcome!
With Chris Coppin
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are a great idea for your website if you get lots of traffic, or if that traffic is located all over the world. A CDN can seriously boost your website’s loading speed, and potentially save you a lot of money on your hosting. But not all CDNs are equal. A range of factors such as pricing, ease of access, speed, latency and node locations make your decision of which CDN to use an important one, especially for Australian businesses.
As many of our clients use eWay as a payment gateway, we've developed a Kentico payment gateway wrapper for the eWay .NET API and have now provided it for free for public download and use!
Way back in 2005, two enterprising women came to Get Started with a great idea. It was called Kidspot - an online products and services directory aimed at parents of young kids in Australia. The Internet was a wild and exciting place in 2005 - YouTube was a brand new Internet startup being eyed off by Google, IE6 was Microsoft’s latest and greatest browser, and Facebook accounts weren’t yet available to the public. Fast-forward 6 years and Kidspot has now been sold to News Corp for a reported $45 million!
A win at the 2010 Australian Web Awards