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5 key steps to delivering a successful web app – Step 5 Testing and Launch

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:33:13 +0000

The testing and launch of your application is the most exciting, frustrating and often exhausting process for all entrepreneurs. It’s a roller coaster ride of feedback, disappointment and successes; often all in the same day and it can go on for weeks and often months. Users you thought would be raving fans don’t even use [...]

Aussie Car Loans Maintain Position

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:42:56 +0000

About six months ago Joe Martinovic and Jack Bradford at Aussie Car Loans decided that their websites all needed a revamp. The web was where much of their business was happening, as they rank extremely well for searches for ‘Car Loans’ and ‘Car Finance’ and they felt they needed more of a targeted web focused [...]

Brisbane to Gladstone 2012

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:14:18 +0000

If you’re reading this article looking forward to hearing about Jason’s exploits on the high seas, crashing waves, near vertical deck, the mental and physical toughness required to undertake major yacht racing, perhaps take a rain check. If Jason is to be believed, it was more of a Gladstone ‘cruise’ than a Gladstone race this [...]

Web Analytics in a Nutshell

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:47:54 +0000

We are all trying to get more traffic through our websites, but wouldn’t it be great to get more ‘customers’ through our sites? Google Analytics helps us learn vital information about our site, our customers and how it get the best out of both. Analytics (or any business sales analysis) boils down to 3 key [...]

Responsive Web Design

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:38:07 +0000

The Future of the Mobile Web More people will be browsing the web on mobile devices than desktops in 2014. We’ve said it before and it’s worth repeating. This is a huge movement. This also poses a tricky challenge for businesses and web developers alike – how to cater for all the different screen sizes? [...]

Facebook business page changes

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:50:29 +0000

Facebook has just announced significant changes to their ‘business pages’. For those of you who are regular Facebookers, business pages will now be introducing the Timeline layouts just like the personal profiles. It will display your Facebook history in chronological order. It makes searching back through your company history much easier, but more importantly it [...]

KND taking Sailing Adventures to the world

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:36:36 +0000

Brian Pozzey and his wife Cath run Sailing Adventures, a business that organises sailing trips on 50 and 53 foot state-of-the-art Jeanneau yachts in Italy, Croatia, Koh Samui, Phuket and Hamilton Island. The company offers something a bit different to other yachting holidays – the yachts are fully crewed, skippered by qualified professional yachtsmen and [...]

Designing Web for Mobile Devices

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:19:47 +0000

If you are wondering where to spend your online marketing dollar, the mobile web is not only hot right now, it’s essential. In many ways, we can thank Apple for making the mobile web both possible and enjoyable with iPhones and more recently iPad and tablet technologies. New technologies, however always come at the expense [...]

5 key steps to delivering a successful web app – Step 4

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:49:02 +0000

Step 4: Teamwork Creating a Balanced App Development Team This article is from a 5 part series on building a success app… Part 1: Planning Part 2: Communication Part 3: Flexibility Part 4: Teamwork Part 5: coming soon. Building a successful app is the result of a combination of creative and technical genius that delivers [...]

How to use Google Real-Time Reporting

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:53:43 +0000

Over the past few weeks, tracking the new Google Analytics Real-Time reporting interface has been somewhat hypnotic. But aside from the casual fascination of watching users pop on and off your site as the seconds roll by I struggled to see how business owners could use it to real benefit. That was until I hit [...]

5 key steps to delivering a successful web app – Step 3

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:45:49 +0000

Here are the five key steps again that will get you closer to the successful delivery of your application: Planning and Documentation Constant open communication Flexibility A balanced team Implementing and managing change Step 3: Flexibility It can be extremely difficult to predict how your software is going to be used. No matter how much [...]

Creating an Internet Startup

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:08:03 +0000

Interview with Invaulta founder Craig Spink http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BMrSRhLxqQ Interview Transcription Chris: Hello and welcome to the Innovators Series on KND TV. I’m Chris Garrett and today I’m joined by Craig Spink who’s a professional musician, solicitor and startup software developer. Thanks for joining us, Craig. You are curently rolling out a large online software product called [...]

Making your website work harder

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:58:58 +0000

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Winston Churchill (1942) For many businesses a new website going live is something to be celebrated. The temptation is to tick that project off the list, sit back and watch the [...]

Email Marketing – unsexy, but effective

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:58:04 +0000

An article in BRW magazine last year (Dec 1-7 p35 “Start spreading the newsletter”) highlighted some research out of the US indicating that, for every $1 a company spends on marketing emails, the return is $40.56, “better than almost any other form of marketing”. Despite this fact, email marketing is still lurking in the shadow [...]

Sydney to Hobart

enquiries@knd.com.au (KND Web Consultants) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:57:46 +0000

After much preparation and imagining the worst, Jason embarked on one of his biggest and possibly maddest ‘bucket list’ adventures. On Boxing Day he joined the Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race fleet with 8 others on board Mondo. The 4+ day marathon wasn’t without incident, including a 40 knot storm on the first night, [...]