Office furniture comes in this week and hopefully power and internet will come soon after.
If you’re in the area, please pop in and say hi and see how we are progressing.
We’ll be running all of our client training and web design and development work from this office, so we’re making it like home.
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We’ve recently been managing a website with a very high volume of traffic. Not only are there a huge amount of visitors but also a rather long stay time and usage or resources on the server. We investigated ways of optimizing the server and site to handle these high levels of traffic.
This particular Joomla based site averages roughly, 6000 unique visitors a day with user registering on the site every few minutes to interact with the site’s functions.
So here are a few tips and tricks that can be done to optimise the server environment to help handle the high server loads after you have optimised your instance of Joomla. I must also add that these tweaks are for an Apache based web server. Read more…
Tags: Joomla, server optimisation, speed
Here is a short video that give a great introduction to web usability. Take a few minutes out and watch this short presentation from CanadaHelps.org.
It’s a great starting guide in identifying factors on how to make your web site more easy to use and create a better user experience for your web visitors. It also starts you off on creating a basic usability test for your web site. Read more…
Tags: usability
What does this patch cover and why you should upgrade.
The patch blocks two security vulnerabilities that are found in Joomla. They aren’t ones that I have come across before or have seen sites hacked as a result of it but since the vulnerabilities have been identified it is fairly important to upgrade and patch the holes up. Read more…
Tags: Joomla, security

PB Web Development were lucky enough to make it to being one of the finalists in the 2009 Smart Company Web Awards in the Best Blog category.
SmartCompany provide free news and resources to small and medium sized business and entrepreneurs, and have launched their first Web Awards to discover and recognise top business websites that are shaping Australia’s business landscape.
PB Web Development is hoping to keep up a good track record and make it to the finals again in 2010 and maybe next year we’ll take out one of the top titles.
To find out about he other finalist and winner so this years Awards, check out the media release, or listen to the recording of the winners being annouced.
Tags: 2009, Web Awards