Celebrating 25 years of service
Close Nav

Search

Resources

Number of resources returned: 1 to 20 records of 76

Have you considered integrating Xero or MYOB into your CRM or Website?

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, incorporating automation into your day-to-day operations has become paramount to success. Tasks such as integrating your website (or CRM) with your accounting software (e.g Xero or MYOB) can really revolutionize your business processes. Even the simplest process of automatically syncing orders, event registrations or memberships generated from your website with your accounting software will save you time, money, and eliminate the stress associated with manual accounting practices. Other areas you can look at syncing: Products.  Automatically create these ...

The top 10 reasons why business owners want to rebuild their site.

There are many reasons why you might want to rebuild your website. Here are 10 of the most common reasons: Your embarrassed by your website, and worry about what your prospects would think about if they visited it. Your website no longer accurately reflects your brand / what you are offering to your customers. Your website is not mobile-friendly and is losing you traffic and potential customers. You’ve outgrown your current website platform and need something more robust. Your website is not search engine friendly and you’re ...

Google Analytics 4 Upgrade

Firstly what is Google Analytics? Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports what users are doing on your website. The current version is Version 3 (and it’s super awesome!).  It is highly likely we have installed Google Analytics on your website. Do I need it / use it? If you have ever done (or have been offered) a Microsoft Teams meeting with us where we run over your "website statistics" - then we were using Google ...

Multifactor Authentication Available

Multifactor Authentication (MFA) is now available for all deployments of NetRanger. Multi-factor authentication is a layered approach to securing data and applications where a system requires a user to present a combination of two or more credentials to verify a user's identity for login. How this works with NetRanger Setting up Send a request to us to get this setup. Once setup  :  when you login, you will be presented an alert asking you to set up MFA.  This alert will continue to appear each time ...

What is card testing

Card testing is a type of fraudulent activity where someone buys a list of stolen cards, and then attempts to validate or make purchases with those cards (on your website) to determine which cards are still valid. This has many negative impacts for you (as a website owner / holder of a merchant account). Disputes—card testing usually involve payments, some of which succeed. Customers notice successful payments and report them as fraud, which will result in disputes that cost you time and ...

What is browser stack, why do we use it

Firstly what is Browser Stack? BrowserStack is a cross-platform testing tool that allows developers to test their websites and applications on real world various browsers and operating systems. It is a cloud-based platform that provides access to a wide range of browsers, including mobile browsers, and provides a variety of features to help developers test their websites and applications. It also allows us to test websites from a variety of overseas IP addresses (which is useful when testing "geocode" style scenarios) Why do ...

Should I register the new .au domain name?

The body that controls domain names in Australia (auDA) has announced that .au domain pre-registrations will begin March 24th 2022! What this means, is that you can register for yourcompany.au.   You most likely already have yourcompany.com.au, or yourcompany.com Should you do this? Entirely up to you.  There are many domain name extensions out there.  E.g you might already own yourcompany.com.au, but have you also registered Yourcompany.com  (if you can get the yourcompany.com – we strongly recommend you secure this) Yourcompany.net.au Yourcompany.net Yourcompany.biz Yourcompany.info Yourcompany.co.nz The list goes on… What happens if I ...

Hosting Charges explained

There are a number of charges that can go along with hosting your website / email.   Some of these can be charged monthly, yearly or even bi-yearly.    Domain Name Registration.  This is a fee you pay, and covers the registation of your domain name (e.g www.yourcompany.com.au).  This is usually paid every 2 years. DNS Hosting.   This is fee you pay to "point" your domain name to your web / email hosting company.  This is usually paid yearly. Website hosting.  This is the fee ...

Why do emails sent from my Website or My Email Marketing Provider go into Junk Folders

Do you every wonder why emails sent from your website or your email marketing provider sometimes ends up in your end users Junk folder? (or users report never receiving an email?)   The two kinds of emails we are talking about today ... 1. Website based emails If you have more then a basic website, there is a good chance your website will send one off notification emails to customers.  These maybe in the form of "hey thanks for signing up" or a "forgot password" ...

Adding a responsive video to NetRanger

This video shows you how to add a responsive video from You Tube.

Adding an Image via NetRanger

This video steps you thru how to add an image, upload a new image (if it hasn't already been uploaded) and attach this image to a page. Watch on Youtube

Adding links via NetRanger

This video steps you thru how to add a link to an external site, an internal page or to a file you've uploaded via the File Manager. Watch on Youtube

Adding an Alt Tag to an Image in NetRanger

Alt tags are used within an HTML code to describe the appearance and function of an image on a page. Why you should always include them Visually impaired users (using a screen reader) can read an alt attribute, thus allowing them to better understand an on-page image. Alt tags will be displayed in place of an image if an image file cannot be loaded. Alt tags provide better image context/descriptions to search engine crawlers, helping them to index an image properly. Watch on YouTube

NetRanger PHP 7 Upgrade available

NetRanger (which is your Content Management System for your website), is written in a language called PHP.   If your site is a bit older, you will most likely require an upgrade on your site from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.  (Note there was not a version called PHP 6). If your site is simple – this upgrade is very straight forward.  However, if your site is more complex, this can involve a bit more work. Will there be costs involved with this? Yes ...

Ways to combat credit card fraud

If you accept payment via Credit Card on your website (whether it’s a simple “pay your bill” form, or a full eCommerce “shop”), there are several things you can do to reduce credit card fraud. Firstly, lets look at what happens when a credit card is “authorised”.   When you receive a credit card authorisation, all this does is confirm The card is valid The card has enough funds. The card hasn’t been reported as stolen. This does not guarantee your payment!    Things you can do ...

SEO and spam

We all receive spam emails.  However as website owners we often get emails from (mostly) overseas companies offering to “optimise” our websites and get amazing results. Firstly what is Search Engine Optimisation? Search Engine Optimisation is the process where a website gets “optimised” to boost visibility within the Natural (also called “organic”) Search Engine Results Who you should be wary of companies offering to “optimise” your site. When you get an email from a company offering to optimise your website, it usually contains some ...

5 reasons you should refresh or rebuild your old site

Has it been more than four years since you launched your website? Is it time for a refresh or even a rebuild? The answer is a definite yes. A lot of business owners see building a website as a "once off" investment (the site is built, and it will continue into eternity servicing my business and my customers). Unfortunately this is not the case. Why do I need to refresh or even rebuild my site? Security: as your site becomes older it can ...

Modifying your website - when to contact your web developer

Having a Content Management System (CMS) installed on your website can be a really powerful and useful tool for website owners.   Specifically for content that changes frequently (such as products, news and blogs), its critical that website owners can update this without refering back to the original developer / agency. However it's important to understand that sometimes, changes to websites still need (or should) come back to the original web developer / agency (Thats why at TMD Online we use terms ...

Why an SSL certificate is important for your website.

Firstly what is an SSL certificate? An SSL certificate is a small file that is installed on a web server, that stores a companies identity via a cryptographic key.  When a user browsers a site with an SSL certificate installed, the browser will display a "padlock" (or the address may go green), indicating that any traffic between the user and the web server is encrypted. Example of a site secured by SSL Since the early days of eCommerce / accepting credit cards on your website, an SSL certificate is obviously an important ...

Two minute run down on Google Analytics

So you’ve got access to your websites Google Analytics, but if you don’t really know what Google Analytics is about, or not sure what to look at – here is Trent’s two minute overview of Google Analytics, and some areas you can take a look at.