Castner IT is the single-person consulting business of Dr Grant Castner. I offer customised consulting and development services tailored to the requirements of your business. I specialise in web site design, search engine optimisation, web analytics, cloud computing, Microsoft Office development, elearning and IT business analysis.
Joomla 2.5 is set to be released on 24 January. One of the new features is Joomla now supports the Microsoft SQL database in addition to mySQL (and others) as its content database. This new feature provides great opportunities for tighter integration of your public web site with your back-end systems running MS SQL. For [...]
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Virtuemart is a popular shopping cart component for Joomla. Here is a quick rundown of the files you may want to edit when configuring the look-and-feel of the shopping cart, in addition to the settings available from the Virtuemart admin page in Joomla. If you use a different theme, substitute default with your theme name. [...]
After successful maps for the federal and Victorian elections, I am again running the sausage sizzle and cake stall map for the 2011 NSW election. It is a great way to demonstrate a range of online topics for small business including: Search Engine Optimisation Google Analytics Social Media Integration Google Maps Integration ASP.NET SQL Server [...]
Each day this week there will be a helpful and easy-to-use tip on improving your web site’s search engine optimisation (SEO). SEO techniques aim at improving your web site’s search results on search engines such as Google and Bing. The helpful tips and techniques will be available each day from the E-Nable elearning homepage once [...]
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Cloud computing has a number of features that differentiate it from traditional services: Services are sold on demand, typically by time (e.g. $10 per user per month) Services are elastic and scalable – a user or small business can access as little or as much as they want at any given time. Services are fully [...]
Probably the hardest part of using social media such as Facebook and Twitter for small business is getting started. Many small business owners and managers are often reluctant to use these tools often because the perception is that they add little or no business value. A common reason for not using twitter is that knowing [...]
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
The objective of the “e-Nable” program is to assist small businesses to significantly enhance their web presence and engage in e-business capabilities, in order to help reduce their costs and improve their market opportunities. Castner IT is coordinating and delivering the program on behalf of Business Success Group. This is an Australian Government funded initiative [...]
These tools can help you analyze your pages and optimize them for improved search engine rankings. 1. Yahoo Site Explorer: Allows you to see which pages are linking to your site. For example, link:isom.uoregon.edu will show you all pages that link to isom.uoregon.edu 2. Google Webmaster tools: Tools that ensure Google is indexing your site [...]