Punctuate

Musings

A blend of thoughts, insights and info generally inspired by good coffee.

Who owns your website?

- 3 minute read

Simple question, simple answer right? You do. Don’t you?

Well, not necessarily. Depending on who you’ve commissioned as your website developers/provider the answer may not be as simple as you think. One of the widely discussed players in the…

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Creating Investment in the Design Process

- 3 minute read

Design by its very nature is extremely subjective. Give five people the same design brief and you’ll get five very different interpretations. So how do we go about meeting a brief and designing something the client not only likes, but is proud to share?

The…

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Web to email with Mailgun

- 3 minute read

We recently migrated a number of of our client websites over to Mailgun for sending emails from web forms and components with a data to email requirement.

When we hook up web to email we generally use authenticated SMTP servers tied to the domain…

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Privacy Act 2020

- 3 minute read

The Privacy Act 2020 came into force on 1 December 2020, replacing the Privacy Act 1993. Now that the dust has settled we take a look at some of the effects the updated act has had on how we build our products.

Undoubtedly one of the trickier…

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Rescuing Inflight Projects

- 3 minute read

Every so often we are tasked with rescuing a project. The rationale behind why a project finds itself in a position where it needs rescuing tends to vary widely, it could be financial, political, ownership, shifting market forces or a change of direction.

Inflight…

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