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Email is an important component of many web applications. Recently we had a chance to appreciate the importance of timely, reliable mail delivery sent from an application. Our client's web application initially had modest email requirements, including account password...
Ecommerce pop-up shop
Businesses are scrambling to get their products to customers during the pandemic. An obvious solution is an ecommerce-enabled website with delivery scheduling. But for companies that do not have ecommerce in place, it can be a time-consuming process to get an online...
Non-profit associations – meeting and voting in isolation
We're all adjusting to a sudden shift in the way we relate, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizations are figuring out how to conduct operations in social isolation. We work with several membership-oriented non-profit associations, and we're helping with the...
Opportunity: Sometimes you need to make the call
When opportunity knocks, of course you must answer, but sometimes you need to take the initiative. At CurrentDesign, we work with organizations to help them find opportunities to help achieve their goals through investments in web technology. To do so, we are keen to...
Business analyst as mind reader
The first thing we need to know when starting a project is - what are we trying to accomplish? There are multiple ways to answer this fundamental question, and the answer is coloured by the context of who is answering it. As solution providers, we need to elicit a...
Fall cleaning – optimizing IT services
Its fall cleaning time! If you want to improve your organization's financial performance, consider getting rid of obsolete recurring service costs. This is particularly true with IT services, where the list price often decreases over time as the exotic becomes...
Vendor lockjaw
In one of my first jobs, at an internet service provider, the sales director hammered on the message that it was cheaper to sell more to an existing customer than get a new one. Further, he asserted that the more services the customer had with us, the better the...
Website media can be too rich
With rich media burgeoning on websites, one might think larger images, longer video and more animation is always better. It isn't. Instead, it is important that a corporation understands their site's intended audience, and delivers an appropriate design. If the site...
General Data Protection Regulation and European Union clients
With evolving cross-border relations with the United States, many Canadian companies are broadening their view of international business. Although most of our clients are Canadian, we are currently enjoying working with a Europe-based organization. Here are few items...
WordPress: beyond the brochure site
Remember the compact cassette? It was a small magnetic audio tape format dating from the mid-20th century, designed for easy use with dictation machines - a low fidelity application. It eventually found favour for use in audio applications pushing toward high...