2012 News Archive

Office closed Thursday - The Chirp office will be closed on Thursday 20 December as we take a short road trip. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Sussex Inlet Community Portal - The Sussex Inlet Community website has been developed on behalf of the Sussex Inlet Chamber of Commerce by Australia G'day in partnership with Chirp Internet....
'Not Provided' search traffic - This week we've started including a new entry in our Search Engine Traffic reports. The keyword 'notprovided' will appear when a visitor arrives via a...
Website enhancements for modern browsers - As you know we try to stay ahead of the curve on new technologies that can help our clients and their users. Here are just some of the new features that...

Office closed 19-20 September - The Chirp office will be closed today and most of tomorrow as we take a short excursion. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Simulation in health directory launch - SimNET is a new, online portal of simulation resources including a database designed to drive health innovation and expand the level of simulation used...

Office offline - The Chirp office is offline today. It seems a cable may have been cut nearby. Hopefully this will be resolved before long... ... and we're back!

Full text indexed search - Today we launched a new website for the Erasmus Bookshop and Café network in Romania. While the bookshop itself stocks close to 4,000 items they also...
Encrypted backups - During the last few weeks we've been working on making our backup process and storage more secure. You might have heard recently of a number of cases...
Website downtime 6 July - In the afternoon/evening of 6 July websites on our main server became inaccessible due to server load problems which are being investigated. We apologise...
E-commerce for all sizes - It's difficult as a start-up to know just how large your online business is going to be and most of the available pre-packaged solutions don't give you...

Why is speed important? - The comments we get most often from people using our websites is that they are very fast to load and simple to use. This is not by accident as a lot of...

Modern browser form validation - Depending on which web browser you are using (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer), and when you last upgraded, you may have noticed some...

Little M Boutique - Last week saw the launch of a new website for Little M Boutique - a "unique children's clothing and children's toy store established to meet the needs...
Email issues for Grapevine and APEX Telecom - The latest saga to do with relaying and blocking of emails has affected two Canberra-based ISPs this month. Firstly, Grapevine have managed to have their...
Hall Museum website launched - As a spinoff from the Hall and District Community Website (www.hall.act.au) we have now set up a separate sub site for the Hall School Museum (museum.hall.act.au)....
Automated invoicing and Renewals - 1 April is the start of a new membership year for one of our clients, the European Association for Aviation Psychology (EAAP). Normally at this time they...

New Hosting Location - As many have you will be aware we have been updating and moving hosted websites over the last few months to a new host server. This process will be completed...
Blue Mountains Tourist Parks - Today we launched a new website for Blue Mountains Tourist Parks. The website was developed by Chirp and Studio Outside. It features a simple content...
Downtime 6 March - You may have noticed that some websites were offline for a few hours today. We're still getting to the bottom of it, but as this time it appears to be...

Moving time - Next week we will be moving house (and office), not far, but through the snow. Thank you for your patience while we get everything sorted. Update: We're...

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