Category - announcements

Our congratulations to everyone at Big Brown Box, who were the winners of the inaugural Best Site Design award last week at the Online Retailer Industry Awards 2010. The awards were extremely competitive and drawn from over 170 nominated online businesses around Australia; the Best Site Design category in particular boasted some of the most innovative online retailers in the Australian market.

To celebrate Australia Day, we're pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Fontis Australia Extension for Magento. This is a major update to the extension, and includes new functionality to support the flexible generation of data feeds for three comparison shopping sites (Getprice, MyShopping and ShopBot) for member merchants.

Spam is a painful fact of life for anyone using the Internet. One of the most popular ways to limit exposure to spam is with CAPTCHA software, which attempt to filter out computerised form submissions. Earlier this year we released the Fontis reCAPTCHA extension that integrates the reCAPTCHA service into Magento sites and protects the contacts, customer signup and send to friend forms. We received plenty of great feedback and feature requests and we are happy to formally announce the release of Fontis reCAPTCHA 2.0 and provide some information about what changed and why.

Fontis is pleased to announce the official launch of the Magento Melbourne Users Group - MagMUG - and the inaugural meeting, taking place in two weeks time. MagMUG is an opportunity for anyone in the Melbourne area working with Magento to engage with others in the community.

Online retailing is a rapidly growing market and it is becoming an increasing necessity for anyone in retail in the 21st century to establish an online presence. Recognising this, National Media, a specialist B2B media and marketing company, are holding the inaugural Online Retailer Expo & Conference, which will focus on the state of eCommerce in Australia. It will also be a chance for retailers and vendors to make connections, share knowledge and ideas, and explore new business opportunities.

Fontis is pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at this event, which will take place at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre on August 18th and 19th 2009. If you're interested in Magento or any of the other services and solutions we provide, drop by our booth and say hello. We'll have Magento demonstrations and materials available throughout the exhibition, and would be happy to chat about how we can help you grow your business online.