Webilicious Web Design and Development

17/12/2025

I was interviewed by Eugene Sivokon of Norrnext as part of a series of interviews celebrating the 20th Birthday of Joomla. https://norrnext.com/blog/meet-neil-robertson

28/04/2025

11 years and 252,000 views later, my question on the Graphic Design Stack Exchange website about an online tool to find the closest Google font has finally been answered at https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/a/167099/17544

Austin Serb has created "What the Google Font" at https://www.serbyte.net/what-the-google-font which is free in the meantime.

Thanks Austin!

Upload an image and discover the closest Google Font. A beta tool by Serbyte—results may vary.

28/07/2024

At least 10 good reasons to update to Joomla 4 or Joomla 5 now! https://webilicious.com.au/at-least-10-good-reasons-to-update-to-joomla-4-or-joomla-5-now

05/10/2023

Loving this new feature in the Joomla 4 version of OS Services Booking where I can enter complex unavailability dates and times in bulk instead of individually.

28/04/2023

Forms Builder is the slickest forms extension for and the support is excellent. Keep up the good work!

26/11/2022

Finally answered my own question at https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/11310/2742 after over eight years!

25/11/2022

Just found the free and open source content management system and I am loving it!

I am very happy with the performance of my first Bludit website:

25/09/2022

The state of Australian owned and operated web hosting providers in 2022

Earlier this year, it seemed to me that the choice of Australian owned and operated web hosting providers was rapidly diminishing. The acquisition of ..

19/09/2022

VentraIP announced pricing changes to clients averaging around a 30% increase. This seems reasonable given rising costs but anyone who is not happy certainly has other choices. https://webhostingdownunder.com.au/ventraip-price-increase

01/03/2022

As at 1st March 2022, phone, internet and email services in Tasmania are disrupted due to multiple cable faults. It is not clear when normal service will resume. Please bear this in mind if you are waiting on work to be completed by me or if you are trying to contact me.

27/04/2021

Trigg Web are offering a 50% off lifetime discount on select web hosting plans until 6th May. Trigg Web are quite new and are based in Perth although their server infrastructure is all in Melbourne.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/615357
https://www.facebook.com/triggweb

Deal: 50% off Australian Web Hosting - Lifetime Discount - from $4 / Month @ Trigg Web, Store: Trigg, Code: OZBARG50, Category: Internet

27/04/2021

I'm sad to read that VentraIP are retiring the Zuver brand. Zuver prices and service were great value for money and clients should be grateful the prices were that low for so long.

Existing Zuver clients can still enjoy the excellent performance and service they are used to with VentraIP. The minimum cPanel web hosting account at VentraIP is now $60 so the price jump should not be too much of a shock for Zuver clients.

For anyone shopping around for alternative Australian owned web hosting companies, you might like to check out the following:
https://www.facebook.com/uptimewebhosting
https://www.facebook.com/triggweb
https://www.facebook.com/obblehosting

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