Posts Tagged ‘updates’
Don’t tell anyone but we’re beta testing daily backups and WordPress software updates for all maintenance clients…
We’ve been making weekly backups and software updates for our maintenance clients for a very long time. Since sometime back in 2012. We started officially in late 2013 or early 2014. We always watch for malware and software vulnerabilities and run updates as soon as developers release fixes. When we upgrading our hardware and software earlier…
Read MoreRedesigned Greener Living Solutions – Landscape Architect and Residential Construction
It’s great working with clients who spend all day thinking about design. We were first asked to rebuild the Greener Living Website when browsing the web on phones and tablets was still almost a novelty. Because we’ve got an ongoing maintenance agreement with them we’ve had several opportunities to adjust and tune the site in…
Read MoreMoving websites on shared hosting is easy, moving email on shared hosting is hard so…
This post is about choosing a 3rd party to host your company’s email instead of using the free email service that comes with almost all shared hosting plans. I got a call on Friday from a former client, a small, highly-technical business with a handful of very large, old-school Fortune 100 customers. Their site and…
Read MoreUpdate for December 2018: Signs of Naughty and Nice Websites
Photo by kevin dooley Two lists with a seasonal flair from web security provider Sucuri! “Naughty” features include outdated software, resused passwords, every user is an Administrator, and no automatic backups. They also point out that if you’ve got more than one website it’s a security risk if they’re all kept in the same folders…
Read MoreWordPress 5.0 will be cool, but waiting a week for WordPress 5.0.1 will be worth it
The new Gutenberg blog editor is just one of the nice improvements that comes with WordPress 5.0. It’s a very big change though. And while it’s been tested by thousands of users they were still making bug fixes and feature changes almost up to the last minute. That might be par for the course, but in…
Read MoreOnce you get your website secure it’s easy to keep it secure!
It’s a mistake to say “WordPress is insecure.” Yes, it may have once been insecure but then Toyota’s cars once had motorcycle engines! A lot’s changed. David Hayes recently said this very clearly. It is very common for people who know very little about WordPress to say that it’s insecure. And there’s some reasons from history that this diffuse…
Read MoreThe Days of Adobe Flash-Driven Websites are Seriously Numbered!
According to the venerable tech website Ars Technica, Google has announced by the end of the year its Chrome browser will display Adobe Flash animations only if you actively click on them. By the end of the 2016 Chrome will disable Flash altogether! Google will be taking another step towards an HTML5-only Web later this year,…
Read MoreIdeal Client: Established Materials Sciences Sub-contractors
Well-established materials science sub-contractors might have thousands of clients for their specialized products and services… or if they’re in aerospace they might only have one or two! Their marketing might be low-key, even word of mouth, and once established they may even have been doing business with the same procurement reps year after year. Times change though.…
Read MoreWhy I Love Getting Dozens of Automated Emails…
I’ve been getting dozens and dozens of automated emails this morning from sites all around the internet and… it’s making me really happy! The message? Simple. From the dozens of sites I’ve built and maintain their software’s up to date enough to do their own security updates automatically. And let me know that… Your site…
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