The new Kenworth Employees Credit Union web site launched earlier this month. Kenworth CU was looking for something quick. The result was this “splash page” design we put together to meet their immediate needs, based on one of our SiteControl library themes.
Kent County Credit Union launched their new site last week. The new site brings an updated look and feel to kentcountycu.org as well as simplified navigation and a rotating fade-in/fade-out promotional section.
In the early stages of Internet Explorer 8 development, Microsoft planned on requiring every web site that used the proper web standards to include an additional, non-standard tag for the site to work as expected. Developers were frustrated with having to break from standards to get the benefit of using the established standards and Microsoft decided against this approach. Sitepoint has an interesting article about a recent addition to Internet Explorer 8 that is eerily similar the original plan.
CU*Answers Web Services has a planned maintenance window on Tuesday, February17, 2008 between 5AM-8AM ET. Client websites and email services may experience intermittent downtime during this window. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Harsh Truth #4:
If you build a website for everyone, it will appeal to no one.
This is just one of the 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites detailed in a great piece this week by Smashing Magazine. While the main focus of these “truths” are problems of large organizations, many of these same issues and considerations hold universal merit, regardless of an organization’s size.
If you’re thinking about a complete digital makeover or just updating the look/feel of your site, or even if you’ve already begun that process, give this article a quick read. It’ll be well worth the time spent and will give you some great insights to consider.
SitePoint.com has an article entitled Passwords: Most People Do It Wrong that reveals some interesting research about common passwords and user habbits.
Quick: What’s your password? Is it 123456? Is it password? Is it abc123? Is it your first name? Surprisingly, for a large number of users, those are the types of words being picked to safeguard private accounts. Not surprisingly, that’s a bad thing.
We’d like to take this opportunity to remind you about the importance of using strong passwords, and using different passwords for different sites you frequent so that if one is compromised your accounts aren’t all compromised. In Windows, we like to use Password Safe to generate and remember strong passwords. Since it remembers your passwords you can use harder to crack passwords. Give it a try today!
