Web Services will be closed on Monday, July 5, 2010 in observance of Independence Day. Our regular hours will resume on Tuesday, July 6th, 9 AM to 6 PM Eastern Time. Web updates submitted on Friday July 2nd will be published on Tuesday July 6th or Wednesday July 7th.
In the event of an emergency, please follow standard CU*Answers after hours contact procedures.
Have a happy and safe holiday!
We came across an interesting web resource at http://uxmyths.com that examines the way typical users approach web design by exploring myths like “most users don’t scroll” and “more choices result in higher satisfaction.”
“UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience design misconceptions and explains why they don’t hold true. And you don’t have to take our word for it, we’ll show you lots of researches and articles from design and usability gurus.”
Wednesday, July 7th, we will be making an email server configuration change to improve the security of the SMTP (Outgoing) email authentication process.
You should verify that your email client has the “My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication” setting checkbox UNCHECKED.
This setting is not needed and will cause the problem if it is checked. You shouldn’t need to make any changes if you followed the setup in our Email Setup Guide.
Last week, right before the CU*Answers Leadership Conference, Web Services launched a new website for our cuasterisk.com partner CU*South. This new site takes a radical break from their previous website strategy in that with this new site they are going to manage their own content locally. Because this new site is built using WordPress, they can simply log in and publish new content as needed.
The entire site is dynamically controlled through the WordPress dashboard including some of the newer features of WordPress 3.0 such as custom background images.
CU*Answers Web Services has a planned maintenance window on Tuesday morning (6/15/2010) from 5:00 am – 8:00 am EDT. Client websites and email services may experience intermittent downtime during this window. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
