15 Reasons for a Mobile Strategy

Sitepoint has provided an interesting article explaining the mounting importance of developing a mobile strategy for your organization’s digital assets. Included are 15 statistics that strongly suggest mobile devices are quickly becoming a considerable venue.

Read the article on Sitepoint.

20 Things I Learned about Web Browsers and the Web

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Google has put together a pretty informative introduction to Web Browsers and the technologies that make up the web.  The book itself is written in every-man English but covers some pretty indepth topics that we Web Professionals have to think about everyday.  If you are interested in the web, or just learning more about what we in Web Services do everyday, this is a good introduction.

The catch is that you need to have a “modern” browser to view the neat website.  If you don’t have one (like you are stuck on Internet Explorer – it works in IE9) you can download the PDF for reading.

WordPress Wins CMS Award

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It’s no suprise to you or to us that WordPress has won the Open Source CMS Hall of Fame award;  We’ve been leveraging WordPress as a CMS for years.  Nonetheless, congratulations are in order.  If you’re the more skeptical type, you can also browse the WordPress Showcase or our own Portfolio to see how WordPress as a CMS can look.

Network Maintenance Tomorrow, Nov 12 (updated)

UPDATE: This update was applied and tested.  Please report any issues via normal channels.

We will be implementing an important security update to our Shared Hosting platform on Friday, November 12, 2010, from 7-8 AM ET. During this time there may be brief network interruptions for CU*Answers hosted credit union websites and email.  Thank you for your patience as we perform this important maintenance.

Planned Maintenance for 11/16/2010

CU*Answers Web Services has a planned maintenance window on Tuesday morning (11/16/2010) from 6:00 am – 8:00 am EDT. Client websites and email services may experience intermittent downtime (10-15 minute intervals) during this window.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.