You know we love WordPress. Even though it was a few years ago, it feels like just yesterday we were celebrating that WordPress powers over a quarter of the websites on the web.
Well, just this month, WordPress is reporting (via W3Techs) that WordPress now powers over 1/3rd of the top 10 million sites on the web.
Check out the article. It’s pretty amazing to read about the growth of WordPress.
We just published this article on CU*Secure.org for your members, but this article from MDaemon Blog is a great list of tips for all email users.
Email security isn’t just the email provider or administrator’s responsibility. It’s everybody’s responsibility. While the mail server’s administrator may have tools to help block spam, phishing and other malware, they can’t stop or prevent everything. As the mail server’s tools get better, the bad guys just up their game.
Are you educating your email users about safety and security?
We’ve noticed an uptick in the amount of spam being sent to our clients as well as an increase in the number of drive-by scans on the server. It’s important that everyone remains aware and security conscious.
Check out these tips on the MDaemon Blog. Share them with your fellow email users.
Speckboy Web Design Magazine released an interesting article entitled “Ways to Set Yourself Up for a WordPress Disaster”.
We love WordPress. We believe in supporting open source software and the WordPress platform has proven to be a worthy tool for rapid website development. Its content management system base allows for our clients to be able to take control of their site without needing to become developers themselves. With that said, as seasoned WordPress developers and WordPress host, we have a good understanding of the potential pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Here’s how we set your website up for WordPress success:
We know that WordPress has the advantage in that it has an active developer community. So, there are many plugins to choose from that will extend the functionality of a website as needed. However, sometimes, those plugins present security holes if they aren’t updated frequently. Sometimes, the plugin code conflicts with the theme or other plugins and therefore the site breaks.
Our solution is to build the site with everything our client needs to effectively manage their content. Plugins are great for adding very complex functionality but for simple features, adding a plugin is overkill.
Stock themes or premium themes are typically built with a wide array of target audiences in mind. We custom build our themes specific to the client we are building for. We build your site specific to your vision and your needs.
For the client sites that we also host, we have a strict backup and maintenance schedule. We do not take chances with our clients’ websites.
If your site is hosted by CU*Answers Web Services, then you can rest easy. We have several layers of security protection from your website all the way up to the server and network.
We have our clients on a weekly maintenance schedule, where the WordPress core, along with plugins and themes are updated. We also stay alert to any critical security updates that may fall outside our weekly maintenance schedule, so that we can get everyone up to date.
Congratulations to Tri-Cities Credit Union on the launch of their brand new site!
The new site showcases a clean and modern design that displays a large rotating banner that is perfect to call attention to the latest marketing campaigns, a sticky navigation so that users never get lost, convenient Direct Login Widget, an alert feature that allows them to alert members to important information. Additionally, the front page has a section to display most important products and the inner pages include a feature where they can post a banner image with marketing message for further member outreach.
Smashing Magazine just released an article called A Comprehensive Guide to Web Design. This article does a great job of walking through a website design project from start to finish! There is a lot of focus on user-interaction and accessibility considerations as well as decent discussion on responsive design and A/B-Testing.
If you are looking for a comprehensive guide on website design, this is a worthy read!
Join us in giving a warm welcome to the newest member of the Web Services & Marketing Team, Megan Tenbusch. Megan is working as a marketing administrator, spinning up masterful marketing pieces with Pete. She is a great addition to our team!
Welcome, Megan! 🙂
