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Congratulations to Focus Credit Union on the launch of their new website! The website has a modern striped design featuring large banners for promotions, featured products and a modern navigation with an Online Banking login drop-down. The site looks great on phones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers. FocusCU is excited to provide an updated website to its members for better usability offering a greater experience.
Take a look at the new Focus Credit Union website: https://www.focus-cu.com/
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Congratulations to MidUSA Credit Union on the launch of their new website! The website has a modern striped design featuring large banners for promotions, featured rates, featured products, member feedback and current news all on the home page. The site looks great on phones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers. MidUSA is excited to provide this great site to its members so they can take advantage of all the credit union has to offer.
Take a look at the new MidUSA Credit Union website: https://www.midusacu.org/
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This article came across my news feed today. It struck a chord as Web Services has been working with clients who are developing their own Web Developer talents. It’s an interesting new consulting track we are getting into as we learn different clients developer’s have various levels of skill – but all consider themselves web developers. Its a world…
Web Development is a complex thing and so many parts to it. Not everyone can know them all and there is always constant learning. Choosing the right skill set for your developer is important – see this article on CUSO Magazine. You need someone who knows the right parts to make you project successful, but also one that is not going to cost an arm and a leg. This is one of the reasons having a team, like CU*Answers Web Services, where individuals support each other’s knowledge and skill deficits works well.
Anyway, back to the article. This article is a visual roadmap of all the things you might need to learn as a front end developer for a website. Not all websites require all these tools and concepts, but your web developer should probably be aware of most of them. This roadmap is also changing as new tools and security concepts emerge.
Take a look at the article. I hope you appreciate all that’s involved in web development. Its not all just pretty pictures and HTML Code.
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You’re not going to guess what the Web Services Team did a lot of this week. Maybe you are. This past week we published a bunch of alerts on credit union websites about this virus thing everyone is talking about. A people virus, not a computer virus.
Luckily, CU*Answers Web Services was prepared for this. We’ve published special alerts on credit union websites before for things like weather related closings, power outages or telephone troubles at branches. If your credit union website is on our WordPress with SiteControl platform, we have the ability to turn on Notifications Bars.
Notification Bars appear at the very top of your website to highlight an important notice for your members. These notification bars are highly customizable and mobile responsive. Here’s a screenshot of a site with a live notification bar enabled:
If you have a need for an alert to your members on your site — and who doesn’t this week? — let us know. We can enable this feature and the content is manageable in your WordPress dashboard. Also we’re happy to add the content for you, just let us know what you would like it to read.
Today we’re rolling out an update to our SiteControl Platform that adds a few new features to the rateboards shortcode.
Our rateboard shortcode now supports additional attributes; title, round_rate, round_amount, strip_zeros. Setting the title is useful in cases where you have used the “filter” attribute to show a specific subset of your rates. The round_rate, round_amount, and strip_zeros attributes give you more control over the decimal place precision the rates and min/max amounts display, and can strip trailing zeros off the decimal value to simplify the output. In addition, the ratetable order and orderby shortcode attributes now work the same as the already worked for the ratecard shortcode, allowing you to sort by various fields.
The new Shortcode features usage is documented here.
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Congratulations to Valley Educators Credit Union for launching their new site! Complete with rotating banners, an embedded Google Map, and site search, this new site blends functionality with ease of access to create a great member experience. Check it out here!
