Of the content management system options currently available WordPress is the most popular since it has a user friendly interface, is easy install and has an active development community for quality themes, plugins, and answers. What may not be known by all is that the popular CMS options (while generally very secure) are often the…
An important part of having a website is ensuring that it is kept secure. In the past the need of security wasn’t so much of an issue, yet the use of hacker bots to look for site and database vulnerabilities has become very prevalent in the last couple of years. It is important to understand…
Protect Yourself from Email Spam Everyone gets email spam, and while it can be a general annoyance, it can also be dangerous if you aren’t careful on how you manage it. In this blog post I wanted to share how I identify “dangerous” spam, and offer some of my own strategies to protect myself. The…
Security on the Web is undeniably important, both with one’s personal computers and the websites stored on hosting servers. I have dealt with a variety of hacker intrusion issues over the years, and most have been of the SQL Injection or email malware type. Just recently one of my clients acquired a trojan which resulted…
If you have a dynamic website such as ecommerce, a CMS (Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, etc), or just have database driven scripts such as event managers and calendars, you need to ensure that your site database/s are backed up on a regular basis. If you are unclear on what a database is for, or the reasoning…
I wrote not long back about some recent changes with our hosting account control panel “cPanel”. If you are unfamiliar with cPanel you can view a live demo here: View cPanel Demo User ID: x3demob | Password: x3demob In this post I wanted to feature some additional areas that many clients ask about. Password Protect…
Online security is important! I have been Online since the WEB was first available, and rarely a day goes by where someone hasn’t tried to compromise my business website, Spam my blog, or seek to acquire personal information from some form of social engineering attack. Many of my clients send me emails they receive and…
Rarely a day goes by that I don’t come across some website which has been compromised by hackers. This is a concern of course for everyone, yet especially the business that needs to ensure that their website is secure, and free of intrusion. As a website designer, I take security very seriously. For this reason…
I have written in the past about Scam email practices, specifically those who note that they can optimize your website for first page ranking on Google, etc. As I’ve noted, in most every case the email promising to help your website with SEO isn’t professional, doesn’t provide a phone number, nor do they have a…
This post is one more about system maintenance, and more specifically, how to remove files that have their permissions locked. My assumption is that many of you, like me, will install a variety of applications to test if they will be of benefit to you. As a designer, this is especially necessary, but I periodically…