Maintenance Web, Promoting Website, Web Design
While the world is off bandwagoning on blog posts about Twitter and how much of an influence/frustration it is, I wanted to get back to the root of some things. I’ve been troubled a lot lately by just how bad it seems that web (online) experiences for brands are failing the consumers. The amount of money wasted on ignorance, well, I just don’t know.
As every good marketer should know–from Marketing 101–it is very important that you maintain a brand, or an extension of it. This means that you want people to not only use your product or service, but that you want them to see a benefit from it, and ultimately continue to use it in the future.
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Once upon a time, within the past few months of my life, I gave a survey to about 60 or so people in regards to beverage websites that I asked them to view. It was a very simple survey (in exchange for answers, I offered consumers their pick from a grab bag of about $30 in CVS-purchased chocolates and candies–and yes, I had more than enough volunteers), with each person focusing on one of the 5 websites and then answering 10 questions. The first nine focused on rating things from 1-5 (for easy math), the last question asking whether or not the consumer would ever return to the website. Number ten was open-ended, and I asked for open comments, preferably focused upon what would prompt the consumer to return to the site.
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Full article: http://www.userglue.com/blog/2008/05/22/user-experience-design-for-brands-on-the-web-so-what/
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in July 2008
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Maintenance Web, Promoting Website, SEO
I think it is about time I revisit a post I wrote in 2006 named In SEO, What Changes Should You Track. We have a new thread over at Cre8asite Forums talking about what logs you should keep when making changes to your site, for the purposes of SEO.
Most of you know, I am a strong believer of using an automated method of documentation. By building in a required workflow, you can also build automated tracking systems to document any change made to the web site or link building activities, so that you can report back in time on those changes..
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Back in our original post, we said you should track the following:
- every change to robots.txt (CVS can handle this)
- every change to htaccess (or Internet Services Manager in IIS)
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Full article: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/017616.html
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in July 2008
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E-commerce and Web Business, Ethic, Legal and Copyright Issues, Maintenance Web
Recently we’ve had to deal with a problem that faces a lot of popular sites … people have started ripping off our content, business model and even our slogan.
Here’s a few ideas for dealing with this situation if and when it happens to you.
Take it as Good Sign
Would people copy what you’re doing if they thought it was irrelevant. The more popular you get, the more you can expect people to rip off your ideas..
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Don’t Take Legal Action
The first sign that you’re dealing with an amateur idiot is when they say “I’m consulting with a lawyer”. Why?
- My lawyer coughs and it costs me $250. Imagine how much he’d charge for handling a real case.
- If you’ve ever had a client disappear without paying you know that its almost impossible to collect even with a watertight contract. Imagine how hard it is to get and enforce a judgement in trademark and copyright cases.
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Full article: http://www.alledia.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in July 2008
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Maintenance Web, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
The latest version sports in myriad of features, some of which were really missing in the previous versions. The upgrading took me only 15 minutes and was an (ultra soft) piece of cake (thanks to wordpress codex). The whole system is refreshed and now breaths an air of life & enthusiasm.
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Things to note:
- Make sure that the theme you use, is compatible with Wordpress 2.5..
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Full article: http://aravindjose.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India
Indexed in July 2008
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Maintenance Web, Tools, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
If you use WordPress probably I do not think I need to tell what is a database. But everyone should know that every database must be saved periodically. I’ll speak about a plugin very useful and that any blogger should have installed, the WordPress Backup Database, which helps you to make and schedule your backups automatically..
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It leads you to a page in which you see the progress of the process. At the end you should have a new directory for backup files in /wp-content/. If there is something wrong and it can’t create it maybe you have to change the directories privileges on your server..
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Full article: http://www.binaryant.com
License: Creative Commons
Indexed in July 2008
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Maintenance Web, Weblog (Blog)
When considering your blog design, the most important element - and the one too few people consider - is the personality, or the atmosphere of the blog. This is the key factor that determines the success of your blog; it is the also the first impression your blog will have on your new visitor.
If you’ve ever been on a guided tour, you’ll know that much of your experience, be it good or bad, is based on the guide. Some guides are boring, others are entertaining; some offer interesting and pertinent details, others offer such exhaustive information that your head starts spinning; others still, bore you to tears.
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Successful Business Blogs Are Reliable
A business blog, regardless of how aesthetically pleasing, or well coded it is, if it is not seen to be reliable, it will become useless as a tool.
A reliable business blog is one that is written by a reliable source. As a business owner, you are that reliable source. You’ve had industry experience, you keep up to date with industry news, and you can offer advice - not only about your product/service, but also industry trends..
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Full article: http://blog-well.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Indexed in June 2008
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Maintenance Web, Web Security
Sadly, it is not uncommon to hear of a site that has recently been hacked. Google frequently has to deal with sites that get hacked and code gets injected into the site. If that happens, Google sometimes has to delist the site from showing in their index, because it harms the quality of their search results.
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So what does Google recommend? Googler, Berghausen, gave one user this advice:
- You’re running Apache. Check all your .htaccess files for code that doesn’t belong there. Get rid of it.
- Look for scripts [usually php] that you did not write. Get rid of those, if you can..
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Full article: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016096.html
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in June 2008
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CMS, Joomla and Mambo, Maintenance Web, Web Security
Last April Fools I made a joke that my website was hacked and turned upside down. When your website is really hacked, there’s nothing funny about it.
Joomla! is a great CMS that is used worldwide. For this reason, hackers often try to find a way to hack a Joomla! website. Here are 7 tips to optimize your Joomla! security, preventing your Joomla! website getting hacked..
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Remove version number / name of extensions
Most vulnerabilities only occur in a specific release of a specific extension. Showing MyExtension version 2.14 is a really bad thing. You can modify this message to only the name of the extension by doing the following:
- Retrieve all files of the extension from your server.
- Open up Dreamweaver.
- Load any file from the extension that you just downloaded to your local machine.
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Full article: http://www.marcofolio.net
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Indexed in June 2008
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Maintenance Web, Web Security
Now that PCI 6.6’s supporting documents are finally released, a lot people are jumping on the “Well, we’re getting a Web Application Firewall” bandwagon. I’ve discussed the Pros and Cons of Web Application Firewalls vs Code Reviews before, but let’s dissect one more objection in favor of WAFs and against code reviews (specifically static analysis) …
This is from Trey Ford’s blog post “Instant AppSec Alibi?”
Let’s evaluate this in light of what happens after a vulnerability is identified- application owners can do one of a couple things…
- Take the website off-line
- Revert to older code (known to be secure)
- Leave the known vulnerable code online
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There are two huge flaws in Mr Ford’s justification of having WAFs as a layer of defense.
1) Web Application Firewalls only address HALF of the problems with web applications: the syntactic portion, otherwise known in Gary McGraw speak as “the bug parade”. The other half of the problems are design (semantic) problems, which Gary refers to as “security flaws”..
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Full article: http://securology.blogspot.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Indexed in June 2008
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Database, Maintenance Web, Tools
By default, MySQL database server remote access disabled for security reasons. However, some time you need to provide the remote access to database server from home or from web server.
Step # 1: Login over ssh if server is outside your IDC
First, login over ssh to remote MySQL database server
Step # 2: Enable networking
Once connected you need edit the mysql configuration file my.cfg using text editor such as vi.
- If you are using Debian Linux file is located at /etc/mysql/my.cnf location
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Full article: http://www.sinidaily.com
License: Creative Commons License
Indexed in June 2008
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