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Stop using IE6

January 19th

Recently Google had been hacked by exploiting security flaws in IE6. We highly recommend that anyone still using IE6 to stop using it. The cost of upgrading to the new operating system or moving to a different browser at least is minimal compared to having your private information stolen.

Further more, the explanation on how to use the hack has been made public and even Microsoft has released statements for users to ditch IE6 and XP and upgrade to Windows 7, even if it is just for the security patches.

Read more about the hack at:

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Early Christmas Present

December 19th
The Smashing Book

The Smashing Book

Finally, after months of delays the Smashing Book has finally arrived on my door step. Just before Christmas too. Feels like an early Christmas present to myself. Love it. Thanks Smashing Magazine.

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Fine Tuning a Joomla Server for High Levels of Traffic

November 11th

Web Server We’ve recently been managing a website with a very high volume of traffic. Not only are there a huge amount of visitors but also a rather long stay time and usage or resources on the server. We investigated ways of optimizing the server and site to handle these high levels of traffic.

This particular Joomla based site averages roughly, 6000 unique visitors a day with user registering on the site every few minutes to interact with the site’s functions.

So here are a few tips and tricks that can be done to optimise the server environment to help handle the high server loads after you have optimised your instance of Joomla. I must also add that these tweaks are for an Apache based web server. (more…)

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Basic Website Usability Tips

November 8th

Here is a short video that give a great introduction to web usability. Take a few minutes out and watch this short presentation from CanadaHelps.org.

It’s a great starting guide in identifying factors on how to make your web site more easy to use and create a better user experience for your web visitors. It also starts you off on creating a basic usability test for your web site. (more…)

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Jooomla Security Update 1.5.15 Released

November 6th

What does this patch cover and why you should upgrade.

The patch blocks two security vulnerabilities that are found in Joomla. They aren’t ones that I have come across before or have seen sites hacked as a result of it but since the vulnerabilities have been identified it is fairly important to upgrade and patch the holes up. (more…)

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