Basic Photo Editing for your Website

Do you want to add new images to your website but need some help to resize or edit your photos? Or have you recently added photos and noticed these common problems? Pages are loading slowly. Images look stretched or distorted. Slideshows are causing the content to move up/down. When you take a photo with a…

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Search Engine Optimization ‘Offers’ (SEO)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of your website in a search engine’s “natural” or unpaid (“organic”) search results. [Wikipedia] This sounds simple, but it is actually quite complicated. Unfortunately, there are a number of companies on the net who attempt to capitalize on people’s misunderstanding of what makes their…

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Heartbleed Security Bug and Your Forwarded Email / Google Account

Emerge2 has sent out two versions of this courtesy security notification to mailboxes originally setup by Emerge2. Mailboxes that are auto-forwarded to another address received this notification (below). Mailboxes that are not auto-forwarded (i.e. are directly read by the user) received a different notification (you can read it here). Copy of Client Notification (Forwarded Version)…

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Heartbleed Security Bug and Your Email / Google Account (Normal)

Emerge2 has sent out two versions of this courtesy security notification to mailboxes that were originally setup by Emerge2. Mailboxes that are auto-forwarded to another address received a different notification (you can read it here). Mailboxes that are not auto-forwarded (i.e. are directly read by the user) received this notification (below). Copy of Client Notification…

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Heartbleed Security Bug and Emerge2 Servers

This week a website security vulnerability nicknamed “Heartbleed” was discovered and a patch subsequently made available for server operators. This particular bug has also been reported in the general news media. Emerge2 has examined and tested each of our servers and verified that none of our servers contain any of the vulnerable code and therefore…

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The 25 Worst Passwords of 2013

“If you have a sneaking suspicion that your passwords are bad, we have some upsetting news: They probably are.” If you are still using any of these “top 25” bad passwords …. please, please, please change them right now to a better password. See the bad list on the following page:

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Disgruntled Employees Updating Your Website?!

We have recently helped two of our clients recover from bulk deletions of their website content by disgruntled, terminated employees. Might this happen to your website? Or perhaps inappropriate posts on your Facebook page or Twitter account? Here are some suggestions to help guard against such “attacks” and the resulting panic and embarrassment when you…

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20 Things to Banish from the Web in 2013

“Two years ago Chris Lake wrote about the 25 things that will make him leave a website in less than 10 seconds. He covered pop-ups, autosound, and a bunch of other user experience face palms. Sadly, most of these things are still used by perpetrators of various shapes and sizes. In addition, websites can baffle and…

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