I love WordPress! It’s a fantastic way to build a website without knowing how to write code. It truly makes web development easier. But, what a lot of WordPress website owners don’t realize is how easy it is for someone to break into their website. WordPress is Open Source software, which is a great thing. […]
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WordPress is open-source software. You can learn more about it here You can download the code at WordPress.org. You can then install the code on your own web hosting and “you are free to use it for anything without paying anyone a license fee and a number of other important freedoms. (check out there site
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The Heartbleed bug was found in a certain version of OpenSSL last week. How does this bug affect you? Here is an explanation of the bug in cartoon format: Heartbleed Bug Cartoon If you are hosting your site with Cullen Web Services, your website was not affected. We didn’t use the version of OpenSSL that
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I want downloads from my site to be secure without locking my customers out too. Many security solutions I’ve seen often keep the purchaser out as well. Passwords are often forgotten and either cause the customer a headache or it’s a headache for me to try to support the purchase by constantly looking for or
There are many PHP frameworks out there such as Symfony, Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and many more. I don’t know that any framework is better in all things than any other framework. I think it’s probably a matter of familiarity and preference. My favorite as of this writing is Symfony. You can read about my experience
An SSL Certificate is a security measure for websites that gather sensitive information from it’s visitors. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. If you are going to gather sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, credit card information, or any other information that your visitors may deem private and want to keep secure, then you
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The purpose behind web pages is to share your information with the world! It’s hard to share that information if your web page is on your local computer. Even though, you *could* make your local computer accessible to the world and let people visit your web page on your local computer, it’s really not a
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