With soon-to-be Hurricane Laura heading towards northwest Gulf Coast, we wanted to make sure our customers knew that we were prepared to withstand any disaster so your websites remain running and updated as need be. Given the current situation, we thought it would be helpful to spell out some of our mitigation efforts. Hosting For
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Four Ways to Improve Your Website During a Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has forced businesses to think differently. For those with the option of working remotely, it has created a whole new set of challenges. Fortunately, your website can help. One of the great benefits of a website is its ability to remain stable during a crisis. It helps your business open even though
Read more5 Reasons YouTube is Better Than Raw Video for Your Website
Video has exploded online. Through services like YouTube, more companies are sharing their videos on their websites. Fast internet speeds and affordable cameras (even in phones!) make the process easy for users and content producers. Still, we are regularly asked how to put raw video files on websites instead of embedding them through a streaming
Read moreWhy is WordPress the Internet’s Most Popular Software?
According to W3Techs, WordPress is the most popular content management system on the internet. It is the back end for a whopping 61 percent of websites that employ any kind of content management system. And it is responsible for the management of 34 percent of all websites. It began as a blogging platform. It was
Read moreFour Critical Components to Consider for Your WordPress Website
Virtually anywhere you visit online, chances are you’ll see a WordPress website. By some measures, more than 40 percent of websites built with WordPress, the popular content management software built originally as a blogging platform. At Site Mender, we make liberal use of the platform for many of our customers. As with any content management
Read moreFour Rules for Using Video on Your Website
Video has become an enormously popular way to convey messages about your business and create interesting visual displays on your website. For many years, slow connection speeds made website video nearly impossible to use. Now, with high speed connections available even on mobile devices, website video usage has exploded in popularity. From commercial content and
Read moreGoogle Chrome To Display Not Secure Messages on Non-SSL Websites
Google is making a fairly significant change later this year regarding how it displays website URLs in the Google Chrome browser. As of writing this, any site not secured with SSL is basically ignored. There is nothing displayed in the Google Chrome address bar next to the domain name. If the website is secured with
Read moreHurricane Harvey and Our Disaster Preparedness
As all of you know who live along the Gulf Coast, hurricane season is unpredictable, in some cases, dramatically so. If you’ve been following the news, Hurricane Harvey (currently a category 3 major storm) is scheduled to make landfall near Corpus Christi this evening or early Saturday morning. While this initially will only impact the
Read moreIs My Website Down? Or Is It Just Me?
Few things can be more frustrating when dealing with your website than finding out it is not working properly. Having a website down means your customers cannot access information about your business. As a company who services websites ever day, nothing is more important to us. But, when you get an error, is the website
Read moreSpring Cleaning: 6 Steps to Refreshing Your Website Every Year
Spring is a great time to clean out those closets, organize the garage and clear clutter from the attic (even if you don’t want to do it). But, it’s also a great time for a website spring cleaning. Many take for granted that once a website has been launched, that’s all you really need to
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