Web Spin: Web News and Information
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The .NET Registry will be increasing the prices of .ORG Domain Registrations, Renewals and Transfers effective July 31, 2015, and as a result, we will be increasing our prices. Our .ORG Prices will be as follows: .ORG (Registrations, Renewals, Transfers) $11.50 to $12.50
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WordPress 4.2.2 security update is release to fix cross-site scripting security vulnerabilities, which affects Genericons icon font package. WordPress versions 4.2 and earlier are affected by XSS vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site. If your site supports automatic background updates you will be updated to WordPress 4.2.2 automatically. Ever since the WordPress 3.7…
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Web sites are becoming more and more vulnerable with each new feature we add, but you can protect yourself. In recent news, the US Federal Bureau of Investigations is urging WordPress users to patch plugins for the popular content management system following a spate of ISIS-branded website attacks, according to a ZDNet article. Of course most…
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Google has made it official and you can no longer put off that move towards a mobile-friendly website. Starting April 21st, Google mobile search will start ranking mobile-friendly websites higher and therefore punishing those that are not. Google has been working on improving the mobile search and over all experience of mobile users. As of now,…
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Shaw Web Designs is proud to be supporting Odyssey of the Mind Cooper Elementary Team A, on its journey to UC Riverside for this year’s State Tournament on March 28, 2015. Odyssey of the Mind is a worldwide creative problem-solving competition for students of all ages. Odyssey of the Mind teaches students how to think divergently by providing…
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There is a new alert out about a WordPress Plugin called WordPress WP-Slimstat, a web analytics plugin for WordPress. A vulnerability affecting the WordPress WP-Slimstat plugin could be exploited through SQL injection attacks to steal data from vulnerable sites. The flaw affects Slimstat versions 3.9.5 and earlier. Users are urged to upgrade to version 3.9.6. All the…
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Shaw Web Designs latest responsive WordPress Theme website for Sutton Construction Inc. located in Vacaville, CA has been launched. This was a great project to work on and we enjoyed working with Lisa Sutton, co-owner of Sutton Construction Inc. Shaw Web Designs worked closely with her, to create a custom website that represented the work…
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The .NET Registry will be increasing the prices of .NET Domain Registrations, Renewals and Transfers effective February 1, 2015, and as a result, we will be increasing our prices. Our .Net Prices will be as follows: .NET (Registrations, Renewals, Transfers) $10.50 to $11.50
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In the past month, we have been noticing a high volume of referrals coming from semalt.com domain with hundreds of sub-domains on several of clients’ Google Analytics. After some research we are finding that this is really skewing our stats. High referrals with 100% bounce rates. .htaccess Solution For our WordPress Maintenance Plan customers, we…
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For many years we have been able to provide our Privacy Protection service free of charge. Unfortunately, times do change and we can not longer include Privacy Protection FREE with all of our domains. Starting in September 22, 2014, we will be charging $5.99 for Privacy Protection for domains. This is still far lower than…
