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Drupal core update required
Please note that all Drupal sites require core update to version 7.32 to address a critical vulnerability issue (https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005)
We recommend the following protocol for executing this update:
CVE 2014-3566 SSL v3.0 POODLE vulnerability
CVE 2014-3566 SSL v3.0 POODLE vulnerability was announced yesterday and was addressed overnight on all servers supported by OSS. If your web site or web server does not have a support contract with OSS, please make sure to contact your hosting company with any questions related to this issue.
Google Design
We recently had a chance to review Google Design. Without beating around the bush with verbose SEO-driven preface, here’s our quick take on it.
Pros - what you get from reviewing and following Google Design guidelines:
- Access to comprehensive design guide, developed by a major software company at significant expense
- Exposure to principles of software- and hardware-driven usability, where design is used to skin functionality instead of defining it
Why would Apple release iOS 8.01 that makes your phone not work like a phone?
We all know the recent news - a software and electronics giant Apple, Inc. released an updated version of its new operating system only to receive severe backlash from users installing it on their phones, which often stopped performing their primary function of making phone calls. Apple quickly recalled the update but the question remains - why would a preeminent software company engage in such embarrassment in the first place?
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Comparing Project Parfait, CSS3Ps and CSS Hat
For those of us not content with strictly visual website authoring from an app and willing to go an extra mile to get a clean CSS code, there are a number of popular add ons and services that can speed up the process. Today we are reviewing three popular tools for optimizing CSS creation from Photoshop website designs - Project Parfait, CSS3Ps, and CSS Hat - and their performance with traditional and flat design elements. Evaluation is als
Off-Site Services shares in 2014 IMA Best in Class Award
We are very excited to be recognized by 2014 Interactive Media Awards as Best in Class for our work on Quorumfcu.org in collaboration with our immensely talented creative partners, Adventure House. The goal of this project was turning an older desktop-only website into a fully responsive website supporting multiple 3rd party integrations in online banking, credit
Thoughts on Website Design
Disclaimer: this is not an actionable guide on website design. Just carefully measured thoughts on background and trends of designing for web, a discipline that is entering its third decade.