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We recently ran into an issue with commonly used Google Analytics plugin for CKEditor, called appropriately googletracker.  While that plugin allows adding attributes to links in content, the issue we encountered is that subsequent content editing removes all inserted onclick attributes. 

A colleague recently brought to my attention an article which stated in rather axiomatic fashion that website design is dead, period.  As this would obviously concern many a practicing web designer with existentialist questions - if website design has indeed expired, well then, have I? Are my current projects being shaped by forces beyond the grave? - I figured it might be beneficial to explore the question in depth and offer constructive criticism instead of outright dismissal (spoiler alert: you’re not dead).

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 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.

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

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?

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