Apr30

Safe Credit Card Handling

Brent Laminack April 30, 2013

and other things we wish we didn't have to talk about

3by400, Inc. | PCI Compliance - Accepting Credit Cards Online If you haven't been a victim of credit-card fraud yet, just wait. You probably will be at some point in your life. About 9 million Americans are victims of identity theft each year. To help protect consumers, the credit card companies (Visa, MasterCard, AmEx and Discover) have joined to form the Payment Card Industry (PCI)...more

Apr25

On Separate Mobile Sites

Brent Laminack April 25, 2013

my feelings exactly

I know I've harped on this before, but the webcomic xkcd really nailed it:

want to visit an incomplete version of our website?

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Apr25

The Looming Accessibility Fight

Brent Laminack April 25, 2013

Is your site accessible? Is this blackmail?

For a while now, any website that receives funding from the federal government has had to conform to guidelines that make the website accessibile to the disabled. The buzzword here is Section 508, after its location in the US legal code. There's a small but lucrative sub-practice of web design that helps site owners pass muster in this area. But the net may be widening. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, activists are pushing for

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Apr19

Why Can't I Get To My Website?

Brent Laminack April 19, 2013

Or How AT&T Connectivity is Broken

The Internet is a wonder. It was designed to withstand nuclear attack. What it can't withstand is ineptitude. Over the past two days, we've experienced two different Internet connectivity issues. 1) The more obvsious is that some AT&T customers and smartphone users can't get to one of our servers. This server has our 3by400.com website on it, and about 75 others. Somehow the packets of data that are bound to our server from AT&T are getting misdirected along the way. Can we fix it? No. Our server's chugging along just fine, handing out pages to anybody who's not on AT&T.

JoomlaDay North Carolina

Beth Snider February 24, 2013

Not Just a Geek Meet

3by400 Road Trip - Bridgette and Beth on the way to JoomlaDay NC On February 22, a few members of the 3by400 team took a road trip to Duke University in Durham, NC, for the first JoomlaDay event in the southeastern U.S. JoomlaDays are grass roots events that help old timers and newcomers embrace all that is Joomla, as well as providing a forum to get acquainted with those in the Joomla community.

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Dec21

Do the Facts Really Matter?

Beth Snider December 21, 2012

How do you determine what is "fair"?

I grew up in a time when only the winners got a trophy, grades were not assigned on a sliding scale, and no one bailed out businesses who couldn't figure out how to stay in business. That makes me sound really old, but I'm under 50. Two pieces of fresh news today lead me to believe that facts are becoming less and less important...

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Dec03

How NOT To Do A Mobile Site

Brent Laminack December 03, 2012

and how to do it right

There are waves of charlatians that we see in the web industry: a couple of years ago there were SEO consultants, then there were Social Media consultants. I'm starting to see...

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Nov19

Refer your friends and associates

Brent Laminack November 19, 2012

Help them, us and yourself

Now that we're starting to get caught up on Joomla 2.5 conversions, we'll be having some spare capacity over the next few months. If you have friends, colleagues, suppliers or clients you work with who could use a freshened web presence, please let us know. Fill out this brief referral form to let us know about them. If we do business with them, we'll gladly give you a referral bonus. Yes, in real cash. Thanks!

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Nov15

Entrepreneurial Endeavors

Beth Snider November 15, 2012

Moving from idea to implementation

newideas

In a month, 3by400 receives at least three of four calls from people who have the "best idea for a new web site". About 1% of them really do have a great idea for a site. The rest, unfortunately, failed to Google their thought before running headlong to web site design. That 1% is worth the others...so how do you decide if your concept is truly a great new entrepreneurial idea?

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