Looking for a web designer may be a daunting task for the small business owner. This web designer will be the one that will be showcasing your business and personal reputation online for everyone in the world to see.
You want to make sure you get a professional designer but at a fair and reasonable price,
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Looking for a web designer may be a daunting task for the small business owner. This web designer will be the one that will be showcasing your business and personal reputation online for everyone in the world to see.
Although the subject may seem a bit personal, it really is something web designers need to understand to provide you the best solution.
A web solution can be provided to any client, but if the client type is not fully understood the solution provided can be a failure.
“Why client terminology vs. customer? I see customer as one time buyer, where as a client, your there for the long run. “
There are three common types of clients I commonly see, which one are you?
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It seems like whenever there is a major virus outbreak or vulnerability announced, such as the Heartbleed vulnerability, scammers and malicious hackers are not too far behind trying to cash in on the moment and innocent.
Here is a phishing email (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing) recently received in one of my not-so-important email accounts. One that is used mainly for signing up for things like demos of products or coupons and promo codes.
Usually those places end up re-selling your email account, thus increase spam/phishing emails directed to that account. So I never use any of my main/important email accounts in those situations and neither should you.
Below is the subject and body of the message, along with a screen capture of what it looked like.
SUBJECT OF SPAM MESSAGE: Heartbleed/OpenSSL vulnerability: password change recommended
BODY OF SPAM MESSAGE: (hyperlinks removed for precaution)
According to the IRS, it has approximately 110,000 Windows-powered desktops and notebooks. Of those, 52,000, or about 47%, have been upgraded to Windows 7. The remainder continue to run the aged, now retired, XP.
via Update: IRS misses XP deadline, will spend $30M to upgrade remaining PCs – Computerworld.
Most very large businesses are in the same boat. The only difference is that they are not playing with your money. Its hard to swallow the magnitude of how many devices are still on XP; not only with the IRS but world wide.
The only winner in any of these situations is Microsoft. They make on average an additional $200 a year, per PC, just to provide security updates and patches to vulnerabilities that may be found in THEIR product after the superficial April 8th deadline.
Although Microsoft did give a warning nearly 6 years ago regarding the deadline to get rid of XP machines. The problem with this is most programs designed and in use were designed for XP architecture. And if you have any programming background you know it is not easy, nor cheap, for those businesses to “redesign” their product for a new OS while maintaining one for another.
Is the business or corporation you are currently at in a similar boat? Would like to hear about it, please comment below.
