http://www.pawprint.net News from PawPrint.net - Announcements en Copyright (c) 1992-2012 PawPrint.net web@pawprint.net PawPrint XDe News Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:25:23 -0500 120 http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/136/PawPrint-is-Back-Online/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/136/PawPrint-is-Back-Online/ On January 17th at 8pm PST we intentionally replaced the PawPrint.net home page with a message effectively disabling our web site for the first time since 1994. This extraordinary action was taken to show support for the thousands of web sites and millions of people who spent the day rallying against this flawed proposed legislation. http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/134/Scheduled-Chirp-Updates/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/134/Scheduled-Chirp-Updates/ Just released updates to the XDe CMS Chirp module that allows you to schedule updates for social networks as well as on-site viewing. Just set a future date and the update will automatically publish at the time you choose as much as a year in advance. http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/131/Massive-XDe-Update/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/131/Massive-XDe-Update/ This could be the most comprehensive XDe update ever. From users to new content building wizards to enhanced multilingual capabilities across the platform. http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/126/XDe-CMS-Updates/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/126/XDe-CMS-Updates/ A series of enhancements to the XDe CMS will help web sites get listed better on the search engines as well as on Google Plus the new social network from Google. In addition the news module has been enhanced to provide a more streamlined form for adding articles. http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/125/Social-Networking-for-Small-Business/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/125/Social-Networking-for-Small-Business/ There has been a lot of hype about social media, advice running rampant. Much of it disseminated by "consultants" eager to get your business by 'helping' you with social media campaigns etc... For most small business this is not a viable approach. In fact, we have seen little good information specifically catered to small business about how best for them to tackle the social networking world. This article is specifically aimed at providing advice for small business and non-profit organizations about social networking. http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/117/Google-Dropping-Old-Browser-Support/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/117/Google-Dropping-Old-Browser-Support/ According to a June 1st Google Blog post the company will be dropping support for older version browsers starting August 1st. This is great news for the web as it will hopefully start to push more late adopters forward and allow web developers to continue to innovate. http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/114/Recovery-from-Amazon-EC2-Outage/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/114/Recovery-from-Amazon-EC2-Outage/ The PawPrint.net web site is finally back online after a 3 day outage due to the recent, massive failure of the Amazon Cloud data center in Virginia. Many of our customers and colleagues were also affected by what some are calling the "Great Internet Fail of 2011" This article is geared for those who are still trying to understand what happened and how to prevent it. http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/111/Minor-Softball-Gets-a-Web-Re-design/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/111/Minor-Softball-Gets-a-Web-Re-design/ PawPrint.net has donated a web site to Sechelt Minor Softball for several years now as a small way to give back to the community. The site was starting to show it's age and we wanted to give it a new look and some added features... http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/110/Mobile-Friendly-HTML5-Video/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/110/Mobile-Friendly-HTML5-Video/ By 2014 (or some say even earlier) more people may browse web sites on mobile devices then using desktop computers. As video becomes a key content element, it is essential that web sites can deliver video to all devices. Until now, the process to provide that level of compatibility has been very complicated. The PawPrint AVC (Automatic Video Converter) is going to change that. http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/109/PawPrint-Welcomes-Jacques-Tredoux/ http://www.pawprint.net/news/article/109/PawPrint-Welcomes-Jacques-Tredoux/ PawPrint is thrilled to welcome Jacques Tredoux as a new designer/developer to our team. Jacques returns to PawPrint after several years away in Alberta and we are thrilled to have him back in an expanded role.