Cyber security is one of the most under covered areas and one of the most critical areas in any organization. Different types of security systems are utilized to ensure the security of an organization. Some of the critical sectors which we consider as having low cyber security are as follows:

Industries in High Risk Area

From a cyber security perspective, it is important to distinguish between industries. In this area, as a whole, the following sectors are considered to be high risk.

Technology

Due to the fact that technology is changing so rapidly, it is important for organizations to ensure that they are not left out of the technological growth cycle. Any company that operates in this area must be able to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field.

Technology will be a major topic of debate and debate will be had by the experts of every aspect of this area. How we can we best protect ourselves from the threats that are coming? What are the best practices that you can adopt to keep yourself secure.

They utilize a contemporary Pilates approach to steadily challenge clients from a myriad of backgrounds & abilities.

Whether you are looking to ease your nagging low back pain or training for your next marathon, the healthy movement you develop at Cascadia will give you joy to your core.

Alphabetix helped Cascadia Pilates rebrand their website prescence with their new company branding scheme, and aided in helping them launch a more active social media presence.

Their website features all the usual bells and whistles of a modern responsive website that they have full power to update on their own.

Larry the Loom has been shipped to every country in the world, except Antarctica.

This popular bead weaving device inspires artisans the world over.

Alphabetix helped redesign the Larry The Loom website to be responsive, with updated code to be more compliant in all web browsers. The website loads super fast, and is easy to navigate.

We also integrated their PayPal shopping cart into the website to make it that much easier for customers to purchase the loom and various book son bead weaving. We also integrated social media functionality so loomers the world over can keep up to date with upcoming news and events.

They will treat your home as if it was our own, offering the highest quality of customer service for customers throughout Clark and Skamania counties of Southwest Washington State, of course if you need a different plumbing using resources as uPVC Fascia and Soffit Prices Ireland can be helpful for this.

For any drain cleaning, toilet replacement, faucet installation or garbage disposal work, contact us to request an appointment.

What Alphabetix Created

We built Courtesy Plumbing a custom WordPress website, that features a jQuery rotating banner on their homepage, that shows some beautiful images of key services and service locations to appeal to their potential customers.

We turned their phone numbers into mobile ready click to call links, for ease of use for mobile device users.

Finally, we helped Courtesy Plumbing showcase their brand with their design aesthetic, so that potential customers can feel great about using their plumbing services.

Since inception, they have sought to provide their customers in Portland and the surrounding area with high quality international logistics options ranging from customs compliance and entry to cargo movement for all types of freight.

They are your one-stop shop for all of your importing and exporting needs.

Alphabetix built a custom WordPress theme to go with their previous WordPress constructed website. Our update and redesign better matches the warm color scheme of their brand, and includes much more indepth content about their business and corporate staff.

The front end development of this website features a jQuery rotating home page banner, a custom data stream from their twitter account, and of course mobile ready design elements so their website can be seen perfectly well on their customer’s smart phones.

Whether the Columbia Gorge is a vacation destination, a lifestyle or home, ColumbiaGorge.com is the most trusted and dependable way to get, and stay, in the know.

ColumbiaGorge.com is a custom built website that features an extensive directory of area businesses and attractions, and has many dynamic elements, including multiple date feeds, custom javascript actions such as the sticky jump bar at the bottom of their page, online advertising, and a custom weather feed to give area residents and visitors up to the date information on whether to hit the golf links or a museum for the day.

Alphabetix also helped ColumbiaGorge.com develop a social media marketing strategy, that has helped them gain a substantial Facebook following.

They have the largest capacity machine for your project and you can rest easy that the owner is present throughout the project to guarantee a keen attention to detail.

For Developers

For Utah website developers, there are many changes and additions to the code base, one of which, a fix to the admin menu expansion when used on mobile devices, which we personally are happy to see resolved.

For Users

For End Users, there are multiple cosmetic changes to the Media Library screen, visual editor, and to the plugin addition page.

For new installs, you can choose a different default language besides English. This continues to show WordPress increasingly wide global reach.

Check some of the changes yourself, and tell us what you think.

We know what you’re thinking, that is a very geeky thing to celebrate, right? Maybe, but we coders like to have some fun with our 404 pages.

The W3C outlines a 404 Code as:

404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

This status code is commonly used when the server does not wish to reveal exactly why the request has been refused, or when no other response is applicable.

No matter what, we developers like to play around and design unique 404 error pages when we work on website development projects.

Of course, we have our own custom 404 page that you can see for yourself as well.

What we love Nate for today is his newly redesigned FiveThirtyEight website. There is a ton to love about this website, especially for us web designers (and data nerds) with a penchant for everything political and sports.

However, we thought it would be inspiring to showcase five elements of the website itself that truly demonstrate how cutting edge and terrific this website is. Here we go.

FiveThirtyEight Is Fast

Most folks would overlook the load time of a website, unless said website is loading particularly slow. Search engines have used website speed as a critical factor in search engine optimization for a few years now, and we agree that page loads are an essential aspect to usability.

On our initial visit of FiveThirtyEight, our page load times averaged about 0.382 seconds. That’s pretty darn fast. Nowadays, any page that takes over a second to load is considered slow. It looks like FiveThirtyEight is using a good combination of cache, particularly from the WordPress Plugin Batcache.

FiveThirtyEight Is Built In WordPress

WordPress is a terrific choice for this blog, and we’re happy that Silver chose to build FiveThirtyEight using WordPress. WordPress is very well supported, is open-source, and is a great backbone to build later standard CMS functionality into, so that’s a win win for everyone.

WordPress utilizes code that is lean and mean, and is therefore extremely user-friendly. Plus, it looks like they chose to use WordPress.com as their host, which simplifies the hosting aspect of WordPress tremendously. Here https://indexsy.com/best-web-hosting-canada/ are some benefits of Managed WordPress Hosting that you must check.

FiveThirtyEight Is Responsive

Responsive websites help to make websites function well on the plethora of combinations we have with so many mobile devices, desktops and laptops of various screen size and operating systems.

Core usability is always something to remember when designing responsive websites, so that navigation, layout, and content structure is not too convoluted and confusing.

When in doubt, keep it simple stupid.

Awesome Main Menu Design

It’s no surprise that we as web designers love fantastically designed websites, especially ones with unique menus. The main menu on the FiveThirtyEight website is no exception to how simple, yet awesome, you can design a menu.

Each main section has a different corresponding color. As you roll over each main heading, you get a simple drop down that includes a featured image with the most recent article from that subject, and two additional recent articles before a link directing you to read more articles from that section.

Each new post for any given subject will cycle down the previous article, and so on. Simply brilliant. Plus it gives a nice visual feel to the menu, which is an area that tends to be very text heavy on most websites.

FiveThirtyEight Is Social

From the ability to easily share articles on Twitter and Facebook, to having the FiveThirtyEight twitter feed on their sidebar, Silver has made sure that the amazing content that us data geeks love can easily be read and shared on our favorite social media.

Social media isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. So it remains a perfect avenue for further spreading out marketing ideas and concepts.

Well, that’s our take.

What’s yours?

Leave your insight about the FiveThirtyEight website in the comments below.

Here at Alphabetix, we are strong advocates for WordPress, since it is a an effective, user friendly, and easy content management system for end users to navigate.

Here are some of the highlights of their newest update, which they named for Charlie Parker.

Introduces a new, modern admin design

• A fresh, uncluttered design
• Clean typography with Open Sans
• Superior contrast and large, comfortable type
• Responsive interfaces throughout
• Refined, theme management
• Smoother, click-to-add widget management

New Default Theme – Twenty Fourteen

• Easily create a responsive magazine website with a sleek, modern design.
• Feature your favorite homepage content in either a grid or a slider.
• Use the three widget areas to customize your website, and change your content’s layout with a full-width page template and a contributor page to show off your authors.

For Developers

• External Libraries have been updated.
• Better RTL support
• Theme screenshots’ size have increased from 600 × 450 to 880 × 660.

If your website needs some updating, and you’ve thought about using a content management system, be sure to contact us to get you going on your WordPress project.

What it Does

The Pretty Pinterest Pins allows you to display thumbnails and links to anyone’s latest pins on Pinterest in your sidebar.

With this widget, you can:

• Pull the latest pins from any Pinterest user
• Display only pins from specific boards
• Choose the number of pins to display
• Show or hide the image captions
• Display a “Follow me on Pinterest” button under your pins

Installation is simple, just install the plugin and enter the Pinterest username. Once you’ve set your features, you’re good to go.

It’s Principal’s have extensive experience in various types of land surveying, planning, and civil/environmental engineering projects for individual, corporate and municipal clients.

The firms staff strives to provide the highest standards of professional excellence in its work, to insure that every project undertaken will be an economical success.

How We Redesigned Their Website

Firwood Design Group needed their website to be updated and put into a content management system so they can quickly make website edits and updates themselves.

The design, colors, and layout of the website were already to their liking, so those design elements were the basis for the new website, as Alphabetix coded the design of the website from scratch, which alleviated coding errors left from a previous designer.

Alphabetix was able to train Firwood Design Group staff in our in-house training room to give them the knowledge, confidence, and power to further maximize their website’s potential.

Other features of this website included:

• Custom blog and news functionality
• Custom widgeted areas for quick updates to design elements
• Built-in search functionality
• Easy to update menu for navigation changes
• Custom homepage slider that automatically pulls in recent posts

Their spectacular programs include practical and affordable trainings, free and confidential one-on-one business counseling, free referral and information services, and access to plethora of small business resources that will help you start or grow any business.

Resources for Entrepreneurs

The Mt. Hood SBDC computer lab allows clients to use the SBDC computers at no cost for business research or business plan writing. For a minimum fee, clients may reserve the lab for a training with their employees or customers.

Through individual counseling, clients can meet individually with an experienced adviser to get help in how to start or grow any business, particularly when it comes to help with marketing, contracting, and access to business capital.

The SBDC is a powerful resource to other professional business services, as they can help clients find business professionals who can assist with various business needs.

Alphabetix Values Helping Small Businesses

Working with the Mt. Hood SBDC is an absolute pleasure, since Alphabetix seeks to help small businesses everyday, and to have the opportunity to help the Gresham area SBDC that serves many small businesses throughout east Multhnomah County makes it that much better.

The SBDC needed an online resource to help marketing the amazing classes and webinars that the SBDC offers, as well as to have an web portal for students to use to take online classes that students can take at their own pace.

This portal allows the SBDC to issue user accounts to students to gain access to class information, and allow students to communicate with their instructors via the website.

The website also includes:

• Sharp and sophisticated website graphics that load fast
• Built in content management system powered by WordPress
• Built in news function for quick and timely updates
• Thorough training on the website functionality so client feels right at home

NaDean’s is Green Plumbing Certified and proud of it!

They started their plumbing business in 2008. They saw a real demand for more creative thinking and attention to design in the plumbing world emerging around us. They realized then it was a future trend and wanted to be part of it.

The Right Fit For Alphabetix

Working with NaDean’s was a perfect fit for Alphabetix, consider our mutual passion for sustainable and green solutions for our communities. Alphabetix built a website for NaDean’s the reflects the high end nature of their plumbing, and showcases the exciting green and eco-friendly technologies available for both inside and outside commercial and residential buildings.

The website itself was built from scratch, and features:

• 100% Responsive Design
• Sharp and sophisticated website graphics that load fast
• Built in content management system powered by WordPress
• Built in blog for quick and timely updates
• Thorough training on the website functionality so client feels right at home

Web professionals like Alphabetix are the creators and maintainers of the internet infrastructure that everyone depends on everyday, and we ought to have an equal say in how this infrastructure is governed and regulated.

Pledge Your Support

A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet should have a voice.

Take action and add your voice for the free and open Internet.

The Chamber promotes economic development, community involvement and governmental influence to ensure the economic vitality of the Sandy area and fulfilling their mission: Supporting Business to Promote Our Thriving Community.

The Chamber provides networking, advocacy and education. Their offerings include morning and evening networking events at various businesses, lunches with community leaders to stay informed and advocacy opportunities including government affairs, career education and economic development.

How We Redesigned Their Website

Alphabetix was asked to make the SACC website more dynamic, and provide value to both chamber members and the Sandy community at large, while keeping in lock step with the non-profit status of the chamber and it’s limited funding sources.

From organizing and clarifying the design elements that are important to the chamber, to building the architecture of a built-in member directory, we feel that we accomplished this goal.

Other important features of this website include:

• Revamped and cleaned up logo
• Custom Member Directory with multiple categorization
• Built in Events Calendar
• Simple contact forms for accurate contact and feedback
• 100% Responsive Design
• Integration of Banner Ad Program to generate revenue for the chamber

The event is a coordinated effort by the City of Sandy, Sandy Main Street, and the Sandy Chamber of Commerce, serving as an annual tradition to induce civic participation and help highlight downtown businesses.

Tree Lighting

The tree lighting will occur on November 30th, 2012, and the festivities start around 6PM, with the lighting around 6:30PM.

As in previous years, there will be soup courtesy of Chariteas, hot chocolate courtesy of Mt. Moka, and delicious gingerbread cookies courtesy of the Tollgate Inn.

This is a great event for the whole family, and please consider dropping a few dollars in the donation bucket that gets passed around, as this event is generously put together with very little money, and tons of volunteer support.

Either way, be sure to bring your singing voices, as Christmas carols will be sung sweetly into the dark night.

Other Festivies

The annual tree lighting merely kicks off the Christmas Season for downtown Sandy. Please also enjoy these other events.

Saturday, December 1st

• Breakfast With Santa – 7AM – Noon, Sandy Senior Center
• Holiday Market & Bazaar – 7AM – Noon, Sandy Senior Center
• Holiday Shopping – All day Saturday, local businesses are offering deep discounts to get you in their doors

Friday, December 7th

• First Friday – The last of 2012, come enjoy specials at local businesses and restaurants from 5PM – 8PM

No matter where your holiday shopping takes you this season, please remember to shop local whenever possible!