What's Coming for 2014

A look ahead

By now, we're pretty sure everyone will be incredibly tired of all the 2013 retrospectives. So rest-assured this article is not going to hit you with yet another one! Rather a look forward to what is coming and some things you should consider right now to start 2014 off right.

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Protect your online privacy and security

Make an easy to keep new years resolution and be safe

Start the year right with a New Year's Resolution you can actually keep and will take most people less then an hour to complete. Follow these simple steps to dramatically improve your security and privacy online.

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Quick User Tools and Image-bank Updates

Updates make editing users easier and enhance image placement options

A pair of updates provide far-reaching usability enhancements across all modules of the XDe and also add many new options for images inserted into content using the image-bank. To explain these updates we have produced two screen cast videos that explore the changes and give several use-case examples.

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Navigation Icons and Improved Audit Trail

XDe update brings logging and navigation enhanacements

Headlining the latest XDe updates are new navigation icons and a series of enhancements to the audit trail. The latest roll-out, as usual, also includes various bug fixes and a slew of optimizations that will improve site speed and accessibility.

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CMS User Interface and Mobile Viewer Updates

Enhancements to the XDe CMS help control content for mobile devices

Updates have been released to the XDe CMS that include the ability to target content sections and site navigation to desktop and/or mobile devices. The content management form has also been updated to an improved user interface. Check out the walkthrough video for details.

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Trackmail Update Gives Detailed Stats

Gain insight into your email messaging with XDe Trackmail

XDE CMS now bosts impressive new tracking features as part of the enhanced ´trackmail´ module. Existing users will gain new graphs and category breakdown for past messaging. All new messages sent get aditional stats including first view and more...

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XDe Enhancements

New code layout speeds sites and reduces memory

Part in parcel with code updates to take further advantage of new features and changes in PHP 5.4 (released last week) we are implementing changes to the XDe CMS code that will increase the speed of all sites and reduce server memory load.

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New AJC-AJJ.net Web Site

Launched Today

PawPrint is pleased to announce the launch of a new XDe CMS powered web site for the Association of Justice Council in Canada http://ajc-ajj.net/ features a fully bi-lingual member-focused site that includes loads of enhancements added by request to the core XDe

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PawPrint is Back Online

After going dark for 24h participating in the global #SOPAstrike

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.

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Scheduled Chirp Updates

Schedule Tweets and Facebook Updates with the enhanced Chirp module

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.

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Massive XDe Update

Sweeping enhancements to the XDe for better content management

This could be the most comprehensive XDe update ever. From users to new content building wizards to enhanced multilingual capabilities across the platform.

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XDe CMS Updates

Enhancements to News, CMS, and addition of Google + 1 button

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.

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Social Networking for Small Business

Four degrees of involvement every business should consider and take action on.

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.

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Google Dropping Old Browser Support

As of August 1st IE7 will no longer be supported

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.

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Recovery from Amazon EC2 Outage

Understanding the recent Amazon Cloud 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.

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