After Cardinal Acres Web Development revamped his Forgotten Weapons site a while back, Ian McCollum found himself in an enviable predicament: he had more traffic on his site than his server could handle. Forgotten Weapons was getting 300,000 visits/month (almost 200,000 unique visits/month), was serving up to 1,000,000 pages/month and using around 1TB of bandwidth/month. […]
Cardinal Acres Web Development has established itself as an affordable and knowledgeable developer of websites for small businesses and non-profit organizations. After over 5 years and nearly two dozen websites, Cardinal Acres Web Development needed to turn it’s attention to it’s own website. Many of the features that Cardinal Acres Web Development routinely implemented for […]
I just read about a new and nefarious attack on WordPress at the Wordfence website.. Wordfence is a fantastic security plugin for WordPress; if you’re not already using it, you should be. If you administer or otherwise use WordPress for your web presence, you should also subscribe to their WordPress security update newsletter. Wordfence has uncovered […]
One of my passions is sailing and I have actively raced multiple small one-design dinghies in the midwest since I was 10 years old. I currently own a Y-Flyer and a Laser which I sail out of the Indianapolis Sailing Club. The Y-Flyer class website was a hodge-podge of Microsoft ASP (“active server pages”), custom […]
NKBA Indiana Chapter approached me with a request to “speed up” their WordPress based website. The site was sluggish to load which was affecting usability. After examining the website and corresponding WordPress configuration I found the following: the website had a hodgepodge of unused demo content supplied with the theme. the website had numerous unused plugins; […]
Ian McCollom’s Forgotten Weapons website is a treasure-trove of information on unusual, prototype, one-of-a-kind and historic firearms. For the firearms enthusiast, there is no better site on the internet than Forgotten Weapons to see, read and watch intriguing firearms-related content.
Revere’s Riders is a 501 (c) (3) organization that sponsors firearms training events around the country with an emphasis on marksmanship, Revolutionary War history and civic engagement. Revere’s Riders is a largely volunteer organization and, as such, relies on donated services for the majority of it’s operations. In the past, Revere’s Riders relied on the […]
By now, most everyone has heard about the hack of Mossack Fonseca and the subsequent release of millions of private documents that have exposed some shady financial practices of many well-known international figures. This security breach and subsequent release of private documents has become known as the “Panama Papers“. What you may not know is […]
Occasionally, a website will need to be redesigned whether you want to or not. This is most often due to the underlying software or component of the website becoming incompatible, unsupported or just plain abandoned by the developer.
Flojos is a manufacturer of sandals, flip-flops and boots catering to the active California beach-oriented lifestyle. Over three decades ago, they introduced the revolutionary Original Flojos sandal and haven’t looked back since. Flojos are sold by major online retailers, brick-and-mortar retailers as well as their own online store.