Hello Website Forge community.
I received the following email from UPS:
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UPS OnLine® Tools Upgrade Notification
You are receiving this communication to notify you of changes that could affect your UPS OnLine Tools beginning March 1, 2009. Action may be required to ensure that the change does not adversely impact your business and use of the tools. On March 1, 2009, UPS is moving from unchained to chained Digital Certificates to improve security when using the Internet. The change requires your system to support the Secured Socket Layer (SSL) Version 3.0 to be compatible with the new Digital Certificates. It is highly recommended that you validate your configuration and upgrade your digital certificate to avoid connection breaks to your UPS OnLine Tools application. ........
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After talking to our development team I was told that this should not affect Website Forge in any way.
This email is for the customers that generally email us to ask this very question.
Thanks and have a great holiday sales season!
Shane Merem
Website Forge
www.websiteforge.com
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As some of you may already be aware, Websiteforge has been audited lately for PCI compliance. The following is a list of issues and the results of our findings. Please review this when you receive test results about your site. As always, feel free to submit your test results to support@websiteforge.com so we can review them for you and advise.
REVIEW:
FALSE ALERT. We do not have and never had SSHv1 enabled.
Valid alert. Software upgraded and patched, issue resolved.
FALSE ALERT. Our systems have IPv6 disabled and therefore are not affected.
Valid alert. Removed the software because it was installed for a customer who has left and never used it.
Here are the latest updates to the Website Forge core system:
- Froogle (google base) attributes are automatically mapped to fields on the Froogle Export form to reduce customer errors.- Image Lists can show out-of-stock overlays.- Default distance for zip distance search can be specified.- Tree options performance optimizations - thousands of items should not be a problem to display in a tree.
- DHL realtime rating option.- Zero-downtime publishing - the old version of the site will be 100% accessible during the publishing process, until the moment new published version is ready.- Stricter validation of discount coupons.- Detection of different error conditions in file uploader.- File uploaders validates file types (won't allow to upload WMV when FLV is expected, etc).
Thanks, Shane Merem
Web Design and E-commerce
Hello everyone. Here are a few upgrades added last Sunday:
1) Custom Date / Custom Number options for products now available
2) Custom Weight option added3) URL fields in the layout builder can be set up to open in same window/new window/popup.4) Instant unsubscribe links for blog and membership.5) Ability to quickly unsubscribe a member from blog categories (all or some) on Edit Member form.6) Image / Image List fields and option images display a hand cursor if they are clickable to help people see they can click the image.
REMINDER! Make sure your site is indexed properly by Google and Yahoo!
Don't forget how valuable it is to configure your web site for Google Sitemaps! It is a built in feature of Website Forge to provide important page and product informationto Google! Contact support so that we can help you with this feature.
Web Site Design and E-commerce
Can't seem to ever clear out your email inbox???
I get well over a hundred emails a day (not including spam). Probably closer to 200. Like me .. I know many of you struggle to get everything done -- but your inbox always seems to have unhandled email...
Do you ever feel like you can never get the CURRENT things in your INBOX done because you are always getting NEW email?
If so, I have the answer.....
***** Work on your email from both ends! *****
FIRST: Clear out the easiest NEW emails for a half hour..
THEN: Sort your email showing oldest first! (usually by clicking the date column) and then work from the bottom for a 1/2 hour.
Rinse.. Repeat.. (Just kidding)
It works really well for me. This method will assure you don't neglect items in your inbox that require more "time" or "thought" because you are always flooded with brand new email messages.
I hope you find this tip useful!
Have a great weekend!
www.magnusoft.com
Web Design and E-commerce Development
Brian Shockley at "Shop Baker's Nook" has worked very hard the last couple years to create a web site from scratch with the help of Website Forge and turned it into an extremely successful endeavor.
Beyond that he has:
- Provided advice and support to other clients in our forum at www.websiteforge.com/forum/ to help others succeed
- Improved his brick and mortar business
- Provided great feedback from his web site customers so we can continue to improve Website Forge and offer the best possible upgrades
- And more...
Here is the latest email I received from Brian:
Hello.
Baker’s Nook LLC located in Saline Mi USA had a very nice article written about us by the examiner.com. This is a highly visited and trusted news site. You can read the article here: http://www.examiner.com/x-651-Southeast-MI-Home--Living-Examiner~y2008m8d29-Could-life-be-any-sweeter
This is a great time for our company. Sales are going through the roof and we are expanding in this new economy of ours. Our website now generates over 100,000 visitors a month and we are becoming a leading authority in the cake decorating field.
This just shows what hard work and deploying the correct marketing effort can do for a company even in the so called down times.
Brian Shockley
CEO
ShopBakersNook.com
Thank you
www.ShopBakersNook.com
Thanks for the update Brian! We all wish you continued success and appreciate your contributions.
Web Design and E-Commerce
After 13 months of hard work and a crash course in internet fraud ... Kevin O'Brien at www.diveprodivegear.com sent me great this message yesterday.
This message is encouragement for the entire Website Forge community. Your hard work combined with the power of Website Forge will equal business success.
Shane:
Thought you'd also like to hear about our progress.
In the 13 months (June 2007) since we launched our website, www.diveprodivegear.com, we have gone from $0 sales to hitting $20K+ sales in July.
I expect we'll have our first $30K month during the Christmas season. This is just from the website. We have no brick & mortar business.
Thanks to the entire WF team for helping us achieve !! -- KOB.
_________________Kevin O'Brien www.DiveProDiveGear.com Toll free: 1-877-55-DIVER
Related Article: See http://www.websiteforge.com/blog.html?m17:post=important-credit-card-fraud-information-website-forge-shane-merem about Kevin's crash course in credit card fraud.
Would you like to be able to avoid fraudulent charges and help warn others?
With the help and suggestions from Chuck at www.clrmarine.com (and others) we decided to put up a BLOG of fraudulent activity to help warn other Website Forge merchants of possible fraudulent activity.
We will also start posting some tips and advice to help identify and avoid fraudulent transactions.
Go to www.support.websiteforge.com and clock the FRAUDNET button on the menu.
I have protected the page with the following username and password:
user: fraud
pass: net
Please email any possible fraudulent activity to support@websiteforge.com and I'll post it to the blog so we can warn others.
Shane
After listening to you -- I delivered!
I am a home body. I don't travel unless absolutely neccessary... I put my butt on a train and went to Chicago, IL to the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition.
Of course only the G & L boys showed up! (www.gandlclothing.com). Everyone else stood me up -- I won't mention any names (Brian Shockley) but stood up nonetheless.
So I spent alot of time trying to take photos by myself!! (spare the "shiny head" jokes -- I've heard them all)
Do you know how embarrassing it is to get caught taking a photo of yourself in the restroom??!!
So I thought the elevator would work out better! But of course the door flew open just as I was clicking the photo... Needless to say the lady took the next elevator. Pathetic.
Enter the G&L guys! Finally someone to hang with at this amazing sushi bar. Lots to eat and drink.
After the lady took 4 photos of our plates -- she finally was able to fire off a photo of us. (I'm mumbling "Just hit the damn button lady..." while trying to hold a smile)
YES! There was SAKE involved! Or is that Saki? Or Socky? I'm too lazy to spell check. Just suffice to say international booze was involved.
The G&L guys had to jet.. So I was back on my own again.. Found someone to take a photo..
Made up my mind that people from Chicago just can't operate a camera so ... Back to the drawing board... Taking my own photos.
Shopping (no not for purses! It was the nearest mirror)
Orvis! Finally get to see all that cool stuff up close. Boy I wish I fished.
Checking out of the Hotel...
Wandering around Chicago picking up gifts for the family. (Found a traveler that knew how to work a camera. Thank goodness)
And the end. Just remember... I was there and you weren't (Brian Shockley)
I enjoyed myself overall. I also hooked up with the FiftyOne www.fiftyone.com guys and talked shop. It was a good trip.
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