by Alisa Carscaden | Feb 10, 2015 | Blog
A quick note: Magento just released a security patch for both Magento Enterprise and Community. Magento Security Patch – SUPEE-5344 (Feb 10, 2015) Although there have not been any reports of customers being impacted by this exploit, if an attacker knows what...
by Alisa Carscaden | Feb 9, 2015 | Blog
NPR just did a study where they categorized the most common jobs in the US by state, and have animated it from 1978 to 2014. While truck drivers make up the most common jobs for most of the states, it was wonderful to see that Colorado (along with Utah, Washington...
by Alisa Carscaden | Feb 6, 2015 | Blog, Magento How-To Tutorials
I received quite a bit of feedback from last week’s email about hacking. And one of the key things that I was asked was, “Is there an easy way to back my site?” Fortunately, there is. Backing up your site: Like any process, I’d recommend having...
by Alisa Carscaden | Feb 6, 2015 | Blog, Technical Articles by Customer Paradigm
A quick note about changing Magento Admin users to lock out older users that you no longer want to have in your Magento admin area: If you have an older employee that you want to remove access for, make sure that you delete the user vs. just changing the password. If...
by Alisa Carscaden | Feb 5, 2015 | Blog, eLearning Series
I was thrilled to hear this week that the chairman of the FCC, Tom Wheeler, is defending net neutrality. It’s wonderful news for anyone that runs a Website, as well as for end users. I believe that the Internet has transformed the world economy, and Net...
by Alisa Carscaden | Jan 28, 2015 | Blog, Digital Marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
When we talk about improving PageSpeed to a 2 second or faster page load time, it can sound like a miniscule change from 6 seconds to 2 seconds. However, every second really counts when it comes to the patience of people. In the case of Amazon.com, they slowed down...