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Review of Customer Paradigm – Emergency Magento Support
Customer Paradigm Review Reviewed by Stephanie K. on Oct. 22, 2014. Summary: "Loved working with Alisa and the team as always. We really appreciate her dedication! :)" Type of Project: Magento Enterprise - Emergency Support. Budgeted Hours: 8 Site: Amore Pacific...
How an expired SSL certificate can drive traffic away, even if you’re not using it
Thanks for all of the positive feedback on the full moon / lunar eclipse images... they seem to be a hit. A couple of weeks ago, I talked about how sites that adopt full SSL (everything in https) may start to see higher search rankings from Google. (Read the article...
Eliminating Single Points of Failures with Payment Gateways
One of the issues with any complex eCommerce site is the issue of single points of failure. This cropped up yesterday with a Payment Gateway issue, but we were able to quickly bypass it... saving customer orders in the process. What's Redundancy? What's Redundancy?...
Blood Moon – Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Photos from Oct 8, 2014
We love to help our customers shoot for the moon with their Websites and interactive marketing campaigns. So in that fashion, I was up a bit early today to watch the full moon lunar eclipse, known as the blood moon, high over Boulder, Colorado. In case you missed it,...
Godaddy’s Two Factor Authentication System DOWN – Oct 7 2014
I've been on a bit of a security kick recently... but there's a downfall, too. Perhaps it's because I shopped at Target (and got a new credit card when they were hacked), and then shopped at Home Depot (and then just got a new credit card after they, too, were...
Important Magento Security Patch – Oct 3 2014
Magento today sent out an alert to patch ALL Magento sites - both Community and Enterprise - for two potentially serious security flaws. Before I delve into what to do, I want to talk about why this update means that Magento is more secure (instead of worrying that it...
eBay to Spin Off PayPal into new and separate company
The news today is that eBay is going to spin off PayPal into a new and separate company. This should be great news for PayPal adoption, because any site that competes with eBay (i.e. Amazon) has been reluctant to take PayPal. What this means for Magento is not clear,...
The Internet has transformed the world economy, and Net Neutrality is a major reason why.
Net Neutrality is important; this is the response written by Jeff Finkelstein, founder of Customer Paradigm, as filed with the FCC during their public comment period: I cannot state strongly enough that bifurcating the Internet into a slow lane and a fast lane will...
Magento not sending emails to an exchange server? DNS records to the rescue.
I've seen this happen a couple of times this week, so I thought I'd briefly write about it. A Magento storefront is taking orders, but the emails aren't coming into the the company's corporate email system. Usually it's an Exchange account, but not always. Email gets...
Review of Customer Paradigm – Magento Support
Customer Paradigm Review Reviewed by Stephanie K. on Sep. 12, 2014. Summary: "Alisa and her team was very patient and persistent throughout the process. This project took a lot longer than expected and we truly appreciate her dedication. I can't thank her enough as...