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The Survey For People Who Make Websites

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

The ALA 2010 Web Design Survey

A List Apart (ALA) is holding its annual web design survey. 2010 is  the fourth year of “The Survey For People Who Make Websites”.

The survey is focused on people who work in the web industry, and topics include salary ranges, titles, working conditions, educational backgrounds, health care, gender, ethnicity, etc.

It takes no more than 5 minutes to complete, and will provide its findings in the near future — like those from the 2009 Web Design Survey.

Posted in General.

406 Error Fix

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Are you or others receiving a 406 error when visiting your site? Most likely it is caused by mod_security, which acts as a firewall to protect web application attacks.

The solution maybe as-easy-as adding the following to your .htaccess file in-order to disable mod_security:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

Posted in General. ⋅ Tags: .htaccess, errors

Setting Up Google Apps Email with cPanel

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Google Apps logo

Google Apps is one of the best email services. While having your email hosted on the same server as your website is convenient, in reality, it’s not always the wise choice. The following are a few reasons to make the switch, and how to do it – if your host provides cPanel. (more…)

Posted in General. ⋅ Tags: email, google apps

Best Free Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware Solutions

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

AntiVirus & AntiSpyware ProtectionI get asked all the time from friends, family and even clients, “whats the best anti-virus program?”. Before the person asks however, they usually already have a problem. Therefore, this post will serve as a place to refer them when they need to prevent and/or remove pesky viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, or other malware. I’ll update this post as needed – as I change my recommended software preferences. (more…)

Posted in General. ⋅ Tags: anti-malware, anti-spyware, anti-virus, security, tools

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Hello, welcome to the “company” blog. Owned and operated by Matthew Ginop, MCGWD is a small website design company located in northern lower Michigan. I provide affordable sites using web standards and semantic markup.

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