We experienced a brief denial of service attack around 1:45PM today (July 9th). It didn’t last long enough to take any action and didn’t block access to services but did increase latency for a short period.
Responsive Issues
I’ve run into a couple of problems with the new website that I didn’t anticipate. The fly-out menus fly right off the edge of the screen on devices with screens to small for them to fit, and the tables to compress well. I’m working on these things.
Counter Fixed, Social Media Buttons Reinstalled
I had a minor counter after moving it to a WordPress page. For some reason the time-zone PHP is initialized to inside WordPress is GMT even though I had both php.ini and WordPress itself set to America/Los Angeles (Pacific) time.
I ended up having to add a set timezone call to the counter to make it work in the right time-zone and not turn over at 5pm (8GMT with an hour offset for Daylight Savings Time makes midnight GMT or UTC or whatever you want to call it be 5pm our time).
And with a little tweaking, I got the social media buttons working again.
Trial Account Applications
I got the colors mostly figured out. The one thing that isn’t working right is the parent doesn’t stay highlighted on the main menu when a child is hovered over.
Somehow I managed to delete part of the application form so it does not post at present. I am working on a fix for this.
Colors – CSS Woes
I’m having difficulty getting the CSS right on the new front page so bear with me while I figure this out and sorry for the funny colors in the interim.
Maintenance 7/3/15 22:00-22:30
I will be taking the ftp and web server down for about a 15 minute interval around ten in the evening, on Friday the 3rd of July, in order to image the machine and save all the recent changes we’ve made to our website. And more cool stuff is on the way!
Construction
I’m almost done with the internal pages of our website and shortly will be replacing the home page. Because it’s a pain to move an existing WordPress site, I’m going to install WordPress in place and then build the page, so there will be a short period where it’s ugly and non-functional.
During this time you will be able to reach the old site at:
And the old mail system will be reachable at:
Deaths…
We’ve lost a second customer to death in three weeks time. In the past it always seemed to be a winter thing for some reason but this year it’s summer. Both were nice people who had been with us a very long time. Lives go by just too quickly.
What I am Up To with our Web Site
Just a heads up for those who might be wondering what is happening. What I am in the process of doing is converting our website to a WordPress based site with the main objective in doing so to make all of the site responsive and work on mobile phones, tablets, phablets, as well as laptops and desktops.
I can hand code responsive designs and in fact did so for the main home page, but the time it takes to do so is excessive.
Which brings me to a secondary objective, and that is to make it much easier to add and update content. Having to maintain everything by hand takes a lot of time and that discourages me from adding some good content that I otherwise would, tips and tricks and how to do things, WordPress makes that much easier.
Web Mail Restored
Last night, while working on our website, I accidentally altered the wrong link and broke webmail. Web mail has been restored. I am working on the support section of the website now and the mail pages in particular, and had intended to move the old support pages but instead moved the webmail pages /mail as opposed to /support/mail.