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This is excellent advice to ensure your donations are received by those who are in need. SPECIAL FBI WARNING – Best practices to avoid scam attacks http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel10/haiti011810.htm QUOTE : Therefore, before making a donation of any kind, consumers should adhere to certain guidelines, including the following: Do not respond to any unsolicited (spam) incoming e-mails, including clicking links contained within those messages

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SPECIAL FBI WARNING – Best practices to avoid fraudulent scams

Despite efforts to shutdown a few spammers recently, these email attacks continue to present challenges to users everywhere. Report from Europe: 95 percent of email is spam http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/report-from-europe-95-percent-of-email.html http://www.enisa.europa.eu/media/press-releases/spam-survey-2009-the-fight-against-spam QUOTE : The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released a report that says 95 percent of all email is now spam

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Sunbelt reports 95% of email is spam for users in Europe

After one of my recent blog postings concerning the recent zero day IE vulnerability [ 1 ], I received a few questions and comments thanks to one of the comments I made: Finally, and perhaps most worryingly, this type of advice feeds the “right now we have a problem, but as soon as the patch is available, we can relax” school of thought. Will the online world be significantly safer once this patch is available and widely deployed?

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Continued Sinowal activity

Firstborn has recently launched a simple yet effective digital experience to explain common misconception about well-being and insurances in the US. It’s nothing more, nothing less than a promo for an insurance company called Aflac, so it’s good to see it’s not the usual boring corporate website you would expect for such a client. What I really like is the communication approach that starts with the “attract and engage” phase.

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Do you know the Quack?

The year debuted with ‘ Operation Aurora ‘: Google and over 30 other companies were hit by a spear phishing attack which resulted in theft of intellectual property from Google and probably other companies. Spear phishing is a targeted form of phishing in which an e-mail message might look like it comes from your employer, or from a colleague who might send an e-mail message to everyone in the company, such as the head of human resources or IT. The attackers used an Internet Explorer 6 zero day vulnerability

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Security is hard

Everyday at Design Reviver we receive messages from readers looking for answers to all kinds of design questions. It’s because of this we have decided to launch Design Reviver Answers – a free Q&A community exclusively for Web Designers.

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Introducing: Design Reviver Answers – Q&A Exclusively for Web Designers.

Congratulations to Helga Matzko! Last year we designed a new website for her, and last month Helga asked us to create a matching blog, which she launched yesterday: http://www.gestaltri.com/blog/   Helga has a great take on the blend of Gestalt psychotherapy and life coaching…it’s worth reading the past issues of her newsletter and blog! Helga understood that in order to create a lasting brand for The Gestalt Institute of Rhode Island , she needed her website, logo, and blog to deliver the same visual message. Check out her home page and the natural “spiral” theme from the photographs. Next, look closely at her new logo that was created from the website spiral photos we used

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A Matching Blog for Helga

In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, Travis King and Thursday Bram look at what to do when a client goes AWOL and when they drag their feet during a project. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a new regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered, send an email to askfreelanceswitch@gmail.com

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Ask FreelanceSwitch #3

In the past we’ve published two posts showcasing excellent photography portfolio sites, and today we’re following up with the third edition (see 25 of the Best Photographer Portfolio Websites and 25 of the Best Photographer Portfolio Websites – Part II ). If you’re looking for more design inspiration from high-quality portfolio sites, see our gallery site Folio Focus. World In My Lens Josh Tilton Warwick Saint Levon Biss Charles L

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25 of the Best Photography Portfolio Sites – Part III

From Japan another great example of digital communication and a clear demonstration that the online media and online commerce are (more than) ready to support any brand or product (if the communication is done in the right way). Today we talk about dogs, fashion and ecommerce. The brand is called Free Stitch and produces clothing for small dogs

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Fashion for dogs and ecommerce dogs (owners)

When it comes to designing a website Photoshop is an excellent tool for it, No design Software gives you quite so much control as Adobe Photoshop in designing a website. For beginner web designers – design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design , Designing a website is not an easier process, Here is a collection of 30 layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent looking website. They are all different types of websites and styles of design represented here that will sure help you to create a decent looking website 1

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36 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials Part 4

This is a roundup of the latest graphic design and web design jobs from the Estetica Graphic Design Forum … CODER with good SEO needed — SEO Job Graphic Design Job, Sheffield Junior Graphic Designer for Azendi – Yorkshire & Humberside LAMP ASP Developer Job WordPress Theme Designer Needed GRAPHIC DESIGNER JOB (web, print, marketing) New York Paid Gig: Need Basic Progamming and Touch Up Graphic Design Job – Harrogate PHP coder needed – Web Design Job Need a logo will pay – Logo Design Job Requesting Logo For Band [Voluntary] Find more jobs at the Graphic Design Forum’s Employment Section.

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Graphic Design & Web Design Jobs Jan 2010

I previously made 2 posts on the topic of preloaders ( The right way to do a preloader in AS3, External Preloader; more complex cases ), well this post will be a continuation of those. And one that I believe not everyone will agree with me. I know that because I didn’t agree with it at first but the more I thought about it the more it felt right

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More on preloaders: passing the loaderInfo

How hard is to engage people to create what is called “user generated content”. So many try, only a few accomplish, as in this simple yet brilliant campaign coming from AKQA London for the launch of the new Panasonic Lumix ZX1 camera, featuring an 8x optical zoom. With some sculptures distributed all along several places, a british object each of them but eight times larger than its original size, the whole press coverage drove people to a Facebook fan page, Panasonic 8xLife , where users could submit their own creations , related to perspective (as playing with the powerful zoom feature and in order to win a trip yo the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games), to be stored at some galleries that are pure joy and fun to watch.

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Panasonic 8x Life

When it comes to Web security why is it we always seem to focus on layer 7 only? Sure, it can be argued that XSS , SQL injection , flawed application logic and so on are the big deal items in any given Web system. But who said the underlying server and network components – the foundation of the system – aren’t a big deal

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Looking past layer 7

Getting a Top 10 listing on Google take a bit of doing…getting a Top 3 listing is a real accomplishment! So we offer huge congratulations to Kate Nasser, who implemented our SEO suggestions on her website after we did an SEO Review  of her site, and now lists as #3 on Google for the keyword phrase Professional Soft Skills , and #9 on Google for Professional Soft Skills Training ! Aly reviewed Kate’s sight and found lots of SEO ideas that could boost Kate’s search engine rankings. After producing a written report for her, we got on the phone with Kate and her web designer and brainstormed an implementation plan, which they undertook immediately. (I just love Kate’s “can do” attitude…she jumped in and made the changes even though the holidays were upon us!) That phone call was on December 21, and by January 10 Kate had emailed us with the good news – she was on Page 1 of the search results for her chosen keywords! If you ever doubt that you can achieve high search engine rankings, or think it’s going to take six months for your site to crawl to the top of the listings, Kate’s success shows you that you can do it, too

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Kate Nasser’s SEO Success Story – Getting Seen on Search Engines

Almost every website needs some type of form, whether it be a contact/feedback form, a registration form, a survey, or an order form. Despite the fact that forms are a necessity for just about every project, designers and developers can often be frustrated by the process of creating them, especially more advanced forms

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15 Resources for Easily Creating Web Forms

Following last week’s announcement of the new zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and its role in high profile, targeted attacks [ 1 , 2 ], the news wires have been hot with announcements about ‘what to do’. Particularly strong warnings have been sent within Germany and France , with web users urged to use alternative browsers until a patch is made available.

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Operation Aurora: More on the IE zero day

Just before the holidays we announced we’d re-designed our advertising sites, adding a few more bells and whistles to make it easier and more intuitive for you to find information about all our advertising products and services.

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Microsoft Advertising Europe – Our Site and How to Advertise

After you have decided to buy a website template, now you are scrambled with all the websites offering these website templates. Some are free, some are packaged into tens or maybe hundreds but all of them share the various sales pitches that is marketing these professional website templates and pushing you to buy. All this is offered to you without the hints on how to choose from these templates the template that will create your niche website that you have always dreamt of.

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How to Choose Professional Website Templates