Visual Lizard is proud to announce the re-design and launch of www.susannehou.com. Susanne is a virtuoso violinist that is based in New York and Toronto and has left her mark in music history by being the first violinist ever to capture 3 Gold Medals with unanimous decisions at international violin competitions.
We were initially approached to develop a site for Susanne in the summer of 2007 as her current site was not meeting her needs. Susanne travels the world and needed her site to contain fresh content and updates in regards press and the shows she was taking part in. Our Catalyst CMS was a perfect fit for her.
We enlisted our friends at spacecadet design to assist on the graphical side of the project as we were working diligently to provide her with a site with features that were customized to her personal style and taste.
Using our proprietary Catalyst Content Management System, we were able to assist Susanne with features such as:
easy to update current news and press section
current events
photo gallery
customized Hou to Dine Section allowing Susanne the opportunity to let us in on her favorite dining locations around the globe
The site is already getting rave reviews and we are looking forward to seeing Susanne on her next visit to Winnipeg.
This week Paypal announced that it will no longer process transactions that come from deprecated browsers. In this BBC news article a Paypal representative noted that there are still a significant number of people using very old deprecated browsers that do not carry the appropriate level of certificate security to safely allow for secure transactions to take place.
These insecure browsers allow for phishing websites to track the transactions which allow the criminal to gain access to a person’s personal information including passwords and credit card numbers.
It is important to remember to keep your browsers up to date. Criminals using phishing attacks create their fake websites in a way to take advantage of these security vulnerabilities. As described in the article, an obsolete browser will not trigger the Paypal script which determines whether the user is using a secure browser. If you are not using a secure browser, you cannot be sure if your personal information is vulnerable.
Paypal has taken the step to not allow for transactions from insecure browsers to take place as a way to inform their clients about the risks of using this deprecated technology.
Paypal said it was "an alarming fact that there is a significant set of users who use very old and vulnerable browsers such as Internet Explorer 4". [ Paypal to block ’unsafe browsers’ - BBC News Online ]
Paypal has also noted which browsers are safe and support EVSSL certificates. The current releases of Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 have full support, but Safari for both Mac and PC do not currently support EVSSL.
While we here in the office really like Safari as a browser, not all of us use it to make purchases over the internet.
Starbucks is currently using it's older, brown logo on it's products, trying to restore some goodwill and warm feelings for the brand. Good frickin luck.
Neat. I love little sites that I stumble into. Especially when they are this useful. Soundamus takes your last.fm history and generates an up-to-date page of forth coming music releases tailored to your music tastes.
On your profiles minifeed, you will find a new Import link that will allow you to pull data from some popular sites. I already have my Flickr and Delicious accounts set up :)
Hurrah! Flickr finally has a feature that allows you to upload, tag and flag short videos alongside of your photos. We use Flickr's private posting facility to share baby pictures with relatives all over the world, but haven't found anything as elegant for video sharing.
