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The Wild Apricot Price Increase

Posted May 18, 2015May 18, 2015 For Associations, Interesting Stuff, Wild Apricot Tagged associations, contact management, content management, membership management, transaction management, Wild Apricot, WildApricot

If you are a user of Wild Apricot’s web software and hosting, you most likely received an email in the recent past about an impending price increase. It goes into effect for renewals on June 1, although you can lock in on the old prices for a while if you prepay.

Your Archivist

Posted May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 For Everyone, Interesting Stuff Tagged archives, archivist, documents, emails, graphics, pdfs, scripts, video files

The business of web development tends to cause us to become file pack rats.

From Russia, With Disinterest

Posted April 13, 2015April 14, 2015 Analytics, For Everyone, Interesting Stuff Tagged Analysis, China, Google Analytics, India, Referral Spam, Russia

In the first 100 days of 2015, we have had an increase on our kesslerfreedman.com traffic of visits from Russia. How much? A staggering 6,260.00% increase over the first 100 days of 2014. This isn’t good news for us.

Those Pesky Membership Fields in Wild Apricot

Posted April 7, 2015April 7, 2015 For Associations, Interesting Stuff, Wild Apricot Tagged contact fields, database export, database import, database map, membership fields, Wild Apricot, WildApricot

For those who are now using Wild Apricot and are preparing to import your contact or membership data, we have one recommendation:

Map out each field first for use and visibility.

Maintenance and the WordPress Web Site

Posted March 25, 2015March 27, 2015 Interesting Stuff, Wordpress Tagged maintenance, plug-ins, plugins, security, software, updates, upgrades, WordPress

Many web developers that work with Wordpress – including ourselves – will offer a maintenance service. Sometimes we run into the question of “why do we need a maintenance service?”