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WordPress Sites Hacked Again; Hosted CMS the Answer?

During thepast few days, there has been another batch of WordPress sites gettinghacked, this time with malicious code that redirects visitors to thesite to a fake virus scan page, which then tries to get the user todownload an "anti-virus" program that is, in fact, a virus.

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Designing Your Site

Designing Your Site's Information Architecture

Informationarchitecture is a big topic. However you are building sites, it'sessential to think deeply and clearly about how best to organize asite's content. If the site is a simple brochure site, then there maynot be much to think about, but the more content a site has, the moreimportant it is to invest effort in this area.

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Designing Web Sites in Photoshop: Know What jQuery Can Do

Perhaps thebiggest difference between designing for print and for the web is theopportunity to use interactivity. Sure, you can build your web pagesjust like printed pages that appear on screen, but if you do so you'releaving on the table some of the benefits the web has to offer. Interactivityin web pages is provided by JavaScript, the programming language thatruns in the browser.

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