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IE Finally Follows Standards – What does it mean for your visitors?
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) in March, and although its deployment has been slow, the new browser has created a potential concern for designers and developers. The new browser introduces a slew of fundamental improvements, including security, ease of use, and support for RSS, CSS, and Ajax. Most noteworthy in IE8, however, are the…
Read MoreApplied Innovations Boosts Windows Server 2008 (IIS7) Hosting
Since launching Windows Server 2008 (IIS7) last year, we have worked diligently to continue to provide an up-to-date, feature-rich hosting environment. As discussed in this month’s newsletter, we have introduced a variety of significant improvements to our Windows Server 2008 (IIS7) hosting services. Scale your site as your needs change One of the biggest requests…
Read MoreApplied Innovations Sponsors Phizzpop Design Challenge Event
The Phizzpop Design Challenge is a Microsoft driven event designed to engage top designers and developer agencies in an adrenaline charged competition. On its second year round, the Phizzpop event will encompass design, innovation, development, and creativity to solve a unique design challenge emphasizing the use of Microsoft Software for design and development. The Phizzpop…
Read MoreKentico Lite CMS 2 minute install in HELM Control Panel
Are you interested in trying the Kentico Lite CMS? Much like other applications we’ve recently introduced, Kentico is now as easy to install through the control panel as a few clicks. Kentico Lite has many features bundled with it right out of the box. See the following Knowledge Base article for instructions on installing Kentico Lite and begin…
Read MoreCommunity Server Web Hosting – Quick Install
Community Server 2008 Express is now available for FREE to Appliedi Innovation’s web hosting customers in a few easy clicks from the control panel. Community Server 2008 is a premium content management system (CMS) and Social Networking application from Telligent, the people who made the application that powers myspace, Microsoft’s xbox website and other major sites. Some of the major built-in features include blogs & forums (with integrated…
Read MoreNew SSL certificates from Applied Innovations web hosting will have more functionality
New SSL certificates (or renewals) ordered through Applied Innovations web hosting, will now have slightly more functionality. Our e-commerce hosting customers will now be able to call their websites securely from either www.acme-hosting.net or just acme-hosting.net. This is more convenient, because it used to be that you would have to call your website securely usually with “www” in the url. If a customer…
Read MoreAppliedI customers get 10% off at Revolver Commerce
Applied Innovations is always trying to bring more value to our e-commerce web hosting customers. We often will find a popular product that our customers find useful, and we will see if we can get our customers a discount. Revolver Commerce makes many useful add-ons to the ASPDotNetStorefront e-commerce app, and they also provide design…
Read MoreComodo will be updating the SSL “Trust Logo” that you’ve become familiar with
A great deal of our e-commerce web hosting customers choose to order Instant SSL certificates from Applied Innovations. For the $99 price tag we install the highly secure 256-bit encryption SSL certificate for you, you get $100,000 warranty from Comodo, and you also get the Trust Logo free. Today, Applied Innovations has been informed before the official news release, that…
Read MoreFirefox 3 sets record of most downloads in 24 hours – Extended Validation (EV) SSL certs become A LOT more useful overnight
Remember those SSL certificates called Extended Validation certificates? Well, one of their major drawbacks was that they only worked when your customer was using IE7 to browse your website. Now, with Firefox version 3, you have more than 8 million more browsers on the internet able to see an EV certificate. Upon entering a site…
Read MoreJoomla! a PHP-based CMS version 1.5.4 Naiki released today
Today Joomla released an update to their CMS called “Naiki” and our PHP webhosting customers using this CMS may want to install the update. If you are running a previous version 1.5.x, you should download the update patch and run it. You can read the release notes and installation instructions here. Although Applied Innovations is an ASP.net specialized…
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