LexiConn – July 2005 Newsletter

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LexiConn – July 2005 Newsletter
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In this month’s issue:
* Merchant Account and Payment Gateway special reminder
* Website Tips
* phpBB2 updated to the latest version
* WordPress Blog software updated to latest version

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Merchant Account and Payment Gateway special reminder…

Now through the end of July, anyone who signs up through our website for both a merchant account and payment gateway will have all setup fees waived, a savings of $248! Also, the discount rate on the merchant account is being offered at 1.99%, a savings of 0.4% off of the regular rate. If you are only interested in the payment gateway, and will be keeping your existing merchant account, the setup fee has been reduced from $149 to $49. Detailed information regarding these promotions can be found at:

http://support.lexiconn.com/news/viewtopic.php?t=135

Please note that these specials are only in effect until the end of this month.

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Website Tips…

There are a few relatively simple things you can do to improve the usability and navigation of your website. One such idea is to customize your missing.html page. This page is installed onto every account upon creation and is what is used every time someone attempts to access a page on your site that no longer exists, or never existed. You could have this page match the look and feel of the rest of your site, rather than the
generic ‘page cannot be found’ default appearance. One thing to keep in mind when designing this missing.html page is to make sure all links and images use absolute URL’s and not relative links, as relative links can cause problems if someone was trying to go to a page in a sub-directory.

Another tip is to make your site searchable by installing a Swish-E search via our Account Manager. Swish-E is a search engine that creates an index of all the words in your website and makes your web pages searchable, ranking results based on the number of times a word appears, whether it is in the title of a webpage, etc… It is quick and comprehensive. Swish-E can be customized to display a certain header and footer as well as numerous other customizations. Once installed, all that is needed is to re-index your website after making significant changes to your web pages. Re-indexing is as easy as running a CGI script from the web and can be set to run automatically each week. Full details regarding Swish-E can be found in our knowledgebase:

http://support.lexiconn.com/kb/index.php?ToDo=view&questId=8&catId=15

One last tip regarding website usability is to make sure that you have appropriate navigation on all of your pages. You want to be sure that visitors can easily get from one page to another without having to use their browser’s back button. You should have links or a site map on every page that makes it easy for a visitor to get from one section of the site to another.

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phpBB2 updated to the latest version…

The phpBB2 forum software that can be installed from the Account Manager has been upgraded to the latest 2.0.17 version. This release is mainly a bugfix release, fixing the following issues:

* Fixed critical issue with highlighting
* Url descriptions able to be wrapped over more than one line again
* Fixed bug with eAccelerator in admin_ug_auth.php
* Check new_forum_id for existence in modcp.php
* Prevent uploading avatars with no dimensions
* Fixed bug in usercp_register.php, forcing avatar file removal without updating avatar information within the database
* Fixed bug in admin re-authentication redirect for servers not having index.php as one of their default files set
* Fixed XSS issue in IE using the url BBCode

Previous versions of phpBB2 that were installed have been patched to include the security related fixes applicable to this new version.

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WordPress Blog software updated to latest version…

The WordPress blog software that can be installed from the Account Manager has been upgraded to the latest version, 1.5.1.3. All installed blogs on our network were also upgraded. This version patches a serious security vulnerability that was discovered earlier in the month, as well as various bugfixes. A full list of changes can be found at the below URL’s:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.5.1
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.5.1.2
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/1.5.1.3

WordPress is a simple to use blog (web log) system that offers many features and controls for installing and maintaining an active blog on the web. It is a one click install from the Account Manager. More information can be found on the website at:

http://www.wordpress.org/

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Sincerely,
- The LexiConn Team

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LexiConn Internet Services, Inc.
100 Lebanon Avenue
Colchester, CT 06415

http://www.lexiconn.com/
support@lexiconn.com
Toll-free: (800) 817-6881
Phone: (860) 537-9672
Fax: (860) 537-9675
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