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    Privacy Measures

    If you have a website that you need to protect-perhaps you even want to be sure that no one other than the hand picked people you choose can see it, what measures would you take to protect it? Also, how would you personally log visitors to see whether there were any unauthorised visits?
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    Companies-Staffing Levels

    For those of you who work for a firm or who head a firm, what are your staffing levels like? Specifically do you have someone who manages your servers (assuming that you don't use a data centre elsewhere) and do they do anything else?
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    What do You Think of Funky TLDs?

    I see some really weird URLs sometimes, with one in particular catching my eye. It was a driving website (I'm learning) and was www.tellXXXXXX.me I won't fill it out, its unimportant. Anyway the me at the end (Montenegro TLD) read really well with the URL, flowed incredibly well. Normally I...
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    Shipping Tax

    If you are coding a store, how do you deal with tax on shipping? Is tax ever charged on shipping (per regional rules) or is it always tax free?
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    Personal Touch or Lost in the Crowd

    What are your general preferences when it comes to your hosting. Do you prefer to have the personal touch from a small company, or do you prefer the anonymity of being lost in the crowd with a big company? There are pros to being with bigger companies, so does the personal touch win over them...
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    Xperia X10 Mini

    A misfortune befell me last week, when my iPhone died. I have the X10 mini now and love it way more than the iPhone. What market share do Android have? Is the lack of apps holding them back?
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    Hosting Downtime and Bills

    We had a hardware failure yesterday on one of our servers. There was nothing we could do but wait for the repair, but the clients responses were varied. There were of course the horrified people wanting to know why it was down, but we had two call up and tell us that they had just mailed their...
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    Storm Protection

    We all, I'm sure, take some precautions to protect our computers from electrical storms. How do server centres do it? I mean that's a LOT of equipment to prevent being fried!!!
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    Differences Between Online and 3D Clients

    It's been a while since I dealt so much with real clients and am finding it hard to say no to requests. I realise that body language is powerful, but why am I such a pushover when face to face with a person, when compared to my online dealings in similar situations?
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    Mistake Acknowledgement

    I've been drawn back into doing some work for a bricks and mortar company again recently, as needs be. This morning one of the office staff made a huge mistake-sent out an email to the wrong list, emailing all of the clients rather than the occupants of the building to complain about the trash...
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    What Testing

    Ok so you have a site that you think is working well, but you want to make some changes that you think will improve it even more. When you make changes, what testing do you do? Have you ever run two websites side by side, basically mirrored, but with your changes on one and not the other and...
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    Hosting Mobile Sites

    I know that the majority of phones today just use a mobile version of real browsers, rather than the older WAP browsers. Is there anything that we should do for mobile browsing, and does it have special hosting requirements?
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    Accesibility Responsibilities

    When you are designing a new website, how hard do you work to ensure it is accessible? Do you make sure that your tab order is correct for instance so that visually impaired users can navigate it?
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    Broken Wrist!

    I have unfortunately managed to break my wrist and am stuck-slowly-typing with only my non-dominant hand. I need to type to work! Can anyone recommend any voice recognition software that actually works, and is free or cheap?
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    Active X and Server Risks

    I'm aware of the dangers that viewing pages with Active-X can pose, because of it's system access. But does it pose a risk to the server at all when your pages utilise it? Or is that merely a one way risk?

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