It’s been a while since I made a new post here (2 years!). The truth is, I have intended on doing so, however I have had a lot of difficulty finding time! Between my last post and this one, so much has happened. I moved, got married, and had a child! The company I work…
Hacked
Greetings Schmitty’s Toonsters! I finally got the site back up and working after being hacked by a vicious ‘Phantom’ hack! It’s almost as scary as it sounds… the hack targeted some of the vulnerabilities in the WordPress code and it was causing visitors to be redirected to random pharmaceutical websites that obviously had no affiliation with this one.
I ended up restoring everything to a previous version of the site and insodoing added a few security plug-ins… hopefully this will ensure that it does not happen again moving forward. There have been some great benefits to designing with Wordpress, but there have been quite a few downsides to it as well.
In the end, I lost some of the content and a few of the most recent posts in this process, but so far, everything seems to be working again now! In the comments below, please report if you happen to find any broken features on the website that I still need to address. It is greatly appreciated!
Business of Art & Design: Social Networking
The trouble with social networking is that it is not very social at all if you think about it. Everything takes place within a virtual space and these sites are just one big glorified message board. Back in the days before social networking, people actually made connections by physically meeting one another and having phone conversations. The power of personal connection will always trump a machine any day (until robots take over the Earth, but let’s save that for another blog post). Never underestimate the power of a phone call and a hand shake. You will instantly become more memorable than just meer words and pictures on a screen.