Technology Resources
Explore the latest web design trends and tools with our comprehensive technology blog, packed with valuable resources and information.
Using a CloudFlare Content Delivery Network (CDN)
In the olden days, a website lived on a glorified computer known as a server. Any time anyone visited that website, the browser on their computer downloaded the images and other files from that server/computer. If ten people looked at the website at the same time, that means ten people were using that server at the same time. And if a hundred people were looking at the website at the same time… well, it wasn’t hard to crash that server. These days, most people use commercial hosting services… and a lot of websites use a CDN, or Content Delivery Network.
Advice for Nonprofit Websites
This year more than ever, we’ve worked on a number of web marketing projects for non-profits. And this week, we watched a campaign for a local Texas organization, RAICES, go viral on Facebook, raising well over $20 million in about two weeks. If you’ve got your 501(c)(3) set up and you are ready to start thinking about a website and online fundraising, here is our advice for getting started.
Remote Support with I.T. Roadmap: AeroAdmin
Last week, we quietly added a button to our Tech Support page. After years of using TeamViewer and Logmein products for remote support, we have switched to a new-to-us product called AeroAdmin. While we love offering remote support, we didn’t love the process of walking people through installing our remote support tools. And while Logmein is a great product that has gotten much easier to use in the past year or two, we don’t love the pricing for it—now over $100 per month. After all, the lower our cost for support tools, the less it costs you too. AeroAdmin is only $69.90 per seat per year, and it allows us to establish remote access to an unlimited number of computers.
