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Recent Performance Issues

Recently, some folks had been saying they thought our system wasn’t performing optimally.  We had noticed the occasional slowness, but couldn’t really tie it to anything in particular.  It turns out that one of the switches (the little networking boxes through which all of our servers interconnect) was going bad. It’s odd that they don’t [...]

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iHOUSE Is Sleazy

I know – if you don’t have anything good to say about someone, don’t say anything, right?  But, I’ve held this in a LONG time: iHOUSE is just a sleazy company. They have been using extremely shady email techniques to deliver their email marketing.  I’ve watched this for the last couple of years.  Here’s a [...]

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StudioPress Themes Added

We’ve just added a bunch of StudioPress themes for WordPress to the ones we already had from WooThemes.  That gives over 60 themes to choose from!

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Why WordPress?

The first question that I can hear being asked is “Why WordPress?”  Of course, we asked that ourselves.  For a long time, we’ve offered simple, stripped-down websites that are done in-house, just because some of our customers wanted a basic website to get started.  We had never really concentrated on them specifically, they just sorta [...]

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Eating Our Own Dog Food

One of our deeply-held beliefs here at ListingWare is that we wouldn’t tell our customers to use anything that we wouldn’t use ourselves – the good old “eating our own dog food” policy. So, since we’re about to start offering WordPress-based websites for our customers, we’re switching over to a WordPress-based blog for the company. [...]

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