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		<title>February Portal is Out</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2012/february-portal-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February, 2012 edition of our newsletter, The Portal, has been published.  Pick up a copy here! This issue is dedicated to looking at Ebooks.]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress Navigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heart of your Website &#8211; Navigation Navigation is the way your customers move around your website. The ease with which they find the information they want will make or break your site. See Mark&#8217;s previous article on restaurant websites with examples of how to alienate your customers before you even get started. This article, the third in a series on WordPress, discusses how to set up menus. Blog or CMS? First and foremost you need to decide if you&#8217;re building a blog or a CMS. The fundamental difference is in what you view as the most important parts of your website. Are you writing a magazine or newspaper where content changes often and is less important as it gets older, or are you writing a book, encyclopedia or catalog where articles remain valid and useful for long periods of time? Blogs have a natural organization that is time based. Your primary goal in organizing a blog is to choose good categories and tags. You need to be more careful with a CMS in how you make your information available to your customers. Some websites are a hybrid of a CMS and a blog. An example of this is SWCP&#8217;s home page. All of the product information, support references, pointers to email clients, and directories are Pages. On the Home page under Recent Articles or on the Articles page is a list of Posts, (like this one). Most company websites &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/wordpress-navigation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>ACTA: The Internet Fight Goes International</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internet activists who are celebrating the apparent defeat of the SOPA and PIPA bills have found their party already interrupted by the appearance, or rather, re-appearance of a piece of legislation that could have an even more significant effect: ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Whereas SOPA and PIPA were merely proposed US laws, ACTA is an international treaty, so its scope is much wider. It will become law for all signatory states and override any contrary provisions in US codes. On January 26, the European Union and 22 member states formally signed ACTA, and apparently it now goes before the European Parliament. Last, October, ACTA was signed by 10 nations, including the US which helped sponsor it. However, though the President signed it as an executive agreement, constitutionally the treaty must still be ratified by the US Senate. Mexico, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Estonia, Cyprus, and Slovakia are some of the most important nations that have still not signed on. There is a huge amount of suspicion across the Internet surrounding the treaty because it was negotiated in secrecy by industry and government trade representatives of some of the richest countries without any input from anyone else. In fact, time after time, parliaments and interest groups around the world were told they could not see it while it was being worked on. For a long time the only information about the provisions of the proposed treaty came through diplomatic cables &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/acta-internet-fight/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Fight over Copyright and Net Neutrality Will Shape the Net</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[How the Net Works]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first battle over copyright on record was an actual physical battle. Around 560, Columba, an Irish monk, copied out a book of psalms, intending to keep it for himself. This was disputed by St. Finnian, owner of the original volume who had lent it to him to read. The saint was supported by the court which said that the reproduction rightfully belonged to him as sure as a calf does to its mother. It being the Dark Ages, there was nothing for it then but to fight it out. Columba’s side won the melee; in grief over the ensuing deaths, however, the monk left Ireland forever. During his lifelong exile, he founded the great monastery of Iona where the magnificent Book of Kells was later made, was the first known witness of the Loch Ness Monster, and ultimately became a saint, too, so it all worked out pretty well for him in the long run. A millennium and a half later, however, copyright conflicts are still being fought almost as viciously in the courts. But while modern media could not even be imagined by the scribes of old, the issues would be quite familiar. Now, as then, the greatest disagreements are often caused by the use of new technologies to do things previously impossible — be it with a goose-quill pen and parchment back then, or mouse and keyboard now. No rational person would disagree that artists should receive &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/copyright-net-neutrality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Albuquerque&#8217;s DSL Dead Zones</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2012/abq-dsl-dead-zones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, right here in Albuquerque, a 21st-century metropolis that some science fiction writers once imagined as the future capital of the Solar System, there are still many neighborhoods and small areas where it is impossible to get highspeed DSL Internet access. Even more surprisingly, not all of these dead zones are on the fringes of the urban sprawl, either. Some are located right in the busy heart of the city. One such residential dead zone, for instance, is right next to Coronado mall. It&#8217;s just a mile or so away from our Uptown office, yet as far as getting DSL service, it might as well be in the middle of the desert. Other DSL dead zones are scattered between Singer and Osuna, along the Jefferson Corridor, out toward Alameda and Los Ranchos, around Yale and I-25 up towards the Sunport, and even up by Juan Tabo and Central. Smaller patches also exist here and there seemingly without reason – one popular coffee shop on Menaul, for example, can&#8217;t get DSL at all, yet a vacant lot across the street could be provided with 3-5 MB without any problem. The holes in DSL coverage are not uniform by any means, and there are no helpful maps or listings. In fact, the information above was gleaned from remarks of our installers. But it turns out that there is a way to know. The only way to actually find out &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2012/abq-dsl-dead-zones/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What about the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect-IP Act (PIPA)?</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2011/sopa-pipa-piracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swcp.com/2011/sopa-pipa-piracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a customer wrote in for more information on these two important pieces of legislation. Here&#8217;s the response from SWCP President Mark Costlow, that we thought was so good, it deserved to be posted: SOPA and PROTECT-IP are both very bad ideas. They are attempts to address something that is a real problem (theft of intellectual property) but they do it in such a flawed way that the cure would be much worse than the disease. One can argue back and forth about how much of a problem piracy really is. Both sides tend to blow their positions out of proportion. But giving people the power to turn off (read: destroy) web sites at will, without due process, is irresponsible and dangerous. The existing mechanisms for removing infringing material from the internet already have &#8220;baby vs bathwater&#8221; problems, and these bills would make it worse. Here&#8217;s one example. DMCA Takedowns are routinely used to remove videos from YouTube which are deemed to contain a media company&#8217;s copyrighted material, when in fact the usage is in a news or commentary context and therefore covered under the Fair Use doctrine. The harmed party can protest the takedown and get it reversed, but that process is lengthy. For someone who makes their living commenting on current events, the takedown essentially nullifies the content.  It&#8217;s almost useless when they restore it 2 weeks later. Here&#8217;s a write-up of a recent case of this, but it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2011/sopa-pipa-piracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress layout and flow</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2011/wordpress-layout-and-flow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last article we talked about why you might want to use WordPress to build a website and a few of the key concepts, like static versus dynamic content, separation of content from look and feel and how important the flow of your website it to the customer&#8217;s experience. This article will show you in an example where you&#8217;d find the concepts we&#8217;ve been talking about. Overall page layout In a simple website your pages will be divided into several sections. Common ones are header, content, footer, and sidebar. Below are a couple of examples. Header &#160; Content and Sidebar &#160; Footer Blogging versus CMS In a pure CMS, (content management system) you have pages with information about your company, service, or topic of interest. They&#8217;re usually organized in a hierarchical arrangement and they have the feeling of a book with chapters and subchapters. A natural organization of a CMS is to have a main menu that links into different sections of the website. A blog is much more like a magazine. It&#8217;s very time sensitive. Articles are  organized by topics, but also by when they are published. Generally the home page on a blog consists of excerpts of the last few articles published, and comments from readers regarding these posts. A natural organization of a blog is to have an archive linking to articles posted during a particular time period such as a month. Also organization by topic &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2011/wordpress-layout-and-flow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting started with WordPress</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2011/getting-started-with-wordpress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamii</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The view from the sky Building a modern, professional looking website and keeping it up to date can be a challenge. There are tools that can take some of the tedium out of this process. One type of tool that is used more and more is the Content Management System (CMS). There are many varieties of  CMS out there. Some are geared towards building a website for a certain type of business, like restaurants or real estate. Some are more general purpose. One that we&#8217;ve found really useful is WordPress. WP started out life as a blogging tool but has grown into something anyone can use to construct a useful and functional website. One key thing that a CMS will give you is the separation of look and feel from content. This allows folks with little website-building knowledge to easily add content to a website without breaking the site. While WordPress provides lots of tools for building a consistent, attractive website from scratch,  it does take some time to get familiar with it.  This series of articles will introduce you to the key elements of how WP works, and how to find your way around. These will all be at a fairly high level to get you familiarized with the basic concepts of a WP site. These are the articles I wish I had found when starting to work with WordPress. Website Structure Most modern websites can be broken down &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2011/getting-started-with-wordpress/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>15 Reasons Why SWCP BUS Is Your Best Backup Option for the New Year</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2011/bus-best-backup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jnelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of the year provides an excellent occasion to review your backup strategy. Consider how your life would be affected next year if all the files you worked on this past year suddenly vanished. As anyone who has suffered such an event knows, a dead hard drive, stolen laptop, or stepped-on flash drive can turn your world upside-down. Because once that data is gone, it’s gone for good. A New Year’s resolution of “Never lose a file again” suddenly makes a whole lot of sense. Granted, there are plenty of backup options available, online along with tape and hard drives, CDs, and so forth. Some are cheap, others expensive, but for maximum security, most methods require that you discipline yourself to remember to copy the files or change out the tape or disk and physically take them someplace else every time you time you work on them. This is both inconvenient and because it&#8217;s so easy to forget, risky as well. Uploads online to distant data storage centers may solve some problems, but remote, big box service providers don&#8217;t have options a local service does such as using removable drives, technician setups, and in-office help.  A combination of both is needed. In trying to make surviving such disasters as data loss easier, Southwest Cyberport has developed SWCP BUS, an online backup system which is combined with our famous neighborly, local service. We are confident that this gives the SWCP &#8230; <a href="http://www.swcp.com/2011/bus-best-backup/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>.PRO Domains Available Now</title>
		<link>http://www.swcp.com/2011/pro-domains-available-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cheeks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may already know, .PRO domains have been around for several years.  However, they were previously difficult to register and maintain.  So much so that our partner registrar, OpenSRS, did not even carry them. Recently they have streamlined the administration of .PRO domains, and now SWCP is happy to be able to register them.  To celebrate we&#8217;re running a 2-for-1 promotion until Feb 15th 2012!  Buy a .PRO domain for $20, and we&#8217;ll register it for 2 years instead of 1! .PRO domains are intended to be used by licensed professionals (Doctors, Lawyers, Architects, Engineers, etc.)  As such, there is some additional information you have to provide when you register the domain (your license number, and a pointer to the authority which issued the license). We have a page describing a bit more about .PRO domains, complete with a request form if you want to get one of your very own, right here.]]></description>
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