Email address spoofing incidents. Not us! (11th September)
Have you received unwanted email *from* us? Our email server has recently been receiving quite a high number of "Delivery Failure" messages from many varied locations from around the globe, but we rarely deal with companies outside of the UK.
One of the techniques a spammer uses spoofs the *from* address in their emails. There is nothing wrong with our email server and it does not support unauthenticated relay (technical term), so it's unlikely to even come through our server. There is no way for us to stop this from happening, but it's easy to verify if en email DOES come from us - phone us!
If you do get unwanted emails we're happy for you to forward them to us and we will investigate the true source of the junk.
E-Commerce Progress (2nd August)
We are now live with our "demo4" solution, the complete e-commerce solution for any online shop. We have two more web sites under development based on this technology and will have some diverse variations in our portfolio soon to prove how unique and personal web sites can be made despite the heavy recycling of our proven code base.
Coming Soon: Pendragon Cast Iron Radiators, Pink Shooze.
E-Commerce demo site - under construction (20th June 2008)
Here at Web Space Invaders, we're proud of our latest ecommerce solutions. We've put together bespoke software that can be tailored with custom front-ends, additional coding and artwork to make individual and distinctive commercial web sites. We now have four customers using the software, one already live and successfully selling online.
It's all talk without example, so with this in mind our next big creation with be "demo 4". Impressive-sounding and good in action! If you're interested in seeing how the ecommerce sites work from in front and behind, please get in touch. We'll be giving full administrator access to our demo 4 shop, letting you operate the back-end system of a fully implemented shop. You'll be able to upload products and photos, arrange the categories and product attributes. View and process incoming orders with a simulated payment system, through to despatch handling and notification. Hopefully it'll give you a feel for how easy it all is, and at the same time powerful.
The demo 4 system is currently in development but will be live soon. Watch this space...
SQL injection attacks on the increase (5th June 2008)
Here at Web Space Invaders we keep a log of page errors and missing files as they are spotted by the web server. It's primarily for fault finding in form submissions and broken links, but in recent months there has also been a spate of SQL injection attempts picked up by the system.
We're performing an audit of all databases for possible issues but if your web site has suddenly taken-on annoying popups and javascript please let us know immediately! We take regular backups of the databases and can restore your original content prior to the attack. We also trace the path of the attack and plug the holes in old source code. The lessons we are learning ensure future code is safeguarded already!
Effective immediately we also redirect known SQL injection attempts using pattern-matching at the web server level. This combats the known issue across ALL hosted sites on our servers and as we encounter additional patterns we add them to our redirection setup.
Please call our technical support line if you have any questions about the steps we are taking and how they affect your web site.
Additional brochure web sites (7th May 2008)
April was a busy month for us, with three more brochure web sites going live. They all feature a rich graphic design element and mark the employment of an additional designer/programmer to our team, Andy. Brochure web sites are simpler to implement and ideal if your limited number of services and products need advertising online without the cost of a full e-commerce solution.
New e-commerce solutions (28th April 2008)
We're happy to have launched our new e-commerce solution featuring lots of ideas and tools designed to make online shopping sites easier for customers and site owners alike.
The first major site to use our new development code is Garden Machinery Direct (see out portfolio here), selling all sizes of garden tools and equipment with easy navigation, product filtering and superior administration options.
Many thanks of course to GMD for providing valuable feedback and suggestion whilst developing their web site. Their ideas and rigorous testing over the last few months have ensured a successful site launch generating sales since its first day online!
The Peele School Fund (17th January 2008)
Web Space Invaders are proud to donate towards the Peele School's application to become a specialist science college.
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If their bid is successful, then students will benefit from:
* A new e-learning laboratory equipped with state of the art technology.
* Learning in refurbished science labs.
* Additional funding which would be used to raise achievement across the college.
* Increased staffing to reduce class sizes and personalise students' learning.
* Links with business and industry.
* Enhanced opportunities in Science and Maths.
UPDATED: Congratulations to the Peele School on successfully raising the funds to put forward their bid.
Happy New Year (10th January 2008)
We would like to wish all our customers and visitors to our website a very Happy and Prosperous New Year.
We Have Moved!!!!! (10th December 2007)
Due to the success of 2007 we have moved to bigger and better premises. Feel free to pop in and see us and have a brew from our fabulous coffee machine.....