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By Carla
As far as our personal health and well-being is concerned, it is generally accepted that keeping your body strong and healthy is much more effective than letting it fall into ill-health and then attempting to rectify the problem. The same principle should be applied to our software and, in this particular case, our WordPress sites.READ MORE
By Carla and Tom
Photo from Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash
Have you ever wondered why online banking has so many OTPs? It’s because cyber security is a big deal, that’s why you hear it on the news more and more. And while you might think that hackers aren’t as interested in your shopping habits as state secrets, you’d be wrong. Whether you are a global superpower or an undercover cat blogger, your data is valuable. Let me explain why “password123” won’t cut the mustard and how two-factor authentication is a must have.
Email – something we take for granted until it stops working. And as we have no idea how or why it works, when it stops, it can be quite a stressful affair.
We have had a busy, stressful few weeks at Pomegranite: big projects, tight deadlines and long days.
I decided to do a hands-on, practical tutorial to plunge everyone’s brains into the deep end and perhaps flip the reset button at the same time.
By Carla
So you want a WordPress website, you contact some lovely developers (like Pomegranite), they build you a site and once it is live you never log in again.
A few months down the line you find some kind of issue on the site. Maybe you are receiving a huge amount of spam (viagra anyone?), perhaps the look of the site has changed and you don’t know why, or maybe the site speed has slowly degraded.
Why has this happened? In short, updates. Updates that have not been done. READ MORE
By Carla
This past Friday, we at Pomegranite put on our 5th birthday bash at The German Club in Gardens. To give you an idea of the success of our party, I will begin at the end:
Tom, Liz and I on stage at The Manila Bar performing (read: shouting) Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody:
Liz: “I’ve signed us up to sing Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Carla: “You know I can’t sing, right?”
Liz: “I know.”
Carla: “Cool!”
Needless to say, our Pomegranite trio wowed the crowd.
By Carla
In May, Google announced that it was renaming its Map services to ‘Google Maps Platform’ and merging “Standard and Premium plans to form one pay-as-you go pricing plan for [their] core products.”
Personally, mademarian.co.za is my favourite site to date. Since the initial build, we have updated the site and added e-commerce functionality:
By Carla
On the 27th of April, Google announced that from the beginning of October 2017 “Chrome will show the “Not secure” warning in two additional situations: when users enter data on an HTTP page, and on all HTTP pages visited in Incognito mode.”
You may be wondering What is HTTP and HTTPS? and What does this mean for my site? Let’s start at the beginning:
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) was the system used in ‘the beginning’ by network administrators as the standard procedure for exchanging information. However once everyone understood this process, it became very easy to intercept these exchanges. Thus HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) was developed to protect the information exchanged over the network. HTTPS uses an SSL Certificate to encrypt the information. This means that even if someone intercepts information being exchanged they would not be able to read it.READ MORE
By Carla
Sitting at a desk all day is not healthy, but something that’s a reality for most of us. We’ve compiled a few tips to help keep your body happy.
– Carla
Last year I was introduced to an online graphic design app called Canva. Today, I don’t know how I would work without it (I use it every day).
This is why I love it:
– Carla
Working at Pomegranite means a multitude of things. One of these things is that we work really hard, another is that we are located at the top of Wale Street in the city center (a prime spot for most of our gustatory requirements). Eating amazing food makes us happy and gives us something to look forward to. And yes, sometimes we have second lunch. With all of this in mind, here are our top five lunch spots: