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Encryption IS Way Ahead

We recently launched a small website (https://iciamprizes.org) as a companion site to the main ICIAM website. It's the first time we've pushed a client to adopt SSL for all site visitors, and something we will encourage for all future sites. In simple terms using HTTPS offers end-to-end encryption, particularly important if you are asking site visitors to submit important data; such an approach is valid to passing your login details.

Been Busy

Two years since the last blog post!! Cognimatic is alive and well, just so busy with everyone else's sites that we've forgotten to keep our own up to date.

New Website for European Mathematical Society

Almost 10 months since being first approached by the European Mathematical Society to update their Drupal (version 5) website, the new Drupal 7 version was quietly launched this weekend. This was a massive undertaking, as the Drupal 5 site had little structure and multiple security vulnerabilities, and essentially required a complete redesign.

Rhetoric - Flexible Content

The internet is full of junk. A staggering amount of junk: 1 million websites launched each day; billions of packets of content also tweeted, bookmarked, shared or otherwise thrown into the bubbling cauldron of human endeavour. Apparently, there are even 2 million ways to unblock a sink. OK, there are 2 million websites that claim to show you how to unblock a sink. Some do. Most don't.