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Helping to reduce SQL Injection and Improve General Website Security

Posted by James Palmer-Jones On December - 5 - 2010

How can you be safe from an SQL Injection Attack…

Reduce SQL Injection Kent

Reduce SQL Injection Database creation Kent

Is your database safe from SQL injection attacks? This  shows us how to prevent them from occurring and Improve General Website Security. The database is the heart of most web applications: it stores the data needed for the web sites and applications to “survive”. It stores user credentials and sensitive financial information. Improve General Website Security. It stores preferences, invoices, payments, inventory data, etc. It is through the combination of a database and web scripting language that we as developers can produce sites that keep clients happy, pay the bills, and most importantly run our businesses.

But what happens when you realize that your critical data may not be safe? What happens when you realize that a new security bug has just been found? Most likely you either patch it or upgrade your database server to a later, bug-free version. Security flaws and patches are found all the time in both databases and programming languages, but I bet 9 out of 10 of you have never heard of SQL injection attacks…?  Creative Venom can help you yo ensure your Database is protected from these attacks. Email design@creativevenom.co.uk or call us Today on 01227 265641

The Database was gleaned for injection and any malicious damage to the article ID’s were deleted. The DB was then globally restored and paths were checked. The articles were restored and rogue injection was no more. This type of work can take between 1-2 weeks to perform depending  on the size of the Database and the state of the back-end architecture.

Reduce SQL Injection Kent

Reduce SQL Injection Database creation London

These are visual examples of where we recently came to the rescue of a website that was built a good 6 or 7 years ago and many patches and blocks were required in over 100 instances of where the PHP code was making a call to the database.

Reduce SQL Injection Kent London

Reduce SQL Injection Kent London

Creative Venom, based in Whitstable Kent work with many Clients, some of which include; Physiotherapists, Massage and Health Spa, Beauty Salons, Gymnasiums and Fitness Centres, Martial Arts and High Energy Dance and Drama Groups. We produce Branding and build each of them an Online identity on the Internet to drive additional leads to their businesses.

Creative Venom have recently been working with a locally based Physiotherapist and Acupuncturist Health Care Professional in Whitstable Kent. The project brief consisted of the following:

To achieve a clean, clinical layout with an intuitive navigation and professional layout of Website Design Kent. The site was to be information based with light graphics, merely echoing the colour scheme and exiting Branding.

The Website Design Kent will feature all the services available at the Physiotherapy Practice in Whitstable Kent. Creative Venom will be working with media (images and text mainly) to populate the various Rehabilitation sections to the Website. We will be working with the Client on selecting some appropriate imagery to dress-up the remaining pages using the right Graphic Design and Website Design Kent.

The Website will provide some wider reading around each Service as well as a reliable means of contacting the Client by way of Treatment Enquiries and Appointment Availability.

Website Design Healthcare Professional Kent

Website Design Healthcare Professional Kent

Website Designers in Kent work with Local Networking Group Faversham

Posted by James Palmer-Jones On September - 30 - 2010

Creative Venom are Website Designers based in Kent and have been working with a Local Business Networking Group in Faversham. We produced the original Website several years ago and it has served the Active Business Group well. Although now it is time for a face lift and some improvement on functionality. The Group have some clearly defined goals and it is our job to help facilitate these changes and assist in achieving these objectives. With our help and advice we have decided to implement the following:

Website Designers in Kent working with Networking Group

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  • A header that clearly defines the Group and its Motives
  • A prominent Title and Contact details
  • Two strands of ‘pull-factor’ – the Member and the Customer
  • A closer relationship between referrals in and outside the Group
  • A more Newsworthy and Informative Website
  • A site that allows Social Networking Interaction
  • Member focused – a microsite for all member under the main umbrella site
  • A clear area for Links, Partners and Affiliates
  • A section for Gallery Photos taken at the usual Events that happen each year
  • An area to report on recent Expos and Business Events that ABG attend
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Website Development Whitstable Faversham Herne Bay Kent

Affordable Website Shop Merchant Online Kent Creative Venom

Posted by James Palmer-Jones On September - 22 - 2010
Website Shop Online Merchant Kent Website Designers

Website Shop Online Merchant Kent Website Designers

Successful Website Shop Design by Website Developers in Kent

Creative Venom produce affordable Online Website Shops that look elegant and stylish. They do not only look the part but are tailored to your online business needs. A decorators merchants supplying designer wallpaper and paint have now benefited from one of these websites designed by Creative Venom who are based in Whitstable Kent.

How to Edit my own Website

The advantage that the client has is that they are in total control of the content featuring on their website. They can change the content daily if they so wish. All the typical pages of the website such as About Us and Contact Information are also editable and maintainable in the same way as the shop is controllable. This way in the long run the client will save money as they manage the site themselves. Creative Venom now just provide Support should the client require it.

Website Optimisation Kent

Brands, Collections and sub-collections can be viewed on the site. The site has some brief animation too. The site is appropriately optimized too so it ranks well for its preferred Keywords and Keyword Phrases. This will improve the visibility of the website on search engines such as Google and Yahoo which will in turn lead to greater number of inquiries and therefore orders pledged online. It is early days for this website but the signs are looking good. Like with all website it will be up to the client to market directly by driving the website with regular news and by adding frequent products to the shop element of the Kent Website Designers.

Website Design Sitemaps Creative Venom Website Development Kent

Posted by James Palmer-Jones On August - 24 - 2010

Let Creative Venom make your Website susceptible to all major Search Engines by designing and creating all the necessary XML Sitemaps

In the year 2005 Google released a protocol that would make use of the XML format.

Google search engine now makes use of a Sitemap for it’s algorythmic benefit in regards to indexing content. Formerly a Site Map was for the benefit of a visitor to a Website.2. Website Development Kent.

Google’s new sitemap protocol Website Development Kent was developed in response to the increasing size and complexity of websites. Business websites often contained hundreds of products in their catalogues; while the popularity of blogging led to webmasters updating their material at least once a day, not to mention popular community-building tools like forums and message boards. As websites got bigger and bigger, it was difficult for search engines to keep track of all this material, sometimes “skipping” information as it crawled through these rapidly changing pages.

Through the XML protocol, search engines Website Development could track the URLs more efficiently, optimizing their search by placing all the information in one page. XML also summarizes how frequently a particular website is updated, and records the last time any changes were made.

XML sitemaps Creative Venom Website Development Kent were not, as some people thought, a tool for search engine optimization. It does not affect ranking, but it does allow search engines to make more accurate rankings and searches. It does this by providing the data that a search engine needs, and putting it one place-quite handy, given that there are millions of websites to plough through.

To encourage other search engines to adopt the XML protocol, Google published it under the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license. Its efforts paid off. Recently, Google happily announced that Yahoo and Microsoft had agreed to “officially support” the XML protocoll. This is good news for website owners, and an applaudable sign of cooperation between known competitors.

The shared recognition of the XML protocol means that website developers no longer need to create different types of sitemaps for the different search engines. They can create one file for submission, and then update it when they have made changes on the site. This simplifies the whole process of fine-tuning and expanding a website.

Through this move, the XML format will soon become a standard feature of all website creation and development. Webmasters themselves have begun to see the benefits that this file provides. Search engines rank a page according to the relevance of its content to particular key words-but until the XML format, there were instances when that content was not properly picked up. It was often frustrating for webmasters to realize that their efforts to build a website were left unseen. Blogs, additional pages, or even the addition of multimedia files took hours to create. Through the XML file, those hours will not be wasted, and will be seen by the three leading search engines-Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

In a recent move Ask.com has now begun to support xml sitemaps and in an update to the sitemaps protocol it is now possible to tell all search engines the location of your xml sitemap by placing an entry into your robots.txt file.

Website Design Childrens Fashion Kent London

Posted by James Palmer-Jones On August - 5 - 2010

Creative Venom designed an E-commerce Website Shop Kent or Online Store Front Kent for the Children’s Online Fashion industry. The Client had already a Name for the Online Business Kent in place, so it was up to Creative Venom LtdDesign Agency Kent, to come up with a an Online Visual wrapper for the Online Concept Kent.

The Website Design Kent had to appeal to both girls and boys (as well as the mums and dads) so the design look and feel was very important to get right. Pastel colours with bolder black lines to enhance animations was the chosen route and this has contributed to a very eye catching website.

Ziggie is the icon character and Creative Venom have animated him to bring him to life and make him believable and convincing enough to head up the Simple Online Shop Kent Store Front. Most pages have an animated header graphic built in Flash. The content that needs to be indexed by he search engines was left as XHTML.

About Website Design Kent

Creative Venom provide Design and Photographic solutions for Screen and Print. The Kent based Graphic and Website Design Agency showcase an extensive portfolio, boasting of clientele up and down the country.

The Kent Website Developers and Designers offer a Consultancy and Implementation package to ensure their customers needs are fully comprehended and translated to the Internet in the most cost effective way.

Creative Venom work with a variety of businesses of varying size, each at differing stages of Online Maturity. The Team have implemented successful and measurable strategies for numerous Business Start-Ups, Banks and Building Societies, Night Clubs and Entertainment Venues as well as Fashion, Education and Engineering.

The Kent Designers have developed a Content Management System or CMS known as Scoop. This system provides website owners with an intuitive set of tools to Maintain or Manage their own content and publish live to the Internet. Scoop also provides a variety of E-Commerce Modules designed to allow businesses to Trade successfully Online in a Secure Environment.

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