DemoWolf

DemoWolf produces online Flash-based video support tutorials for the web hosting industry. Founded in 2005, DemoWolf currently has over 3,600 video tutorials in inventory, including over 1,400 Voice tutorials (Flash tutorials with voice narration), with new video tutorials being added every month. Web hosting providers can purchase these tutorials and have them re-branded for their own websites by having their logo inserted into the first and last frame of every video tutorial (this service offered free of charge by DemoWolf upon purchase of the tutorials).

DemoWolf’s vast array of support tutorials include tutorials on cPanel, Parallels Plesk, H-Sphere, Helm, Direct Admin, Email applications, Updating DNS settings, Domain Transfers, setting up Private Nameservers, FTP programs, Horde, Squirrelmail and Roundcube webmail programs, phpMyAdmin, PayPal, PhotoShop, Joomla, WordPress, Gallery, CubeCart, ZenCart, Magento Commerce, WHMCS, and many other applications often provided by web hosting companies. Many tutorials are also available in Spanish, French, Greek, Dutch and several other languages.

DemoWolf also produces custom video support tutorials for companies who have their own specific needs or applications, for which they want their own custom tutorials. It is with this custom production service that sees DemoWolf expanding beyond the web hosting industry.

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The Holiday Season is fast approaching. It is time to turn our thoughts toward the ones we love and search for that perfect gift. 2Checkout Suppliers have a variety of gift ideas that that will be perfect for your gift-giving needs. Here is a brief list of suppliers from around the world ready to help you spread some Holiday Cheer!

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Smashing Magazine has an article that shows common website usability problems and ways to avoid or fix them.

“The goal of user interface design is to make a website easier for visitors to use. For online stores, fixing problems brings in more visitors who browse more products for a longer period of time. Even simple fixes, like not requiring registration for purchases, can have a huge effect on your bottom line. Keep these common problems in mind the next time you design an online store. Your customers will thank you for it.”

Having visited a large number of sites in my time on the Internet, I have to agree with the observations as well as the remedies.

X-Shops solution combines a flexible shopping cart engine with the whole set of technical services:

* Powerful e-commerce platform – X-Cart shopping cart including all of its commercial add-ons and free skin templates. 100% open source code and a template-driven design architecture along with numerous ready-made third-party solutions (available at an extra fee) enable you to customize your online store to suit your specific needs.

* Reliable and secure hosting service – Web servers configured and protected in full accordance with e-commerce industry standards (PCI DSS). Number of accounts per server is limited in order to achieve maximum performance. Every day backup of store files and databases.

* Qualified technical support – more than eight years of experience in e-Commerce.

This fact allows you to concentrate solely on sales, marketing and customer relations.

Web site: www.x-shops.com

Last week I wrote an article detailing how to comply with the first two PCI DSS Standards. In this article, I will show what is involved in complying with the two requirements in the “Protect Cardholder Data” standard.

Requirement 3: Protect stored cardholder data
Requirement 4: Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks

We have provided a secure network to collect and store our customer’s information. Now, we need to turn our attention to the data itself. To fulfill requirement 3, we need to come up with a policy detailing how we will store card holder data. This sounds easy enough, just make a few decisions and stick with them. However, this is actually a bit more complicated as the PCI-DSS FAQ explains. There are 20 different criteria to meet. While I suggest reading the linked FAQ some highlights are:

• 3.1 Keep cardholder data storage to a minimum.
• 3.2 Do not store sensitive authentication data after authorization (even if encrypted).
• 3.2.3 Do not store the personal identification number (PIN) or the encrypted PIN block.
• 3.3 Mask PAN (Personal Account Number) when displayed (the first six and last four digits are the maximum number of digits to be displayed).

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