Tride Media

Last week we were officially awarded Google Partner status with our Google Analytics certification. It's an incredible achievement for us, and we look forward to putting our knowledge to work with our clients to continue growing their businesses through the internet.

This is one particular reason we avoid using Paypal for a payment processor and instead direct our clients to companies like Stripe. We have had our paypal account frozen randomly by Paypal for no apparent reason, and having your money locked away with no way to access it is completely unacceptable. Yes, mistakes can be made which cause flags to be raised but in our case it was listed as "suspicious activity" and we never did find out what it was that flagged our account, though they did eventually release our funds.

Here we go, Instagram Business profiles. Can't wait to have access to analytics information!

Life of a developer... spending a day watching the F8 Facebook developer conference. https://f8.facebooklive.com/

Interesting... Google now operating as a domain registrar. No .ca domains as of yet, but this could mean great things for some of the more common top level domains.

Drupal is the latest CMS to have a major security flaw revealed. Just another reason why we don't use open source and pre-developed content management systems. http://arstechnica.com/…/drupal-sites-h ad-hours-to-patch-b…/

Elegant Exposures (our photography division) is hosting a great free photo shoot for all kids trick or treating our in our community. Swing by between 4:00pm and 8:00pm in your costume for some pictures in the halloween set!

Google finally released some information on it's latest search update. This is a great time to go through and check out your SEO options to make sure you aren't negatively affected.

It seems odd, but we can track our workload purely by how often the fridge gets restocked with RedBull.

Here's a great resource for you designers out there!

Spring clean means mirror image the front room in the studio.

This is one of the many reasons we do not recommend wordpress to our customers. It's not near as secure as they would like you to believe, unless you know how to program.
http://arstechnica.com/…/more-than-1620 00-legit-wordpress-…/