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Development

HTML, CSS, PHP, Ajax, Content, Search Engines, web browsers, mobile devices...web development is a complex process.

One stop for all your web development and hosting needs.

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Hosting

Web hosting requires a lot of trust. Trust with your files, messages, and information. You already trust us with your priceless member data; trust us with your web data as well. Our hosting is rock solid, with state-of-the-art servers and around the clock monitoring.

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Professional Services

Web Services Professionals will manage your web site updates. You simply provide the content and we'll optimize it, test it and publish it. Avoid the hassle of managing HTML and browser compatibility. Let our professionals do it for you.

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Improving the Security of your Website: Rate Limiting

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CU*Answers Web Services and Network Services employ several layers to keep our servers and websites safe. Starting this week, CU*Answers Web Services is adding an additional layer to your web security by turning on rate limiting on your website web application firewalls. This improves the security of your website by preventing drive-by bad guys from scanning your website for possible issues they could exploit. This is part of our ongoing dedication to ensuring the safety and security of your digital assets.

With rate limiting on your website, the server will begin throttling and slowing down requests and possibly blocking requests for IP addresses that make excessive amounts of requests to your website. We are following the vendor’s recommendations for these levels and monitoring it closely in our dashboards, however, there is always the possibility that regular users are blocked. If this happens, the block will automatically fall off after a short period of time or you can always contact Web Services with the IP address that was inadvertently blocked.

Finally, CU*Answers does not disable security features or whitelist vendors to perform scans or penetration assessments. While we understand these tests are likely to be benign, CU*Answers hosts sites for many clients. All penetration tests risk unintentional denial of service to our clients, no matter how careful the testing firm is in setting parameters.

CU*Answers does hire external audit firms to test our webhosting sites on a regular basis. In addition, CU*Answers also performs its own vulnerability scans on no less than a quarterly basis. While we do not make public the results of testing, all results are reported to the CU*Answers Board of Directors, as well as any plans for remediation. CU*Answers does make publicly available our control scheme through our SSAE-18 SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports, which can be downloaded from the CU*Answers Due Diligence page.

Network Maintenance – Tuesday, March 19

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On Tuesday morning, March 19<sup?th, from 12:00 AM – 8:00 AM ET, CU*Answers Network Services will be performing internal network maintenance. During this time, there may be brief network interruptions to our website and email hosting.

TruNorth Federal Credit Union Launches New Website


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TruNorth Federal Credit Union launches their newly redesigned website, now featuring the latest full site editing theme with draggable blocks for easy updates. The redesign introduces a clean, professional design, promotional banners, a modern customizable slider for promoting new loans, and a section dedicated to featured rates. Optimized for mobile users, the site ensures easy navigation and accessibility across all devices and includes a section for news and community highlights, keeping members informed.

Check it out here – https://www.trunorthcu.org/

Critical Network Maintenance Project on Sunday, March 10, 2024

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Please note that all CU*Answers Web Services hosted websites and emails will be impacted by this critical network maintenance project on Sunday, March 10th 2024.

The window for the scheduled downtime is from Sunday, March 10th 2024, from 4:00 AM to 9:00 AM ET and all websites and hosted email will experience some downtime.

For more information on the project and the timelines, please visit CU*Answers Client News.

Members1st Community Credit Union Launches New Website

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Members1st Community Credit Union launched a new website today. The home page includes: rotating banners for current specials, a section highlighting featured rates, a news section, testimonials and social media links. The design is a modern design that works and looks great on devices of all sizes. The new website is designed to help members and possible new members to quickly locate and acccess information. Take a look at the new website here:  https://www.members1st.com/. Congratulations to the team at Members1st on their new website!

Website Accessibility and Color Blindness

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Too often, website accessibility is seen as a checklist, but it’s much more complex than that.  Having standards like the Web Content Accessibillity Guidelines (WCAG) provide a metric that we can measure against, often with a pass or fail scoring.  But even with these guideliness, accessibility conformance cannot be automated.

Take for example, color blindness.   Your design or corporate colors might pass for WCAG AA contrast ratios, but that’s assuming your visitor has normal color vision.  What happens when your visitor is colorblind or colorweak.  And, like most disabilities, colorblindness is on a spectrum, so each visitor might have a different perception.

Smashing Magazine has a nice article about the challenges of making your site conform to the guidelines while dealing with colorblindness.  One big takeaway is this very cool tool:  whocanuse.

CU*Answers Web Services has an accessibility expert on staff.  Susanna is constantly staying up to date with guidelines and tools and educating our team.  If you need help or are concerned about the accessibility of your website, check out our Web Quality Assurance program.