YNot Web is pleased to announce it has added more convenient, secure, and quick ways for our clients to submit payment. For new clients, we can now process secure on-the-spot credit card transactions using Intuit’s GoPayment.  In addition, we are now offering online payment options for our invoiced clients through PaymentNetwork.  Through PaymentNetwork, clients can pay their invoices by clicking a link in the email notification and choose to pay using direct bank deposit or using a credit card.

If you have any questions about your next invoice or making a payment using either of these methods, please give us a call at 916-436-1638!

Its week #1 celebrating our 7th business anniversary and Arianna Barrera of Arianna’s Pet Care is our first winner for this year’s Customer Appreciation Raffle.

YNot Web set up Arianna’s web site in 2007.  Arianna referred one prospect to us this year.

Thanks for your loyalty and Congratulations Arianna!

YNot Web is celebrating its SEVENTH business anniversary this month with its annual Client Appreciation Raffle.  For those who just started working with us in the past year, this free raffle is open exclusively to our past and current YNot Web clients. Over the past seven years, our anniversary giveaways have included your favorite techie gadgets, cultural experiences, business escapes and valuable YNot Web services totaling over $10,000.  

How do YOU enter?  
We will be holding raffle drawings every week throughout July, so don’t delay – the earlier you enter the more chances you have to win!  If you are eligible, make sure you get at least one entry in before our first drawing Friday July 9th, to maximize your chances. Our last set of drawings will be held Friday July 30 so don’t miss out for your chance at prizes valued up to $500 each. Past YNot Web clients in good standing will be receiving their initial entry forms with instructions on how to receive bonus entries today.  If you are a YNot Web client and haven’t seen your entry instructions by email, please contact us to let us know.

Good luck!

Wow, today marks YNot Web’s 7th business anniversary! All this month we’ll be having Customer Appreciation announcements & opportunities!   If you have worked with us in the past and have any feedback or a testimonial you’d like to share, we’d love to hear from you.  You can submit feedback by filling out our form at:

http://testimonials.ynotweb.com

Every referral and testimonial received since our last Customer Appreciation raffle counts as an extra entry in this year’s raffle. All past and current clients have an opportunity to be included in the raffle.  Watch throughout the month for additional details and special happenings.

(The information is  from an email warning sent earlier this week to all our clients using the WordPress platform.  If you are a past YNot Web client from 2006 or later and did NOT receive this email, PLEASE contact us at 916-436-1638 to confirm whether this information pertains to you.  Email or spam filtering may have kept you from receiving this vital information.)

Over the holiday weekend, information went out that there is a worm virus making its way across the internet looking for old, unpatched versions of WordPress.  Only the last two versions of WordPress- 2.8.4 and 2.8.3 (released in the last couple of months) are immune to this worm.

Most of YNot Web’s websites since the beginning of 2007 are built upon the WordPress platform.  Our recommendation to each project client was to plan on upgrades once or twice per year.  You can see your WordPress version by logging in to your Dashboard- it will display your installed version on the first screen.

If your site launched prior to August of this year and you have not upgraded or had someone else upgrade your site, I urge you to do so now.  Please also, make sure that you fully back up your files and the database before an upgrade is started.

Rest assured, if you have a monthly maintenance/retainer agreement with YNot Web, you have already been upgraded or been notified that your upgrade needs to occur this week.

Upgrades can be fast & simple, especially if done on a regular basis, but grow in complexity the more plugins (added features) you have and the larger the difference in versions (there were major changes at versions 2.3, 2.6, and 2.7).   Also, your hosting company choices can ease the complexity of upgrades.  If you are hosted with HostGator, our top recommended host since mid-2007, their backup system and Fantastico application control facilitate a smooth transition.

Again, if you do not have version 2.8.4, I urge you to make plans to upgrade now.  Please let me know if you need assistance with this- either by scheduling the work with us or if you need login/hosting account reminders to provide to someone else.  Attached below are some basic steps/best practices for anyone who wants to manage the upgrade on their own.

How to Backup-Update WordPress on HostGator Hosting

Here is the complete list of clients who won in our final draw of this year’s Customer Appreciation Raffle:

• Janet Pickel, Sentinel Technology Solutions
• Mike Pulskamp, Pulskamp Arts
• Laura Abernathy, Mission Accomplished Academy
• Annette Burkam, DIY
• Christy Gelesko, GoGift
• Jane Steele, Arcade Creek Recreation and Park District

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners.  Looking forward to another year of working with all my clients and new clients to come.

We have 6 more winners, commemorating YNot Web’s 6th business anniversary.  Notifications are going out throughout the weekend.

Our first winner, Janet Pickel of Sentinel Technology Solutions has selected her prize to be season tickets to Sacramento Opera.  Our second winner is being notified and once we know that person’s selections, we will notify the next and so on.

Thanks again to all our clients & partners who submitted new prize ideas for winners to choose.