When 111 Web Studio started in the web business in 1995, if a business didn't have their company listed in the yellow pages, there was really no other way for a local person to find it. They were just invisible. As we all recognize, little by little the yellow pages have become less and less used and ...Read More...

Have you had the same tired look for years? Are your competitors outshining you online? The New Year is here and it's a great time to refresh your online presence with a fresh, new, mobile friendly, custom web design! So much business is won and lost on website functionality and design. It's too ...Read More...

Some folks are getting excited about the new dot word domains like .hotel because they imagine they will get better search results with them. At this point, we are told this is indeed their imagination. While some initial evidence has made some researchers speculate whether the new dot word TLDs might ...Read More...

Microsoft has announced they will discontinue the free website builder that comes as part of the Microsoft 365 Sharepoint service in January 2015. The cost of MS365 won't change. Microsoft says web sites currently using the SharePoint Online Public Website service will be supported for two years, giving ...Read More...

We are pleased to announce the addition of a new method for uploading files to your Build111 or Church111 website. This methodology is in place throughout the content management system. For example, in the files section, if you click "Add New File" you should get a new page. At the top of the page you ...Read More...

By now, you probably know all about the North Korean government effort to stop Sony from showing the comedy movie about the assassination of their leader. This hacker action was an attack like that is very difficult to stop. Recent research by a Microsoft strategist and a security expert claim that ...Read More...

When building an online business system or web based custom program, it's nice to know your web development programming resource has the experience and knowledge to get the job done. At 111 Web Studio, we have been confronted with a wide range of interesting challenges over our two decades of custom ...Read More...

Since this is the season for sharing, we thought it would be a good time to mention that one of the great things about the Build111 and Church111 website builders and content management systems (CMS) is 111 Web Studio's community based approach to feature enhancements. When any one of our 111 website ...Read More...

Over the years, website owners and SEO "experts" have tried all sorts of tricks to get their website to be one of the top search results and over the years, search engines have developed better and better algorithms to foil dishonest attempts to jump in front of the next guy who might have a better ...Read More...

We are sorry to report the latest WordPress vulnerability which apparently has been around for four years and effects 86% of all WordPress sites. This one is a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) bug and is associated with the commonly used comment system plugin. If you are using WordPress versions between ...Read More...

Let's not kid ourselves here... your goal is to get listed on the first page of Google, right? So you've got to ask yourself... why do search engines present one link over another? What do you have to do to get on that critical first page of Google's search results? As with anyone else, if you want ...Read More...

We are always doing everything we can think of to stay ahead of the bad guys and this week has been no exception. This time we have added several security updates to the,Build111 and Church111 guest book feature. The Build111 and Church111 SaaS (software as a service),content management systems and ...Read More...

111 Web Studio is pleased to announce several enhancements including the addition of international shipping options for UPS, FedEx and USPS in the Build111 and Church111 shopping carts. These powerful SaaS CMS website builders have always been more feature rich than any other system we can find on the ...Read More...

Many of you may already have heard about the Internet-wide security issue referred to as POODLE that came out on October 14, and have asked us if you need to do anything about it. The short answer is maybe, so if you have specific questions about your own application, let us know and we'll take a look. Meanwhile, ...Read More...

Every piece of content you distribute to your audience should have a purpose. The purpose is quantified through a measurable conversion.  The conversion could be, watching a video, clicking to the next page, sharing, liking, retweeting, signing up for a newsletter, buying a product, joining a cause; ...Read More...

UPDATE: Apparently, there's more bad news for Drupal site owners. If you didn't perform the latest upgrade within 7 hours of the announcement (by 11PM UTC on 10/15/14) your site has almost certainly been hacked. Worse, the server it's on could possibly be breached as well. Drupal security experts ...Read More...

We know that building our clients a great, custom website is only the beginning of the process. Once you have this new look it isn't worth much if it doesn't get any traffic. There are many things you can do to help your website get off the ground. Today we will focus on three handy tools that are effective ...Read More...

Your digital marketing manager keeps telling you to write blogs. (If they are not you should probably be looking for a new one.) But what constitutes a blog? Understanding what a blog can be is a common roadblock to new blog content creators. So we are going to make it as simple as we can for you.. A ...Read More...

Bad guys have figured out ways to pack malware into the wrapper that apps are wrapped in such that when you download a perfectly innocent app, you get the malware with it. There is a fix, though, so all is not lost. This is just another episode in the ongoing battle between hackers and the rest of us, ...Read More...

If you are using Drupal 7, you absolutely need to upgrade to version 7.3 immediately... sigh. This drill seems like it's never ending, but it's a fact of life in today's Internet World. This particular vulnerability is a bad one. It allows a hacker to take total control of your site... and unfortunately, ...Read More...