2008 News Archive

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 - As you know we put a lot of effort into making sure that the websites we build are accessible to all kinds of users and search engine spiders. The World...
Serious security flaw found in IE - Users of the world's most common web browser have been advised to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The flaw in Microsoft's...
Syntax errors - An upgrade of our server yesterday resulted in database errors on a number of websites due to a critical PHP error. The problem affected the insertion...

New Banking Details - As of now you have the option of paying by cheque or direct debit into an account in Australia. This should solve the problems encountered when making...
Network Outage 28/10 - There was a networking problem today around between 06:06 and 08:26 AEDST affecting access to hosted websites. These problems occur once or twice a year...
Email Delays - October 6 - Correcting the problems relating to 'outgoing' emails yesterday had an unintended consequence of blocking or deferring a number of 'incoming' emails today....
Email problems October 4-5 - Following a recent (automated) update there have been problems with the format of emails sent from this server (from email contact forms for example) resulting...

New name and address - Please note that from this month Chirp is now operating as "Chirp Internet S.R.L.", based in Sibiu, Romania. That's right, we've moved again. You...

See your website as search engines do - Here's a great tool from Google that lets you view your website with all the structure and images ripped out. It should give you an idea as to what text...

Hall Community Website Launch - The Hall Community Website is to be officially launched today by MLA Mary Porter AM. This is our first Community Geographic Domain Name (CGDN), and is...
Spam coming from GMail? - GMail has been under heavy attack from spammers the last few months as their CAPTCHA security has been 'cracked' or otherwise circumvented. A number of...

Moving Update - We're settling in now in our new home, and are already online as you can see, so Chirp is back in business. Thank you everyone for your patience during...
Moving House - The Chirp office will be moving this week on 15 May. The webserver itself is staying put so none of our websites will be affected in any way. More details,...

Office Closed - The Chirp office in Purmerend will be closed between Thursday 17 April and 24 April while we take a short trip. We will still be checking emails, etc,...
Network Problems - There has been a network problem overnight which stopped traffic to the server for a few hours. The server kept running throughout, but was unreachable....

Safari 3.1 on Windows - We've been recommending for years now that our clients using Windows install Firefox and use it instead of Internet Explorer. Now there's another option...
Upgraded form security - We've just implemented a new CAPTCHA graphic for protecting online forms from spam. The previous version worked well for a while, but has now been worked...

Updated FAQ - The Chirp Frequently Asked Questions page, which answers a lot of technical and commonly asked questions, has just been updated and re-organised to make...

Back to Reality 2008 - We're now safely back in the Netherlands after a fantastic few weeks in Australia catching up with friends, family and a lot of different website owners....

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