Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere!
Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute. It?’s hard to believe that it?’s already the end of January 2008.
I?’d like to give a shout out to the participants in this month?’s podcast of Designing with Best Practices in mind. If you?’ve been following along this month then you know that those that participated in the interviews had some really great and unique things to say and share. A common thread emerged among the interviews I think. It?’s clear that practicing professionals believe and subscribe to designing with best practices in mind.
Those best practices include:
* Understanding client needs and great communication
* Storyboarding, wire framing and designing with Web standards and Web accessibility in mind is in fact best practices.
For those of you that design with best practices in mind, I’d encourage you to stand up and take a bow. In fact, consider showing January?’s videos, to your clients and or your manager. Truth is, they most likely do not fully understand how complex designing with best practices in mind can be and we need to educate them.
As I look back at my notes, one area that I want to add to the designing with best practices mix is Web security. I recognize that most professionals include security in their best practices but over the years, I?’ve learned that?’s its not good practice to take this for granted. Also, for those that are new to the field, I feel its WOW?’s responsibility to stress the importance of Web Security.
Top Cyber Security Professionals including the CIA met in New Orleans last week and according to published reports, Cyber-extortion is a growing threat and attackers have radically increased their take. Vulnerabilities are all too common among commercial and open source web applications, and are exploited all too frequently.
As Web professionals we owe it to ourselves and our customers to design websites with security in mind. To that end, we need to pay close attention to vulnerabilities associated with Rich Internet and Web Applications. Also, cyber attackers are finding more creative ways to obtain propriety data from organizations large and small as well as our customers. It?’s mission critical that we design with web security in mind and we also need to take the time to insure that our customers and stakeholders are aware of security best practices as well.
As you may be aware, were conducting a Webinar on this topic and I highly recommend that you consider signing up for this one. Thanks for listening and watching the WOW Technology Minute. See you next month.