Posts from “Sep 2015”

A while back iThemes reported they had to remove VirusTotal Malware Scanning from their iThemes Security WordPress plugin. They have just announced that the plugin will now use Sucuri’s SiteCheck Malware Scanner.

While Sucuri’s SiteCheck is available in both the free and Pro versions of iThemes Security, the Pro version allows for daily automated scanning. That’s a nice add-on, if you ask me.

This is a great addition to the iThemes Security plugin. However, my websites already use the Sucuri Security WordPress Plugin which incorporates Sucuri’s SiteCheck (albeit scans have to be done manually) so this is a bit redundant for my needs. Having a different malware scanner would help cover more bases.

For alternative malware scanners, there’s always StopTheHacker. That service was StopTheHacker was acquired by CloudFlare last year so perhaps more integration is in the works.

Baymard has a write-up on Quick Views and Product List Usability. The key takeaway: Quick Views, which have become a staple for online Product Lists, often hide poor design in the Product List themselves. Almost everything the Quick View brings could just as easily be implemented in the Product List itself.

Good food for thought.

Quick Views are often symptom treatments for poor product list designs. Indeed the test subjects were only appreciative of Quick Views on test sites that had a problematic list item design.

Designmodo has a quick overview of what to expect in Bootstrap 4. My initial thoughts:

• Moving from Less to Sass. Crap, now I gotta learn Sass and set up my development environment to support it.
• Grid System based on ems instead of pixels. Nice.
• Dropped support for IE8. OK, whatever…
• Dropped Glyphicons. Uh… please announce a replacement.
• Optional Flexbox. Yesssssss…
• Cards as a new component. Nice.

My biggest gripe is easily having to switch to Sass. Ah well, I’ll live.