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Hop Studios Acquires Mountee
We have just completed the purchase of Mountee, a Mac application that makes ExpressionEngine templates editable as files on a virtual drive. It’s been an important pillar in our workflow, and we know it’s been just as important to many of you. We’ve been long-time believers in EE, and we simply couldn’t let such a useful and well-written piece of software wither on the vine. Today, we are releasing a new version, Mountee 2.7, which adds one small but critical feature: compatibility with ExpressionEngine 2.8 and 2.9. So if you’ve been holding off on upgrading EE because of Mountee—your wait is over.
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Innovative Ad Behavior
At the beginning of the summer, Hop Studios set up an new type of ad placement with our client Noozhawk—one that neatly removes the white space on a web page that is created when there is a longer column of content than advertising.
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Are Visitors Blocking Your Site’s Ads? Find Out, and Do Something About It
For website visitors, there are lot of upsides to turning on ad-blocking software: more privacy, faster page loads, and most of all, relief from distracting ads. The idea that advertising-supported sites may suffer or disappear because they can’t deliver pages views and clicks to advertisers isn’t on their site visitors’ minds.
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How to Defend Your Site from Intrusions, Threats and Really Annoying Punks
Hop Studios has been up and running for 13 years, and every year, one or more of our client’s websites has been hacked in some way. Some of these have spectacularly obvious—home pages overwritten with strange content—but most have been relatively hard to spot immediately, regardless of how significant a hack it was.
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It’s Time to Update the Search on Your Site
Although we love the content management system ExpressionEngine at Hop Studios, we frequently replace EE’s search tool with a customized installation of Google Custom Search. Updates to how CSE works means it’s time to think about upgrading the code on your site so that your pages load faster.
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