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Avatar New York Outlines 3 Questions to Ask When Building a Mobile App

New York, NY—Avatar New York, an award winning New York web design firm, discusses what three questions brands should ask when planning to build a mobile app.

The need for brands and businesses to create mobile apps has never been more apparent. Mobile apps are projected to bring... keep reading about Avatar New York Outlines 3 Questions to Ask When Building a Mobile App

Avatar New York Affirms Poor Web Security Was Responsible For Delta Airlines Boarding Pass Breach

New York, NY—Avatar New York, an award winning New York web design agency, details how Delta Airlines’ poor website security caused the data breach that allowed passengers to see information on other boarding passes.

A recent flaw in the design of the Delta Airlines website made it possible... keep reading about Avatar New York Affirms Poor Web Security Was Responsible For Delta Airlines Boarding Pass Breach

Google now gives your website kudos for using HTTPS

Google uses HTTPS ranking signal

It's official, Google has announced that they are now using HTTPS (or HTTP over TLS) as a ranking signal. This means google will be checking if it can access your website over HTTPS and give you a higher ranking than if your website was unavailable over HTTPS (although they state... keep reading about Google now gives your website kudos for using HTTPS

Avatar Uses ZenDesk and StatusPage to Provide Better Transparency

Avatar rolls out ZenDesk and StatusPage.io Support

Avatar is very excited to announce the roll-out of two additional components to our cloud hosting services. We've incorporated ZenDesk and StatusPage.io to our cloud hosting offering as part of our ongoing effort to provide our clients top notch support and effective transparency.

ZenDesk

ZenDesk extends the methods... keep reading about Avatar Uses ZenDesk and StatusPage to Provide Better Transparency

5 Steps We Took to Improve Jouer Cosmetics Online

To kickoff the New Year, Jouer Cosmetic launched a new ecommerce website - jouercosmetics.com. Avatar New York has been working with Jouer for several months building their new website as well as restructuring their back office process and integrating a seamless ordering and fulfillment workflow that requires as... keep reading about 5 Steps We Took to Improve Jouer Cosmetics Online

5 Steps We Took to Survive Black Friday and Cyber Monday with Zero Downtime

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are the two biggest online shopping days of the year.  They are also the most highly anticipated days for our hosting team, as we generally see triple and sometimes quadruple the traffic levels compared to... keep reading about 5 Steps We Took to Survive Black Friday and Cyber Monday with Zero Downtime

Jimmy Jazz and Avatar's web design collaboration pays off

Jimmy Jazz, a top retailer of urban wear, has been a client of Avatar since 2008. We built their first ecommerce site and have worked with them ongoing providing website design and development, high-traffic, PCI compliant hosting, and tech support.

Jimmy Jazz Image... keep reading about Jimmy Jazz and Avatar's web design collaboration pays off

The Workshop is Open for Business

The Workshop

There are big things brewing over at Avatar these days.  One of the projects we have been developing this fall, was The Workshop.... keep reading about The Workshop is Open for Business

It can cost a fortune to make a website look cheap

It’s a phone call I receive more than I should. A business owner stuck in the middle of a stalled website design project, having wasted months of time and effort not to mention several thousands of dollars, with little to show for it in return – if lucky. The truly... keep reading about It can cost a fortune to make a website look cheap

High Performance for the Holidays

Happy Cyber Monday!  We've been working hard over the past few months to get our clients ready for this year's holiday season and want to share some of the tricks of the trade we use to keep our e-commerce clients happy and... keep reading about High Performance for the Holidays

Check Your Cloud Hosting Status

Today we’re releasing v1.0 of AvatarStatus.com to the public.  The site stems from a hackathon proof-of-concept session that we worked on back in August.  The goal of this site is to provide our clients with better visibility into their cloud hosting... keep reading about Check Your Cloud Hosting Status

Your Website: Better. More Responsive. SPDYer.

As a certified hosting partner of CloudFlare, we were invited try out the private beta of SPDY, an experimental application-layer protocol built on top of TLS, developed by Google for transporting content over the web with minimal latency. Yesterday, CloudFlare... keep reading about Your Website: Better. More Responsive. SPDYer.