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On Saturday, February 2nd between 9am and 5pm Pacific time the dev server (rewdev.com, rewlec.com, and rewtemplates.com) will be down for maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Read Full Post

Morgan, R&D and I have been working hard to improve how our code handles sending email - this is to increase the number of emails which make it to the inbox and to reduce the likelihood of being blocked by a major Email Service Provider such as Yahoo or AOL. Bounces and Feedback Loops I have signed up for the Feedback Loops of AOL, Yahoo, and Hotmail. Now, whenever one of their users reports an email as SPAM, a copy is sent to us. I have code which will, at that point, read our postmaster... Read Full Post

Currently our servers are connected to each other and the internet with a 100 megabit network. We are beginning to reach the capacity of this network. In order to prevent congestion between our servers and the internet we are pre-emptivly upgrading to a gigabit network. We will be replacing our firewall, load balancer, and switches. Rackspace will also provide us with a gigabit connection to the internet. During this time we will loose all connectivity to the internet and your sites will be d... Read Full Post

I meant to post this a few months back, but never got around to it. Since I've had to answer some questions about some of these features a few times I am posting it now. This of course also applies to 4.1 Email Validation The new CMS has much better email validation. Emails used to only be checked for "syntax" or that they were well formed. The problem with this was that someone could enter fake@fake.com and it would work since it "looked" like an email. We now check that the email has real m... Read Full Post

Movember, the month of the moustache, is here! And REW is taking part and raising money for prostate cancer! You can dontate to our team here! You can see all our photos over on the fourm thread! And Kim one of our Mo Sistas Read Full Post

Hello! Here are the photos from this years Halloween! Gerry as a Caveman Tracy as Bob Ross Lisa as LIzzie Borden Kim as Black Mail Kathryn as a Pirate Moriah as a Jedi Steven and Andy as Bunsen and Beaker Anthony H Pat Anthony Clark as Data Niki as Dr Evil Phil as Andy Warhol Dawn as Medusa Read Full Post

So about 2 months ago I signed up to take "Red Hat System Administration III" (RH254VT) and the test "Red Hat Certified Engineer Exam" (EX300). My course is scheduled for next week (Aug 29 - Sept 2) and my test for Sept 16 in Vancouver. I scheduled them close together so I would have some time to study, but not soo long as to forget some of the stuff I don't use day-to-day. Yesterday I got an email saying that my test was canceled due to low attendance. The next time the test runs in Vancouve... Read Full Post

New Browsers Launched! As you may have heard, Microsoft and Mozilla have just released new versions of their browsers. Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 launched on March 14th, but won't be pushed out to end users until the end of June. IE9 also requires Windows Vista or Windows 7. There is no version to run on Windows XP. Mozilla Firefox 4 launched on March 22nd and many users will soon be getting the prompt to update. We at REW are excited for a new round of browsers and their new features incl... Read Full Post

We have just created and posted the new REW Anti-Spam Policy. Most of it is fairly typical and not based on issues we've had. Things like "Don't send viruses to people". But some are based on things we have seen a few customers try to pull such as hiding the unsubscribe link. The main purpose of this is to help us enforce some rules so we can keep our servers off the spam lists and keep them from getting blocked by major mail providers. One major thing you can all be sure to do is make sure y... Read Full Post

In support we often get questions from people asking how to change the font color or font face of the text on their REW Template or REW LEC. And the simple answer is "you don't". Many people tend to make bad choices of font styling because they are not trained designers. All of our sites come with a Content Formatting Test page to show what the built in styles for things like headings and paragraphs look like. These styles were created by our skilled team of designers to look best on your web... Read Full Post