Web Accessibility Features of a NetRaising Website
Every NetRaising website is built upon a CSS framework called YAML, one of the first in the world to prioritize web accessibility.
Visible Accessability
NetRaising’s designers are trained to use accessible color contrast ratios in our designs, and our developers work to anticipate the needs of our clients by creating flexible publishing layouts that promote good contrast between backgrounds and text.
Hidden Accessibility
Our custom-developed…
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The Chinese Copyright Domain Name Scam
This scam has been around for decades. Someone writes, claiming that they’ve discovered a copyright issue with your website’s domain in some other country; most often in China.
They attempt to extort money from you to register domains in the other country to protect your own “copyrighted” domain.
Pictured below are examples we received in 2024 and 2025 that were mistakenly sent to NetRaising.
This is a…
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Video Background Banners: Some Pros & Cons
One website design trend growing in popularity is the video background banner. These videos are usually featured prominently near the top of the homepage, and sometimes even take up the full browser window. They frequently autoplay during page viewing, have no sound, and often have text or some other graphic overlaying the video.
While NetRaising acknowledges the novelty of this type…
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Passwords Are Growing On Us
NetRaising has always encouraged the use of strong passwords, and we now require our clients’ website passwords to use:
- at least 13 characters
- upper and lower case letters
- an integer
- a dot, dash, or another symbol the software will accept
- and avoid using common words that can be found in a dictionary
In April of 2022, we ran across this nice chart at Hive Systems that helps…
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Phishing Scam: Copyrighted Photos Allegation
NetRaising was recently made aware of a phishing scam that uses the forms on websites to send emails containing deceptive information and malicious links.
The emails come from a person claiming they own certain photos on the organization’s website, and that the organization has violated copyright laws. The emailer may use emotional language and/or threaten to take legal action against the organization.…
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A Case for Informative Page Titles
When it’s time to outline your website’s Site Map or begin adding content, an oft taken-for-granted element of web content structuring are the page titles (sometimes called “title tags”). These little strings of text are coded into every page of your website and pack a punch when it comes to search engine results (such as Google results), as well as web accessibility and…
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