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WordPress 5.0 is coming, and will most likely break your site

Vince Salvino Nov. 27, 2018

Attention all WordPress users: You may be used to habitually clicking that "update" button. But WordPress 5.0 is a complete change in how WordPress works, and will most likely break your website. What's Different About WordPress 5.0? The major change in WordPress 5 is the editor. The current...

Announcing CodeRed CMS

The professional WordPress alternative for modern marketing websites

Vince Salvino Nov. 21, 2018

I am beyond excited to introduce CodeRed CMS, a content management system for building modern marketing websites. CodeRed CMS is our free open-source CMS for businesses, nonprofits, and marketing agencies seeking a more professional solution than WordPress. It was designed from the ground up to...

Join us for our BIG party on Dec 6

Mix and mingle with fellow Cleveland businesses while celebrating another good year of hard work and success.

Vince Salvino Nov. 5, 2018

Join us on Thursday, December 6, 2018 from 6pm - 9pm for our first ever CodeRed Christmas party! We've teamed up with COSE and other local businesses to throw a huge holiday bash at Music Box Supper Club in the flats. There will be live music, full open bar , and unlimited buffet with all ...

New “Cybersecurity Safe Harbor” Legislation Passed in Ohio

What you need to know to take advantage of this new protection.

Vince Salvino Sept. 10, 2018

Ohio has enacted a new law called the Data Protection Act, which will go into effect on November 2, 2018. Under this new law, businesses which take reasonable cybersecurity precautions that meet certain industry standards will be afforded a “safe harbor” against claims alleging that a fail...

Introducing Our New Cloud Hosting Dashboard

Manage your hosted sites and domains with ease

Vince Salvino Sept. 3, 2018

After many months of hard work, I am pleased to announce our cloud hosting dashboard. All CodeRed customers will now have access to the dashboard to manage their websites, e-commerce sites, and domain names. From the dashboard you can view information such as: 24x7 monitoring status, Software...

Using VS Code with a Legacy .NET Project

Use visual studio code with an older C# WebForms, ASP.NET, or MVC solution

Vince Salvino Aug. 9, 2018

I think one of the worst parts about working with a “legacy” codebase is often times the tooling. For years any .NET project had a tight ball-and-chain relationship with Visual Studio, SSMS, and many other multi-gigabyte Microsoft tooling dependencies. Wanting to modernize, Microsoft open-sourc...

What's New in 2018

Announcing our new CMS and updated web hosting platform

Cory Sutyak April 9, 2018

Hey, it's been a while. We at CodeRed have had a delightfully crazy 2017, and 2018 is shaping up to be the same. We wanted to take a moment to share what we've been working on and get some of your feedback. As a client, partner, or tech enthusiast, this is your opportunity to provide key insight...

Special Briefing: Technology Under Trump Presidency

CodeRed Staff Nov. 16, 2016

The votes are clear. But less clear is how the Trump presidency will impact technology. This briefing seeks to objectively connect the dots to identify how Trump policies will affect cyber security, corporate IT departments, small businesses IT, and the technology industry as a whole. Even thoug...

Customizable Navbars in Wagtail

How to use Snippets and StreamFields to create a navigation bar builder.

Cory Sutyak Nov. 14, 2016

Wagtail, the excellent CMS Framework developed by Torchbox, gives developers a large amount of freedom in how their projects are built. One of our projects required us to have a navigation bar creator. We decided to implement this using Wagtail's StreamFields and Snippets. Here's what our ...

What I Learned About Small Business From "Mad Men"

How a story about a bygone era applies to today's high-tech world.

Vince Salvino Oct. 30, 2016

Enter Mad Men 's 1960s New York office and you'll be greeted by clouds of smoke, fabulous wardrobes, and a secretary explaining that "the men who designed this typewriter made it easy enough for a woman to use". Needless to say, our office at CodeRed is quite a bit different (although fun fact...