Sound Blaster

Ray Valladares • May 22, 2018

Not the sound cards made by Creative Labs from the mid 90's.

We've all experienced that dreaded moment when visiting a website for the first time when suddenly music starts blasting out of your speakers but you cannot find the mute button fast enough. Why anyone would think that is a good experience is beyond me.

Thankfully, the most popular browser in use, Chrome, solves that problem.

Recently Google started rolling out a new version of Chrome that addresses the problem with the latest update of Chrome, version 66. This should eliminate audio randomly blasting out of your speakers at the absolute worse time, like at work or at home in the middle of the night. Don't get me wrong, videos are great for your business. Visitors are able to learn more about your service, an event or a product. Auto-play is just not a good experience.

The good news is you will be able to continue to watch your favorite cooking channels on YouTube as they won't be affected by this change and will continue to auto-play sound if you're a frequent visitor and have watched videos.

So let the word go out, blasting your visitors with audio is not a good experience. The message from Google is clear, you can choose to turn off auto-play or the sound or Google will flag it and do it for you.

For a complete list of Chrome updates, visit the Chrome Releases blog.

March Dates for Social Media

By Ray Valladares • March 2, 2020
March Dates for Social Media Searching for some idea's to fill your automated Social Pilot Calendar ? No problem, we've got you covered. From National Employee Appreciation Day to the First Day of Spring, here are seven dates in March to help your social media campaigns.

Take Control of Your Social Media

By Ray Valladares • March 1, 2020
Social Media Scheduling for Posting Strategically Plan the work and work the plan! We've practiced our motto since early on in our professional careers and continue to do so today while managing our small business. We believe in developing a cost effective strategy that not only saves you time, but rewards you with valuable and insightful data. Scheduling your social media posts will significantly Make A Difference in your business and personal life. Your time is valuable so let's get right into my 4 Top reasons why we Use and Recommend Social Pilot . Clear View of Your Schedule; easily schedule and edit posts to Facebook, Google My Business, and many other sites from ONE calendar! No more jumping between sites to post your content.

TLS Update

By Ray Valladares • February 23, 2020
The Amazon Web Services that we are using for our client websites have been updated to the latest TLS technologies to keep our customers’ websites fast, secure and modern. Website visitors will now be connecting to the website using TLS 1.3. This improved protocol speeds up the time it takes to connect to the website through a secure connection. If you aren't familiar, TLS stands for Transport Layer Security, which was first released as TLS 1.0 in 1999 and since then, TLS has been the standard of what’s used on the web. TLS 1.3 is a step forward and is the first major industry improvement in over 10 years (TLS 1.2 was released in August 2008). This update is just one of several improvements scheduled for 2020. If your small business is considering updating your website, reach out and contact us , we'd love to hear from you and learn about your business.