Site Maintenence & Password Admin
Often underrated in the push for best practice is password admin and general housekeeping in the back-end.I’ll worry all day long about Id v’s Class usage for site design style sheets, but having just spent 3-4 hours clearing up my admin, role permissions, passwords and user profile options I’ve come to realise that CSS standards are simply so much fluff in the face of core site maintenance.
Can you bulk change all your ftp passwords? I hope so, I’m going to start digging and I’ll share what I find.
CMS systems vary wildly in their friendliness, but hardly anyone seems to talk about mass tweaking. They should. It’s crucial. If you head up a development team then multiply that last statement’s sonorous tone by 100.
Password Protocols
I hope you have some. But I hope they aren’t logical. Think like a machine and you’ll likely get hacked. Remember: SSH is your friend: never go online without it (I’d feel naked, I think).