Security update: Your website is being protected

On 21 October, critical security vulnerabilities affecting PHP, the technology behind WordPress and many other websites, required urgent action across the hosting industry.

Castlegate IT worked closely with our hosting providers to prepare for the necessary security updates. Importantly, our hosting partners and Cloudflare implemented additional firewall protections before the security patches were released, helping to protect websites against attempts to exploit these vulnerabilities.

The necessary patches have now been applied across our main managed hosting environments. A small number of legacy environments remain protected by additional firewall measures while their updates are completed.

No action is required from our clients. We continue to monitor the situation and manage the necessary security measures on their behalf.

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Community First Yorkshire

Community First Yorkshire is a regional body that works with voluntary and community groups throughout North, South and West Yorkshire. By providing training, resources, networking and one-to-one support; they help these organisations with governance, funding, volunteering and more. They also provide an important “rural advocacy” role, representing the concerns of rural communities at all levels of government.

The brief

As Community First Yorkshire provides a huge array of services to many different kinds of people, the primary function of their website is to disseminate useful and clear information. We were asked to design and build a new website for Community First Yorkshire that would host this information and provide visitors with the easiest possible journey to the resources they need.

The website

With such a large amount of information to include, the structure of the site was a key consideration. Through a series of early meetings in the planning and insight phase, we identified issues with the existing site and came up with ways to solve them. For example, we signposted the site’s most popular pages directly from the homepage, enabling visitors to access the most valuable information straight away.

Visually, we combined the existing brand colour palette and typography with carefully chosen photographs and icons to create a bright and engaging appearance.

The result

The new Community First Yorkshire website is a great example of a site which is both easy-to-use and highly functional. From free-to-download resources to a jobs page, the team at Community First Yorkshire put in a lot of effort producing high-quality content and resources – and the new site sets this out clearly and intuitively. Content management tools ensure that the team can easily keep the site updated, while a range of contact options ensure that site visitors can engage with Community First Yorkshire.

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Visit: www.communityfirstyorkshire.org.uk

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