View Post

10 Reasons to Support Local Businesses

Support your local business I have always felt that it is very important to support local businesses and I do practice what I preach. More on that later but here are a few reasons you should too. 1 Local Economy Local businesses are the backbone of our economy and shopping at local businesses is much better for the economy of …

View Post

Designing Web Sites

Web Design As many of you know I retired last year and sold my company ( see my profile ) I still get a lot of web design requests but I am now fussy on who I take on. My last big project was Nicks Timber and I still maintain that site and give general advice. Since then I have …

View Post

It really is time to go https now

Having a secure certificate on your web site has always been a very good idea, but now it is essential. Google is now giving secure sites an advantage. At Google I/O a few months ago, we called for “HTTPS everywhere” on the web. We’ve also seen more and more webmasters adopting HTTPS (also known as HTTP over TLS, or Transport …

View Post

Now running secure

A quick update to our last post you should now see the green secure tag in the web address for this site. It has proved to be remarkably easy. If you would like your site to have the same feature please let me recommend our web Hosts SoftDAta Internet They are now offering FREE #SSLs & #CloudFlare security & #CDN on all …

View Post

Why we are moving to secure SSL

With the release of Chrome 56 this month, any website that is not running HTTPS will have a message appear in the location bar that says “Not Secure” on pages that collect passwords or credit cards. Google Chrome will label all non-HTTPS pages in incognito mode as “Not secure” because users using this mode have an increased expectation of privacy. …

A big Thank you to Luke at Softdata Internet

I have always been a great supporter of local business. When I retired I wanted a reliable blog, not for business purposes but as part of my retirement. I went to Softdata because I know the company and Luke, and really didn’t want my money going to another large corporation that hardly notices I’m there. I haven’t been disappointed. The …