David Hall - Director of Software Development at Webnames.ca

How to Determine if a Website is a Fake, Fraud or Scam – 2025 Updated Guide

David Hall — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:12:00 +0000

Note: This article on detecting whether a website is a fraud or scam was first published in September 2013, was updated for 2020, and has been updated again to reflect the current climate in 2025. The updates reflect recent internet security best practices and emerging threats and trends in the industry. We will always try…

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How to Make Your Website Mobile Friendly

David Hall — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 18:21:44 +0000

In my previous blog post, “How to Check If Your Website Is Mobile Friendly”, I provide a list of free tools to check if your existing website is mobile friendly. However, if you find that your website does not support mobile devices, then what are your next steps? In this blog post, I will tell you…

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How to Check If Your Website Is Mobile Friendly

David Hall — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:17:09 +0000

According to Trinity Digital Marketing, there are over 1.2 billion people accessing the Internet via their mobile devices. The global mobile traffic makes up 15% of all Internet traffic as stated by Internet Trends 2013. For these reasons, Google announced that starting on April 21, 2015, they will be using website mobile-friendliness as a ranking…

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How to Opt Out of Ads Based on Your Web History

David Hall — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:01:11 +0000

I like to do most of my personal shopping online, especially during the holidays. It saves me fighting my way through crowds at the mall. However, my biggest annoyance is when I visit a website, look at a product and close my browsers, the next time that I log in and use a search engine…

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Expert advice on how to benefit from new gTLDs

David Hall — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:57:57 +0000

In November of 2013, new gTLDs (generic top level domain extensions) became available to everyone to register. The first English new extensions were .SINGLES, .HOLDINGS, .GURU, .CLOTHING, .VENTURES, .BIKE and .PLUMBING. These new gTLD domain extensions were released in Sunrise Phase on November 26, 2013 for trademark holders to register before being publicly available on…

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Good websites – Having the best website design is not enough

David Hall — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 21:20:04 +0000

Recently I have been shopping for some biking equipment and an air mattress for camping. I used Google to search for my local stores to see if they had the products I was interested in. I was able to find all both companies and their websites, but they didn’t list their inventory or even the…

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Does my small business need a website?

David Hall — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:00:36 +0000

If you are running any business, you need a website. According to The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (the registry for the .ca domain name), 8 out of 10 Canadians have internet access. If you depend solely on traditional mediums (yellow pages, newspaper, radio and television) to drive awareness of your company, you will miss out…

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The New Domain Extensions – 4 Tips You Need To Know

David Hall — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:25:40 +0000

With close to a thousand new domain extensions launching by the end of 2016, getting the name that you want can be quite challenging. From finding the proper dates, the jargon-y launch phases, narrowing down the new domain extension that you want and actually registering the domain name, it can be overwhelming absorbing a large…

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Who owns your domain name?

David Hall — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:43:20 +0000

Recently, I have taken over the role of the webmaster for a local community group. Initially, my job was just to keep the website up and running smoothly as well as upload new content once and a while. I never expected to learn that no one in my group knew where the domain name was…

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IP Addresses are Going, Going, GONE!

David Hall — Wed, 21 May 2014 20:30:01 +0000

The remaining IPv4 Addresses (Internet Protocol Version 4) that many people use on a daily basis (like 123.456.123.456) are in the final process of being allocated to the five Regional Internet Registries (RIR). An announcement was made yesterday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the release of all IP…

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Why do I need hosting for my website?

David Hall — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:15:26 +0000

Over the Christmas holidays, a friend asked me “Why do I need hosting for my website?”. They had paid to have a website developed and didn’t understand why they had to pay for hosting on top of the cost of the website development. I thought this was a great question and there are three parts…

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How to Identify an Email Scam

David Hall — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 04:25:40 +0000

I was recently added to a mailing list for an organization and I started to get a few emails that I wasn’t used to seeing, email scams. Most of these scams are what the industry calls a “phishing” email. Phishing emails are emails that you receive that attempt to get your usernames, passwords, credit cards…

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How to Improve WordPress Performance Top Ten Tips – Part 2 of 2

David Hall — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 23:26:46 +0000

When considering the impact that performance tuning WordPress has on consumers, consider the following. According to Webpronews.com, Shopzilla achieved a 25% increase in pageviews and 7% to 12% in revenue increase by improving the speed of their website. 75% of users said that they would not return to a website that took longer than four…

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Advantages and Disadvantages of a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

David Hall — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:21:18 +0000

All modern browsers allow users to download up to six resources concurrently per domain when a person views a website. This means that if the webpage contains 100 images, 10 CSS files, and 10 javascript files, it would take 20 trips to a single domain to download all that content. If the browser was to…

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Free Web Hosting Providers Are Never Free

David Hall — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:00:21 +0000

Before working in the domain and hosting business, I used to think that free web hosting was a great deal since there is no obligation or cost to me. I set up many different free web hosting sites, but they all had similar problems. Some had so much advertising all over it that you could…

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How to Improve WordPress Performance Top Ten Tips – Part 1 of 2

David Hall — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 19:27:56 +0000

The fastest kind of website is one with static content, without images and saved to a single file, like an HTML page. However, this solution is not scalable since it is not easy to change content over time nor is it visibly appealing, since everyone loves to look at pictures not just text. Therefore, websites have…

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Migrate from Movable Type to WordPress

David Hall — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 00:00:16 +0000

Like all household or office moves, converting a website or blog from one platform to another can be a daunting task. However with the right tools and steps, it is very easy to migrate from Movable Type to WordPress. I had been wanting to convert the Webnames Blog from Movable Type to WordPress for years…

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What to do before your mobile phone is lost, damaged, or stolen

David Hall — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:00:53 +0000

Mobile phones are growing in popularity everyday, especially smartphones. Up until recently, I never spent much time thinking about what to do before your mobile phone is lost, damaged, or stolen. However, this all changed a couple of weeks ago when my wife’s wallet and iPhone were stolen out of her purse. After getting over…

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How to delete your social network accounts

David Hall — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:19:08 +0000

Deleting your social network accounts from the internet, or simply choosing to have less of an online presence, can be a difficult task. The first step is deciding which accounts you want to close down (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc). The second (and most time consuming) step is finding where to do it. Frustrated by the…

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