David HallNote: This article on detecting whether a website is a fraud or scam was first published in Sep. 2013 and has been updated for 2020. The updates reflect recent internet security best practices and emerging threats and trends in the industry. Fraud on the internet is almost as old as the internet itself. Experts have…
David HallIn 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…
David HallAccording 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…
David HallI 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…
David HallIn 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…
David HallRecently 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…
David HallIf 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…
David HallWith 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…
David HallRecently, 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…
David HallThe 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…
David HallOver 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…
David HallI 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…
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…
David HallAll 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…
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…
