Developers

Information that may be interesting to other Drupal developers.

HTTPS: The Time Is Now; Part 1: History

International No Symbol with text "http://"Traditionally, websites have used HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) by default and only used HTTPS (HTTP Secure, or HTTP over TLS, or HTTP over SSL) when they were processing particularly sensitive data like credit card information.  I’ll look at why this was the case and why we should start using HTTPS for all website traffic.

While this post is particularly pertinent to those people and organizations that operate their own websites, e.g., Troutreach Technologies' clients and potential clients, the information should be useful to all Internet users. 

Site Construction Notes

As much as we try to make the operation and maintenance of our websites intuitive, there is a need to document how a site has been constructed and why certain decisions have been made.  We used the Drupal contributed module Site Notes to meet this need on Drupal Version 5 and 6 websites.  Let's look at an easy to use, and perhaps more flexible way to meet these needs in Drupal 7 and the future.