Developers

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. 

Most, if not all, of the sites we develop have a copyright notice in the footer.  In the past this usually meant an annual update, on January 1^st or 2^nd, to update each site.  There's a better way and here it is:

Traditionally, site visitors predominantly used the browser supplied with their computer's operating system.  For Windows users this has always been Internet Explorer.  Apple users used Safari (the default for about the last decade, there were several predecessors).  The world isn't that simple anymore.