{"id":1358,"date":"2016-08-31T10:49:40","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:37:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:37:57","slug":"site-update-almost-complete-for-dlkeur-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/professional-life\/site-update-almost-complete-for-dlkeur-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Update Almost Complete for DLKeur.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/PlantLife_6-19-2016_Strip_web.jpg\" alt=\"PlantLife_6-19-2016_Strip_web\" width=\"1024\" height=\"98\" \/><br \/>\nSo, knowing I had to move to SSL encryption since last year (2015), I finally got around to actually doing it. (This site is almost done. Still running the broken link checker, but, chances are, that won&#8217;t affect you much.) Now for the &#8216;why&#8217; and a\u00a0tinyeducation on owning a real website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A) It&#8217;s expensive to own and run a website. Yes. Honestly, it is.<br \/>\nB) If you own and run your own website&#8230;and even if you just use a freebie, you are going to need to go SSL. SSL uses useless encryption, but it&#8217;s becoming the web standard necessity if you want folks to be able to visit your website. Mozilla Firefox and other top line browsers will soon be disallowing visits to non-encrypted sites. It&#8217;s the difference between http: and https: in the address (for those of you who can actually see that). And you will need a legitimate, rather than self-signed, certificate.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/PlantLife_6-19-2016_web.jpg\" alt=\"PlantLife_6-19-2016_web\" width=\"1024\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, knowing I had to move to SSL encryption since last year (2015), I finally got around to actually doing it. (This site is almost done. Still running the broken link checker, but, chances are, that won&#8217;t affect you much.) Now for the &#8216;why&#8217; and a\u00a0tinyeducation on owning a real website. A) It&#8217;s expensive to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3739,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/3739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}