Assuring you hold the legal rights to your domains is important so you can maintain control over your online presence and brand. Today domains are vital assets for most businesses and are used as a main communication channel with customers and suppliers through the Web and e-mail. This requires that you consider domains as important […]
Introduction In this study, presented at the OzCHI 2015 conference, we investigated opportunities for training developers and using them as a resource in the day-to-day working practice to conduct simple usability evaluations. This study is part of a larger research project about including software developers in usability and user experience activities. The goals are to: […]
By default, the router will use the DNS server of your ISP without the option to specify the DNS server of your choice. The router does support the ability to specify a custom DNS server, but for unknown reasons, this option is not available by default in the administration interface. Fortunately, it only takes a […]
Introduction In this paper, published at NordiCHI 2014, we present an outline of a facilitated developer-driven redesign workshop to produce graphical user interface (GUI) redesign suggestions. Additionally, we report observations and feedback from a workshop conducted in an organization with limited usability competencies. The intention of the workshop is to provide an organized frame for […]
All Cloudflare plans, also the free plan, includes a number of Page Rules. Page Rules work at the Cloudflare reverse proxy level and are used to customize settings and behavior of an entire domain, individual subdomains, or even specific paths of a domain (e.g., example.org/some/path/). Page Rules are powerful yet simple to set up and […]
Static site hosting on the rise Static websites have recent years gained popularity again and many new static site hosting providers have popped up. Advantages of static sites and some primary reasons to go static are that sites are less exposed to malicious attaks, and easily and cheaply can be distributed through a content delivery […]
Back in 2016, I moved a couple of websites to the hosting provider FranTech Solutions using the BuyShared (affiliate link) brand for their shared hosting services. FranTech Solutions is a Canadian based company, mostly known for its VPS brand BuyVM. Since I have been a customer for more than four years, I decided it was […]
All domains proxied through Cloudflare have a special Cloudflare directory located at example.com/cdn-cgi/ (accessing this directory directly will return a 404 error.) This directory is used for hosting Cloudflare apps. A special app is called ‘Trace’ and is located at https://example.com/cdn-cgi/trace/ Trace is “installed” by default (it is not listed as an installed Cloudflare app […]
Yesterday, I stumbled across what is probably one of the simplest to use static web hosting services I have encountered so far. The service is called Tiiny Host and is a simple, free, and semi-anonymous temporary static website host. The service offers the possibility to publish tiny static websites that will remain online for up […]
The Cloudflare authoritative DNS product is a great DNS solution running on one of the world’s fastest infrastructures with high availability. The good part is that they offer a free tier that will suit the needs of most personal and business domains. If you are managing several domains and often need to add G Suite […]