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Why Would I Need HTTPS / SSL on WampServer? The time has come for all websites to migrate to HTTPS. Effective July 2018, Google’s Chrome browser will mark non-HTTPS sites as “not secure”. Google has been pushing webmasters to make the change to non-secure websites for many years now including hinting at small rankings boost. SSL stands for “Secure Sockets Layer” and when a website owner has one, all data passed between web browsers and servers is private and encrypted. WampServer is a great tool for building a website on your local computer but as of right now it does not support HTTPS / SSL out of the box. Building your website from the ground up with HTTPS / SSL in mind can save you a lot of problems when you finally do put your site online. In the tutorial below, I will show you how to set up HTTPS / SSL for WampServer using OpenSSL. Step 1: Download and Install WampServer Wampserver is available in both 32 and 64 bit. Make sure you select the correct installer for your version of W...

If you are a web developer Angular probably crossed your path a couple of times. Angular (as well as other javascript frameworks like react or vue.js) is a super cool frontend framework to build small and simple up to large and complex web applications. As a developer I always try to provide the user the best possible user experience. That once meant that I had to develop a smartphone app instead of a web application. As a javascript enthusiast I didn’t want to start developing in c, c++ or java. So I did some research and quickly came to the conclusion that you can easily develop smartphone apps with a javascript framework as a basis. Building new hybrid apps from scratch is already pretty good documented but I also wanted to update  existing  web projects to be deployed as hybrid apps. After this tutorial you will be able to build your  existing  Angular web project as an android mobile app (APK), get it running on your android device and even deploy i...

A Web Server for Chrome, serves web pages from a local folder over the network, using HTTP. Runs offline. Google Store Link Web Server for Chrome is an open source (MIT) HTTP server for Chrome. It runs anywhere that you have Chrome installed, so you can take it anywhere. It even works on ARM chromebooks. It now has the option to listen on the local network, so other computers can access your files. Additionally, it can try and get an internet address. Many people use this to do basic web development on a chromebook. It is also handy for sharing files over a local network between computers, or even on the internet. Once you install it, navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8887 Please let me know what new features you want!

We’ve been hearing a lot about  mobile-first indexing  lately, as the latest development in Google’s ever-continuing efforts to make the web more mobile-friendly and reflect user behavior trends. But there’s also a lot of confusion around what this means for the average business owner. Do you have to change anything? Everything? If your site is mobile-friendly, will that be good enough? IS THIS GOING TO BE ANOTHER MOBILEGEDDON?!! In this post I’ll go over the basics of what “mobile-first indexing” means, and what you may need to do about it. I’ll also answer some frequently asked questions about mobile-first indexing and what it means for our SEO efforts. What is “mobile-first indexing”? Mobile-first indexing is exactly what it sounds like. It just means that the mobile version of your website becomes the starting point for what Google includes in their index, and the baseline for how they determine rankings. If you monitor crawlbot traffic to your site, you may ...