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Informational guides on technologies used by website developers and web clients. What does DNS mean, what is a domain name, how do SSL certificates work etc.

Guide to website SSL certificates
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Guide to website SSL certificates

An SSL certificate is used to encrypt the traffic between your site visitor and your website. This helps to ensure a safer environment for your business to receive information over the internet such as credit card details or even personal information on contact forms and helps to prevent some types of attack

Guide to most popular PHP frameworks
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Guide to most popular PHP frameworks

PHP has been used to develop websites since 1995. It runs behind a majority of websites and is the language used in content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla to name a few.

What is a domain name?
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What is a domain name?

A domain name is an easily readable and rememberable string that is entered into a browser web address bar in order to locate a computer on the internet hosting code and files representing a web application.

What is DNS?
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What is DNS?

DNS (Domain Name System) is the glue that holds together the World Wide Web (WWW). It translates human readable and rememberable domain names entered in web browsers and used in other internet connected devices into a set of digits (an IP address) representing the location on the network (usually the internet) that needs to be visited in order to satisfy the request.