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GDPR vs PIPEDA: What Canadian Businesses Need to Know
Security

GDPR vs PIPEDA: What Canadian Businesses Need to Know

Most Canadian business owners know about PIPEDA. Fewer realize that GDPR can apply to them too - even if they've never done business in Europe. Here's what you need to know about both laws.

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Preloading and Prefetching Web Resources to Speed Up Navigation
Performance

Preloading and Prefetching Web Resources to Speed Up Navigation

Your browser is a predictable beast - it fetches resources as it discovers them, one by one. Resource hints let you get ahead of that process, telling the browser what to load before it even starts parsing the page.

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Domain Registration in Canada: Who Can Register a .CA and What Are the Rules?
Domains

Domain Registration in Canada: Who Can Register a .CA and What Are the Rules?

A .CA domain is more than just a country code - it is a verified signal that your business is Canadian. But not everyone qualifies to register one. Here is how the rules work.

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How to Force HTTPS: Redirecting All HTTP Traffic to Your Secure Site
Tips and Tricks

How to Force HTTPS: Redirecting All HTTP Traffic to Your Secure Site

You've installed your SSL certificate and your site loads over HTTPS. Job done, right? Not quite. Without a redirect, visitors who type your address without 'https://' are still landing on the insecure version of your site.

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Adding an Online Booking System to Your Canadian Business Website
Small Business

Adding an Online Booking System to Your Canadian Business Website

Customers book when they're ready - not necessarily during your business hours. Adding an online booking system to your website captures that intent before it evaporates. Here's how to choose and set one up.

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How to Manage and Organize the WordPress Media Library
WordPress

How to Manage and Organize the WordPress Media Library

The WordPress Media Library works fine for small sites. For anything with more than a few dozen images, it becomes a chronological pile of files with no organization whatsoever. Here is how to fix that.

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Free Tools to Scan Your Website for Malware and Vulnerabilities
Security

Free Tools to Scan Your Website for Malware and Vulnerabilities

Your site could be serving malware to visitors right now and you would have no idea - until Google blacklists it. Here are the scanning tools that catch problems before they become catastrophes.

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What Is Critical CSS and How Does It Speed Up Your Website?
Performance

What Is Critical CSS and How Does It Speed Up Your Website?

Your CSS file is probably blocking the browser from rendering your page. Critical CSS solves this by inlining only the styles needed for the first visible screen, letting the page render immediately without waiting for a network request.

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How Domain Forwarding Works and When to Use It
Domains

How Domain Forwarding Works and When to Use It

You own yourname.ca and yourcompany.ca. How do you make sure visitors to either address end up in the right place? Domain forwarding is the answer - but the type of forward you use matters more than you might think.

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