Remember your HTTPS and dot your I’s and cross your T’s

Friendly reminder to those managing their websites and webpages and frolicking through the www fields. You may experience roadblocks, warnings, or other nudges by browsers or web CMS platforms that discourage the use of http, in favor of https. For reference, read the Chromium Blog on Toward HTTPS by default. 

I’ve recently noticed that web CMS platforms, such as Tumblr and Hubspot, actively provide warnings or more extreme measures of controls if you have any references of http in your site code. Keep this in mind, especially if you are using old themes and templates that need updating. This also goes for referencing or linking to old content that may still have a hard coded link to an http page or other web source.

I’m sharing some real-life examples that I’ve recently uncovered in my day-to-day. 

• I was making long overdue edits to my Kicking Down Doors band website, hosted on Tumblr with an old theme from 2013 or so, and was not able to save any of my new changes without removing all links to http sources. 
• On my Hubspot-hosted website, I pasted some referenced copy that contained links to http pages and was surprised (to put it mildly) when my site returned a 404 error that I had to troubleshoot very quickly while having heart palpitations. 

I hope this is helpful!