06 Apr

New Website Design Trends

New Website Design Trends

Website Design rapidly change by new concepts or new tools and ways to distribute content. The influence of mobile phones is omnipresent. The focus must be on providing an excellent user experience by a website responsive and “mobile friendly”.

Obviously it is important to be unique and adjust your website to its mission and the products and services, but do not leave out what is “hot” and what users are looking. Your website must ultimately turn a visitor into a customer ( conversion ).

In this path, there is new website design trends. You must find wich ones fits the most with your products, services and your vision. These new trends are observed among our clients:

 

1. A Unique scrolling page

The advantage of the scrollable page, is that there is no waiting to load other elements. Once the page is downloaded, the user feels like being in an application. By browsing the menu the visitor reaches the content really fast.

The attraction of this method is actually for mobile devices and tablets. With a set of parallax effects, it is possible to make beautiful transitions of images and texts for the website.

 

2. Lateral navigation ( swipe pages )

The visitor access the different blocks of information like turning the pages of a book. The swipe movement is a well known feature on mobile phones, the user then adopt this way easily.

 

3. The content on the first line

The content is put forward. It is observed that people abandon the wallpaper images by a greater concern for speed of loading but also to focus on the information itself.

In addition, the fonts are larger and one of a kind. Moving away from  paragraphs and columns to center all objects and content on the center of the page, gives a greater ease of visualization.

 

4. Simplicity

Simplicity also seems to come back into website designs. Because of the download speed but also to purify and focus on what the visitor must pays attention to. The trend is now to avoid “flashy” content and unnecessary options.

 

5. Unique content

The attraction of unique content, especially prioritized in logos and images is becoming more and more present. Our customers prefer to do business with us more because we have professional photographers who can give a very unique website design perfectly adjusted to their needs.

Previously, Pictures banks were prioritized , now the client wants a professional photography by a photographer and have its own digital rights.

 

6. Simplified menus

Menus must increasingly be simplified and have less tabs. Very often, the menu is hidden in an icon or image. The visitor decides when to go see the rest of the content.

In this approach, the “landing page”, (the main page) contains all the elements that the webmaster wishes to present and the rest is hidden in a simplified menu accessible by a icon.

 

7. Speed. speed …

This is by far the most important. For user experience, the reputation, the SEO and the fact that the visitor does not want to waste time and wait. This is non-negotiable and should be present in all websites.

Note: Most of our websites are up to 50% faster than the average. We optimize all our content so that your website meet this trend.

When evaluating your needs, consider these trends and make sure it fits with the mission and the nature of your website!

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05 Apr

Block Tor IP Addresses on your website

Block Tor IP Addresses on your website

The Tor network allows anonymous Internet browsing. Although this project is in its nature logical when we need to protect our identity, the fact remains that it is a risk for piracy.

Many people are using the deep web (Darknet) to conduct illegal activities or by making transactions with stolen credit cards, DDOS attacks or send SPAM on a small or large scale.

There’s no simple solutions to protect ourselves from users of the Tor network because the IP addresses change relatively frequently. Some users and some hosts allow internet traffic via their network.

 

Potential risks of a Tor user on your site

The Tor user can anonymously:

– Make awkward comments about your brand, your blog;

– Send SPAM to your address or to your web forms;

– Proceed with fraudulent orders on your online store;

– Extract information from your site, submit it to BRUTE FORCE attacks;

– Drive a DDOS attack;

– Use the Tor network to perform automated queries on your website.

 

Block Tor IP addresses

Internet Cloud Canada giving you a solution that will be an extra “layer of protection”. We recently explained how to protect from DDOS attacks with a good .htaccess file and by using the right equipment (cisco router, firewall etc.). This solution, will strengthen this protection.

Obviously, we will give you a slightly more practical solution though “manual” for the owner of a personal web site.

 

Solution in 4 easy steps

 

Step 1. Collection of current addresses of Tor

Go to the Tor Bulk Exit List exporting tool and click on the link “exit addresses”. Copy the result to a .txt file to your desktop.

 

Step 2. Collect only the IP addresses of the file

It is necessary to extract the IP addresses of the .txt file, so go to the Toolsvoid website. Copy-paste and press “submit”. The website will return the full list of IP addresses extracted. Copy this list on your desktop in another text file.

 

Step 3. Create an exclusion list for your .htaccess file

It would be tedious to manually write the .htaccess file for all these IP addresses. This is why you need to visit Tom’s Tools website that will generate it for you. Copy and paste the list and press the button “generate code”.

 

Step 4. Copy the code in the .htaccess file obtained

Copy and paste the code obtained in step 3 in your actual .htaccess file. Your website is now protected ftom Tor users!

 

Updates

Obviously, there is some ways to “automate” this procedure with a routine at the base of the web server. Your hosting provider may or may not offer this service. Internet Cloud Canada offers this service as an extra, if needed.

If you use our manual method, remember to repeat these steps regularly because now you know that the Tor IP addresses change relatively frequently. An interval of once each month seems quite appropriate to perform your updates.

If you have problems with anonymous users or want to act with prevention facing this problem, our 100% FREE 4-steps / 5 minutes solution worth it !

Enjoy!

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04 Apr

Free Web Directory – Get a quality Backlink!

free web directory

Add your Website!

Internet Cloud Canada has just launched another tool to help you in your Web SEO. We have created a Web directory, so you can get quality backlink.

 

What is a backlink?

A backlink” is an internet link directly to your website. The more you have backlinks”, more your domain name and / or your web page is popular. The popularity is rewarded with a higher ranking of your website in search engines like Google.

Our web directory is in English in order to offer the best service to everyone to submit their website. It allows you to create a complete business listing : Photo, Full Profile, Opening hours, Website Url, Phone, Email, etc.

This is not just a regular backlink, but an opportunity to represent your company with a beautiful profile.

 

Why is it free?

It’s free because we see that in the field of SEO, there are many actors who take advantage of people. In addition, our visitors and our clients make it well by giving a good comment, visualizing our external advertisements or by purchasing our services. We are pleased to offer you this new service!

 

Free Web Directory

To submit your website to our free web directory, visit the following link: Free Web Directory

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