What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog – Ask a Tech Teacher

A ton of instructor-authors go through my WordDreams website. In this every month column, I share a well-liked post from the past month (or so). 

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Tech Ideas for Writers is an occasional write-up on beating Tech Dread. I’ll include difficulties that good friends, both equally actual-time and digital, have shared. Really feel free to publish a remark about a concern you have. I’ll cover it in a long term suggestion.

This idea is about checking out a site that presents you an mistake code very similar to this:

You possibly imagine the website isn’t performing, but a lot of moments, it is a distinctive quickly solved issue that normally takes no time to do.

Look at the URL deal with (at the major of the webpage):

If it has https (like this a single does), it could indicate the web-site has not been changed from http to https so it doesn’t realize the tackle. All you have to do is delete the ‘s’ in the URL to make the website do the job:

I blurred every little thing out for privateness, but I believe you can see I changed the https to http. The website promptly opened. Interestingly, that is effective around 50 percent the time.

If a web site you regulate has that difficulty, look at with your host or IT folks and enhance to https stability protocol. Frequently, that is absolutely free.

Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Man vs. Character saga, the Rowe-Delamagente thrillers, and the acclaimed Making a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from significant school to United States Naval Academy. She is also the creator/editor of more than a hundred publications on integrating tech into education, adjunct professor of know-how in training, site webmaster, an Amazon Vine Voice, and a freelance journalist on tech ed topics. Seem for her following prehistoric fiction, Normal Selection, Summer time 2022