Is Your Web Site Obsolete?

Is Your Web Site Obsolete?

In the world of computers and the Internet, things move very quickly. So quickly that often the computer you bought just a couple of months ago can be considered obsolete. As an Internet user, you have probably noticed that from time to time—pretty often in fact—Internet Explorer prompts you to download an upgraded version of their Web browser. The fact is that the software that runs and controls the Internet is constantly being advanced and improved and the old versions fall to the wayside. For example, Google changes and updates their search algorithms quite often. Every time they make a change, it affects the way they search for your Web site.

When an entity that controls the programming functionality of thousands of sites suddenly changes their “rules,” it can affect things on your site. For example: Recently a major provider of software that runs “shopping carts” on sites that sell directly over the Web, changed their internal software for security reasons. The upgraded version was better, but many sites using the old version may have found that their shopping carts had a potential security risk, or they were unable to receive orders for their products. Welcome to the world of software.