The VBArtistry.COM website may be navigated using either vbartistry.com or www.vbartistry.com addresses, links, and pages. With either form of addressing you are in the VBArtistry.COM domain and website. However, our identity certification and authentication is tied specifically and exclusively to www.vbartistry.com. This is standard practice. If your browser reports a certificate error when trying to visit a secure (https) page without using www, this is the reason.

For example, click the following link. If you are using Internet Explorer 6 or 7 (recommended), and depending on your security settings, you may receive a notification that "there is a problem with this website's security certificate," that "the security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address."

However, clicking "More information" on that warning page (IE7) and adding www, clicking "Continue to this website" and then the second link below, or viewing the certificate, you see the www.vbartistry.com registration, confirming identity authentication. To avoid the browser alert and insure a secure connection, use instead www addresses:

https://vbartistry.com/website.htm (Current page—apparent certificate error in absence of www)

https://www.vbartistry.com/website.htm (Same page—all OK with www)

See Amazon, left, for an example of this behavior with a well-known and highly reputable website. Try this also with other sites you know, such as Microsoft and Google. See more on SSL certificates, below-left.
 

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