I thought I might quickly throw up a small how-to on creating an SSL certificate. Any article you will find on my site that will walk you though any form on web platform (CMS, LMS, etc), I will always recommend that you use an SSL certificate on your website.
An SSL certificate consists of 3 parts. A private key, which is used to decrypt the actual certificate, the certificate itself, and in many cases you may also use a CSR (Certificate Signing Request).