If you don’t know why it’s important to establish your site links either with or without the “www”, using a 301 redirect to make sure the “wrong” version gets rerouted to the write one, read my article on 301 htaccess www redirects and come back to this for the rest.
Now, that’s all really simple and [...]

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I have a couple of sites that are pure HTML, but most of mine are php-driven. CMS or blog interfaces. And I keep seeing the same problem on every host: database failures to connect. The pure HTML sites would load - even a pure HTML page on an otherwise php-driven site would [...]

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I added a section of free webservices to the site. It’s a collection of scripts hosted by Bravenet, so you don’t need to know any php or CGI or any of that neat stuff to use them.
I’ve used them for at least 5 years on various sites, and I know them to be good [...]

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Ctabuck at WebProWorld recommended a great tool for checking your site’s quality. It’s called SiteReportCard, and all you do is plug your url in, click a button and get a report. The information they give you is terrific.
It checks for:

* Broken Links
* Misspelled Words
* HTML Validation
* Load Time Analysis
* Meta Tag Optimization
* Image [...]

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About a month ago, I put a directory on this site for webmaster-related sites. It’s had one submissions so far, so I thought perhaps some revamping was in order.
Actually, I took the link down and was about to trash it. Then I started typing an entry about why it didn’t work, and realized [...]

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If you’re a self-respecting Mac user, and you’re running IE for Mac, you may have noticed the font on this blog is hard to read. Well, that’s your punishment for using a discontinued browser that was never much good to start with! Just kidding… but I have tried everything I can think of to get [...]

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The other day, I signed two sites up for 7 different ad networks. Remember, I warned you they might not even accept me, but hopefully we’d all learn something from that anyway.
Here’s an update on how that’s going:
AdBrite accepted me immediately and gave me code to use, which you’ll see here on the site. No [...]

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As great an idea as Google AdSense is, to the point that everyone’s trying to copy it, I think we’re oversaturated. I know I don’t even see them anymore. As soon as I recognize that box, or see “Ads by Goooooooogle”, my eyes glaze over, and I move on. So it’s time to look for [...]

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Today, I decided to get territorial. I have one site that’s doing much better than I expected, and it’s a .info domain. I just bought the .com, .org and .net at Namecheap.com and put redirects on all of them to the real domain. I was getting a lot of searches for the domain name itself, [...]

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If you want to get anywhere online, organization is important. And it’s easier than you might think. Some people use applications on their home computer and keep their organizational tools offline. That’s fine, if that works for you. But I like being able to work from more than one computer, so that means I need [...]

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