I’ve got a PHPBB forum on one of my sites, and it’s been getting spammed daily. I removed the memberlist a few days ago and made it so new accounts have to be manually approved by me: that stopped the profile spamming, where they just sign up to put their website on a page. But [...]
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When I first started buying domains, I used GoDaddy because someone recommended them and they had a sale. Their website was more complicated than it needed to be, and everything loaded very slowly. When I tried Namecheap next, I found out it didn’t have to be that way. Namecheap is less expensive, and offers free [...]
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Here’s a tip I learned from the brilliant Garvin of Serendipity blog. Have you ever lost your ability to change permissions, edit or delete a particular file on your server? I’ve had it happen on a couple of sites where I was using php software that had the ability to fetch and install plugins for [...]
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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 [...]
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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 sometimes load. But [...]
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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 * [...]
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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 there [...]
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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 [...]
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