tips and suggestions for building and growing your website - technical knowledge and geekery not required!
Your domain name is how your visitors find your site so it’s the most valuable part of the site. If content vanishes it can be re-written or restored from a backup, but if you lose your domain you have no way telling site users where to find you. So, even more important than picking a good … [More...]
Most web site owners don’t really need to know how to build a website from scratch nor do they need to pay web developers to build one for them. All the hard work involved in building sites has already been done by professional developers who have built great free tools such as the Joomla and … [More...]
Most web hosts impose restrictions on the sending of bulk emails from their servers, even dedicated servers where you might expect to do as you wish on ‘your’ box. They do this for a good reason - no matter how careful you are, someone on the server or network will always upload an easily … [More...]
The sad truth is there’s no ‘quick fix’ to growing your site’s popularity but there some ways you can quickly destroy your site’s reputation and placing in search engines. One of the biggest mistakes any eager site owner can make is to get involved in link exchange schemes. Of course … [More...]
Many sites will include media files - photos, images, video and audio. These can help to make a website look attractive and engaging to readers and, depending on the site of type you’re running, you may be using a lot of these. The problem is, as you’re site gets busier and more popular, … [More...]
Although sites focussed around some topics (gaming for example) are an exception to this, many sites get very few comments posted on them. That’s because most people who read a website do so passively - they turn up expecting to read something funny, entertaining or informative, not to take … [More...]
We’ve previously talked about the advantages of using existing software such as Wordpress and Joomla to build your site and touched on the need to keep scripts up to date. There’s another important aspect to site security which site often often overlook to their detriment - their … [More...]
