Q: What can cause my website which does not have many pictures in it to load slowly? It doesn't take but one unoptimized or incorrectly used picture to cause a web page to load slowly. Here I explain some gotchas for using digital images and prepping them for use on a website. Ima Continue reading...

The easiest way to prevent folks from being able to cruise a folder on your website (without taking it off the net) is to implement htpasswd authentication on an Apache server. It is mind-bogglingly easy if you follow these instructions.Two files will need to be created, a .htaccess file Continue reading...

The purpose of an expires header is to set a future expiration date on identified file types so that they will remain in cached memory on the client computer. To add an expires header to your site add the following code to your .htaccess file in webroot: <FilesMatch ".(gif|jpg|jpeg|pn Continue reading...

Problem: I have lost controlling interest in my primary domain and now I have to convert and use a new/alternate domain, but this must be done without losing search engine rankings on my web pages. How do I set up a 301 redirect (what syntax) to make this happen, to use the new site Continue reading...

First of all, if you're not familiar with a framed website, then here's a quickie overview. Frames is a designing technique which allows two or more documents to exist in a single browser window. Each frame is built as a separate HTML file but with one master file, commonly the index file, which ide Continue reading...

This question might also be rephrased as "How do I stop Google from indexing a page?" or "How do I prevent search engines from indexing a page?" Regardless of how the question is worded the general idea is to keep a page from showing up in the results output of a search engine. There are a couple op Continue reading...

I have a spammer faking identity and emailing me junk like: From: Neophytos Neophytos Email: IacovosFewrte64@gawab.com Subject: Neophytos Website: http://some_spam_site.com Problem: Request details: very Continue reading...

Background: I developed a PHP scripts for Joomla/Virtuemart that could be used to import shipping/handling fees from a .csv file into Joomla's shipping_rate table. Problem: Although the script executes and imports the data correctly whenever I would check the dat Continue reading...

If, for instance, you have 2 domains, and while the primary will point to the main website, you want the second to point to a specific file or even folder under home of the primary website you can easily do this if you have a standard cPanel (control panel) and access to Addon domains. Continue reading...

If you have a video already in .mov (Quicktime) format you can ignore the first conversion part of the process. A DVD will generally be in .VOB format (for instance if you were to look at the file contents of the DVD). To convert a .VOB to .MOV you will need access to an application th Continue reading...

The list of website mistakes at your disposal is probably not infinite but is certainly not limited to what I have identified here.  Reorder as you see fit. As with many walks of life put this in perspective, doing it right does not guarantee success but will generally lead you in that direction. O Continue reading...