Well, another year is in the bag. 2007 was a good year for me and my family, and I hope you all prospered in 2007 as well. Now that 2008 is upon us, I’m sure that we’re all looking ahead, thinking about things we’d like to improve about ourselves, our careers and our web sites.
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Almost all of us started with a cheap, shared web host. The shared hosts offer a fantastic service for little money. They offer the novice webmaster a managed environment with niceties like web-based administrative interfaces (cPanel, Plesk, etc) for managing their site(s) and services, script based installation of site software via Fantastico, and ftp and [...]

In November the much-maligned latest Google Pagerank was released, taken from an October snapshot. My site was granted a PR4, after only 2 months in existence.
I can’t give you a guaranteed way to start a site and attain a decent pagerank in only two months. I can tell you the things that I did and [...]

XML sitemaps are used to help search engine crawlers do a better job of finding and prioritizing all of your content. It doesn’t guarantee that your pages will be indexed, but it does assist the crawlers in determining what content you don’t want indexed, and what content you would like to see a higher priority [...]

Getting your website’s XHTML and CSS right ensures that your site will function properly for all your users. As web browsers change and (hopefully) become more standards-compliant, it becomes even more important to have good markup on your pages, lest you face a headache trying to fix it later when your site no longer works [...]