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Website Maintenance: Simple and Quick Steps to Tune Up Your Web Site

Keeping your website free of problems not only helps in better search engine visibility and make your visitors happy but also saves you from performance issues. Some simple web site maintenance steps can save a lot of your time that you might have otherwise spent in checking your website for potential problems. Once the problem is isolated, it’s easy to fix it. Check for Broken and Dead Links It is a good practice to check all the links in your

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PSPad: A feature rich free editor for programming

While I am still trying to come up the learning curve with programming in PHP, in earlier days when I started with PHP, I found it very difficult and annoying to work with PHP scripting in standard HTML editors with no syntax highlighting. Then I searched for editors in PHP.net site and came across this link – http://www.midnighthax.com/phpeditors.php. It has a list of editors that are free, commercial and rich in features. But then I had to download (some of)

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How To: Measure the Success of Your Website

Many of us, developers or be an end user having a professional, corporate or personal website, do not really measure the success of hosting our websites online. I asked couple of my friends and few acquaintances who work for corporates about their mechanism and tools they use, if any, for measuring the success of their online presence. Many of them were clueless about existence and need of such a mechanism. For those of you, who are new to this side

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Best Practices of Web Designing

Recently, I was searching for ‘basic unix commands’ and ‘tar -I option’ on Internet, and came across some websites which were totally messed up in terms of layout, design and content. The content was, of course, available in the site but then I had to do a ‘ctrl + F’ to search for those words on the page. This compelled me to write down some of the best practices that should and must be kept in mind while designing a

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