Webmaster Hints, Tips and Advice

Getting Your Links On To The First Page of Search Engine Results

A common question asked by many new webmasters is how they can get links to their website appearing on the first results page of major search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

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What is RSS?

RSS is a simple means of distributing links to your website content that you want to syndicate or in other words make available for other people to use. RSS is the acronym used for either "Rich Site Summary" or "Really Simply Syndication" and describes the technology used for the creation of feeds.

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Create Imageless Rollover Buttons For Your Webpage

Create accessible navigation buttons that change colour using this simple CSS technique rather than fancy gif images.

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Create A PHP Greeting Message For Your Website

Add that personal touch to your website’s homepage and create a greeting message that changes dependant on the time of day. This simple PHP script will output one of the following greeting messages relative to your site visitor’s local time:

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How To Prevent Bandwidth Theft And Hotlinking

If your website contains images, music or video files etc you may be at risk of bandwidth theft or "hotlinking". An example of hotlinking is when someone places say an <img> tag on their webpage linking directly to an image on your site. When a visitor downloads this particular page they will be using YOUR bandwidth to display YOUR image on THEIR SITE.

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Server Side Includes (SSI) Explained

If you run a large website with a lot of common elements, server–side includes (SSI) can help to seriously reduce the amount of time you spend updating and maintaining your site.

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How to add PHP to your webpage

Those webmasters who have the majority of their website built using server side includes (SSI’s) for headers, footers and navigation etc may have difficulties in inserting a php script into the main body of the page.

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