When you create your first site, there’s a good chance you’ll be hosting that site on a server that uses Cpanel as its control panel. CPanel is great but it can be a little intimidating to a newbie. You’ll likely find it easy enough to locate and handle some tasks, such as setting up a new email account, but others may not be so obvious. Rather than focus on showing you how to use every feature of CPanel, I want to touch on just four tasks that you’ll probably need to understand at some point, but aren’t already obvious in … Read the rest
How To Create and Add A Favicon To Your Site
When designing your site, you probably spend a lot of time working on the logo, color scheme, and the overall look and feel to ensure that you project just the right brand image. In the process, don’t overlook the tiny little favicon that appears next to your URL in the browser’s address bar, and next to your site’s name in a browser’s favorites / bookmarks.
A favicon may seem minor, but it’s like the dot over the “i” character. Your branding just isn’t complete without it, even if it can technically function without it.
People are inundated with data these … Read the rest
SEO 101: The First Baby Steps In Learning SEO
Although learning all the nuances of search engine optimization (SEO) can take years of experience, the basics are really fairly simple to understand. For many websites, and probably yours, these basics can often be enough to generate relevant, targeted traffic from search engines.
Three Broad SEO Goals
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SEO Goal 1: Make sure the search engines know that your site (and each of its pages) exists. Search engines prefer to discover sites and pages within those sites via links from other pages and other sites on the web. Therefore, to achieve this goal, make sure someone links to your site from
Custom Error Pages – Why You Should Customize and How To Do It
We’ve all landed on website error pages. Sometimes they don’t say much more than 404 or 500, and other times they give us funny or useful information. Here’s why you should make sure you customize your site’s error pages (at least the 404 Not Found ones), and how to go about doing it.
Why You Should Always Customize Your Error Pages
There are several reasons why you should never let your visitors land on a default error page.
- The default pages offer no real information, confusing some visitors, and annoying most others.
- It’s like inviting a guest into your home,




