Web development, hosting, and cyber security articles.
Ever have problems with spam being sent to your contact and blog commenting forms? Redirect the spammers using the offenders IP address and some clever tricks with your .htaccess configuration file.
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) tutorial covering some of the advantages of using CSS in your designs and some basic methods for styling your web pages. Learn how to style headings and paragraphs to improve the appearance text on your pages. You are also shown how to store your styles in an external style sheet and link to it from your pages, which reduces the page loading times and allows you edit styles for your entire website from one location.
Use the code in this tutorial to see how you can create an accessible 3 column layout that will work with any website. Feel free to copy the example code to use as a starting point for your website.
Avoid multiple versions of your homepage being indexed by the search engines which could essentially split your websites ranking power.
How to set up multiple websites to run from your LAMP development server and have the websites shared from your Windows host machine. This will allow you to work on your files and view them in your preferred browser on your host machine before uploading them to your live server.
This tutorial is to help you set up a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) Ubuntu virtual machine server running on VirtualBox. Use it as a test machine when developing your websites.
Take control of which pages the search engines can index by adding a robots.txt to your website or by setting a X-Robots-Tag.