12 htaccess Tips

1. Redirect to a secure https connection
If you want to redirect your entire site to a secure https connection, use the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

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necessary things for a website design

Building traffic to your website is not an easy task. “If you build it, they will come” concepts work only for movies and it does not work with your website. A well designed website is just the first step in your internet business venture. Driving traffic to your website takes Knowledge, proper [...]

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Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities in PHP Code !

1. Unvalidated Parameters
Most importantly, turn off register_globals. This configuration setting defaults to off in PHP 4.2.0 and later. Access values from URLs, forms, and cookies through the superglobal arrays $_GET, $_POST, and $_COOKIE.
Before you use values from the superglobal arrays, validate them to make sure they don’t contain unexpected input. If you know what type [...]

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The Ten Commandments of Search Engine Optimization

Most of the time when we pitch to a new client we are asked for SEO guarantees. “Your competition has guaranteed top results and submission to 100,000 Search Engines and Directories”. We go all out educating clients that Search Engine Optimization is all about smart work and not just adding random [...]

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Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

The Importance of Front-End Performance

High Performance Web Sites: The Importance of Front-End Performance
In 2004, I started the Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo!. We’re a small team chartered to measure and improve the performance of Yahoo!’s products. Having worked as a back-end engineer most of my career, I approached this as I would a code optimization [...]

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10 ways to increase pages indexed

Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008
For a while now webmasters have fretted over why all of the pages of their website are not indexed. As usual there doesn’t seem to be any definite answer. But some things are definite, if not automatic, and some things seem like pretty darn good guesses.
Editor’s Note: If you know [...]

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TIOBE declares Python as programming language of 2007!

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. [...]

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January Newsflash

Python has been declared as programming language of 2007. It was a close finish, but in the end Python appeared to have the largest increase in ratings in one year time (2.04%). There is no clear reason why Python made this huge jump in 2007. Last month Python surpassed Perl for the first [...]

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The Web’s Most, Biggest, Best, and Worst of 2007

Biggest Winner: Apple and the Jesus Phone
You know your product’s hit a nerve when people pair it up with the savior of the world. Apple CEO Steve Jobs induced a Web-and-media-wide paroxysm by introducing the iPhone last January, which lasted until the mob turned on him over steep price cuts in advance of the [...]

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