Category: Very Old Blog Posts

Question : What do people most hate about websites ? Answer : They take too long to load. Research has shown time and time again that if a website doesn’t load quickly, or isn’t easy to use than people will abandon the site and look for... Read More

By default, the Apache web server will report lots of information about your web server within the http headers of a page eg: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2 This isnt a great idea because a... Read More

More information is transmitted in a digital format now than ever, and the growth in this trend will not plateau in the foreseeable future. Digital information is susceptible to having copies made at the same quality as the original. A watermark is a... Read More

A google search for search+engine+optimisation will result in an avalanche of links to companies claiming they will achieve a top 10 rank for your website. This article advocates a multi pronged approach to Search Engine Optimisation which can get... Read More

Web pages load faster when the height and width of images displayed in them are explicitly defined because web browsers save time by not having to measure the images dimension themselves eg: <img src=”logo.jpg” height=”100″... Read More

Bandwidth theft can be a problem for webmasters of sites that contain content which other people will try and link to in their own sites eg: photo galleries or file downloads … (read more). ... Read More

Recently when migrating a client’s website from ASP to PHP I found I had a problem because the extension of all the pages on their site was going to change from .asp to .php and this meant links to those pages from external sites would not work... Read More

This article was presented at the March 2004 Sydney PHP Group Meeting. It is available in: PDF & Open Office formats. ... Read More