If your website is hacked, one of the first things you might like to find out is how the hackers did it. In this article, we give five common ways hackers may have gotten into your website and a few ways to prevent it from happening again.

Google’s most recent update with its Webmaster Tools product was not fully tested for cross-browser compatibility before it was rolled out. The result? The product was virtually unusable for a full week for visitors trying to access it using Firefox 3.6. Do you test your website for cross-browser compatibility before you introduce it to the web?

If your website gets more traffic than it can handle or if your web host is having problems, visitors to your WordPress site may see a blank white screen with an error. Here is how to create a custom database error page.

The CommentLuv WordPress plugin was great for increasing the traffic and the number of comments on our posts. But after two and a half years of use, we decided to uninstall it, mostly for SEO reasons. Here are the top 4 reasons for removing CommentLuv. Perhaps you should consider removing CommentLuv too!

Everyone seems to be giving their blogs a makeover. What are their reasons? And does your blog need a makeover too?

The other day, Gary Conn discovered that a lot of his visitors used a dial up internet connection to access his website. He also admitted that he had recently tested his site on dial up and was horrified at how slow it was… How well does your website measure up on a dial up connection?

We all have a tendency to use acronyms, abbreviations, and technical jargon when writing articles, all without ever explaining what they mean. The result? We end up alienating our readers. Here are 3 ways to stop speaking Greek and start speaking a language that your readers understand.

A while back, we created a list of the most annoying website features. We thought that our list was pretty complete, but apparently it wasn’t. Lately, several other bloggers have also chimed in with a few things that they’d change to make the web a less irritating place to be.