Sooner or later, you might want to, or need to, change web hosts. Perhaps you’ve found a better package. Or maybe your website needs more features. Either way, you might be reluctant to move your website for fear of downtime. After all, downtime can result in the loss of visitors and hurt your position in search engines.

Fortunately, it is possible to move a website without any downtime. In this article, we walk you through the process of moving a website.

If you own a website, you are well aware of the ongoing costs involved to maintain it. And these can only be exasperated by unexpected costs, such as expensive charges which arise if your website exceeds the bandwidth (or “transfer”) limits of your hosting package. This might seem like a normal consequence of increased traffic, but before you go out and upgrade your web hosting plan, it is a good idea to make sure that your bandwidth is not being stolen.

Creating custom error pages in Linux Apache is a very simple task, whether or not your web host has an error page utility. And all you’ll need is a program, such as Notepad or WordPad, with the ability to make a simple text file.

Check out this tutorial to see how we developers do it.

Favicons – also known as favorites icons or website icons – are widely underused. These icons are associated with a url and are often displayed in the browser’s url bar, in the list or bookmarks, or even next to the page name in a browser’s tabbed interface. Additionally, when a url shortcut is placed on the desktop of Window’s operating systems, the favicon is also used to designate the site.

In this article, you’ll find out how to create a favorites icon and add it to your website.