Blog spam has gotten smarter. It looks just like real comments and it is often undetectable by anti-spam plugins. So how can you beat it?

There are many reasons to parse HTML files as PHP. Some webmasters do it because they are converting an old static website into a dynamic website and don’t want to lose pagerank. Other websites do it because search engines favor web pages with .html endings. Still others do it for security reasons.

Fortunately, parsing HTML files as PHP easily accomplished on Linux Apache via the use of an htaccess file.

If you’ve been trying without success to create pretty permalinks for your GoDaddy hosted WordPress blog, do not despair. It will work.

At some point, it may be necessary to reorganize a website or move a website to a new domain name. This means that your pages will no longer be accessible via their previous urls, resulting in a lot of 404 – Not Found errors for all visitors and search engines that request these pages.

In this article, we explain how to move pages or an entire website, yet do so without annoying visitors or hurting your position in search engines.

About five days ago, WordPress version 2.6 was released. As usual, we were a bit wary of the latest version for fear of glitches and other potential problems.

So we decided to hold off on upgrading any of our preexisting blogs, and only used 2.6 for new websites. However, now after previewing the new features of this latest version, it looks like WordPress 2.6 is a go.

But before you upgrade, it is important to be aware of what could go wrong.

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.