A quick tutorial explaining how to enable PHP 5.3 for your HostGator shared hosting. In this article, we cover both steps needed to ensure all of your scripts will run using PHP 5.3.

More and more applications are starting to require PHP 5.3, even as most websites have yet to upgrade from PHP 5.2. With this quick tutorial, learn how to enable PHP 5.3 on your HostGator or GoDaddy hosted website by adding one or two lines to your .htaccess file.

With .htaccess files, setting up 301 redirects is very simple. However, if your url has spaces, you might run into a problem. Read this article to see how to setup a 301 page redirect for a url that contains spaces.

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.