In my quest to beat the hackers who have had a go at some customer websites, I have created a list of a few basic security steps for people building their own websites. Please do leave comments of any others you can think of. 1) Make sure that passwords are not readable in your database. [...]
I’ve already mentioned my problems with hackers, but here is something else that you need to do to protect your website from them. Once they decide to target your website one of the tricks they will attempt is to see if they can access your website. The aim is that hopefully you will have stored [...]
Making a website look professional is not that difficult, you just need to follow a few rules. But it is so easy to go from a professional looking finish to a childish version that you need to take care at every step. There are no great secrets to making a website look professional, you just [...]
Getting the page navigation correct in your website design is critical. Get it wrong and your visitors and the search engines cannot find their way around the site. Get it right and you will have a well optimised site in which visitors can find what they want. There are many views of best practices for [...]
What are the best fonts to use if you are building a new website? Are fancy, curly, eye catching fonts the best, or the plain and boring standard fonts? Frequently when I am building a website after the customer has looked at a few revisions, the topic of conversation drifts to the fonts that should [...]
