Set Expiration or Expiring Time by mod_expires.c on Apache via .htaccess to Reduce Web Page Loading Time

When your site’s ready in design and majority of common media resources won’t change for quite some time, say, half a year, for example, the images and flashes. It makes sense to set the expiration of them much longer than the default to prevent the client browsers downloading them every time a visitor drops by, …

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Validate and Check Your Site’s Accessibility against WAI (WCAG) and Section 508

If you are determined to make your site comply with the latest provisions in the accessibility code, you may find it’s a pain in the ass to check point by point against the checklist of WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) and Section 508. Yep, it sure is with so many check points for your web page …

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How to know if your hosting provider is overselling on your server?

To check whether you are one of the victims that are dwelling on oversold web hosting servers, you need to have SSH access to your server. Now perform the following commands: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l Which will usually return the number of the CPUs of the current server: 2 Then, display …

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Watch TV and Movies Free Online – The China P2P Internet Streaming Network: PPS

You know what they say, China doesn’t have digital products, instead, it’s all digital freebies because of the lack of legal accountability for intellectual property. A recently released Hollywood blockbuster movie will be pouring into the piracy market at less than $1 per DVD copy. And online? You literally have unlimited access to millions of …

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MySQL: id BETWEEN start AND end Instead of LIMIT start, step For Better Database Performance

Suppose you have a ultra large table of 1 million records and you need to page all those records across 10,000 web pages with 100 records on each page. For page 2, the most straightforward approach is undoubtedly: SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 100, 100 However, this query would introduce performance issues when the starting …

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Semantic HTML Table Checklist – For The Sake of SEO!

Semantics is the study and practice of introducing meaning to markups, enabling computers to better understand human language. In real world, it is much more than just academics and web standards. Google crawlers and ranking calculators are just the sort of computers dealing with large chunks of text data everyday, reading and analyzing millions of …

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Why having multiple CSS files is a bad idea?

Just for the sake of code separation and software development paradigms, a lot of web designers and front end developers are tempted to break the CSS styling into a group of separated files based on function. Yours might look like: layout.css typography.css colors.css widget.css While this might look professional at the first glance and generally …

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Linking back to start a war!

While there’s a positive backlink without rel=”nofollow” on an ordinary a tag that adds favorable link juice for the linked site,  and there’s a neutral backlink with rel=”nofollow” that does nothing other than sending some clicking traffic, there should also be a negative backlink that’s meant to be in attacking position to the linked site, …

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HTML: <COL> vs. <COLGROUP> – What’s the difference between the table tags COL and COLGROUP?

As we all know, HTML tables have a way to distinguish between columns and groups of them to do things about them and that is the COL tag and the COLGROUP tag. They pretty much have exactly the same set of available attributes – they are almost identical except for the names they are born …

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Dismiss unusable proxy server lists – Build your own stable socks5 proxy server and surf anonymously in minutes!

All web hosting servers with SSH access enable you to tunnel the sessions so that your local computer can act like a socks proxy. For web hosting users, browsing anonymously has never been so easy. There’s a detailed step by step tutorial for turning your web host into a socks5 proxy server. Basically, you use …

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GoDaddy: 2 Bad Features Combined Into 1 Great Feature

So lots of people are complaining about: GoDaddy barricading domain transfers by denying transfer requests on domains which have recently been modified in contact information (for the last 60 days). Their poor security features (no even security questions when modifying name servers or contact information) and high potential to lose premium domains. Yeah, they suck. …

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HTTP Explained: What Does HTTP Stand For, What is HTTP Meaning and HTTP’s Definition?

What is HTTP in all the web site URLs / web page addresses you see everywhere online? HTTP Explained: Just like people communicate with each other following certain protocols, HTTP is the protocol between the client (your computer using web browsers) and the server (web server serving web pages and similar online resources). So what …

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