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May 2002
Miscellaneous Stuff You Need to Know
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Many people think that
their home page is the only really important page on their website
when it comes to search engines. This is not true. Every single page
of your website has the potential to be found by search engines so
you must pay attention to keywords for each important page in your
site.
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URL stands for Uniform
Resource Locator which is a fancy way to say "the address of your
webpage." Each webpage you see on the World Wide Web has its own
unique URL. It's similar to the address of your house. There is no
other place on earth that has the same address as your home. Even if
you live in an apartment complex where everyone has the same street
address, your apartment still gets mail because you live in 2C or 3B
or whatever your apartment complex's numbering system is. That's why
you get your mail and that's why your webpage is found.
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You can back up your
entire system to a portable hard drive and get it out of your home
or office so that an office disaster like a fire or flood doesn't
put you out of business. DON'T SLACK ON YOUR BACKUPS
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Don't be swayed by
supercheap hosting services. You will likely be on a supercheap
server computer that is overloaded with thousands of websites which
makes your site load like molasses.. They probably don't have
adequate backup services or power generators in case of a localized
or regional power outage. Service is probably poor or non-existent.
If you are serious about selling on the Internet get good reliable
hosting and pay for it. One day of downtime could cost you a small
fortune once you get a steady stream of sales coming in.
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Want to see what fonts are
on your computer? Click on "Start", then click on "Settings," then
click on "Control Panel," then click on "Fonts." If you click on any
font listed you get a sample in many different point sizes. You can
print out the sample and put it in a binder if you like to see how
things look on paper.
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