Archive for August 8th, 2008

vBulletin vs phpBB

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Before I get started on this, I must stress that when it comes to things like this it is completely a matter of personal opinion, there will be people out there who love and loathe phpBB and there will be people out there who think vBulletin is the best.
I have used both in the past [...]

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What Web Software?

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It can be difficult to decide what piece of software to chose when creating a new website from scratch these days, especially with so many offerings around. My best advice to start with would be to ensure the following things:

Firstly that the software you propose to use is still an on going project, i.e. its not [...]

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Robots.txt

Posted by David | Filed under Web Design Tips | Read Full Article

A Robots.txt is especially important for those of us with WordPress or similar CMS that have directories we don’t really want Google poking its spider nose into! For example I don’t want Google rummaging through wp-admin/ wp-content/ or wp-includes/ so how can I stop that happening?
Simple - Googlebots along with many other good bots obey a [...]

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