A favicon is a graphic icon associated with your Web site. Most browsers display them as a visual reminder of your Web site in the address bar or in favorites tab.

To add a favicon to your Web site, you'll need an icon, you can create one at http://www.favicon.cc, you also need to add a line of code in the head of your web site

The format for the icon must be 16x16 pixels or 32x32 pixels, using either 8-bit or 24-bit.

This is a simple script to check to see if a file exists, If you web site pulls image names from a database this script will check if it exists before displaying it, if not displays a default image instead.

The number of people using mobile devices to access the Internet more than doubled from January 2008 to January 2009, according to comScore, a provider of Internet tracking.



Internet users have been using smartphones for personal use and to conduct business, similar to the way they would use a laptop or home computer.



Last January, of the 63.2 million people who used their mobile device to access information, 22.4 million, or 35 percent of mobile-device users, did it on a daily basis, more than double last year's 10.8 million people.

This tutorial will show you how to format dates with ASP. Some times you need to display dates in different ways like today's date or today's day. below are few different ways of doing this.

If you are setting up a database driven website or using a 3rd party application like Persist ASPUPload you may need to know the physical path of you web host. This small line of code will tell you!

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most websites use tables to display their records vertically. However, depending on the type of layout of your page, you may need to display your records horizontally.

Yahoo provide some great tools to keep a check on website or Blog - Yahoo Site Explorer

Google Webmaster Tools are excellent for collecting stats on your website or blog - Google Webmaster Tools

This is a great tool for submitting your URL and collecting stats on you website or blog - http://www.bing.com/webmaster

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What may come as a surprise to some webmasters is Microsoft, Yahoo and Google's recent announcement that cross domain content duplication will be allowed. They recognize that there are legitimate reasons to duplicate content across different websites.

For example if you are migrating to a new domain name and using a Web server that cannot perform server-side redirects. To help those webmasters with these types of issues that arise on sites, Google has created the cross-domain link rel="canonical" href="http://www.bluethumb.co.uk tag.

Google recommends following certain guidelines. Such as choosing your preferred domain, when Google is confronted with duplicate content they will generally index just one version and filter the rest out. This allows you to make the decision of which version should be indexed. In addition they recommend that you reduce in-site duplication, by placing the appropriate no index statements.

You should also enable crawling and use 301 (permanent) redirects wherever possible. These type of redirects send visitors and search engine crawlers to your preferred domain and make it extremely clear which URL the search engine should index.

While the canonical link element is seen as a clue and not an absolute statement, Google will try to follow it where possible.

Use CSS to replace the actual text field background and have your own image displayed.

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