Here are the steps that I take to get an SPF Record going on DreamHost

v=spf1 mx ip4:64.111.100.0/24 ip4:66.33.201.0/24 ip4:66.33.216.0/24 ip4:208.97.1 32.0/24 ip4:208.97.187.0/24 ip4:208.113.200.0/24 ip4:208.113.244.0/24 ip4:64.18.0.0/20 ip4:74.125.148.0/22 include:aspmx.googlemail.com include:_spf.google.com ~all

Using FastCGI on DreamHost and .htaccess

Learning about charset's and file types maybe pretty boring, but using .htaccess it can be fun! Here's a quicklist htaccess cheatsheet for adding the correct Charset to a web document.

One of the most cost-effective ways to drive traffic to your Web site is to optimize it for search engines. Many of them use automated programs called "crawlers" or "spiders" to create an index of the Web, which they use to determine what sites are most relevant to users' queries. These programs essentially visit Web sites, read the pages' content, and follow any links to other pages, repeating the process

Files that can be deleted after installing wordpress

• license.txt
• Readme.html
• the import*.php files

Find and Replace tool in Adobe DreamWeaver is useful of course, but you aren't using a fraction of the power until you use REGEX.

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1. Everything you know is wrong sort of
2. It's not going to look exactly the same everywhere unless you're willing to face some grief and possibly not even then
3. You will be forced to choose between the ideal and the practicable
4. (with thanks to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry): Perfection is not when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away
5. Some sites are steaming heaps of edge cases
6. Longer lead times

Links to htaccess tutorials and howtos in the htaccess forum

mod_rewrite is very useful in many situations. Yet some behaviors were not so obvious when I started to mess with it. After many testings, I understand it much better, now. Having said that, I do not pretend to know it perfectly. I also make mistakes.

A lot of commonly used htaccess code snippets for use with the Apache Web Server.

Perhaps you want to keep status information between requests and use the URL to encode it. But you don't want to use a CGI wrapper for all pages just to strip out this information.

After I optimized the caching for my non-dynamic pages using apache modules mod_headers and mod_expires, I began to learn about phpbb seo..

When you want to compress your CSS files, heres a list of some free online CSS compression tools. Of course I am partial to my own CSS Compression Tool.

Say you want to deny access to your entire site except when you access it. The following htaccess code does just that. Instead of a Static IP you could also use a hostname, or part of a hostname..

.htaccess is a very ancient configuration file for web servers, and is one of the most powerful configuration files most webmasters will ever come across. This htaccess guide shows off the very best of the best htaccess tricks and code snippets from hackers and server administrators.

You've come to the right place if you are looking to acquire mad skills for using .htaccess files!

Part deux of Want to know how to really hack? Originally Posted: 12/28/2003

Originally Posted: 1/22/2003

I have been in some tight spots where I had to sniff a password or two off the wire, or sniff some packets off the wire and based on the packets content perform some action... Accidentally, I stumbled on a method to sniff data while remaining undetected and invisible.

Originally Posted: 2003/04/15