It’s more than likely that your website will have a control panel (called cPanel) where you can set up new email addresses, password protect directory’s and do lots of other useful stuff. One of those being the ability to download a Backup of your Website and Databases. If you’re unsure whether you have a cPanel then contact your web hosts and ask. If you purchased a hosting package with Dare to Think then you will have.

Here’s what to do:

1. Enter your cPanel url into your browser (This is usually http://yourdomain.com:2082)
2. Enter your username and password (these will have been provided in your Welcome Email)
3. Under the “Files” panel click on “Backup Wizard”
4. Click “Backup” and then choose what you would like a backup of. If unsure select “Full Backup”
5. Select “Home Directory” as the Backup Destination, enter your email address and click “Generate Backup”. You will then receive an email your backup is available for download. Keep this page open in your browser.
6. Go back to the website and click “Go back”. You will then see your Backup available for download. Click this and save it somewhere safe on your computer, preferably an external backup drive.

So how often do you download a backup of your site? Well, it depends how often you update your website. If you update it once a week then I’d download a backup once a week. If less often then once a month should suffice.

It’s unlikely you’ll ever need to revert to a previous backup but it’s better to be safe than sorry, and it’s really not until something horrible does happen that you realise how important it is to backup your site.

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Here’s what it looks like:

I always find it’s easier to download a page and play around with it in your own leisure so click here to download single html file containing HTML and CSS of the Centered DIV.

Here’s the code for those that don’t want to download:

CSS:

#container
{
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
border: 3px solid black;
width: 400px;
height: 300px;
margin-left: -200px;
margin-top: -150px;
}

#content
{
font-size: 0.8em;
font-family: sans-serif;
background-color: #ccc;
position: relative;
left: 50%;
top: 50%;
width: 240px;
height: 50px;
margin-left: -120px;
margin-top: -25px;
}

HTML:

<div id=”container”>
<div id=”content”>
This content div is centered within it’s containing div
</div>
</div>

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The key is to use to the “position” property. Give your containing DIV a relative position and the content an absolute position.

I find these things easier if you can just take an example page and play with it in your own time so download this single HTML page and play away.

For those that like the code here it is:

CSS

#container
{
width: 300px;
height: 200px;
border: solid 1px #000;
position: relative;
}

#bottom-right
{
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
position: absolute;
}

#bottom-left
{
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
position: absolute;
}

HTML

<div id=”container”>
<div id=”bottom-right”>
bottom right
</div>
<div id=”bottom-left”>
bottom left
</div>
</div>

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I’m a big fan of having a domain name local to your country when the majority of your business is conducted locally. If you’re based in the UK then choose a .co.uk domain name – that way your clients and customers know that you’re UK based. If you sell internationally or want to reach all 4 corners of the globe then a .com domain name is your best bet.

It doesn’t mean that because a website has a co.uk domain that they are UK based but it’s unlikely that they’ll be based elsewhere. With that in mind there are certain extensions that are local to a country but due to their desirability the whole world has started to buy them, such as .tv which is actually a local domain for the small island of Tuvalu in the South Pacific!

The problem you may face is availability. Don’t panic – simply look around for another catchy name and see if that’s available.

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For example you have:

#small-div {
width: 100px;
height: 5px
background-color: red;
}

#offers-bt {

width: 378px;

float: left;

font-size: 0px;

}

So this will appear in most browsers as a 5px div. But in IE6 it appears higher. So to overcome that issue simply add a zero font size to the CSS e.g:

#small-div  {
width: 100px;
height: 5px
background-color: red;
font-size: 0px;
}

Now, if you have text in that div, you obviously don’t want to set the font size as zero so you can also try setting the overflow:hidden element which can also do the trick.

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Most offer a free plan, along with paid plans, that offer a basic website monitoring service – which should be enough for most small sites. If you rely on your website for sales and it’s vital that it’s live 100% of the time then it’s worth having a paid subscription which will have far more options available to you such as receiving notifications via SMS.

It’s often the case that if your website is down then your email will be as well so use an email address not associated with the site you’re checking. A Gmail or Yahoo Mail address is ideal.

A few websites that offer free services are:

Pingdom: Without a doubt my favourite and also the most reliable, giving minute by minute tracking of your site as well as detailed stats via their site. You can receive notifications via email, sms and now even Twitter! You’ll also receive monthly emails with details of how long your site has been up for. Free for monitoring one site and then pay for more.

HostTracker: The free version checks up to 2 domains at 30 minute intervals. You’ll also receive weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports. The reports are very detailed and specifies how long, if any, your site was down for each day.

SiteUptime: The free version only tracks 1 domain at 30 minute intervals. Also receive a monthly report which is very basic giving downtime in hours, uptime in percentage and the amount of outages.

Montastic: My favourite. You can have up to 100 domains checked at 10 minute intervals for free. It’ll inform you when your site is down and then send a follow-up email to say when it’s up again. Extras include a free widget for both Mac and PC and RSS feed that will update when your site goes down.

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