Here are my tips for when you are editing your site –

1.Before you begin, save a copy of your HTML code to another document. That way, if you mess up really badly, you still have what you started with, rather than having to re-make your site, or part of it, from scratch.

2.If you have several changes to make, make them one by one. Saving after each and checking to make sure it has worked. This reduces your chance of making a major mess and helps if your PC crashes.

3.Know exactly what you are going to do before you begin. Except for maybe fixing typos, saying ‘oh, I’ll just change that a bit’ half way through editing something else tends to lead to trouble

4.Use a spell checker on and proof-read every piece of text you add. Some potential customers can be turned away by just a few typos

5.If you are using a HTML editor such as Dreamweaver or NVU, save after each change and check your results in a browser window, since these programs don’t always convert perfectly to HTML and what you see in the edit window might not be what you get when the HTML code is uploaded to your server.

Hope these helped.

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I wanted to state that there is a much better solution for not losing your data and that is called Control Versioning System. I tend to use SVN for the work but other use git or cvs or other.

Such programs are in fact repositories where your code is stored IN REVISIONS. So, whenever you want to make a change, you just commit it and if you were mistaken you just go back to a previous revision, no need to make backups yourself.

For websites, you also create hooks so that your svn repository automatically upgrades your web root too(called hooks, a bit more advanced as a technique).

It's really worth a look (http://subversion.tigris.org/). If you're a windows user look for TortoiseSVN, otherwise "apt-get install subversion" or whatever your package manager is

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Thanks for the tips on site editing...William Wilson

I hadn't heard of that before. But the point still stands, you should make sure you know you can revert what you've done before changing your site.

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I always take a back up before start editing my website that helps me to avoid sudden loss of data. I like a step by step approach that helped us a lot to finish the entire thing smoothly.

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Yeah, that's the whole point of subversion. It even has an "svn revert" command You may want to take a closer look i can guarantee it will change the way you go on with coding your website, in a very good manner of course. You can even have your files at a remote server through svn and download a local copy to work with in your machine and that is in fact the nice way to do it.

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Sounds a little bit too complicated for my liking. I'll stick to a word document with a copy of my html code in it. . But if it helps you then fair play to you.

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Nice tips, I am always keep in mind. more information included, thanks a lot for your information....

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Here's a quick tip for post and page editing.

From what I can tell Wordpress doesn't support the creation of tables.

So I just setup Windows Live Writer (Free Program) which does a great job of creating custom tables within posts and pages.

I saw your post on "Windows Live Writer (free program)"...I have an email program on "live.com"...Is the Windows Live Writer a part of that program group, or if not, where does one obtain the WL Writer program?...Thanks for your help...I continue to wish you well...William Wilson

Windows Live Writer is part of what use to be called hotmail and msn messenger, it’s all called Windows Live now.
Just go to

http://download.live.com/?sku=messenger

and download the Live Installer, once you have downloaded the installer, run the installer which will then give a list of downloadable programs, tick the ones you want to download and install, Live Messenger, Live Writer, etc, etc and click download to download the programs. If you’re using an old version of MSN Messenger or Live Messenger it will be updated to the latest version for you.

Once the downloader/installer has downloaded and installed Live Writer, Live Messenger it’s a simple matter of starting Live Writer plugging in your blogs URL, username and password and you then can edit your blog with Live Writer, it really is a great tool and it’s faster to switch from different blogs using Live Writer rather than the browser login of each Wordpress or Blogger blog. I mainly use it for when I want to create a table in my post or page of my blogs.

With Live Messenger I use it mainly for Remote Assistance for clients. If a client sees that I’m online and they have a problem with say adding adsense code or customising a Wordpress theme or relocating Domain Name to their hosting server, I actually take over their computer through Live Messenger and fix their problems for them and when I’m finished I leave a Word Doc on their desktop with the details of my work.

From their end, they just watch their computer more or less operate by it itself, the cursor moves, windows open, everything gets filled out and fixed while they are not even touching the keyboard or mouse. From my end I have a browser like window which I see their desktop, complete with icons and basically everything they see on their own desktop, but I see two cursors, one is mine the second is theirs which tracks my cursor.
It really is quite cool!

Anyway see how you go and if you have any problems, give me a yell and I’ll see if I can’t help you out.

Good Luck John

Thanks for the informative post, my friend

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thanks for the tips.
You forgot one thing: test your page on a different browsers. =(

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So true. But don't manually add ur sig it will get u banned.

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