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If you decided to make new website, regardless you attend to make it or you will hire designer for that, here is the question you can ask yourself before start. Should you use HTML or PHP pages on site? I mean, what is better to have, index.html or index.html? Aboutus.html or aboutus.php? Both kind of pages look just the same in source code. Both can be viewed just the same in Notepad and Notepad++ editors where you can edit them and manipulate them. Some people think that HTML is better for SEO. That is not true. PHP pages can be only better for SEO purposes. If it’s used on right way.

To be more concrete, here are pros for both.

HTML pages pros

- In fact, I see only one advantage for HTML pages. If that can be an advantage. HTML pages are more common, more people are used to see them and heard more about HTML then PHP. So, less experience people in webdesign can prefer HTML pages just for that. They might be scared or have some hesitation about PHP pages on site.

PHP pages pros

- PHP pages can use “include function”. That’s function where you can make separate PHP file for menu, header, footer and other parts of website. So, let’s say you have a separate file for menu, called menu.php. You just include it with function on all pages after. And in future, when you » Read the rest of this entry «

If you have a Wordpress blog (or blog on some other platform) you probably already know about Feedburner RSS service, now owned by Google. It imports your default RSS feed, gives you new RSS feed URL you shall promote and you have big variety of features for your feed (statistics, e-mail subscriptions form and stats, chicklets, APIs, feed to HTML feature, …). In order to have all your subscribers in Feedburner stats you have to replace default RSS link with new Feedburner link. But what with RSS feed link integrated in your WP theme? There is small icon linked to your old default WP RSS feed placed in browser’s URL bar.

Here is a little tutorial about replacing that with your new Feedburner link.

First, in your WP theme files find header.php file. Open it with Notepad, or better with Notepad++ if you have that installed.
Find this line:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="< ?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" /></link>

This part: » Read the rest of this entry «