Good Thursday Morning

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long days and long nights, but, I see the light coming at the end of the tunnel on a few projects that have simultaneously hit.

Had a client run into some things this week -- just a 'spring cleaning' of sorts.

Check your 404 pages, make sure they go somewhere that is productive. Create a page that advertises some of your sponsors -- this one client was sending hits to a domain that a domain squatter registered and slammed all sorts of junk on there. And the squatter received 404 traffic for at least 14 months.

make sure you have a favicon.ico file - rather than redirecting requests for those to your 404 page.

Go through and clean up things and remove old scripts. google's new search allows you to find uninstalled/half-installed scripts on sites that can be exploited.

Make sure you keep up to date on software that you've installed. Wordpress is one of the biggest issues here. Between security releases and code updates, its a moving target -- and make sure you clean up files that you might have left as backups.

When a script (like vbulletin) asks you to delete the install directory, delete it -- don't rename it install.old.

Back to the grind.