Web Design and Development

Protocol relative URLs

Many times we have seen warnings similar to “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items” or “This page has insecure content.”. This happens when we are viewing a HTTPS site and some content on the site is loaded from HTTP. So when we try to view a site say https://www.example.com and we get this …

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404 Error Page Best Practices

A 404 error page is the page that the user may reach due to various reasons. Some of the reasons are: The user has entered / spelt the URL incorrectly. The page has been moved or deleted. The URL they clicked on was incomplete or cut in an email or message.

How and when to use robots.txt file

We have heard of crawlers and bots are crawling our sites to scrap content for various reasons like indexing in search engines, identifying content, scanning email addresses, etc. There are all kinds of crawlers/bots which crawl websites. While some are good which should be allowed access to our site, but we might want to restrict …

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