I have a site almost ready to go live.
For various complicated reasons (mostly to do with the client not being able to pay enough of his invoice - *sigh*) I’m not delivering the redesign, but am just tidying up the existing schmozzle.
But I am very, very pleased with myself - I tidied up the directory structure, which meant a whole bunch of mod-rewrite rules in the htaccess file.
I was having the Worst time getting it to work, when I suddenly discoverd that there are no spaces between the flags - imagine, constant errors because I had
[R=301, L]
when I should have had
[R=301,L]
One. Lousy. Space.
Aaaaahhhh!!!
So now the redirects all work beautifully.
Finish off the location map and whoosh, off live to the hosting account :)
But the ‘tidies’ - ugh! Some of those pages! I shrank a 250,000 kb page (yes, that really was 4 zeroes, no mistake) down to 25,000 kb without changing the look or content. 100,000 of the size was spaces. The next time someone mocks you for wanting to save space by removing spaces from a page tell them about this one. 100,000 kb in spaces.
No wonder the client wasnt getting any hits - Google doesnt search further than the first 100,000 kb.
I love helping people :) (and making money out of it)