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Ideally I like to keep all urls in lowercase, but there are a few things that can lead to your site being indexed with a mixture of upper and lower case characters, which in turn can lead to problems with search engines. How can this happen? Well, for me it was playing around with Joomla’s
There has been a few reports about not being able to install Joomla because it stalls at the installation and you can’t get past the first installer step. Whilst there are many reasons why this could happen, most times I have come accross it it has been down to the server setup and Joomla not
To redirect all pages from http://www.olddomain.com to http://www.newdomain.com in the domain root of your old domain create a .htaccess file and paste the following code, changing the domain name:
Add MIME type and Expires Header to Favicon Add these lines to your .htaccess file to speed up favicon loading, as specified by the Yahoo Yslow documentation.
Compress all files through .htaccess Here’s a few more tips to speed up your joomla website through your .htaccess file. Borrowed from the magento standard .htaccess, which contained some nice code to compress, or not compress depending on the user agent calling for the page. The lines look like this, and can be added to
Set Expires Headers in .htaccess to speed up page load times If you use the firebug pagespeed addon or yslow you will be used to seeing the warning ‘Add Expires Headers’ This can be quite simple to fix by adding the following lines at the bottom of your .htaccess file.
@fontface is a great tool for giving your site an individual look, the down-side is that on a standard site, the font is downloaded on each page view. As the font can take a little time to download, the page text is loaded first and then the font is replaced once it has finished downloading