404 Error
What is an Error 404? It means that the server cannot find the
document you requested ( ie http://www.spagthorpe.com/missing.html).
You should double-check the address and make sure it matches whatever source
you copied it from exactly. Most servers are case-sensitive so ensure that
you are typing the address in the proper case - Oils.htm ain't oils.htm
.
Search Engines
I can't find my site in Yahoo!
Yahoo accept, for reasons obscure, only a very small portion of the
sites submitted. Generally speaking, they favour sites with a dot com domain
name, but only a tiny proportion of these submissions are accepted. One
may "bribe" them by sending them a fistful of loot to review the site,
but this is still no guarantee of acceptance.
I can't find my site in TinyTots search engine.
There's every chance it hasn't been submitted. There are thousands
of search engines. Dropbears submits your site to all of the major and
many of the minor engines. But not all of them.
I searched for "my business speciality" in AltaVista, and couldn't
find my site.
Did you happen to notice how many hits you got for the word group "my
business speciality"? Probably millions. Try something a little more specific.
URL: The Uniform Resource Locator is the address of a web page.
Once you type in a URL, your browser looks at the components and displays
the web page with that address. For example, the URL http://www.dropbears.com/u/utilities/faq.htm
has the following components: http:// is the protocol, www.dropbears.com
is the server address or domain, /u/utilities/ is the directory
where the file faq.htm lives.
wysiwyg means "What you see is what you
get", and is pronounced wissywig.
More technobabble - a short list of computer
abbreviations
Domain Registration Notes
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