Chapter 20. Maintaining Your Website

What? I’m Not Done?

A website is never finished. Think of it as a garden that needs constant attention. Maintaining your website gives you opportunities to make it a fun and more interesting place for your visitors. You need to regularly perform a couple of key tasks, the same way you would weed your garden and check your plants for bugs on a regular basis.

Unlike a garden, however, this process does not stop, even when winter comes. The web is littered with sites that no one has kept up. Don’t let your website become Internet litter.

Regular Maintenance

Maintaining your website involves ...

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