Never Use Caps

Its a good practice to use all lower case characters in a url. Never try using all caps or first letter caps.Its really confusing.

Kill the spaces

Never use spaces in ur file names.Spaces can lead to the awful %20 signs in your filenames.Avoid using spaces for the same reason.

Use underscores and hyphens

You can use the underscore character and hyphen in place of spaces in your filenames.

Use URL encoding if necessary

Suppose space is unavoidable in the file name, then you must use url encoding for the same so that the space is replaced by a plus(+) sign.

Avoid @#$%&^

Avoid characters like the dollar sign and ampersand symbol.

Use short to-the-point filenames

Use filenames that are precise, yet simple.

Organize your content based on filetype

Split your site into many folders like images, scripts, media, files and pages.

Organize your content based on use

Split your content based on use and requirement.

Protect premium content / Restrict access

Restrict access to certain parts of your website if you dont want public access to them

Take regular backups

Taking a regular backup of your entire website is a good practice.

Get people to review your site

Criticism is definitely constructive. Get others to speak up about your website

Never put up confidential info online

Never ever try putting your confidential info like credit card no , bank accounr no etc online.

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