Build a Small Business Website: Maintaining Your Site and Legal Issues

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Build a Small Business Website Maintaining Your Site and Legal Issues From Jennifer Kyrnin, your Guide to Web Design / HTML Maintenance is the part of website design that most designers won't talk about. It's the boring part where you put up new content, fix broken links, and correct typos that inevitably slip in. Since you've been taking this course, you know how important it is to be adding new content all the time. And this can quickly become a maintenance chore if you're not careful. This last lesson will show you some tricks to making your site more maintainable, as well as provide ways to work on redesign projects and keep your site fresh in the future. As a business website, you need to be aware of laws surrounding the Web. If you're selling products, you'll have to deal with taxes and financial laws as well. This final lesson will also point you to some online resources for learning about the biggest legal issues facing website businesses today. Maintaining Your Website Do you Build Maintainable Websites? How your HTML and CSS is written can affect how easy it is to maintain. Behind the Scenes at Web Design/HTML @ About.com How this site is maintained. Redesigns and Other Big Projects Down the Road Prioritizing Web Projects Learn how to prioritize projects on your website. Make sure you're doing the project that will give you the best return. It's Time to Update (or Create) that Website Updating your website can be a big chore. This article gives some suggestions for how to make it easy so that you do it more frequently. Legal Issues for Website Owners Privacy Privacy is a huge issue for customers these days. You need to make sure that you protect the privacy of your customers or they won't come back. And in some cases you can get sued if your privacy protections aren't adequate. Copyright Just because something is online doesn't mean it's free for the taking. As you learned in the content lesson, free content may be stolen, so be careful when you use it. And you can also be the victim of copyright violation, so you should learn how to protect yourself and your site. Other Legal Issues Things like children's safety, linking laws, and other legal issues can come up around Web pages. The links on this page can help you determine which issues might be serious for your site and which ones are just minor annoyances. This email is written by: Jennifer Kyrnin Web Design / HTML Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Build a Small Business Website' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement