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10 Ways to Make Your Website Accessible Accessibility helps people read your content, navigate your site and complete tasks using different devices and assistive technologies. Start with the journeys that matter to your customers, such as finding a service, requesting a quote or managing an account. The ten checks below help you find practical... A Comprehensive Guide to Content Management Systems (CMS) A content management system (CMS) lets a team organise, edit and publish website content through an administration interface. Choosing one means planning how the website will operate after launch: who publishes, how changes are checked and who maintains the software. Start with your business requirements rather than... Adding and Editing Your Website's Photos A useful website image helps a visitor understand a product, service or instruction. Preparing it involves more than retouching: the crop must work on different screens, the file must be suitable for delivery, and essential information must remain available to people who cannot see it. Use this workflow when adding... Choose an SSL/TLS certificate for your domain names A suitable certificate lets visitors use HTTPS on your website’s addresses. The term “SSL certificate” remains common, but modern connections use TLS. HTTPS protects data in transit and lets the client verify that the presented certificate matches the requested name. It does not guarantee that a website is free of... How to Add a Cookie Bar Almost all websites use cookies - little data files - to store information in peoples' web browsers. Some websites contain hundreds of them. As of May 2011, many European countries passed what was called a Cookie law. The Cookie Law is a piece of privacy legislation that requires websites to get consent from... How to clear your browser's cache Your browser keeps local copies of images, scripts and other files to load websites faster. If a page looks outdated after a change, start by reloading it. If the problem continues, clear cached files before removing other browsing data. Before deleting data Save open forms and work in progress. For a display issue,... SEO-friendly URLs Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the online visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine's unpaid results. Generally speaking, the earlier or higher ranked the website is on a search engine like Google, the more visitors it will receive from those using the search engine.... The Difference between Shared and Dedicated IP Adresses An IP address is used to reach a service on a network. Several websites can share the same IP address; the server uses information such as the requested domain name to serve the correct site. A dedicated address is assigned to a particular use or account according to the provider’s configuration. It does not, by...