Life is full of questions...

[domtheboy]

And here are a few of mine ! These are just a couple of things that I've thought of while I've been tinkering away with my TGP building escapades. Your answers & opinions would be most gratefully received !

1. At the moment my TGP is only half done - I have an index page, followed by a page the surfer clicks through to with an advert, followed by my TGP populated with images from remote thumbs. Am I best to upload the lot in it's current format, making changes as I go ? Or should you only ever upload a site that is 100% completed and ready to go ? (When I say mine is incomplete, I mean that it doesn't all look quite as tidy as I'd like it to yet, not incomplete as in chunks of text missing or anything )
2. 404 Traffic - what is it, where does it come from, what should I know about it, what should I be doing with it ?
3. Is it possible to run more than 1 TGP (or website in general) from a single server ?
4. Has anyone ever used a site like Dr.Html - it's a site that analyses your html pages and suggests how you could optimise them to make them load faster 'n' stuff. I'm thinking this is probably being uber-perfectionist, but then again the wider I can make my audience the better right ? (So if I can make the pages load quicker there's more chance people on low speed connections like dial up can still get in and spend money at my site ?)
5. Server security - what should I be nagging my host about to make sure I don't get hit by exploits and other nasty things ?
6. Traffic trades - I understand the basic concepts of how they work, but is there any sort of "etiquette" involved in the agreements you strike with other webmasters ? (Particularly when you are first starting out ?)
7. Trackers & counters (such as Sextracker) - why do people use them ? Should I be interested in them ? Or are they just guff ?
8. What is the average flight speed of an unladen swallow (I don't really want the answer to this one !)

Okay take it away guys ! I haven't been able to speak to most of ya for a couple of days, therefore I haven't asked any dumb questions for a spell and tonight I'm feeling lucky

Cheers guys

Dom