Here's a tip I recently discovered: don't use GoDaddy for your PHP/MySQL projects! Their servers are stupidly slow when executing PHP/MySQL scripts. I discovered this on a recent Drupal project where I was using some JSON services. The total time for the http request on my local development server was less than a second. On GoDaddy's server the exact same http request was taking anywhere from 8 seconds to 30 seconds!

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Part two of my tips section is about some common pitfalls of web publishing.

1. Don't try to build your site from scratch (unless you have a lot of time and patience).

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about doing it yourself. But based on my experience of teaching web design to hundreds college students, if you aren't a techy computer person or have programming experience, learning to create HTML pages can be a very frustrating and unfruitful experience.

It's really not very hard to get a website these days. Sure, like anything, when you are starting at square one with no knowledge of how these things work, it can all seem very technical, and in reality it is. But there are so many resources available now for publishing content content online that getting a site for yourself is easier than it has ever been.