A terrific way to get ahead on the net and life in general is to learn from and avoid the mistakes that others make. I’ve certainly made plenty of mistakes in the past but I thought I would share my top web design tips over the coming weeks in the hope that you can learn and benefit from them.

Web Design Tips #1.

Not backing up. One of the keys to keeping your online business intact and running without interruption is to regularly backup all your work. There’s nothing worse than losing files, especially ones you cannot replace. Without a backup plan not only do you risk losing the hours and days of work put into creating those files, but you will also lose time having to recreate them again and/or trying to find them somewhere else.

If you have a good backup plan, you won’t have these problems.

My Current Backup Plan Is Two Fold

1. An extrernal hard drive that sits beside my PC which is backed up to every night at 1am.
2. An automated backup of each of my blogs using a plugin call WP Backup. This plugin emails a backup of each blog to a gmail account in the same name.

I started using an iPhone. I loved it so much I now have a Mac computer. With the addition of Mobile ME the information I select is updated each time there is a change made. This way I always have 3 sets of the same information in 3 different place at anyone time.

I love Mobile ME because it backs up everything offsite. Further, it’s password word protected which means nobody can access my files but me. I can also send a special password which can be time limited via email.

My backup plan is pretty extreme, however I’ve learned from not backing up how important it is, trust me, it’s a mistake you don’t want to make.

If you don’t have a backup plan in place take action today to avoid the loss, frustration, and setbacks they’ve caused me. I hope you can learn from web design tips #1 and most importantly avoid it.

What are some of the mistakes you’ve made? Leave a comment and share.