Google help article explaining three methods of blocking Google from indexing a page (.htaccess password protection, robots.txt file, and noindex meta tags). Provides a brief overview of how to implement each method and the relative effectiveness of each.
Below are links to online resources I have found useful, along with brief notes about each.
This brief tutorial explains both how to password-protect a web site using .htaccess and .htpasswd and why you would want to do so.
Easy-to-use tool for generating .htpasswd files and the code to add to .htaccess files.
This article file permissions settings for a Drupal site on Linux or Windows. Very useful for getting started with basic Linux file security.
Overview of the methods for backing up a Drupal site. Official Drupal.org handbook.
Skills: CSS
This is a very well-written, easy-to-understand blog post describing how to use the CSS property @font-face to implement non-standard fonts in your web site.
Skills: CSS
This small web app is a must-have when you are using the CSS @font-face property. You upload a font file to Font Squirrel (be sure you have the legal right to embed the font on web pages), select a few options, and then Font Squirrel generates the font in other font file formats so that your font works across different browsers. It even generates the @font-face CSS code that references the new font files!
Modernizr is a handy JavaScript library that detects the capabilities of the browser viewing your site, and then dynamically adds classes to the <html> root element on the page, based on what it detects. You can then write your CSS and jQuery selectors using these classes. An example use would be to detect support for the @font-face CSS property (I am doing that on this site). You can also use it to detect support for various HTML5 elements. I have also heard of people using it to make their sites more mobile browser-friendly. Plus, its name is missing a vowel in front of the final 'r,' which automatically makes it cool in the web 2.0 world.
