Problems 1: Spies, hackers, crackers, script kiddies and their ilk

Whether for entertainment, practice, or for profit, there are many prying eyes out there. Larger companies deal with spies (think 007 but without the accent, the martini, the wealth, the glamor, the explosions, the tuxedos or the women) while all of us deal with internet diseases like hackers, email scrapers, and spammers. It\'s like the flu, not only can anyone get hit by it, but at some point everyone does. Fortunately there is a simple cure as you\'ll see below.

It is pretty simple to copy all of the files to a subdirectory. If your URLs are hard-coded and absolute then a quick search and replace with almost any editor can change http:www.mysite.com/ to http:www.mysite.com/mirror/.

Many content management systems and ecommerce packages such as osCommerce will offer a configuration file or setting where you can edit this once for the entire website.

During the web development process errors and cross browser inconsistencies are inevitable.

Sometimes these are simply a matter of the someone viewing a page while you are in the process of uploading the supporting files. Just refreshing a page while you are overwriting the style sheet can leave a user with a page that displays with no CSS at all. For a professional web developer and for most clients this is unacceptable on a live website.