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Well, it’s the start of a new year, which brings us to a common change that we all need to remember to make on our web sites. If you have a copyright date on your web site (which you really should), remember to change the date from ? 2006 Your Name to ? 2007 Your Name.

How important is this? Well, legally having an updated copyright date can only help if someone is stealing content off of your web site. On a more practical level, it gives visitors to your web site the impression that you keep your site fresh and up to date. I mean, how impressed are you when you visit a site with a copyright date as recent as 2001?

So now that you’ve cleared away the confetti and champagne, scoot over to your site and get that date current. And if you don’t have a copyright date on your site, resolve to make that the first change of the New Year.

Happy New Year all!