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Validate Your HTML and CSS
Whenever you make significant changes to your templates you should consider checking your main site pages through the W3C Markup Validator. The validator will help you find missing closing tags in your markup. You can also run your stylesheet file through the W3C CSS Validator. See more information about these services in the W3C Validation Service LMT tutorial.
Back-up Your Site
Yes, occasionally things go terribly wrong and people do lose all the contents of their weblog. As this can represent years of work, you really should back up your blog on a regular basis. If you use the My-SQL database (and you should be using this and not Berkeley DB!) backing up is easy with a simple dump command. See the LMT tutorial Backing Up Your Blog. I have dump set up on my server to run once a day. Once a week I copy the dump file to my local hard drive. It is also a good idea to occasionally make back-ups of your image files, as these do not get saved in a MySQL dump, or an MT export.
