So, I was getting ready to order a service from a company I’d used in the past.

Before I did that I decided to look at their portfolio, to see what they’ve done lately.

I noticed that it was the same portfolio that they’d had for years.  In addition to that, their copyright notice said 2008.

I began to wonder if the site had been abandoned.

So, I didn’t order.

Who knows how much an old copyright date has cost them.

Now, there are some real simple solutions to that issue.

If you use WordPress or some other CMS to manage your site, chances are your copyright notice automatically updates.

If you’re using HTML or PHP pages you should set the date in your copyright notice to be dynamic. Meaning it will change automatically as the year changes.

Simple Example for page.

Place this code in the place where you want the date to appear.

<?php echo date(“Y”);  ?>

If you are using a page with an HTML extension, you may need to modify your .htaccess file slightly. I’ll cover that in a future post.