Editorial policies are rarely seen in the world of internet publications - well, other than those that are just glorified web versions of print publications.

But an editorial policy can be a useful tool if you’re running a serious operation, and better yet - they don’t take a whole lot to set up. You can be done in less than half an hour, depending on what you need to do, and the extent of the research and extra consideration you need to invest in it.

Having managed a variety of sites over the years, I’ve compiled a long list of pet peeves in the area of site maintenance. One of those is that every New Year’s Eve, you’ve got to rush in and change the copyright year in your footer on all of your sites. Depending on how many you have, this can be a real pain - but even with one site, it’s annoying enough.

I’ve been working on a new web project, and while coding I decided that I’d had enough and I wanted to avoid the annual rush and have the date update itself.

Most bloggers love comments. It’s not unheard of for a blogger to sit at their Inbox checking their email every two seconds of the day (literally) in the hopes that one’ll appear. If you do some surfing, you’ll find a million different guides to getting more of them.

There are obvious personal reasons to look forward to a comment - it makes you feel as if you’ve finally been heard. But comments are important for other reasons, too. Let’s look at a few.