Archive for Bandwidth

Understanding Transistor Data and Replacement

If, for some reason, you can’t get an exact replacement for the transistor that you want to replace, you can refer to one of the transistor substitution guides or book, and try to identify a "near replacement". Beware, however. A substitution guide will sometimes list a replacement for your part, even though the two parts [...]

Streamline Your Training Costs with Streaming Media

Streaming Media?now a well accepted Internet technology. Yet streaming is still not being widely utilized by members of corporate training staffs. Why is this? I would venture to guess that lack of direct experience, hesitation to try new methods, and fears about costly “TV type stuff” have all contributed to make streaming seem like something [...]

Make Sure Your Site Loads Fast

Patience and time are two of the precious attributes why you have to make your site easy to load. Patience because visitors do not have patience to stick with your site until your site has fully loaded. Visitors can change their mind in just a flick of a finger thus your site must load as [...]

Building Your First Web Site?

Before doing anything on the technical side, you need some kind of basic idea to work with. I suggest first getting some paper and a pencil. Start by sketching a layout of how you would like your web page to appear. For example, a simple title at the top, the area in which you would [...]

Don’t Make Your Website User-UNfriendly!

Web Design is a very subjective process. Your idea of what looks good may differ from the next person’s. While wild backgrounds and flashing text were once considered ‘cool’, unwritten standards have evolved into every web designers inventory.
In the following examples I intend to convey a few of those user-unfriendly examples to you. My purpose [...]

Taking Your Website Mobile

You might have tested your website on every computer browser you
can find, but nowadays that’s just not enough. Nowadays the web
is getting more and more mobile – it’s being used on mobile
phones, PDAs, and all sorts of other small devices that can be
used on-the-go. You need to allow for these visitors as well,
but that’s easier [...]

A must-know about computer and internet glossary

Computer-related things tend to have a language all their own.
While you do not need to know all of it, there are many
confusing words and phrases that you are going to come across
sooner or later.
Bandwidth. Bandwidth is the amount of data that your website can
send each second, as well as the amount of data that [...]

Image Formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG and More

When you want to put graphics on your website, you’ll face an
unexpected problem: what format should they be in? On their own
computers, many people save pictures in Windows’ default BMP
(bitmap) format, but the files it creates are simply much too
large to put on a website – they’d take about a minute for
visitors to download and [...]

Why You Need a Website

If you don’t have a website, then you might not realise all the
great things they can do for you. Maybe you think there wouldn’t
be any point, because your business is too small – or maybe you
don’t even have a business! Perhaps you think it’d be a lot of
work for little reward. Or maybe you paid [...]

Websites – Why Your Company Needs One and How to Get Started

“Why do I need a website? My company does just fine without one.”
That statement is similar to saying your business doesn’t need
or want any more customers. There are many ways your company can
benefit from a professionally designed website….even if you
don’t want any new customers. Here are just a few: – A website
can act as a [...]