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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
“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 [...]
The readers, that is. This would be their reaction 10 seconds after coming into your site and having an initial look at it. It is a known for a fact that people have the tendency to switch to another site when they are required to click on their mouse more than is necessary. It is [...]
