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I agree very much, any grammar and spelling errors will likely leave a bad impression on me for the website. This is true even if the website can be very beautifully designed, a spelling or language mistake can take away the crediblility.

GIMP is an excellent graphic program, and it's free! It can do many things like Photoshop, but it doesn't come with that price tag. But I feel that the user interface is not as friendly though. But it's free and highly functional.

If you really want the best experience for your website's visitors regardless of their surfing speeds, you may want to consider setting up Flash and non-Flash versions for your visitors.

Wow, there's a lot of browsers there! But I believe only a few browsers dominate the market. People mostly surf on browsers like IE, Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and so on. The other obscure ones probably only take up some 1% of the market. So no point testing your sites in the other less-known browsers, just test with the more popular ones.

Increasingly, as more and more people surf on broadband connections, I think Flash sites and animations will gain greater acceptance. For surfers on broadband, I think Flash will enhance their surfing experience.

You can set up cron jobs from your cpanel. I think it's under the Advanced Tools section. From there, you can enter the script to be run, then set the schedule, like once every 15 minutes for every day of the year, or once every day, or once every month, so on.

It's important too, for web designers to maintain the website once it's designed and availabel on the Net. You've to fix broken links, and so on. The point is, site design covers site maintenance as well.

I would love to be learning about stocks and investing so that I can try making some money out of stock trading, but I wonder whether there is any age requirement before you can purchase stocks. And I need capital to get started too.Anyway, does learning economics teach you how to trade stocks? I was taught only things like Laws of Diminishing Marginal Returns, Normal Profits, Opportunity Costs, etc. I guess I'm still in the basics of econsOn the whole, econs is not bad, but not very interesting either. A bit dull, yah?

I think one important factor you have to consider when deciding which blog system is good is the number of third-party developers working on plugins for the system. What makes Firefix a great browser is the large number of free useful plugins developed by third parties which anyone can use.As for blogs, there are many many developers writing plugins for Movable Type. That's why MT is popular and highly functional

Although the download manager in Mozilla Firefox works fine, I find it a bit basic. It may be better to download a more functional one rather than to use the built-in download manager for Firefox.But I'm not sure if a new program would interfere with the built-in one in any way. Will it?

I like this new feature by Google too: Google Scholar. http://scholar.google.ca/. You can use it to find research papers and white papers. I guess you'll find it very useful when you're doing research, you know, like when you studying for a university degree. Still in beta though

I would recommend a adserving system based on php and mysql to you. It's called phpAdsNew, a free open-source system. You can download it at http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/. In fact i think you have this script in in your cpanel's scripts section. Once you installed it, you basically can run an adserver like Valueclick or the other major ad firms, except perhaps phpadsnew is less "pro". Anyway, you can set priority to different banners. Say if you want banner A to appear more than banner B, then you can give a heavier weiht to banner A, and the adserver will make the calculation and serve your ads the way you want it. hope this helps

Yes I agree very much that google is way ahead of the competition now. But Google may not stay at the top forever. Already Yahoo! and MSN are closing down on the gap, and new search technology companies are coming up with even more exciting and innovative technology. I found that out in this article: https://www.fastcompany.com/51925/fast-talk-search-them Extract: Always On Kathy Rittweger Cofounder, blinkx San Francisco, California People ask, "Aren't you afraid of Google and Microsoft and Ask Jeeves? They've got all kinds of people thinking about this stuff." I say, "Yeah, but they're thinking about a lot of other things as well." This is all we ever think about. Sure, the David versus Goliath paradigm comes to mind. But remember the details of the story. The giant was slow moving, and it was defaulting to traditional weapons of battle. Being small is a tremendous advantage. Fifty percent of people who use keyword search engines abandon their search. We want to get rid of all this Boolean query stuff. The technology ought to serve us, instead of us serving the technology. The best thing about blinkx is that it's always on. It doesn't matter if you're online or offline. It will search anything on your screen. So you can start anywhere you want -- Word, email, a Web page, a PDF -- and you can link to anywhere else. The format -- what the file is, where it is -- isn't important. So far we've had nearly a million downloads. Last week we had a day when we served 200 million links. But I'm always asking, "What if it did this?" Wouldn't it be great to type in "Happy Birthday, Emily" and go straight to the home video where people are singing "Happy Birthday" to her? How about being able to circle a picture of someone and bring back other pictures of that person? Or whistle into a microphone and let blinkx figure out which song it is and play it? We're working to scale these features down to fit on your PC. Blinkx launched on July 22, three months ahead of schedule. It has indexed 800 million pages of the Web.

I dunnoe why, but most pro web designers treat designers who use frames as amateurs. There is a sort of contempt associated with designers who use frames. Come to think of it, almost all of the best websites out there dont use frames at all.

I feel that web designers shold give some thought and consideration to the width of the layout because people are going to have such a large range of screen sizes that what looks good at 800x600 won't look as good on a larger screen. Some designers use design diferent layouts for the different screen sizes and use javascript to direct users to the correct ones, but I feel that this is rather time-consumuing

For a free antivirus program, I would recommend AVG Anti-virus availabe for free download at http://www.avg.com/de-de/homepage. I can't believe it's free (at least, for home users), it has got some many features and is so reliable my computer can't do without it Of course, protection simply isn't complete without spyware remover and firewall and whatnots

I'm just full of praise for Firefox. I think that my browsing experience has improved vastly since I switched from IE to Firefox. One thing I like is the wide range of plugins written for Firefox like a plugin which allows me to subscribe to RSS feeds easily.But I must say it's still pretty much unstable vs IE for now, it crashes a lot

Here's a simply definition of blogs from marketingterms.com Wordpress (not Webpress) is a software or tool that allows you to set up a blog and blog on it. I personally have not tried Wordpress because I think Movable Type is the best blogging tool out there but I've seen blogs based on Wordpress that look damn cool

I've a question - are blogging systems counted as CMS-es? I've read somewhere that blogging platforms count too, like Blogger and Movable Type. If they're I would say they are really useful CMS as well for managing and archiving information in a simple way

I would count aceHTML as one of my favourites because it has many features and even got a syntax checker and CSS checker to ensure the validity of your webpages. And it's free!

I'm not very sure about this, but unqiue hits do not seem to equal to number of unique visitors. When I go to your website index page, more than one hits are counted because your browser has to fetch additional files like images and stylesheets. Let's say the page has 5 images, so these 5 hits has to be counted. But there's only one unique visitor here only you see.

It's best not to stay until very late into the night because depriving your body of sleep will cost you to be really tired the next day. That would be bad if you have an exam or something important!

I can't install Photoshop on my win95 machine, so I have to use GIMP as a alternative. It turns out to be a great open-source (free!) subtitute for photoshop. For those of you who don't know about GIMP and want a free image editor, GIMP stands for 'The GNU Image Manipulation Program'. Download it free here: https://www.gimp.org/https://www.gimp.org/

I don't think there's such a guestbook but if you're worried about free guestbook services that have lots of dowwntime and are unrelialbe then you might want to set up your own guestbook. You can install one easily via cpanel

That's quite true, what keeps visitors coming back to your site is your content and not those fanciful gimmicks like page transitions and animated images and rollovers. Just think of it, how many of your favourite sites use page transitions?