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it depends on why you wanna change it and for how long. - if u just need to change it for few days and amount of your upload and download is high then go to a coffee net - if you wanna change for high amount of download or upload permanently then contact your ISP - if you wanna change it because some services is not provided for your region and if amount of upload and download is not more dial up speed then go for anonymous surfing, to do that search anonymous surfing in google you get list of websites helping you to do that. it is highly depends on your condition hope it helps

normally i use media player for normal files and DVDs divx or jet audio for damaged or downloading filesreal player or quick time if i got *.mov or *. ra files

if you got used to Microsoft Office then you will find MS Works unprofessional. so if you are a professional user choose Microsoft Office. for beginners Microsoft Works would look easier and more dynamic. i always preferred Windows Media Player than Winamp specially if you download and install Media Player Add-ons. the reason is simply you don't need few players to do same things for youi have:jet audio to record audio (it's another player , nice one)real player and quick time because each one of them plays their own formatsand also Adobe Player for flv formatsand Nero player which is automatically installed with Nero.

i have used SAGE, it's a total solution for selling stocks, it sorts everything but very expensive as well. there are some extension you should install with it connect it to an online database, my idea is for security reason never leave all your accounting information online, it's better to keep them on local disk and transfer them to online server because it is possible that someone hack your site or by mistake you looss your online information.

I have used Mcofee, Norton Anti virus, zone alarm, Nod 32, Panda, Pc cillin and maybe moreI have trusted Norton more than others but it makes your pc very slow Mcofee is same but NOD32 is good, not very easy to use for normal user but you don't feel it's installed on your computer which is nice and everyday it updates itself.

i would say jet audio is one of my favorites because some times it can play videos that even other players can not play. my friend advised me to use Classic Media Player which is not the ole Media player for movies. I found Nero Media Player useful for DVD menus.

I liked dreamweaver more than frontpage much more user friendly and cute environment, it has a nice editor for coding but sometimes i found frontpage helps sometimes for ready made codes.

i feel more important question for you is what do you want?you have to be very specific about what YOU want not what OTHERS intend to do or doing or ask you to do or expect you to do or ...always try to have long term plan and be focus on what YOU want.see what you are good at.secondly, go to business that you are sure you will earn MONEY form there.so 1-understand YOURSELF 2- focus focus focus try try try try ....

look with out money you can not have last longing happiness and that's a pure truth man. money means power and with out it i feel i'm a useless creature in other people hand. nothing than money can keep things together (no that piece of paper, the power truly behind it) when time progresses things change people change your taste of life and happiness will change and you need power to change around yourself. money is not enough by itself but if enough of it is necessary.

jlhaslip, Thank you very much, i'm going to have a look Mylittlecms and Cutenews. now i got the bigger image i wanted. Cheeeers

i think CSS is not going to make design easier for designer, it make is a bit more complicated but in return your website will be loaded much quicker than before. when you have external css file saved on temporary internet file it means that all formating details can be referred to the saved file and that helps to reduce size of the page which saves a lot of time for visitor. an example of that are forums, if you have noticed forums with loads of tables and details are loading quicker than you expect.

I've designed a php website and i used simple CSV file as my database because of few reasons my client had to pay more to active MySQL database was a simple product list it was easy to convert product list from existing Excel file to CSV it is easy to make any changes so i have few files to convert to CSV if i wanna update the website. I know it's less secure specially if it's an online business (which is not). question is : what are disadvantages? is that slower than MySQL? is there more possibility of occurring bug? is that less professional? or ...

I wouldn't say that ever, you murdered the website idea, can you imagine all websites turn to adds and pop ups? what do you feel when you step into a website which is just ads and useless unrelated links.that's commercializing websites not designing them. as a designer go in the shoe of the person who visits your website.

the thing you ask is quiet something, it's total mail solution loli found and used something which was quite good for sending emails, the problem with it is gmail takes that as spam and also it can not reflect html codes properly if you attach something (when you modify it it goes funny a bit) but it works for sending attachments.it never passed my mind to code something or find some codes to receive emails as well. why you need it?

to be honest i'm a bit funny with using softwarei have used many kinds and still using all kind of combination of them, but normally i have ot have thesePhotoshopDreamweaver (for design and coding as well CSS PHP ..)Flashsometimes i even go with FrontPage in the same time as Dreamweaver (because they offer different options in different situations)FireWorksCoreldraw (i like its vector tools)if i need 3d flash i go for swift 3D and also Swish as welland if i have the opportunity to access others i would try them as well :Ptotal mess never try to be like this (evaluation mode)

i liked your color balance, easy to look atas i had a look for few sec it's a pure advertising website which tries to promote a business - firstly i liked few parts- secondly for suggestion: why don't you add some big signs to show what is this website about? i'm trying to say when i'm coming to the website i wanna get why is it up there within 5 seconds. i just wanna say a website is up there to promote something, it could be there to:- sell product- provide online services (like this forum)- providing information 24/7- introducing a new business- .... your dear website should say it in very details that what is it doing. if it's there to introduce a new business then there should be some bold fonts to say what is this business about and proudly say what they doing? hope i made my point. understand the visitor who is there to find what he/she is after as soon as possible + neath design. (which u have the last one so work on the better understanding of the business and home page content)

- have a look at lynda.com they have neath learning packages. - check out ready made web templates and play with its components, (add, delete, change) why do you wanna learn to design while you are decent developer? i think if you focus on advanced coding rather than learning how to design, you would be professional in your own field, as these days everyone is designer being a decent coder is the ace. design is not a logical thing like coding there are tons of ways to show same content and the one which has the highest impression on the right visitor is the best one so it's a complicated thing, sometimes i spend a week to design a page and i don't feel i'm really satisfied then i work on another one for 15 min and that's a wow. good luck