A Journey To Find A Web Designer

By Stephen Grisham, Sr.

Web design has changed a lot in the past few years. Now that "web 2.0" is in full swing, you need to choose your web designer carefully. Web design skills of the last decade do not apply today. Today's great web developers should also have lite programming knowledge such as javascript, in addition to a complete creative portfolio. As the Internet changes, choosing a web designer with a balance of artistic skills and adherence to web standards is the best option.

Web designing is often not updated in smaller businesses as it is difficult to manage. Creating anything on the web is a difficult task unless you understand the many different languages that computers dish out. After you decide you need to add or update your website; plan ahead. Start with the face of the company, the real image. Web designing is a craft just like engineering - plans are essential, followed by the craftsmanship to put it all together.

First, you should consider whether or not you will need a database. If you need to do more with your site than a contact form and dynamic text, images, and video, you will probably need a programmer too. If you are making a website for the face of your business, you may just need a web designer to begin. Research similar websites that you like and take lots of notes on your likes and dislikes. Don't forget links to the pages. Web designers frequently charge by the hour, so proper planning before you start will help your web designer work more quickly and will save you money.

After you have a good idea of what you would like to see on your website, it's time to start looking for a web designer. The Internet is the best place to look of course. There are numerous people already advertising their services, or you can place a free classifieds ad to request applications and portfolio links. You should also have a budget range prepared.

When seeking out a web designer, you should consider quality, reputation, portfolio, and personality. You may happen to find a person with very little professional experience, but a great reputation and history. Degrees and years of experience certainly factor in, but in many cases students currently freelancing are far better at web design than professionals who have 10 years experience, but none of it recent.

Acronym soup. Okay, now the tough part...what about all that jargon. Luckily you don't have to know much about it. A professional web designer will have at least the following skills: Image editing, CSS3, XHTML, and possible javascript or knowledge of a javascript library such as jquery. You will need javascript if you would like moving parts. You will need to hire someone with Flash skills, possibly actionscript too, if you are planning on having a movie or interactive graphics and sounds.

When choosing the web designer make sure you look over their portfolio carefully. If all of their sites look the same, that means template - and do not choose them. Templates can just be purchased by you and for a fraction of the price. These are very unoriginal and do not look as good as a creative web designer could make your site look.

If you plan on updating your site a lot and are unfamiliar with HTML, it is best to get a content management system. CMS's are available in simple blog sites and professional areas like Drupal. When choosing a brander CMS - make sure that your designer is a good skinner and can put newer images onto your software.

Once you choose your designer you will need to make some mock ups. These are merely images that show the website in its finality. Examine these very closely as they are what your final product will look like. This is why planning is the most important part as they are what gets the project underway. With the mock ups agreed on the web designer merely puts them into XHTML and CSS and turns the pictures into your own site. Consider all the benefits of a quality web site and finding a web designer - the right web designer. - 17565

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Stephen Grisham, Sr. is a Staff Writer for InfoServe Media, a Houston Web design studio that provides custom web design. Visit today, or call 1 (800) 838-2203 for a free quote.

Tips for Finding Stylish Ladies Clothing Online

By Amy Nutt

When was the last time you battled your way through department store crowds just to find a nice outfit? The noise, the unhelpful staff, searching through racks and racks of clothing to find the right color and size ...it can be a bit overwhelming. And then you have the change rooms, tiny cubicles with doors that rarely stay shut, where you struggle to turn around without knocking your outfits from the dinky hooks on the wall. Store change rooms are often badly lit, as well, so what looks decent in the store might look hideous in the light of day.

It`s a pain to go shopping in a store, which is why more and more women are opting for the online method, instead.

Online shopping makes it very easy to choose what you like. You can search by color, so only your favorites come up, select the style and choose your size from a drop down menu. It`s a far sight easier than searching fruitlessly through racks and racks of dresses only to discover they don`t have your size.

If looking for ladies clothing online seems a bit intimidating, don`t worry. It`s not difficult if you know how and there are some techniques that can actually help you find the right clothing faster.

- Know your style. Do you look better with fitted jeans or flared? Halter top dresses or A-line? Having a clear idea of what you look best in will help you find the right outfit. To help you out, some websites even offer a virtual model that you can customize to your body shape and size and even put your own face on. This can be helpful to see which styles look best on your body type.

- Search specifically for your size range. If you`re petite, look for dresses that are smaller and for plus sizes, be sure to add this to your search. It will eliminate the frustration of finding the perfect blouse, only to discover that it`s only available in sizes that wouldn`t fit you.

- Consider color matching. If you are on a budget or just don`t want the hassle of searching your closet for something to go with your plaid shirt, try choosing a handful of complimentary colors and a couple of accents and base your clothing searches and purchases on those.

- Look for coupon codes. When you find ladies clothing that you like, take a moment to do a coupon code search for that store. You can often save 10-15% simply by inputting a special code when you`re checking out.

- Opt for stores that let you return clothing. This way, you can receive the outfit, try it on in the comfort of your own home, get the opinions of friends and family, if you like and should things not work out . . . just send it back. It`s a hassle free way to check out your clothing and allows you to take your time trying on the clothing. There isn`t any line outside the door and you have plenty of space to change.

Online shopping for ladies clothing is easier these days than ever before. Nearly every store that you would normally shop at in the real world is available online and you`ll be able to take your time browsing, no commute to worry about! With all the advantages, it`s definitely worth doing your shopping online at home, any time of day or night and without all the crowds. - 17565

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Picking The Right Cell Phone

By C R Bolden

Considering the innumerable varieties of cell phones in the market, it is quite a challenging task to picking the right cell phone. However, the basic criterion of selecting the best cell phone is to be absolutely clear about what your needs are. The best cellular phone is the one that is absolutely right for you. And, of course, you can only have the best cellular phone when you pay for what you want.

Tons of offers are also available. There are free cellular telephone offers, prepaid cellular, digital, mobile, web enabled and many more. No one can tell you which cell phone is best for you because every one has different needs when it comes to their cellular telephone. Some people want absolutely basic features while others want a lot of totally fantastic features. Some need a cellular telephone for e-mail, faxing and surfing the Internet. Many people want it to be top of the line while others prefer simplicity.

The process of buying a cell phone is so confusing. There are simply so many different handsets, networks, deals and call costs to consider that buying the right phone for your usage and budget can be very difficult.

Here are a few tips to help you choose the best cell phone. First of all, decide how much you want to spend and be clear on the features you need. Remember that the more the features, the higher the cost. Purchase a battery with a decent battery life and judge the mobile phone by the talk time it gives. The bare minimum should be 2 hours of maximum talk-time plus 90 hours of maximum standby time.

Shop and compare for pricing and service. These days, quality phones are very cheap. There is a proliferation of cell phone makers including Nokia, Motorola, Ericson, Siemens, Samsung, Sony, etc. More importantly, cellular plans have come down enormously in overall price with some caveats.

Some standard features include caller ID, phone book with fast dial, call waiting, voice mail and auto-answering. Some also have other added features like your first incoming minute free. The high-end cell phones will have voice-a ctivated dialing, SMS, 2-way paging, games, scheduling calendars, digital organizer and all the standard features. The main thing is to see what fits into your life style best and also to be sure when and if the features expire.

While making a cell phone and service plan decision, remember that everybody's needs are different. So what's good for your friend may not be the best choice for you. Your best bet would be to search online for websites with good cell phone comparisons in order to get a quality cell phone offer.

To make sure that your cell phone comparisons are complete look at Nokia cell phones, Ericsson cell phones, Sprint cell phones, Motorola cell phones and Samsung cell phones. Research the different free cell phone offers, prepaid cell phones and service plans from brand names like AT. - 17565

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C R Bolden has the love, passion and the knowledge for making sure his group succeed in changing their lives on the web. Review what is making Mr Bolden to have the success on a daily basis.

Free Registry Cleaner Software - How Free Is It?

By Hiel Strassman

If drivers, applications or software were never removed from our computers and we never surfed the net, we would probably never need to clean our registries. Bear in mind spyware and malware are types of software and they are often being removed from our computers. This, in itself, means it is necessary to clean the registry often. Unfortunately, it is also true normal internet surfing will put a strain on a PC's registry. So, if we don't clean our registry, corruption will accumulate on our hard drives and the sad fact is, this will cause our computer's performance to suffer greatly.

Computer crashes, errors and generally poor performance results when corruption is allowed to build up in the registry. One of the reasons registry corruption is prevalent in computers these days when it wasn't so noticeable years ago is because today's operating systems, Windows XP and Vista are huge when compared with older operating systems such as Windows 98. These huge files make it necessary for an operation to travel a long way to get around corruption before it can be executed and this slows everything down.

If a computer's registry were left uncleaned, at certain point it could actually render the computer inoperable. So, cleaning the registry regularly with a good registry cleaning program is important. It would be unwise to use a low quality cleaner, such as a free one because as you will soon see, it may not do the job so well and this could also lead to an inoperable computer. Of course, an inoperable computer means there will be valuable files lost. Some of them may be difficult or impossible to replace!

I have concluded there is no such thing as a free registry cleaner. I have done so because after examining the terms of all the free programs I have seen, it is clear that these programs are designed to scan the registry for errors and remove the first 50 incidents of corruption it finds for free. Then, the customer must pay to get the rest of the corruption removed. 50 incidents is not a lot.

In order to sign you up as a paid customer so you can get all of your corruption cleaned out, the so called free cleaner enacts a pop-up reminding you you have a corrupted registry and if you don't buy this free product your computer will likely fail! The pop-up is very annoying and difficult to get rid of.

But wait, there's more! Before you can get your first scan, you have to give the company your E-mail address and this gives this company the okay to badger you some more! So, even if this registry repair software was free, you would still be paying with aggravation.

These free-in-name-only registry cleaners, at least the ones I've seen, are not Vista ready. This, of course will be a concern to you if you are using Vista on your computer, but it also concerns me because if it is not ready for Vista it is probably lacking in other ways as well.

To sum it all up, a free registry cleaner is probably more expensive than the most advanced ones available today. So, does this mean you get what you pay for? Not really; not when the top registry cleaner on the market is less expensive than these so-called free ones.

Going without a registry cleaner in this day and age could be likened to computer infanticide. Choosing one on the sole basis of price is not a wise move, either. If you don't know which registry cleaner to get, try to find a trusted source who will give you a recommendation. Probably this trusted source should be a computer technician or a friend who has used the product.

So, what we have learned is; there is really no such thing as a free registry cleaner. Still, a good registry cleaner is needed for the upkeep of the modern PC because registry corruption has now become a big problem and it is a problem that didn't exist a few short years ago. - 17565

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The author, Hiel Strassman is an experienced computer technician as well as a certified professional who is thoroughly familiar with computer registries. His site, Registry Fix Reviews reviews the top registry cleaners on the market and rates them accordingly. And for more on registry cleaners, visit Registry Cleaner

You Can Master Cisco Router Keys with Basic Simple Tutorial

By residualsuccess

Knowledge is power. This is valuable information. A very basic Cisco Router guide for those of you out there that want to get their feet wet with the Cisco Router. Click here now!

Do you want to learn the Cisco Router but don't know where to start? Are you confused as to how to configure your Cisco Router? Do you have limited time and need to learn the Cisco Router quickly? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this is your opportunity to get immediate access to a Cisco Router Basics Tutorial.

"Why would you want to learn the Cisco router? I'll tell you what happened to me... I went from making $8.00 per hour to $30.00 per hour just by getting some basic Cisco Router knowledge!!

Actually, I got pretty lucky... Let me take you back to the early 90's. I had been doing very basic desktop support and some light Windows NT Administration and one day the main Network Engineer of the company I worked for got in a fight with the boss and walked out!

My boss was desperate yet he knew that I had interest in learning Cisco Routers. He sent me to a 5 day Introduction to Cisco Routers course. I am so glad this company was willing to drop $2000 for this course, but I admit that is a HUGE price tag to learn the fundamentals of the Cisco Router. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't complaining.

$30.00 per hour in the early to mid 90's was a great starting point. I didn't stop there... I kept learning and growing and ultimately started my own IT Consulting company and now charge at least $100 per hour for Cisco Router consulting.

The main point I want to make is this, not everyone has opporunities fall in their lap for a company to drop $2000 for a basic Cisco Router course. I realize that. So what I decided to do was put together the absolute fundamentals that any person needing to learn the Cisco Router needs into one easy to read package at a very affordable price.

Let's face it, knowledge is power! The choice is yours on what you do with valuable information as it becomes available to you. This is valuable information!

Another point I want to make and I'll be very blunt and upfront about it is that Network Engineers with Cisco Router experience make good money! Click here now!

I enjoy helping people learn and grow. I wrote another ebook called PIX/ASA Firewall Keys which has helped catapult many people into greater understanding of the PIX Firewall, and with that comes greater income.

One of the main things I kept hearing from those who read PIX/ASA Firewall Keys was the request to come up with a very basic guide to the Cisco Router, taught in the same down to earth style. So here it is!

This tutorial is going to teach you the very foundation that you will need to know to make it with the Cisco Router. Once you understand and grasp these concepts you can go on to more advanced routing tutorials.

Of all the feedback I get from the readers of my tutorials and ebooks there is one common thing that stands out and this is one that I take great pride in - it is that I can break down these concepts in a very simple, down to earth and straightforward way." Eric S. Severson, author of Cisco Router Keys - 17565

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This tutorial will teach you all the basic steps you need to know to work with the Cisco Router at a very low price. Click here to get started today. Master Cisco Router Keys You will be glad you did.

Free Shrink DVD software for copying

By Ethan Hunter

You may have heard of the term 'freeware'. This freeware is a computer software program available at no extra cost or for an optional fee. Free Shrink DVD, as the name suggests, is a freeware and it is a DVD Transcoder. Transcoding is direct digital-to-digital conversion from one codec to another. With dual layered DVDs, it is possible to make copies using 'New Burner ROM' and free shrink DVD. Let us see how to copy DVDs by using Shrink.

When you download the file X free Shrink DVD and alien as RPM you will need a file known as mdk.noarch.rpm. Apart from this file, you will require multi server, universe, and non free repositories active. After you have downloaded the file, go to your rpm file and click on pseudo alien DVD rpm. When you run the program, you will get a 'deb file'. Then you have to insert a blank free shrink DVD into the slot to get clear copies.

The free shrink DVD is a software program that helps you to get free DVDs. The shrink helps you to copy primarily movies on to a DVD in a much short space by deleting the unnecessary contents in the DVD like the movie subtitles in a number of languages, which you do not need at all.

Internet is the greatest source of information and the growth of the internet over the past decade or so and its user-friendliness has made it the best place to market your products and use it for other purposes. The development of free Shrink DVD is also a major technological advancement and there are many websites furnishing the needs of the customers.

There are many websites providing the customers with tools to copy free DVD. The sofware for copying DVD is ready for use and is available in the form of trail version too. The distribution over through internet enables the customer test it for sufficient duration before deciding whether to purchase the product or not. The facility is also a great way to narket product to the users.

Free Shrink DVD is such a DVD software and it is a freeware as it comes free or at a nominal fee. These trial versions of the free shrink DVD copying software have a fixed duration for which they are valid. The user can utilize all the services of the software till the trial duration ends. On the other hand the version for demo purposes is different as there is no time limit for use. The customers get sufficient insight into the use of the product.

The facilities provided by the free Shrink DVD include DVD burning, DVD copying, CD burning, CD copying, copying from DVD onto VCD, audio conversion, music editing and lots of other functions. Not surprising then that the DVD Shrink software is considered very useful for many purposes. The free shrink DVD can both re-author and re-encode the movie. The intuitive user interface of free shrink DVD software makes it easy to delete portions and copy an entire DVD-9 movie to a single DVD-R. - 17565

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Free Shrink DVD software is extremely useful software that helps you make copies of movies onto your DVD at nominal costs or no costs at all. DVD Shrink

What Is An Operating System

By Martin Brinkmann

Windows, Linux or Mac OS X are operating systems. They are the backbone of a computer system managing the computer hardware and software. It controls the computer after the BIOS has been loaded by loading drivers to support the hardware and software programs that run on the hardware.

The kind of operating system a computer uses is dependent on what kind of computer it is and what it is going to be used for. Most computers come pre-loaded with the operating system when you purchase them. Personal computers usually come pre-loaded with Windows, Apple computers usually are pre-loaded with the Macintosh operating system and servers use such operating systems as Linux and UNIX however there are hundreds of operating systems available if you have specific needs for them.

Operating systems are in all kinds of products that we use, not just computers. Operating systems are used by video game consoles, cell phones, PDA's and more.

The operating system has control over all the functions of the computer and manages how software programs work and their communication and interactions with each other. The operating system is responsible for making sure everything runs smoothly during the operation of your computer and that the programs that are running do not interfere with each other.

The operating system manages all the computer's hardware by loading so called drivers which are used to interact with the hardware.

The software programs that run on the operating system receive the hardware information from it without having to use their own functions to interact with the hardware directly. All hardware of the computer is managed by the operating system.

As the central component of a computer system the operating system manages data transfer between hardware and software. Pressing a key on the keyboard is for instance directed to several hardware components like the processor and video card so that the result can be outputted on the computer screen.

Operating systems make use of user groups and users. This is being used to give users access to specific parts of the operating system. It can also prevent certain users and user groups from accessing parts of the operating system, software or hardware. - 17565

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Martin writes regularly about the soon to be released Microsoft OS Windows 7. You can find more articles about the Windows OS like the one about Windows 7 Wallpapers at his site.

Discover The Easy Way To Copy Wii Games Right On Your Computer

By Scott Frayburn

There's no question that the Nintendo Wii has taken the video game industry by storm. It was nearly impossible to find one this past Christmas and the units continue to fly off the shelves. Recently, we have received a lot of emails from people wondering how they can copy Wii games right on their computer.

Because of this, we thought it would be a good idea to answer this question in a quick article. This way you can start copying Wii games on your own computer right at home.

Almost everyone has burned a music CD before. In fact, the burning software to make copies of music cds is included in almost all computers now. Unfortunately, this software will not work if you try to use it to copy Wii games.

Video game discs are equipped with a form of "copyright protection" that block these programs from understanding the discs or being able to copy them. When you insert a disc into your computer, the computer can't "read" the disc or understand it.

Fortunately, there are companies that have designed specialized software that will allow you to copy Wii games. This software uses technology that "knocks-out" the copyright protection used on the game discs and allows your computer to understand the disc.

How do you use it?

It's incredibly simple. First, you insert the game disc and wait while the program makes an "image" of the disc on your hard drive. Next, you insert a blank disc that your computer will burn this image onto. When it is finished, you are left with an exact copy of the game.

This type of software not only lets you copy Wii games, but you can also make copies of Xbox 360, PS3 and literally any other game disc that you have. It's nice to have just one program that will work for all the games systems you have.

Once you get in the habit of copying Wii games it's a good idea to make a copy of any game you have. This way you don't have to worry about losing or damaging the original game disc. Your backup copies will work just like the originals and can be made directly from your own computer. All the best! - 17565

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Check out http://www.copyyourgames.com for a free trial of the top-ranked Nintendo Wii game disc copying software. This website will show you how to copy Wii games along with any other game disc for the xbox 360, PS3 and the other most popular game systems.

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