I’ve just spent a frustrating couple of days with an e-marketing “service” which shall remain nameless. The sad fact is that they’ve been down for well over 24 hours now. When they come back up, I’m likely to cancel my account. So I’m writing this article to warn *you*, the e-marketer, about what *you* need to be doing to keep this from happening to you. User frustration kills e-businesses! These tips apply to you whether you run your own servers, or buy some kind of service from a vendor.
Explorer Constantly Crashes
Question: When I double-click one link on Internet Explorer, Windows Html Help, or Windows Explorer I receive an error message and window closes. It doesn`t happen when I use contextual menu right-clicking over the link.
Paint Shop Pro Tutorial – Cutout Text
In this tutorial, we’re going to look at Paint Shop Pro’s Cutout effect, and show how you can use it to produce some nice cutout text. The text will be used as a template to “cut out” part of an image.
Jekyll vs. Hyde, 2 Faces of Immortality!
Meet the most important person you will ever meet in your life. You better! For sometime during your life you will meet him. He could appear very suddenly with such shock that his recognition will change your life forever.
Increase Sales with Easy-To-Read Web Pages
Web pages with readable text will generate more sales than fancy pages that are hard to read. Follow these design tips. Not only will your web pages be easier to read, but you’ll keep potential buyers at your site and position yourself to increase sales.
Why Your Printing Jobs Shouldnt be Rushed
Any printing job is actually a series of steps, and each of them take time. Even in the best situation, where the job comes to the printer truly “ready to go,” the order seldom is ready as quickly as the customer had hoped. Few customers understand all that must be done between the time the order comes in and when it goes out the printer’s door.
SEO Corner – Search Engines and Font Tags
Question: Since Netscape handles the spacing around heading tags (<H1>,<H2>, etc.) differently from IE, I have been forced to use large font tags (<font size=”6″>) and bold them, so I can keep the spacing consistent, cross-browser.
Innovative Ways to Get Links
We all know it’s important to get links to our sites to increase our traffic as well as link popularity. Yet, the process is both daunting and frustrating of finding contacts, keeping track of things and skimming directory listings.
5 Essential Online Tools for Writers and Publishers
Writing a newsletter or article can be very time consuming. First, you have to create your content. Then you have to organize it. Fortunately, there are plenty of great tools online you can use and don’t require you to clog your computer with more software.
How can I print to a remote PC that does not have a static IP address?
This is a fairly common problem: you have a PC at home and you make some sort of connection over the internet to your server, but your application needs to print to your PC. That would be easier if your PC had a fixed, constant IP address, but your connection is dynamic so it changes.
There are many, many ways to solve this problem. So many, in fact. that I’ll probably miss one or two in this write up. If I do miss something, do let me know: it may help someone else down the line.