Focused-Impact Marketing

Beginning Resource Files in Visual Basic

Have you ever wanted to use graphics, such as icons, bitmaps, cursors, and AVI files? How about sound or even message box text? This can be an enormous amount of overhead. These are all examples of more files to keep track of when you distribute an application, DLL, or OCX. Lets find out how resource files can help....

Living With Integrity How To Handle Broken Promises

Each and every day, we all make promises. We make these promises in many different ways, and in a variety of forms. A promise can be as simple as "I'll call you back", or as committing as "I promise to get that done!"

Marketing Your Website: Domain Names 101

Any new website venture online will include a domain name. Sometimes the domain is purchased from a domain broker - someone who specializes in reselling domain names. The majority of the time, however, it will be registered through a domain registrar. No matter how it is purchased, in all cases, the domain name (or names) for a website should be carefully considered. The basis of…

Smart Marketing

Are you attracting a large number of prospective customers at the lowest possible cost ...and converting the maximum number of them into paying customers? It's not very difficult if you follow these 3 simple steps.

Blue Screen On Startup Woes

Reader Question: Hi Carey, I've got a problem with my win98se; hope you can enlighten me-- every time I boot up windows the OS goes to the blue harddisk scan screen indicating that I've not shut down the PC properly. I'm pretty sure the PC is properly shut down after each use. What could I do to rectify this? Do I need to reinstall windows?