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November 24, 2006

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Six Simple Rules to Follow when Creating a Website

1. Accessibility Your website including all the content that’s available on it, must be accessible to all individuals including those with disabilities. Ensure that your website is accessible using applications such as Home Page Reader. 2. Follow Standards Make sure you use W3C standards as much as possible. Following the standards gives you browser independence and since not everyone will use the same browser as you do, it will only ensure that your website appears as you meant it to

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Posted in: Internet | Web Design/Dev

November 24, 2006

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Simple Trick to Safer Logins in Internet Cafe

There are plenty of tools available on Internet which can do a very good job of monitoring and recording all the keystrokes on the system they are installed on. Such an activity can not only records every letter you type but can also help anyone steal password of your emails, banking accounts etc. Follow this simple trick when you login from a shared system or a system in Internet Cafe for extra safety. The trick is to enter random keys

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Posted in: Tools/Utils | Windows

November 24, 2006

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Download Stunning Microsoft Vista Wallpapers

Wanna take a look at how Windows Vista Wallpapers look like? You don’t have to download and install Vista for that. Take a look at this URL and you can preview all the wallpapers. The preview is available at [Haklabs] and there are 54 of them available for your viewing pleasure and I must say, they are just awesome!!! You can either view all of them in the photo album or download the entire collection using the links on the

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Posted in: Microsoft Vista | Windows

November 23, 2006

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Google AdSense Optimization: Increase your AdSense Income by Effective Ad Positioning

Some of us are quite successful with AdSense while others are still working hard to make the best out of their AdSense by experimenting with different Ad layouts, color blending and Ad formats. I would like to share some of my learnings and also put forth some best practices. Since every site is different in content, layout and industry it’s related to, please keep in mind that you will experiment with your site with tips mentioned here. Some of these

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Posted in: Google AdSense | Internet | Web Design/Dev

November 22, 2006

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Free Online File Conversion: Many file formats supported

This is an online tool that will allow you to convert your files without ever having a need to download any file conversion software. One such useful website is [ZAMZAR], which does online file conversions without needing you to download any software. All you have to do is open the website, select the file to convert, then select the file format to convert to and enter your email address to receive the converted file. There are plenty of file formats

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Posted in: Internet | Tools/Utils

November 22, 2006

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Beginners guide to .htaccess file with examples – Part II

I hope you have gone through the examples listed in first part of this tutorial. If not, it’s here – [Beginners guide to .htaccess file with examples]. In this part, we will cover more examples with .htaccess file. Presenting custom error pages Use .htaccess file to present users with your custom pages for 401 [Authorization Required], 403 [Forbidden], 404 [not found] and 500 [Internal Server Error]. Syntax: ErrorDocument < error-code > < location -of-custom-page> Examples: ErrorDocument 401 /401.html ErrorDocument 403

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Posted in: Web Design/Dev

November 21, 2006

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How To: Change the look of Google’s Homepage

I am very much bored of looking at the same homepage of Google for so many years now. It’s time for a change. After making some changes in my browser, my new Google home looks like: And the search results page looks like: How did I do it? It’s simple with the Stylish plugin for Firefox. Let’s see how to do it yourself: At first, [download] the Stylish plugin for Firefox and install it. Then [download] the CSS file for

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Posted in: Firefox | Google AdSense | Tools/Utils | Web Design/Dev






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