Typer Tappers

1. Different visited link colour rather than just having all your links the same colour it’s just annoying for visitors if you don’t have visited colours.

2. Fully flash sites big no no, if you’ve notices that flash player has only just been released on Linux so a lot of them won’t be able to see your site or some windows users still don’t have flash player so avoid flash at all costs.

3. Do not design over 800×600 this is obvious I hope I don’t really need to explain it.

4. JavaScript do not use a lot of it and don’t depend on it. You will find that your visitors may have it disabled.

5. Do not use Tables, if you’re a web designer you should already know this for your layout never use tables as it slows your users loading time down css layouts are a lot faster with a external sheet style.

Think of the term “Google it” now you have to admit that you’ve heard that a lot you ask someone a question they just say “Google it” but imagine for a second their was no such thing as search engines, you need to find information for your class your pretty much stuffed their aren’t you, you would have to go in your local library or something like that, the internet would not be as popular mainly because you cant search for something, you wouldn’t know where to go you would need to rely on word of mouth to get a website popular.

So next time you do a Google, Yahoo or any other search engine think about it, think about where the websites came from do some research on them and thank them for supplying us with a search engine.

Well if you’re a web designer or developer you would of heard about web 2.0 a lot, and I have done a little bit of research and it seems that no one really understands it especially me, so all I’ve seen is people showing us you know things like “rounded corners” you ether have them or a full screen one. Now I think this is just a waste of time design your site how you like it don’t follow the “web 2.0” phase, yeah they look nice but no one can put their finger on what web 2.0 is, if you read up on it in it you will see the words “Ajax”, “rounded corners”. But let’s think about this for a min Ajax isn’t that JavaScript?

If it is surely you shouldn’t be using it as certain visitors won’t be able to see it because they turn it off, rounded corners ok knock your self out using them.

So my post is saying don’t follow this craze soon it will be something better with less of a ‘shiny’ affect people haven’t thought it through enough all I’m seeing is icons everywhere and horrible shiny effects.

I may not be the best of PHP developers but I can pull out a basic digital clock out quite fast.

So if anyone messes about with it I would love to know what you’ve added to it or taken off it.

Feel free to use it how you please its only a basic PHP script.

Digital-Clock.zip (68KB)

Well after looking at a couple of peoples computers that don’t really know much about how they work etc I ask about RSS and they don’t have a clue what I’m going on about.

So it only seems to be a geek thing at the moment but looking at Morzilla Firefox 2.0 I see that they have a new RSS feature, but too be honest it’s not really pulling enough people to use it or allowing others to understand it really.

So I started trying to think what we could do about it, but really their isn’t much to do except adding a “add to Google” button to your website which in some cases doesn’t look very nice but unfortunately at the moment.

So RSS is only for tech geeks unless we explain it to everyone else.

Well let’s start off talking about Mac, you can see by Mac’s OS X that they are doing brilliant, it seems that a lot of people are choosing Mac’s over windows boxes.

But looking more into Mac you will find that it is actually based around Linux and Microsoft where the odd ones out until the release of vista that contain few things that are made like Linux.

So looking if Linux have the power to overtake Microsoft they obviously do, and they are catching up fast from looking at Google trends you can see that Ubuntu Linux are actually overtaking Mac OS X. This has to be good seeing how good Mac is doing.

You will see this on school pc’s, college pc’s or university pc’s.

It’s simple to put it on your own pc just run “regedit”

Now go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENT VERSION\WINLOGON”

Value1: “legalnoticecaption” = This is the title for your box

Value 2: “legalnoticetext” = This is the text contained inside the box

Well I got my Linux CD a couple of days ago (fedora core 5) I was installing it and I though “wow this looks brilliant” that part actually sold Linux to me.

So after trying out some applications which where on it, the applications where pretty much the same as a lot of Windows applications you have open office which is the same as Microsoft office, Morzilla products so I couldn’t complain until it was time to get my network setup so I went into the network option allowing me to select my wireless device which wasn’t supported on the list. So I went hunting around the forums trying to find the answer and this is where it hit me at how hard Linux is to use you are constantly having to use the equivalent of msdos to compile install, you know what I couldn’t be bothered to I just went on a forum asking for step by step instructions.

Comparing this to setting my wireless device up on Windows its like climbing Mount Everest Windows has plug and play and most major distributors have the drivers for Windows not Linux.

This small experience has put me off recommending Linux to anyone, but has shown me how much the small things on Windows make a huge difference.

Well I just got my new flash drive, I’m not a heavy user of them but thought it was time to update from my Kingston DataTraveler II 256mb’s, and looking at the modern stuff I was only going for maybe a 1 – 2 gigs with u3.
So after looking around the online shops for a bit I found a SanDisk Cruzer Micro, well after my short wait it came in the post I didn’t really have much time to check it out but plugged it in and I got this little icon showing in the system tray clicked it and wow I have another start bar, with Skype and Avast antivirus software. I downloaded a couple more programs for my u3 flash drive and you can get loads of things to make you feel at home, on my drive I now have WinRAR, Firefox, Thunderbird and Trillian.
There is a small downfall to these u3 drives which are things like places such as your local school or college will have a high probability of not allowing you to run things like this for security reason which is kind of disappointing because it means you have to go back to using internet explorer, not your portable version of Firefox.
Overall if you don’t have U3 on your current flash drive get it, its simply amazing at how good it is. My favorite part of this is you can synchronies your computer to other peoples so you can put your bookmarks on a computer where you plug your flash drive in or you can change the background to your own, so go buy one its great now I have one I don’t think I could go back to my old non u3 drive.

Well here’s a simple tip to make your indicators to be changed when you boot up.

First you want to hold your windows key and press ‘r’ type in ‘regedit’ and hit enter.

Second you want to go in to “HKEY_USERS \ .Default \ Control_Panel \ Keyboard” in that look for the value saying: ‘initialkeyboardindicators’ and double click on it

0 – indicators off.

1 – Caps lock on.

2 – Num lock on.

3 – Caps lock & Num lock on.

4 – Scroll lock on.

5 – Caps lock on & Scroll lock on.

6 – Num lock on & Scroll lock on.

7 – All on (caps, num & scroll lock)