Typer Tappers

As you might know about Darksats forum it is relatively knew only have a couple of members some I remember from searchmebaby and web-mastery Their is around 5 daily users of this forum, which is good as it is a new forum.

The forum covers many things from hardware to web designing, but as you might have guessed the main topic is to do with internet security it is a great laugh with the members their already after a couple of month I have learned so much about protecting my computer or even about other operating systems.

Their isn’t much of a story behind it (that i know off) but all i remember of Darksat was he used to post a lot on web-mastery and disappeared for a couple of years which was when i joined, everyone used to talk about him a lot on the forum, and curious at why he disappeared (mainly Anthony).

So go and check it out if your interested in IT security it really has a lot of information on how to protect yourself when surfing the net or any other way to protect your computer if you can’t find what you need just ask you will get a very good response.

Well thats the last of my forums to comment on they really are brilliant places to go, here is the list once more.

http://www.web-mastery.net

http://www.n2kdesign.co.uk

http://darksat.x47.net

Today it is time for n2kdesign.co.uk which originated from Justin’s personal website neutron2k.co.uk the old website was partly webdesigning and partly about Guitars.

So what happened was he made a new website dedicated to web design / development and moved everything web design related to that website this included his resources and forums, so we have a brand new website to talk on .

So the members their isn’t really many to talk about but theirs some good members the one who was their from the start was Sioby she was on the old neutron2k.co.uk site and also n2kdesign.co.uk site but she left, then their was Chris also from web-mastery.net he wasn’t exactly a dedicated member but he did post some good content and then disappeared.

To boost traffic Justin stared a competition for a £10 Amazon gift voucher for the most active user which gave a massive boost in crap posted :p but we saw two new faces pop up one of Justin’s friends nhaines and also bexster but their not exactly dedicated nhaines hasn’t been back and bexster isn’t interested in web designing.

Then the last thing I can think of is the addition of Jolly Rog (Workshy) he posted some really good stuff on the forum mainly to do about computing his is new at web designing and it is the main reason he is their to learn about web designing .

The forum isn’t as alive as it should be but it is getting their so if you have any spare time check out n2kdesign’s forums it really is a good forum, with some good members.

So thanks Justin for your good forums I’ve learned loads from them.

Next post will be about Darksat IT Security Forum.

This week I’m going to dedicate my blog to a couple of websites which have helped learn everything I know now and today I will start with my first ever forum I’ve joined which was Web-Mastery.net.

The early days of this forum was amazing we had Edwin, Darren, Heather, Anthony, Raven, Neutron2k and Chris. It was the best forum going they had the nicest community ever loads more members which I can’t be bothered to remember the names of but it was really a good website if you had any questions at all they would answer it and give you a essay on it I really did love the website its where my web designing and development started.

But after when Anthony left it did seem to go down hill I saw this coming as Anthony was in the heart of the community he was a laugh to talk to but disappointed when he made a scene and left (well got banned).

We still have the normal members except Chris (if anyone’s seen comment and tell me ) he just disapered which was really weird I take it he has success on his business, he did start another forum called searchmebaby.com which then I moved over to hoping to get it running but I take it Chris got fed up and closed it.

So it really was going down hill people where spreading out starting their own forums like N2Kdesign.co.uk which will be my next post.

So what’s it like now i take it your saying, we’ve had a couple of new visitors who don’t seem to stay long maybe they post monthly or something like that well even that’s lucky I wish it was like in the early days but it isn’t anymore so if you have any time at all please visit the site it is a brilliant team of webmaster’s and is one of my favourite forums please check it out.

Thanks web-mastery you started my webmaster life .
Next post will be about N2KDesign.co.uk.

Well I have put together ways to promote your weblogs in a list going form good to bad. At the top you will have ones that you should subscribe to for lots of visitors and going towards the bottom will be ones which arn’t bad, so here we go.

Mybloglog.com – This is a really good website as it allows you to talk to other blog owners add yourself to other communities which then will get your blog known the more ‘contacts’ you have the more visitors you have.

Digg.com – Well its slowly going down hill but you can still get a lot of visitors if people digg you, now this is annoying but it can be done maybe asking friends to digg you or things like that.

MySpace.com – This has the good concept of adding friends again which will get you more repeat visitors its easy to get friends just pick one profile and work your way up from their adding all the people you can find you might end up with maybe 2000 friends but that’s a lot of visitors if your just advertising for your website.

Forums – Well we all know how good forums are you can put a signature in and if you do something like 50 posts a day you will get some visitors out of it.

Weblog Commenting – Brilliant idea but not as rewarding as mybloglog you might be able to get one dedicated commenter and that’s it for all your hard work commenting on other blogs but one is better than none.

Trackbacks – Link to other blogs it will get you the respect of the webmaster and nothing else, but you have the webmaster visiting your website.

Well I hope all this helps I recommend you sign up to mybloglog.com it really is good.

The other day my new keyboard arrived its supposed to be a keyboard that allows multiple uses for example gaming and normal office work which is what my computer is used for so I got my keyboard with two keysets one for typing and the other for gaming as for the gaming layout it was awful their is I big gap between the key T, Y also G, H and B, N which really mucks up your typing as you cannot touch type unless you get used to two different keyboard layouts which is very annoying.So I went out and brought the World Of Warcraft keyset which has the normal layout with not gaps in it and also has what the buttons do on the game for example it has arrows on WASD and also has all the emotions as a short cut and loads of commands on the right where the numbers where. It is a massive help in the game especially when your a newbie getting used to all the shortcuts.

But the ultimate thing about this keyboard is when you switch them over it is possible to launch a application for example when i put my WOW keyset on it will launch launcher.exe which then I can click play on it to open up the actual game, if your computer is used for gaming typing the whole lot I really recommend it its a brilliant keyboard.

Well I haven’t made a post in a while the mouse has had my fingers didn’t have a clue what to write about so I though about ordering a game ‘World Of Warcraft’ so here is my review on the installation process their will be more coming soon.

Well upon receiving my copy of it I thought it was a bit heavy which was worrying because you don’t normally get any games that are light weight but upon opening it up my eyes where drawn to the massive book for this game, the book is around 1cm thick and around A5 size, it feels like a very long read (not actually going to).

And the shocker after removing all the paper inside it was the CD‘s their was 5 discs I was disappointed that it wasn’t a DVD or anything it would of saved a lot of time and could of had a little nap without swapping the CD’s over.

Putting the CD’s in.

I put the 1st CD into the drive, and I heard a “Boom” on my 5.1 speaker system it was amazing grabbed my attention just their brilliant sound it was only a Boom but it was a amazing Boom I loved it then came the process of installing all 5 CD’s which i was not looking forward to but it took around a hour of my time which isn’t too bad as I said before I would prefer it to be a DVD so I wouldn’t need to keep swapping the discs over, so overall it wasn’t too bad.

Updatinggg.

697mbs why couldn’t they include another CD with patches I do not like P2P downloading at all. As I’m writing this article it is still downloading and it has been at least 2 hours and its 75% done I mean the madness of it!

But the really annoying thing was I logged in before all this updating crap, but yeah I logged in and it tells me to update and to log in I needed to create a new account and pay for it I’m paying for the time to update the game it feels like 3 months have passed already.

Overall .

I’m annoyed at how long it takes to install the game but I’m really worked up about playing it, its making me more eager to play the game and I cant wait.

Well as you’ve noticed all my recent posts have been complete crap mainly advertising posts, but after Christmas came it completely put my routine off for writing on my blog now I can’t think of anything to write about so I write about some random stuff and its starting to show in my visitors as it has gone downhill after Christmas except for the 1st when it just went up now it’s gone back down.

So I’m pretty much stuck I don’t know what to do or how long its going to take getting back into this, so sorry for my posts but please stick around guys I will be back on my track soon (hopefully).

I’m also trying to setup a couple of other websites and college work is starting to pile up, I shall hopefully put out at least a small article every two days.

Well recently I keep thinking how I spend way way too much time on the computer and what the cause of a 18″ CRT monitor is doing too my brain you know their was so much fuss back in the 90′s it was mad, ‘you will get cancer from spending too much time in front of the PC’ but really is this true?

Well according to a post I found at PC Format a car will give you more radiation than a monitor, now that’s worried me about driving now but it really isn’t much radiation at all.

Well I thought it would be good to alert all the users about this issue, but I think now everyone is using LCD monitors etc…