Website design and creation tips

When creating a website, always take your viewers/customers into consideration. Do not design a website that appears real nice to you on your own PC and browser. Take into consideration, the number of web browsers in use and how your website will appear in those browsers as well. Also take note of the internet speed when designing, a lot of pictures or videos will cause frustration for users with slow internet speed, also note that some users aren't able to view pictures so ensure to include alt descriptions of the pictures and videos you have to cater for these viewers as well. When you understand these things and incorporate them into your website, your website will be gladly viewed and accessed by many satisfying viewers/customers.

Reasons and Fix for Computer very slow response

If your computer is very slow in its responses, you can be sure that it is so due to the following reasons:

1. Hard drive storage full or almost full.
Many programs create temporary files when in use, when there is not enough storage space on your hard drive, these temporary files cannot be created as a result, thus you will notice the slowness in response.Always ensure to do disk cleaning every so often; Remove rarely used software programs you have installed. Do Disk de-fragmentation using the system tool, Disk defragmentor to sort the your files stored on your physical hard drive for easy retrieval by the system itself thus improving system performance.
2. Memory or RAM too small.
Think of your RAM as the surface of a table, the more programs you open up, the table surface will become used up quickly. When it is full, your computer will become very slow as there is no more room to open up any more programs. Thus, you will need to open only the necessary programs or increase the surface area of the table by way of increasing your Memory or RAM capacity. The higher the RAM size the better it is for your computer, 512MB is sufficient, but 1GB or more would be even better.
3. Virus activity.
Viruses are known to cause your computer to respond very slow also, as they run unnecessary background processes as well as create temporary files taking up space. Scan your computer with an updated anti-virus regularly and do it in Safe Mode or during boot up as viruses are not active then.
4. Incorrect voltage amount
If you've tried the above things and your computer is still very slow, check the current flow into your computer, when your computer is not getting the required amount of current or volatage through, it is likely to respond very slow also. Purchase a new adaptor from a retail outlet and use or find a spare one from a good working computer and use.

Do these and your Computer will be much faster than before. Should one of these work for you, let me know by leaving a comment.

Cheers.

Flash Drives/Thumb Drives/Memory Sticks - Virus avoidance Tips

Since its emergence, the flash drive/memory stick or whatever you may like to call it, has become another must have IT gadget. Its huge popularity has not gone unnoticed by virus creators, hence they are now one of the most popular form of virus transmitters. So to be on the safe side of things, the following tips shall help slow down the spread of computer viruses:

1. Avoid inserting it into devices that do not have an updated anti-virus program installed.
2. When you do insert it to a computer, DO NOT double-click it to open it or respond to the auto-run menu that comes up when first inserted. This is will activate the virus if its in your flash drive or on the computer. 
3. To view the flash drive contents, open up Windows Explorer or My Computer and have it display in the Explorer view such that when you select (single-click) the flash drive on the left hand pane, the contents appear on the right-hand pane of the window. Remember to never double-click to open folders within.
4. Scan your flash drive regularly with an updated anti-virus program.
5. Do Not lend to people who don't posses the above knowledge on how to use a flash drive.

With that, the more people who use their flash drives with caution using the above advices, the less will the propagation of viruses become.

Points to remember when typing a document

For efficiency's sake, when typing a document, especially using Microsoft Word or similar programs, please adhere to the following:

1. The difficult part of the task is in the typing of the document, especially if it's more than a page long. So the first thing you want to do is, get that difficult part of typing the document done first. 
2. The next task is now to format your document, as it has now become so easy to do as it is mostly select and clicks with the mouse.
3. The final task than is to do spell and grammar check, using the inbuilt Spelling and Grammar Tool incorporated in most word processors.

Once you remember these points, typing documents will be an enjoyable task to do.

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Greetings Friend,

Welcome to my blog pertaining to everything IT. You will find tips, tweaks, tricks, fixes, issues, etc.... about Information Technology in this blog, so visit regularly to see new topics put up for your digestion.

Till the next update, stay safe and free from all forms of viruses :) hehehe....

Cheers