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  • How Can Web Conferencing Be Used in the Classrooms?

    How Can Web Conferencing Be Used in the Classrooms?

    It is reported that around 80% of the people associated with the education sector believe that web conferencing has significantly helped schools globally in achieving their goals of academics, according to Online Teaching and Learning Resource Guide. This sudden rise has proven how efficient and effective this tool and method is in the education sector. Web conferencing is an interactive method of implementation especially in the online classrooms. It has several benefits to offer to the students.

    There are several innovative software related to web conferencing that have yielded magnificent benefits, not just for the students but also to the teachers. These interactive and synchronous tools add the factor of accessibility. Accessing lessons from anywhere in the world has become easier than before. The concept of active learning has experienced a humongous rise due to the introduction of this method. Active learning has been witnessed by the teachers as well as the students due to the introduction of various visualization and feedback methods.

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  • Bye Bye IPv4 – Hello IPv6

    Bye Bye IPv4 – Hello IPv6

    The day came and went without much fanfare. I’m not talking about my recent birthday but the February 3rd 2011 “D-Day” when the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority released its 5 last octets (/8 blocks) to each Regional Internet Registry. For those of you in love with the simplicity of the IPv4 sequence, this is a sad time and you may be shrugging off internalizing the change. It’s time to face your demons, look IPv6 right in the face and say “Ok, I’m Ready. I will no longer ignore ICMP. I know you are better and use ICMPv6 for many critical functions. I love and appreciate you.” So what’s the deal with this new internet address? Does it just mean a longer number sequence or is there something more. Well, here’s the skinny. Read the following points well as they are your future.

  • DNS Issue when Accessing a Web Page

    I recently experienced a problem that looked like a DNS error. The error appeared in the web browser after trying to load a Web page. I have never seen the error message before, but after reading the message it was easy to determine it had to do with domain name servers.

    After doing some testing, and then research, I was able to find a solution to the problem.

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  • Speed Up Your Web Site By Using CSS Sprites

    Speed Up Your Web Site By Using CSS Sprites

    If you own a web site or blog, chances are you have thought about how to make your pages load as fast as possible. This is an obsession with many, while a learning experiencing for others. I am one of those that look for ways to make my blog display faster. I have tried and used many different tactics, including changing settings for the browser cache, gzip compression, WordPress caching plugins, reducing the number of graphics, and reducing the number of third-party widgets that appear on my blog. The more that has to load, the slower a page will become.

    When I created this new WordPress theme, I wanted to try something new – CSS sprites. CSS sprites are used by some of the larger web sites to reduce the number of image downloads that are needed to display a web page. While I am not an expert by any means, I have managed to get some of the common images that appear on this blog to load from an image sprite.

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  • How Important is a Site Builder With Web Hosting?

    How Important is a Site Builder With Web Hosting?

    Having a website is a valuable thing everybody must have particularly if you want to showcase your skills to clients or promote a product or service. There are two ways to get a site builder.

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  • How Long Will a CD-R Last?

    I recently wrote a post called Backing Up Digital Photos where I outlined the various backup media you can use. I discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the various media. After the post I decided to talk more about the longevity of a CD/DVD, since that is probably the most used media for backups.

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  • What to Avoid When Designing Web Sites

    I enjoy using Entrecard on a daily basis. It allows me to find new blogs that I would have never have visited without going through Entrecard. At the same time I also find blogs that I would never visit again, not because of the content, but because of how they are designed.

    In this post I will list several points that I consider to be a bad for Web sites and blogs, and items that should be avoided if you want to keep your visitors coming back for more.

    What You Should Avoid When Managing a Web Site

    I have written many posts regarding designing a good Web site, at least in my opinion. These are outlined in Blog Designing Tips for New Bloggers and Web Site Design Tips.

    Now let’s look at some bad points that you should avoid when designing Web sites.

    1. Creating a complex design.

      Avoid adding too many links, objects, and ads to the sidebars and focus more on providing an easy to find and read navigational links. Your visitors won’t stay around hunting for a specific link. Keep the navigation simple.

    2. Popup Ads.

      These windows that open when you visit a site are really annoying, and in reality serve no real purpose as most users would just close them anyway. Making money with ads is okay by me, just as long as they are incorporated in the Web pages and don’t display in a new window.

    3. Background Music.

      I have visited many Web sites that include some music that loads and then plays in the background. If you would like music on your site, provide the play option to the user and don’t play it automatically.

    4. Flash animation – no real content.

      I usually visit sites looking for specific information. When a site’s navigation and content are all contained in flash animation, I usually close the window. Although flash can look great, I prefer the standard text to Flash on a Web site. Besides, search engines can’t index content properly if it is built in Flash animation.

    5. Copied content – no original ideas.

      Don’t copy the hard work of others and post it on your site. You will probably be punished by the search engines for having duplicate content, and won’t get many visitors in the end. You could write a brief summary of the Web page and then link back to the original site.

    6. Many Large Images.

      Many times I have visited a personal Web site and had to wait for several minutes for some images to download. If you would like to use photos on your site, make them smaller in an image editor first, and then upload them. Don’t let the browser do the resizing since they will still be large, and just look smaller.

    Summary

    This post has provided several items that you should avoid on your Web site if you want your visitors to keep returning for more. The items listed above are the most common annoyances on Web sites today, and they are the reasons I refuse to re-visit a Web site.

    Now the question to you is: what would you add to the list to make it more complete?

  • Step By Step Process for Successful Web Designing

    Step By Step Process for Successful Web Designing

    Web designing is an important and lengthy process that requires serious efforts in order to get a successful website. Many factors need to be considered to make the website appealing and capable of sales conversion and to fulfill other goals as required. It is beneficial to acquire professional web designers’ services for your web design, as they know well the designing process and keys to make it successful. Step-by-step designing process is explained as under that will help you in recognizing all the steps and their significance in the success of a website.

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