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Stupid Windows Messages

December 7, 2011 by dashaver

Have you ever copied a group of files from an external hard drive to your computer and after watching that silly little animation of paper going to one folder to another the copy finally finishes. Then the windows animation ends and you remove the hard disk. only to get a message that window delayed write failed? What does that mean? Should we assume that when windows says it done, it is not really done? So was the copy made or not? Why say you are done if you are not done?

What is stupidest windows message you have had?

What Does A Website Cost?

November 14, 2009 by dashaver

There as many answers to this question as there are people asking it and you do not always get what you pay for.

Generally the big firms will charge at least $1000 for a simple brochure website because you are getting the skill sets of several people but this does not always equate to a better website. -> Read more

What is a Good Web Page?

October 15, 2009 by dashaver

Web pages are made for a purpose (if it is not made for a purpose then it is art not a web page), so the first test should be, Does it accomplish that purpose? Fix this purpose in your mind. The average user having thousands of choices will give yours about 10 seconds. OK quick look at your web page, can you see in ten seconds how to accomplish that purpose? In the real world of pass or fail e-commerce that is the only consideration. -> Read more

What Is Hot Linking?

October 1, 2009 by dashaver

Hot linking is the practice of linking directly to content on another website. There are cases where this is OK and in these cases it is known to the website or content owner. What about if someone links to an image on your website and puts it in their content. Imagine also that this other website get a lot of traffic. Your web server would also serve up images to this traffic. In this case the would be a lot of traffic to your server and you would be paying for this bandwidth yet the other website is getting the benefit or revenue dollars. -> Read more

How To Add Images To Your Drupal Website

September 30, 2009 by dashaver

If you have not all ready, read http://www.dashaver.com/Add-Content-Drupal-WebSite Under where you add your text you should see an area which says Attached images. If you don't see this it is because the image module has not been installed, email me and I will install it for you. Click on Attached images and in the drop down portion you should see Upload image and the browse button. Use the browse button to find the image on your computer. The image will be uploaded. You should put in an Image title. The image will appear in the area marked thumbnail.