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Internet Basics

New User Information – Help for Internet Newbies

Archive of various topics not covered elsewhere……….

Browsers
If you are having a site built, remember to click reload or refresh when viewing your site so that you are not viewing a cached page.

Modern browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Chrome. Your site may look somewhat different in each of these on a PC or Mac, and very different still on a mobile device.

Email
My personal preference is Thunderbird, but many business professionals use Microsoft Outlook.

Email Attachments
File Transmission or How to Send Stuff by Email Made Real Simple.

These topics are covered elsewhere on this site.

Cooliris
Cooliris adds a new dimension to any gallery enabled to use it.
Download Cooliris from this page:
http://www.cooliris.com
install it and then load
http://dropbears.com/../france_2008/
Mouseover any of the thumbnails and a small arrow will appear in the lower right corner. Click the arrow.

Zip files
These are archived files – groups of files condensed into a single file in such a manner that the whole is often much smaller than the sum of it’s parts, making for faster transmission. Some zips are self-extracting, others require appropriate decompression software, for instance is WinZip (commercial) and Winrar (open source).

 

Saving a Page to File

In Chrome, Right click on the page, click Save As, choose whether HTML only or Complete.

In Internet Explorer, top left corner click File > Save As >
then choose a location to save it, preferably a directory (folder) which you access frequently and in which you keep your working files, for instance c:/work
Under file name change it to something short, ie “boxer” or “news”.
Under Save as type select Webpage, HTML only
Encoding: Western European (should be default)

Click Save

There is a similar function in Firefox.

 

SVG Graphics

SVG Graphics

SVG Graphics – What a Pleasant Surprise I’ve spent the past few weeks updating a motorcycle site. First I converted the forum from IPBoards (previously PHPBB, and before that something else) This time I’ve settled on PHPBB for Wordpress. It has seemed something of a waste of time, as the forum is technically dead, killed off …

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Image Names & Formats

Image Names & Formats

Filename conventions and types for images and graphics used in a WordPress blog. Use of non-ascii and language-specific characters, in particular Cyrillic Image types – jpg, png and others Filenames – length and naming Duplicate images As a rule of thumb, for blog images use jpg format with names which are easy to interpret, using …

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English as she is spoke

English as she is spoke

Some interesting English resources. A Word a Day by Anu Garg “The most welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass e-mail in cyberspace.” This writer has been a subscriber for perhaps 15 years. Subscriptions are free. https://www.wordsmith.org     Stack Exchange Newsletters Top new questions this week: Is “I like dogs but cats” a valid …

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