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KC ON TV HUBBA HUBBA CREATE A SUCCESSFUL WEBSITE IMAGE CRUNCHERS KC E-ZINES! PRINTING FROM EXPLORER SMART NET TIPS NATURAL KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS BABEL MOVES I LOVE YOU VIRUS GOOGLE ENTERS TOP 10 KC ON TVForget the Y2K bug! This year will go down as the year that KAHL CONSULTANTS hits TV!Alex Kahl was interviewed by Quicken.com Consumer Money Reports as an
expert on small business websites. The special show will air starting June
2000 across the United States. To see what TV station will air this special
report follow this link:
Our Y2K ALERT site offers help with Y2K bugs.
HUBBA HUBBAThe word is HUB - and if you are a network engineer please skip this section!It doesn't take a fortune teller to predict that there is a network in your future, in my future, and just about everyone's future. And a HUB is often the first step. By analogy with the hub of a wheel, this is a device connected to several other devices. A common connection point for devices in a network. Hubs connect segments of a LAN (Local Area Network). A hub contains
multiple ports. When a packet (of information) arrives at one port, it
is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all
packets.
CREATE A SUCCESSFUL WEBSITEHALT! ONLY read this article if you are interested in principles that ALL SUCCESSFUL WEBSTIES have in common.INTERFACE Every successful web site has an integrated design approach that works. Integrated, in that all of the graphics, text, etc. look like they belong together, that they work together to create a whole. The MOST IMPORTANT aspect of web design may very well be SPEED. Pull up Yahoo in your browser, how fast did it load? By some estimates you only have 30 seconds to grab your visitors interest. Load time - the speed that a site is displayed in a browser is critical. The most successful sites combine graphics OPTIMIZED for the web with text and (more and more often) nested TABLES with background COLORS to create pleasing interfaces that load quickly. CONTENT All successful web sites have content - articles, free services, inventory for sale, etc. Most of this content is managed by some sort of database/CGI type program. My advice is to CHOOSE THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION available for your project. Make sure it will be scale to accommodate your site's anticipated success. Further, make sure that there is not a ready made, free version solution to your programming problem before you hire a programmer or buy a commercial version. There are many excellent resources that list hundreds of quality, free scripts available for download. One note about the content itself, it needs to not only be of high quality ( there is a lot of competition out there!) but it needs to be CONSTANTLY UPDATED. If not daily, weekly or semi-monthly updates are a must so that REPEAT VISITORS feel as if there is A REASON TO RETURN. Repeat visitors are a very big key to continual growth. This makes a very good argument to use a programmable solution to manage your content, as the scripts allow you to update content more effectively than you can manually. GET NOTICED Nothing else matters if nobody sees your site. Thankfully, if you have a site with a good interface and good, timely, content you can build an audience for it. Unless you are a Big Corporation with thousands to spend on advertising, the first step is to GET YOUR SITE LISTED in the largest search engines and directories. This sounds simple, but DOING IT CORRECTLY takes quite a bit of info and time. First of all, you have to know the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN a SEARCH ENGINE and a DIRECTORY. A search engine has a database of web pages - a user visits it, asks
it a question and it returns relative web pages. AltaVista is an example.
A directory is a categorized collection of web sites - a user visits and
chooses a category they are interested in and "drills down" to find what
they are looking for. Yahoo! is
Many search sites blend the line between search engines and directories, but when promoting a site, you need to treat them a little differently. With search engines, you don't stop with your index page. Make sure every single page of your web site gets indexed by all the large search engines. With directories the most important thing is to make sure your site is listed in the correct category. The most important place to be listed is Yahoo! Next we suggest getting all your pages listed in the Inktomi database that handles the spill over search results for Yahoo! and also powers HotBot, Direct Hit, Canada, Anzwers, and others. Get all pages listed in The Open Directory Project, AltaVista, Infoseek, Lycos, Excite in that order and then concentrating on the smaller search engines. These tips will not by themselves guarantee you success, but they will
point you in the right direction. Take an hour and surf the web checking
out web sites that work - do they employ these three principals? Does your
web site?
Look at our FAQs & Tips:
SITES FOR SORE EYES
Got some phat GIF or JPG images? A little too "phat"? Whether you want
to send out baby photos via email or upload employee pics to a website
they better be optimized! So that the file is as small as possible, use
these free websites to compress images quickly. No software to install
either! Try it, you'll be amazed.
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-> Open the Start Menu:
Win
-> Find Files or Folders:
Win+F
-> Minimize All Windows:
Win+M
-> Undo Minimize All:
Shift+Win+M
-> Display System Properties: Win+Pause/Break
Bookmark the entire list of shortcuts at:
http://www.kahl.net/tools/wintips.html
BABEL "A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and
Acronyms", has a NEW URL:
http://online.dossnet.com/babel.htm
TIP: got a slow modem connection? download BABEL and Presto! Now you
have a great reference tool!
The virus, which includes the message "I Love You" or "Love Letter" in the email subject line, was first spotted in Asia. The virus originated in the Philippines.
The virus arrives in an email that includes an attachment called "Love-Letter-For-You". The virus targets people who use Microsoft's Outlook email program--a widely used default email client at companies--to send messages with the virus to everyone listed in that person's address book.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
SIMPLE - if you get it, DELETE IT!
DO NOT OPEN IT!!
Remember kids, don't go out play it safe on the net. SCAN for virii
and VERIFY your emails! Start here:
http://www.kahl.net/hoax
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And that's about it. Now turn off your computer and go plant a tree.
Cheers,
Alex
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Remember, the best things in life are free.
... Never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9 a.m. it's because they were up all night.
... Don't play
tennis or any other sport which requires a change of clothes. Mountain
climbing is
ok, and real programmers often wear climbing boots to work in case a mountain
should suddenly
spring up in the middle of the machine room.
... Disdain
structured programming. Structured programming is for compulsive,
prematurely
toilet-trained neurotics who wear neckties and carefully line up sharpened
pencils on
an otherwise uncluttered desk.
... Don't like
the team programming concept, unless, of course, they are the Chief
Programmer.
... Have no
use for managers. Managers are a necessary evil. Managers are for dealing
with personnel
bozos, bean counters, senior planners and other mental defectives.
... Scorn floating
point arithmetic. The decimal point was invented for pansy bedwetters
who are unable
to "think big."
... Don't drive
clapped-out Mavericks. They prefer BMWs, Lincolns or pick-up trucks with
floor shifts.
Fast motorcycles are highly regarded.
... Don't believe
in schedules. Planners make up schedules. Managers "firm up" schedules.
Frightened
coders strive to meet schedules. Real programmers ignore schedules.
... Like vending
machine popcorn. Coders pop it in the microwave oven. Real programmers
use the heat
given off by the cpu. They can tell what job is running just by listening
to the
rate of popping.
... Don't bring
brown bag lunches to work. If the vending machine sells it, they eat it.
If the
vending machine
doesn't sell it, they don't eat it...
... Vending machines don't sell quiche.
... Don't eat
quiche. Real programmers don't even know how to spell quiche. They like
Twinkies,
Coke and palate-scorching Szechwan food.
... Don't write
applications programs. They program right down to the bare metal.
Applications
programs are for dullards who can't do systems programming.
... Don't write
specs. Users should be grateful for whatever they get. They are lucky to
get
any program
at all.
... Don't comment
their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand and
even harder
to modify.
... Don't draw
flowcharts. Flowcharts are, after all, the illiterate's form of documentation.
Cave men drew
flowcharts; look how much it did for them.
... Don't read manuals. Reliance on a reference is a hallmark of the novice and the coward.
... Don't use Cobol. Cobol is for wimpy applications programmers.
... Don't use
Fortran. Fortran is for wimpy engineers who wear white socks and smoke
a
pipe, stress
freaks, and crystallography weenies. They get excited over finite state
analysis and
nuclear reactor simulation.
... Don't use
PL/I. PL/I is for insecure momma's boys who can't choose between Cobol
and
Fortran.
... Don't use BASIC. In fact, *NO* programmers use BASIC after reaching puberty.
... Don't use APL, unless the whole program can be written on one line.
... Don't use LISP. Only effeminate programmers use more parentheses than actual code.
... Don't use
Pascal, Bliss, ADA or any of those sissy-pinko computer science languages.
Strong typing
is a crutch for people with weak memories.
* CTRL: Control Key (there are 2 of these on your pretty
little keyboard)
* ESC: Escape key (top left of your keyboard)
* Home & End Keys: found next to the Page Up and
Page Down keys, to the
right of the alphanumeric portion of your keyboard (even
on laptops)
* Keyboard combinations: hold down the first key, then
press second key shortly
MORE TIPS????
NetTools has the entire collection:
http://www.kahl.net/tools/tips.html
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