Webpage Tips
As a working mother of two, I must admit that sometimes my house isn't ready forcompany. Yes, you might trip over a few pairs of shoes when you walk in and youmight have to wait for dinner while I dig around for some frozen pot pies and someclean dishes to serve them in. However, as Web Mistress of http://www.allparody.com, I'm always prepared tohave company come into my "home. Here I can easily hide all the dirty socks underthe bed but the only thing you'll see is is my best foot forward. When you present awebsite for your readers, you are inviting them to observe your house to take partin your metaphorical meal.
To keep company in your house, you'd better makesure that the coffees hot and the service is fast and good. Julia Child did not become a successful chef without using her tools of the trade toprovide a visual, culinary masterpiece. Brando wouldn't have been able to screamat Stella without his script, staging, lighting and the direction! Bill Gates wouldn'thave been able to build Microsoft without being a programming geek! But where do YOU, as the novice, find the tools of the trade? And are theyexpensive? The beauty and wonder of the web is ANYONE has access to FREEyou need to put together a truly terrific website. You've registered with the top search engines, such as yahoo.com, excite.com,google.com. Your site is advertised in newsletters, bulletin boards, guestbooks, linkexchanges, top site lists and more.
Customers hit a key word and find themselvesat your site.
Now the question is, are they STAYING, or does your site become a 5 second pitstop in the Internet raceway?Terrific graphics are wonderful, but guess what? They are pass? on the net if theyare slow loading! Did you know that Yahoo.com's splash page loads in under 6seconds, even on a 14.4 modem?? There's a reason they are so successful!Let's say you are the owner of JimBob's Fishing Hole, selling quality lures andhooks. A fisherman will wait patiently for hours for a catch. On the net, the samefisherman will wait an average of 8-12 seconds if the site doesn't load quicklyenough. The average Joe doesn't want to wait three minutes to see the jpeg of that22" bass you caught on Lake Kokomo! This potential "fish" is going get awayunless you masterfully bait the hook.
Gif crunching is the answer!(www.gifcruncher.com) A gif image has a series ofoverlaying colors built into it, far deeper than the average human eye can see. Whata gif cruncher does is minimize the unnecessary colors making your picture loadfaster. There is a sacrifice of some quality in most cases, but isn't it better tosacrifice a little than to whine about the one that "got away"? In real estate, the key to success is the three L's: Location, location, location! Thatsame formula applies to your website. Do you want your readers to find theirinformation quickly, or to roam around endlessly like the S.S.Minnow on athree-hour tour? Organization and clear, concise links to your information is the keyto success. Your reader should always have an idea of what they are getting into.Avoid at all costs undefined links, such as "click here for a surprise"! If I wanted asurprise, I'd go buy a box of Cracker Jacks.
Bigger IS better! Make your font size BIG enough for people to read. I'd like tostill think I'm twenty-four, but in reality I'm forty something. Although still sexy, myeyes just aren't what they used to be! If you make me squint and feel old, I'll goaway. While incredibly small fonts can seem stylish and room saving, they tend toannoy readers. Pick a safe font as well, like arial or courier.
Sure, your snazzy,unique EuroTrash#45 is a beautiful flowing font. But what good is it if only 10% ofyour readers actually see it, while the other 90% see a generically ugly default font?In summary, quick loading, ease in navigation and viewing, organized links and ofcourse, excellent content will get the readers who do happen to hit your page tostay there, and bookmark the page and return. Return visitors will make your site asuccess. Once you develop an audience that comes back for more, you have themakings of hit Broadway show..
Radical Randy?, New 3-D MediKin? Teaching Aide, Helps Children Understand Asthma and Take an Active Role to Control It
Asthma is the most prevalent chronic condition in children. It occurs in approximately 7-10% of the pediatric population. Pediatric asthma patients (and their parents) are often reluctant to follow the prescribed regimen of controller medications. When their symptoms abate, they often cease or forget the medications. Radical Randy?, a new MediKin? teaching aide from Legacy Products, helps educators explain and actually show children what happens in their lungs and airways during an asthma attack.
As a result, children begin taking an active role in monitoring and controlling their asthma. Developed in collaboration with the Pediatrics Asthma Team at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Radical Randy's chest opens to reveal a healthy lung depicted on the right and a lung with inflamed airways on the left. Randy's lungs incorporate pockets with removable bronchioles. The bronchioles can be inflated by squeezing the bulb pump that is connected to them by plastic...
Radical Randy?, New 3-D MediKin? Teaching Aide, Helps Children Understand Asthma and Take an Active Role to Control It
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Sing Jingles - Your Singing Investment!
Sing Jingles ? Your Singing Investment!
By Tom Gauger
After being in the music business as long as I have, you meet a lot of people ? many of whom are extremely gifted and others, well there are others to.
As a professional jingle singer, former talent booking agent with the William Morris Agency and founder of ReelMusician.com, I've heard it all ? The excuses that is.
Many individuals want the glamorous lifestyle of studio singing work, but they don't want to make the investment that is needed to put them on the map singing commercials.
Let's spend a few minutes looking at a typical investment to get you started singing jingles and general session work.
By now, you've seen all kinds of services, prices and wonder what you should do in terms of your singer reel.
Let's spend a few minutes exploring what you shouldn't do.
The biggest mistake new singers make is to assume that their friend's studio...
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10 Fun Ways to Tell the World You’re Pregnant
Campbell, CA (ContentDesk) November 29, 2005 -- Todays moms-to-be are finding fun and creative ways to share the news that they are expecting.
Hip and Little Children's Boutique announces their new line of pregnancy announcements, along with tips on more ways to share the news with loved ones.
Whether the news is for the future-daddy, grandparents, or the whole world, there are tons of great ways to let them know a baby is on the way.1.
Give them a tiny present.
Choose a cute little rattle, a pair of booties or teeny tiny baby socks and wrap them up.
You dont have to say a word -- just look at the recipients face when the gift is opened!2.
Send an e-card.
Reach friends far and wide with an e-card or cute email announcing you are expecting.
Include details such as your due date and whether the baby is a boy or a girl.
3.
Use your pregnancy test.
You can wrap it up or place it in a long...
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Kids' Halloween Costumes
Kids love dressing up and when better than Halloween. It's the time for fun and creativity and parents, love to find the perfect costume for their kids. Halloween comes once every year and parents know that children grow up fast. So, they go all out to find the best costume. Children love running around the neighborhood trick or treating in their Dracula or vampire outfits.
Dressing up and pretending to be someone else adds that something extra to their joy.
While many kids' costumes are available in stores, making them at home can be fun. Imagination and expression helps a child to develop a healthy personality. Designing and choosing a costume provides a chance for the whole family to get creative together. Hero and fantasy themes are great choices for little ones. Dressed as furry creatures, younger children really look cute, and animal costumes and flower costumes are perennial favorites.
A simple white hooded sweat suit paired up with socks and gloves...
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Valentine's Day ? Where Did THAT Come From?
Just as soon as the stores put away their Christmas merchandise, out comes the Valentine's Day items ? even though Valentine's is still more than six weeks away.I don't know why, but it always takes me by surprise to see Valentine's Day merchandise so soon after Christmas.I've always wondered where Valentine's Day came from, and under those circumstances, a person could be forgiven for thinking it was invented to create more business when Christmas is over.But no, after a little research, I discovered that Valentine's is not a holiday that was "invented" by greeting card companies to sell more greeting cards or by candy companies to sell more candy or by florists to sell more roses.Valentine's Day actually started more than 1,500 years ago.According to legend, Valentine was a priest who defied the orders of the Roman emperor Claudius and continued to perform marriages. It seems that Claudius realized no young men wanted to join his army because they didn't want to leave their wives and...
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Woman-Owned Children?s Product Companies Know What Parents and Kids Want this Holiday Season
DENVER, COLO. (ContentDesk) August 24, 2005 -- The word "momtrepreneur" is quickly making its way into today's business lexicon. Stay-at-home mothers turned business owners are popping up everywhere with their innovative products, functional designs and savvy style. Far from housewives with glue guns, these creative, business savvy woman are reshaping the workplace by successfully combining parenting with professionalism. From sourcing products and manufacturing overseas, to managing inventory and quality control, they are learning what it takes to compete in today's market.
Perhaps the biggest advantage of this emerging trend is their first-hand knowledge of what will and will not work for today's busy parents and modern children. Three Denver-area women have found the key ingredients this holiday season with products that are functional, fashionable and the perfect solution to the gift giving dilemma. JP Lizzy, a fashion forward line of diaper bags and totes, Monkey-Toes, an...
Woman-Owned Children?s Product Companies Know What Parents and Kids Want this Holiday Season
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Animaroo Gives Animal Breeders the Online Opportunity They?ve Been Waiting For
(ContentDesk) September 6, 2005 -- The online animal industry has recently taken off due to the opportunity and connection the internet provides for animal breeders. It is now easier than ever to find dogs for sales, horses for sale, alpacas for sale, and llamas for sale, adoption, or stud. The internet is currently the vehicle of choice for animal breeders looking to find a greater variety of animals online. Animaroo has decided to take advantage of the opportunities that the internet is now...
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