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When you visit some forum or get some download, you may be asked for email to get into.
However, you may worry about email spamming and don’t want to expose your email address.

Do you want a temporary email? You can sign up for a site which requires that you provide an e-mail address for validation. This temporary email address which will be deleted a moment later and most important is you don’t need to fill in any information to apply this temporary email address.

http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

It’s simple to use. Just click the link in the center of page.
You will be provided with a temporary email address. This temporary address is dedicated to you only.

You can then use this temporary email address and all the email sent to this address will be shown out in the web page.

If you want to extend the time for the temporary email. Just click the link in the page.


Do you want to provides a search in your site to facilitate visitors to locate your products and services? Visitors can easily find information from your site with the search function provided. It can be done easily with Yahoo Search Builder.

http://builder.search.yahoo.com/m/home

You need to sign in with your Yahoo! Id to use this service.

These search builder provides a wizard to guide you in building the search box.
You first need to click the “Create a new search” on the right hand side. It will bring you to the first step of wizard.

#1. Define Search Engine
You need to provide a search name and specify the search types. You can search the web, search specific site, or search Yahoo! News.

#2. Design Search Box
In this step, you can customize the search box on the layout and color. You can specify the color and the size to fit your website style.

#3. Brand Search Results
In Step 3, it allows you to customize the search result page. Here you can provide a banner text and logo in the result page. Also you can suggest font and color for the search results.

#4. Add to your site
It is the last step, the html code is ready for you. You can copy and paste the HTML code into your website. You can view your web page to see the search box functions.

Create Animated Gif Online



December 14th, 2006


GIFWorks is an online GIF image editor. You don’t need to download or install anything. It’s free.

http://www.gifworks.com/image_editor.html

You can create animated gif easily with the tools provided.

In the web page, you can find a grey menu bar. You can start from the “File” menu.

You can start by open a gif file to work with. Or you can use it 3D Text tool to create your gif file.
3D Text tool is extremely useful if you want to make some banner or logo.

This online image tool also provides different effects which can apply on your image.

Once your image ready, you can save the image into your local hard disk or ftp to your remote server.


SiteAdvisor http://www.siteadvisor.com is a McAfee free service to test web site and keep safe from spyware, spam, virus and online scams.

It will test the website on different matters, includes Email, Download, Online Affiliation and Annoyances

Email Test is about web site’s e-mail practices. It will check how much e-mail website send as well as how spammy the e-mail are

Downloads Test will test the impact website site’s downloadable software had on testing computer.

Online Affiliations examines how the web site tries to get you to other sites.

Annoyances are test against common Web practices, include pop-up, request to change user’s homepage, add to bookmark favourites.

It is very simple to use. Just type in a website (e.g. yahoo.com) it will tell you whether the site is safe (green) or not (red). It will have email test, download test, link to other site test and show you the result of every test.


#1 What is your objective in building website?

1. As a adverstisement for your business

2. Sell products and services

3. Boarden the market of your business

#2 What scale your website will be?

1. Just need a website.

2. Start from small, and build up gradually

3. Complicated

4. Huge and complicated.

#3 Do you need a domain name?

#4 Who are your target visitors?

1. Business or Professionals

2. Female

3. Male

4. Youngster

5. Children

6. Students

7. All

#5 What characteristics your website has?

1. Focus on Content.

2. Artistic

3. Loading Speed

#6 How to promote your website?

1. Search Engine

2. Pay Per Click

3. Email

4. Free Advertisement

5. Link Exchange

6. Classified Advertisement

7. Banner Ad

8. Name Card

9. Leaflet

10. Direct Mail

#7 Do you want to earn additional income from your website?

1. Sale of software

2. Pay Per Click

3. Banner Ad

#8 How you run your website?

1. Maintain by yourself

2. Outsource to professionals and monitor frequently

3. Setup requirements and target, outsource all the works completely

#9 What is your budget?

Five Things for Web Site Success



November 23rd, 2006


Building the web site is just a starting point, you need to submit your website to search engines and directories. As a webmaster, you need to take different means to get your website success. Here’re five points you need to remember when enhance your website.

(1) Interactive
Web visitors like to interact. Don’t just publish your product information on the web site. You need to make it interactive with your customers.

(2) Grabs Attention
Design your site homepage so that it grabs visitors attention as fast as possibble and provides what they are looking for right away.

(3) Keep Update
You need to update your website content to fit what your visitors looking for.

(4) Attract Repeat Traffic
Use newsletters and forums to get visitors return to your website.

(5) Track Your Visitors
Pay attention to your site’s statistics and react accordingly. What are people looking for? How are they finding you?

Basic Understanding of Blog



November 16th, 2006


Blog, from the word Weblog, is an online article that you can post practically anything that you want. It’s normally comes in a single page.

In simple, blog contains these features:

- title (Title of your post)

- body (Your content)

- comments (Reader’s opinion)

The simplicity of blogs makes it attractive to anyone even has no html experience or no website. In just few minutes, you provide some simple information, choose the template to fit your style, and your blog is ready online.

One of the popular blogging site is http://blogger.com/

Blogging has evolved into more than for personal use. You can use it as a communication channel with your customer. There are no rules when it comes to blogging, you can express different view in your blog.

F1 – F12 Function Key Usage



November 9th, 2006


F1 – F12 Function Key Usage

F1 Help. Click F1 Key can load the help file of the program.

F2 Rename. Select a folder or file, click F2 to rename it.

F3 Search. On desktop, click F3 to load the search form.

F4 In Internet Explorer, click F4 will list the URL Address field.

F5 Refresh. Use it to refresh the web page in Internet Explorer.

F6 In Internet Explorer, click F6 will jump to address bar.

F7 It can be used to insert ^C in command prompt.

F8 When windows startup, it can load the startup menu.

F9 In Windows Media Player, it can increase the volumn.

F10 In Windows Media Player, it can decrease the volumn.

F11 In Internet Explorer, click F11 will switch to Full Screen mode.

F12 In MS-Word, it will show out the “Save-As” dialog.


Getting visitors to your site is the first task to do for online business. So the next things is to keep your visitors stay longer at your site. A research showed that visitors will stay less than 7 seconds for a website and go to another to look for information.

How you can keep your visitors stay longer at your website? Here are 3 ways to help keep visitors on your site.

#1 Tell what products or services offered at your web site

When people first come to a web site they want to know what it is about. People usually leave a web site within the first 7 seconds if they don’t know what the web site is about. Let them know what your website offered clearly can help to retain them.

#2 Provide your web site visitors with content they won’t find anywhere else

Keeping your web site or blog updated with fresh and original content. This not only help with higher ranking in search engines but also encourage visitors stay longer at your web site to read the content.

#3 Offer free products or samples

You can provide some free trial or demo tour of your product. You can also provides guideline or tutorial related to your product or services.


When you use your computer for some times, you may find that the computer runs a bit slower compared to the beginning. This is because you accumulate many old programs/files in the machine, this may slower the overall speed. You can clean up those un-used or temporary files.

#1 Clean your Internet Explorer history

Tools > Internet Options > Clear History.

#2 Delete all internet temporary files

Tools > Internet Options > Delete files (Do the U+00A1