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- Perform search engine optimization
Make your website search engine friendly. Search engine optimization is the key to getting good search engine ranking.

- Avoid a solely-flash web sites
Search engines don’t know what a flash is about and they don’t index flash content.
If your website are built only with flash, you may even have trouble to get indexed by search engine.

- Avoid Javascript navigation menu
If this is the case, you should provide an alternative. Navigation menu is a good path for search engine to further crawl your website.
However, search engine will not crawl Javascript. It is better to avoid javascript navigation menu.

- Build inbound links to your site
Building inbound links from other websites can improve your website’s credibility.
It can also helps people find your site.

- Include relevant keywords
Put relevant keywords in your title, description and page content. If your website is lack of relevant keywords and phrases, how can people find your website? Do make a comprehensive research and put relevant keywords to your website.

- Avoid black hat trick, like keywords spam.
Search engine will give penalty to those website with seo trick.

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Invoices or Bills are generated by the seller and passed to the customer along with the product. According to the invoice, the customer pays the bill to the seller.

Many small business owners use hand written invoice. They fill out the product entries and price information with hand and send the hand written invoice to customer. Another option is excel template.
They can open the excel template, type in the invoice details in the pre-defined cells and print the copy to the customer. Hand written Invoice or Excel Template is an easy and cheap method, but it also brings many disadvantages. The documents are not organized and keep in a single source, which is difficult to recall the document, perform query, and generate statistical data and report.

Benefits of Using Invoicing Software
1. Improve Accuracy of Invoice
The chance of forgetting some important things when preparing invoice with hand is high. Invoicing software has many feature to help you filling the invoice, likes auto-fill date, auto-fit layout, etc. It may also alert you for important fields or errors. You can put more attention on the invoice contents, which can greatly increase the accuracy.

2. Improve Efficiency
In the invoicing software, you can save your product and customer information for later recall. By clicking few buttons, you can fill up the product and customer information easily. You don’t need to type those information again and again.

Some software also allows you to generate other documents, like Quotation, Receipt, Delivery Note, Purchase Order. This is important as it can greatly improve your company internal process and reduce tons of paper works.

3. Project a Professional Image
You may create a properly formatted copy of your Invoice in PDF format anytime. This is especially useful if you want to print or email the document. A well-designed invoice with nice layout can show the details of price and product to the customer clearly. This can greatly increase the customer’s confidence and also increases his assurance level to come back again.

4. Make Tax Preparation/Audit Easier
If using hand written or Excel template invoice, you need to perform accounting process manually. It is time consuming and you may forget the details about a specific invoice/transaction. With the software, all your invoice and billing information are already in the system. It can be easily retrieved and recalled. Your accountant feels happy if you have all the invoice or bill information in one place.
Software can also generate different types of report which can helps for preparation of financial statements of the business and avoids inaccuracy in the financial statements. Tax preparation goes much more smoothly.

EasyBilling software helps you prepare Quotation, Proforma Invoice, Invoice, Receipt, Purchase Order, Delivery Note, Packing Slip, Ordering, Credit Note & Debit Note. Visit EasyBilling Invoicing software for the details.

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Photo – Skyscraper



July 17th, 2010


Skyscraper in Hong Kong

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By optimizing your website, you can improve the page loading speed. At the same time, you can use less bandwidth and reduce the cost. More important is that visitors has a better experience when surfing around your website. They are willing to spend more time on it.

Following are the four area you can improve your website

1. Enable page compression using GZIP.

Using gzip compression, your web server will compress the pages before deliver to the visitors.
The browser receive the compressed page and decompress it. The compression can greatly reduce the page size and use less bandwidth.

You may consult your web hosting company on how to enable the page compression.

2. Minify CSS and Javascript files.

By removing whitespace and comments, you can reduce the file size a lot.
You may also check to remove those unused function.

3. Combine all Javascript files into a single file.

If you have several javascript files, you should put them together into a single file. If you’ve three javascript files, browser need to make three requests to get these three files. By combining the files, it can reduce the download overhead.

You should do the same for CSS files.

4. Image optimization.

With image optimization, you can greatly reduce the size of your image and keep the image quality without any visual difference.

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How to write a cheque



July 8th, 2010

When preparing a cheque, a lot of people forget to fill out something on a cheque. It is troublesome if the cheque cannot be drawn and bounced.

Check list for writing a cheque.
- Write the date on the cheque.
- Fill in the name of the payee legibly and correctly. Write as close to “Pay” (the left) as possible.
- Is it a bearer or cross cheque? Makes two diagonal lines on the top left corner for cross cheque.
- Write the amount in words and keep the writing closely padded. Ensure you have the word “Only” at the end.
- Fill in amount in figures.
- Remember to sign the cheque. May be you need to have your company chop also.
- Fill out the stub for record keeping. You can remember what the cheque is for.

Here are some tips:
1. If you made a mistake, you should clearly cross it out and give your full signature next to the change.
2. Write the cheque in ink permanently and ensure changes cannot be made afterwards.
3. Ensure the amount in words matches the amount in figures.
4. Verify your cheques again before presenting it.

Actually, there is software which can help in preparing and printing cheque.

ChequeSystem software can help avoiding any handwriting mistake. It can also keeps the cheque records automatically for future reference.
Cheque Printing software has many useful feature helps you writing a cheque.

1. Auto set the current date for the cheque. You can adjust it if need.

2. Payee name can be loaded from a pre-defined list.

3. Just type in the amount in number. The amount in words will be generated automatically.

4. Have checkbox to mark the cheque is crossed, bearer, etc.

5. The printing fits well and closely to avoid too much empty space left.

6. The software can also alert you if overdraw occurs.

7. The cheque records will be saved automatically.

8. Reports can give you a list of issued cheque with every details, include Date, Payee, Amount, and total lump sum.

9. Software can also save the recurring cheque template for later recall. If you need to write cheque for someone regularly, recurring cheque template is useful and you can recall it without typing everything again.

You may visit ChequeSystem Cheque Printing software and see how easy and simple to prepare a cheque.

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SIW is a system information tool that gathers extensive information about your system properties, hardware and settings.

SIW shows the details specification of your Hardware, includes: CPU, Memory, USB, Video Display Card, CD/DVD devices, etc. SIW also displays operating system, process and services running, product key and installed codes. More than that, It also has a real time monitors on your CPU, Memory and network traffic.

Other features include a MAC Address Changer, Neighborhood Scan, Ping, Trace, and report generator (HTML, CSV, TXT and XML).

SIW can be run without installation. It is extremely useful to have it in your USB thumb drive as one of your system maintenance tools.

SIW can be found in
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/SIW/siw.html

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1. Put your web address on all business letter, stationery, and promotional material.

2. Mention your web address in the voice mail box of your company.

3. Show your web address in the press releases and articles.

4. Add your web address in the email signature.

5. Mention your web address when you meet people and talk about your business.

6. Put web address in the staff name badges can give excellent visibility.

7. Show the web address on your company vehicle.

8. Include web address in the speaker introduction when you give a public speak in seminar or conference.

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Web developer needs to the build the web site/web application for different purpose. However, users may have different screen resolution. Web developer needs to test their web site and ensure they are working well for different screen resolution.

Resize Browser is a free utility that will resize your Internet browser window. You can use this utility to resize the browser without changing the resolution of your own screen. It resizes any browser window to 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768 or any custom size. You can verify your web site or web application works well at different screen resolutions. This utility also allows you to include/exclude the taskbar.

It suppors Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003.

The software can be found in following URL
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/resize/

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1. Have a Negative Keywords List
Use negative keywords so that your ad does not appear for search terms that are not relevant to you.

2. Pay Attention to Quality Score
Higher Quality Score gives you higher ranking with lower cost

3. Separate / Create Keyword Buckets for Each AdGroup
You can ensure that the text in every ads explicitly relates to the term searched.

4. Geo-Targeting
Identify the countries which are particularly important to your company. Build your ads and target to these countries.

5. Target on Conversion
You should target on conversion and not click-through rate.
Try to keep conversion numbers up and conversion costs down.

6. Track Your Account Performance by analyze statistics data
Using Google Analytics on your website. It helps you measure your ad performance and provides different performance indicator.

7. Create Multiple AdCopies and perform A/B test
Continual modifications will be required to ensure success.
Pay-Per-Click advertisement is a test and change iterative process.
You should keep revising your ad and see if the changes work.

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You may spend several hours a day in using computer to work, web surfing, communication, etc.
You need to take good measures to protect your eyes.

Here’re the few tips that you should pay attention to.

1. Keep your screen clean and free of dust and fingerprints.

2. Select a computer monitor with a larger and flat screen. Adjust the font size of the display if necessary.

3. Use an antiglare screen on your computer or relocate your machine to avoid glare.

4. The top of the monitor is at a level slightly below the horizontal eye level.

5. Take five minutes break every hour by looking away from the screen. Look at an object 20 feet or more away to relax your eye muscles .

6. If you need to type large amount of data into the computer, close your eyes to have a rest for few minutes. Blink your eyes regularly to avoid dryness and irritation.

7. Alternate your computer work with non-computer tasks to give your eyes a rest.

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