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Select multipe files by using check boxes
Select folder and search options from the organize pull down menu, check "use check boxes to select items" under the view tab. Makes your life often easier. You do not have to press the ctrl key as often, and it also works in several applications that refer to the file listing like ftp programs. We love that feature.
To easily copy a file's path to the clipboard right click it while pressing the shift key, select "copy as path"
Save time entering web addresses in a browser. Type it without the http://www prefix and the .com suffix, simply type the basic name and press CTRL-ENTER.
Windows will complete the address.
What is thumbs.db ?
The thumbs.db file is generated by the Windows operating system when you view a folder in "thumbnail" view .
You can delete them without any problem.
To turn off this feature
Click the Start button
Select Control Panel
Select Folder Options
Click the View tab
Check "Do not cache thumbnails".
click OK
Recycle Bin : Dump the ‘Are You Sure?’ warning
Right-click the
Recycle Bin, select Properties, and uncheck
"Display delete confirmation dialog".
Remove Unsolicited Junk From Your Context Menus
Put a Show Destop ison onto your taskbar
Right-click the Taskbar > Toolbars > check Quick Launch. Ready.
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,104940,00.asp
is a PC World article about fixing serious flaws , Sept. 13. 2002.
Quickly and easily replace the dangerous
Windows XP file
that facilitates malicious deletion of entire file directories: http://grc.com/xpdite/xpdite.htm
Word 2007
You can put hyperlinks into word documents to jump to bookmarks in the same or even to bookmarks in other documents. Click insert - bookmark, and insert - hyperlink.
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Your Own Instant Redirect Page
Here is the format to create your own Instant
Redirect Page:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=PUT YOUR URL HERE">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Replace PUT YOUR URL HERE with your URL. Be sure to
include http://
Important: Note that the initial quotation (") mark
in the meta tag is before the 0. There is no
quotation mark before the URL (i.e. index.shtml).
This meta refresh redirect page is useful if you need
to have files ending in .shtml (for Server Side Includes)
and if you want your home page to redirect to a script
or bulletin board, etc.
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Creating Doorway Pages for Search Engines
Once you have compiled a list of META TAG
key words that you want to use in your web
pages, you will want to consider creating
Doorway Pages for each key word or phrase.
A Doorway Page is a page that is optimized
for a particular search engine and for a
particular key word or phrase. The goal is
that this Doorway Page would rank high in
the Search Engines and then lead them into
your web site.
You will want to check out the competition
by selecting a search engine and then
searching using your selected key word(s).
What kind of results do you find? Are they
competitors of your web site? Write down
any ideas that may help you to optimize
your site.
Now you are ready to create your Doorway Page.
I recommend that you use WebPosition Gold to
help you create these pages. You may download
a free trial version of the software at....
http://andersoncreations.com/webposition
Web Position Gold will walk you step-by-step
through the process of creating your doorway
page WITHOUT spamming the search engine
Uses for Your Own Instant Redirect Page
What is an Instant Redirect Page (aka
Meta Refresh Page)? The easiest way to
answer this is to ask you a question.
Have you been to a web site where the
URL that you entered is immediately
appended with a longer URL? For example
you go to www.domain.com and end up at
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/myexamplefile/file.cgi.
This was most likely accomplished through
a META Refresh Page.
To see an example, visit
http://webtipsdigest.com
and you will be redirected to
http://www.webmaster-tips-weekly.com/webtips
Now, let us discuss some uses for this technique,
for your web site. (We will discuss the "how" next
week.)
Suggested Uses:
* You want to redirect your visitors to a
Special you are promoting
* Redirect to a Contest
* Make your bulletin board (which is only
accessed through a script) your home
page
* Advertise your ezine from a special page
* Allow 20 different home pages in use and
rotate them according to the day, your
promotion or your mood.
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Deborah Anderson, of AndersonCreations.com,
teaches web design and internet marketing in
addition to publishing Webmaster Tips Weekly.
Subscribe free by sending a blank email to
mailto:subscribe@webmaster-tips-weekly.com
http://webmaster-tips-weekly.com/webtips
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Modification Date on a web page
To automatically include the modification date on a Web page,
you can add this little piece of JavaScript code:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide from old browsers
document.write("Page last modified on "+document.lastModified);
// -->
</SCRIPT>
Instant Redirect Page
A way to do an Instant Redirect Page:
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
location.replace("PUT YOUR URL HERE");
// -->
</script>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=PUT YOUR URL HERE">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href="PUT YOUR URL HERE" target="_top">Click Here
to continue.</a></p>
</body>
</html>
This version requires placing the target URL in the document in
three places, but it has the following benefits:
1) If the user has a JavaScript-capable browser and JS is
enabled, the script rewrites the browser history, so if the
user hits his/her back button, s/he won't get stuck in a loop.
2) In non-JavaScript-enabled browsers, the meta refresh will
usually work.
3) In *REALLY* old browsers, or some of old-school geeks who
still use lynx when they're just looking for information, you
can fall back on the simple text link.
Do Not Use Image Maps
Do not use image maps on the home page of your Web site:
- Search engine spiders can not extract descriptive text for
their database.
- Visitors surfing without graphics may not be able to navigate
your site.
- Load time increases.
If you use graphical links, be sure to provide alternate text
navigation too.
Break Out of Frames
To automatically break out of frames, add this little script to
the BODY tag of a Web page:
onLoad="if (self != top) top.location = self.location"
For example:
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"
onLoad="if (self != top) top.location = self.location">
Create a toolbar for any folder on your PC.
You can create a toolbar for any folder on your PC.
1) Move you mouse pointer to a blank spot on the Windows Taskbar -
the grey bar between the Start button and the time. With the pointer resting
on a blank spot, right click one time. You'll get a menu. Point to the option
for Toolbars and you'll get another menu. In that menu click on New Toolbar.
2) A box appears now. The top line item says Choose a Folder or Type an
Internet address. Click inside that box and type My Documents. You could
also click in the larger box below on the plus sign before C: and when the
C: tree expands click on My Documents there.
3) Click the OK button and the box closes. If you look at the Windows T
askbar now you'll see the beginning of your My Documents toolbar. You
should also see a ruled line dividing the My Documents toolbar from the rest
of your Taskbar items.
4) To make the My Documents toolbar a separate toolbar from the Taskbar,
point your mouse cursor after the ruler and by My Documents and hold down
the left mouse button. Your cursor changes to a four pointed arrow. Holding
the mouse button down, drag the My Documents toolbar off the Taskbar and
to the top of your screen and let go. You should see the grey bar back again
with your My Documents folder. Just to let you know, you could have also
dragged it to the left or right side of your screen. Your toolbars can be
on any of the four sides.
5) Now that the toolbar is back let's check to make sure the Always on Top
setting is turned off. Point your mouse cursor on a blank area of the My
Documents toolbar and right click. In the menu that pops up look for Always
on Top. If there is a checkmark in front of that, then click Always on Top.
This will turn it off. If there isn't a checkmark in front of Always on
Top, then the option is already turned off.
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