Everyone has a website these days, but every website is not attractive? Why is it so? All websites have typical website structure, yet fail miserably in terms of appeal and level of interest grabbing. Have you ever thought why some websites simply put you off and you never want to get back to it? Here are some reasons what makes a website draw thumbs down.
Poor Layout
Foremost reason for a website to fall flat on its face is its poorly designed layout. A poorly designed layout may not only appear bad, but also lack proper user friendly structure, legibility. Many people try to save little amount of money by putting all information in a page and cluttering the webpage to the maximum level. Such layouts ask reader to scroll down and find entire information; which is highly annoying for the reader. It looks like a novel, especially when the content is long.
Poor color combination
It’s often seen that few websites consist of bright and warm colors just for the sake of drawing attention. Such color schemes like warm red with bright yellow may surely draw initial attention, but will immediately put off a reader. He may get a headache too if exposed to such colors for long and soon leave the website. Play safe with colors, know which colors are complimentary and most importantly do justice to the website or brand. Suppose it’s a pharmaceutical company’s website, you can’t afford to keep it flashy red. If you have a corporate color you may use the same, to build your brand identity on web.
Poor content
Often people think writing is a job that anyone can do and they themselves try writing, while abandoning the entire purpose of the website. Even if it costs to you, make sure you get the web content written by some expert. Make several tabs for content under different headers and make sure it’s not too lengthy. Crisp, simple yet interesting text always works. Make sure you don’t go abstract in your communication and people can easily locate your purpose behind the communication.
Complex URL
Several times people think of a complex name for their website or end up choosing a rare URL for unavailability of the simple ones. Instead of going for a real rare and complex name choose a simple and easy to remember name with .ORG or .NET or .UK and the like for availability sake. An easy URL is not only remembered but also talked about and passed on from one person to another.
Keep these faults in mind, and you will never end up making the same mistake like those not so good websites.
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Television is definitely a good medium of infotainment, but when it’s watched more than normal limit it often becomes an addiction. Television addiction is extremely harmful. Apparently it may seem to be harmless and entertaining, but it’s like a slow poison which is unconsciously bringing much loss to you. Its addiction may make you lazy, inactive; cause muscle sprain, headache, back ache, eyesight damage, mental depression, unwillingness to mix up with people and many other illness. Television is a good medium as long as you watch it for some time and don’t make it an addiction.
Here are some tips about minimizing television watching and not making it an addiction.
Calculate how many hours you can invest in it
Don’t watch television unconsciously, without worrying about time invested in it. If you don’t have any specific serious purpose like educational purpose or research intention for watching television, calculate how much time you can devote in a day for television watching. Remember, the time gone in television watching casually won’t come back to you and you could do much useful work in that time. Knowing what you wish to watch, fix the hours you can invest in this medium watching. Make sure you adhere to it and don’t extend it by anyhow.
Shortlist programs of your wish list
Don’t watch television casually, unconsciously watching whatever is displayed on screen. Such practice leads to addiction to the medium, if not specific programs. Rather shortlist few good television shows of your choice and watch them only. Know their time of telecast. Such program will make you start television only at the time of the show and close it immediately after it’s over.
Skip it at times
To genuinely overcome your television addiction, skip your favorite television show at times. Replace television watching habit with something else like – book reading, going for a walk, playing sports, gardening, playing with pets, cooking etc. This is a practice to ensure that television watching is something you like to do but not become obsessed with. It will slowly make you feel comfortable even when you miss your favorite programs. Soon you will find television watching doesn’t matter much to you.
Don’t fantasize about your favorite show
Often young viewers start fantasizing about their favorite television show, its characters and think about them all day along, even after the show is over. They talk about the same with friends, read about them on Internet and even watch video. Such practice is none other than addiction. Make sure you don’t dream about your favorite show. Treat it as a television show only.
Try these tips today.
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04 Jan 09 Playing multiple video formats in Windows
One of the most frustrating experiences for anyone using a computer is not being able to find out what to do after downloading a file. How many times have you encountered a situation where you know that you downloaded a video file or you are opening a website where you should be able to watch a clip but ended up staring at a blank screen instead? Some of us may have also experienced trying to watch a DVD on the computer and then receiving a cryptic message that a codec is required to watch it. The reason for this is most undeniably the format of the movie you are trying to watch. So how do we watch videos without the headache and heartache?
What we need is a codec. Codec is an amalgamation of two words: coder and decoder. A codec is used to either encode or decode a particular file. Video file formats are encoded in different formats to address various needs and a codec is used in creating those files and later on, decoding them. Some video formats allow for a more secure file. They are usually used for videos that are being sold commercially on the internet so that only those with the required license will be able to watch the video. Other video formats are used for compressing the videos so that the size of the video will be small enough for easy transmission over the internet. Finally, some video formats are used to stream the video to your browser as opposed to downloading them to your computer in one file.
One of the most popular video formats on the internet is the Flash format. The flash format is usually used by websites that stream the videos to your browser. Some examples of these sites are YouTube, DailyMotion, and Multiply. To play these videos, we need to install Adobe Flash onto the computer. Adobe Flash Player is available for free from www.adobe.com.
How about videos that we’ve snapped up using our cellphones or perhaps our digital cameras? These videos are usually encoded in 3gp or mp4(H.264) formats. While some videos that can be downloaded from the internet are in xvid(avi), mkv(matroska) or divx(avi) formats. Other websites would encode their videos in rmv(real video) or qt(quicktime) formats as well. So how do we open this confusing mix of codecs and how should we know which one to use to open them? Does it mean that we need to download a separate player for each of these videos? Well, you could do that, or an easier alternative would be to download a player that can play all the formats mentioned.
Codec packs are usually included with some of the free multiformat video players on the internet. Codec packs are bundles of codecs that are installed on your computer so that you can play any movie format concievable. Two of the most popular players that have these codec packs are VLC Player and Media Player Classic. VLC Player can be downloaded from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ while Media Player Classic can be downloaded as part of the K-Lite Codec pack at: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_lite_codec_pack.htm .
Once you have installed these programs, you’d be hard-pressed to find a video you are unable to play. So sit back and relax; enjoy the movie.
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