Free Websites For Healers: One Woman’s Thank YouWritten by Brenda Hayes
It was on night of December 24, 2001 when Maggie Wahls realized she could stand up for first time in over a year. Maggie had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and had become an invalid in 2000. Her doctors thought it might have been from a deer tick bite and complication of Lyme Disease. Maggie was committed to finding a cure for her disease that traditional doctors could not help her overcome. So she searched Internet contacting anyone she found who might offer some kind of healing for free. Maggie had faith healers praying for her and Swamis sending her holy cards. She took many courses in attitude adjustment and how to use emotions to cure your illnesses. She made many friends in healing community as well as learning about over 100 methodologies available in alternative healing. But finally, whether through efforts of her Reiki Master Teacher or just combined efforts of everyone who knew her and loved her, she stood up on that Christmas Eve and felt no pain whatsoever, to this day. In an effort to thank all those who helped her and also to show world that there is healing beyond physician’s office, Maggie began creating websites for healers with no cost to them whatsoever. She has a website at www.magnoliaz.flashbuilder.net and any healer in any modality can go there and fill in simple form to give Maggie information she needs to create a beautiful 8 page website. Some website designers have considered her unjust competition until Maggie explains her mission is to give every healer in world a website of their own. She feels it is absolutely necessary so that people like herself can find these healers and get healing that they need. It is a big project. So far Maggie has created over 100 websites without charge. She does accept donations to help defray costs but all she has on her site is a Paypal donation button to that end. She has backing and support of folks at flashbuilder which provide her with free domain names and free hosting for these healing sites. And Maggie has a knack for creating beautiful websites that are interesting and seem to exude some healing effect on those who visit them.
| | Are you cross-browser compatible?Written by Matt Benya
The question of cross browser compatibility is a common topic among Web developers. Should you or should you not make your website cross-browser accommodating? The answer is yes and especially if you are an e-business. As Ripley would say, "believe it or not" but at time of this article slightly more than 20% of Internet users use a browser other than IE. This information comes from W3Schools.com, which has been keeping tabs on browser usage since January 2002. How do you shape up? Use of alternative browsers has only been going up, they are no longer a niche community made up of "techies" and anti-Microsoft advocates, they are your everyday user, your potential customers.If you haven't done so already I would suggest that you look at your website in some of other common browsers available. These include: Mozilla: This is currently top browser after IE6 and it is one of most feature rich browsers available today. I would personally suggest looking into Firefox Mozilla's next generation browser as apposed to entire Mozilla suite due to its end users friendliness and feature rich environment. Opera: The Opera browser has been making its way up competitive ladder of browser arena since 2000 when Opera Software ASA released Opera 5. Though it is free to download and use if you want to access some of browser's features you are required to pay a small registration fee. Netscape: Since Netscape provided code base for Mozilla in 1998 when they made source code for their flag ship product Netscape Communicator open-source there is little difference between two browsers. Still it never hurts to see how things shape up between two, and since they are ultimately two different browsers checking with them both is not a bad idea. Additionally there are programs available that can test your site for you in different browsers and screen resolutions and return their findings. One such program is Browser Photo from NetMechanic. What can you do? Okay so lets say that our site www.ihaveanerror.com comes up with a couple of errors that cause it to render incorrectly when we look at it in some of alternative browsers. How are we going to fix problem? Well first thing we want to do is stay away from any propriety tags a certain browser type might offer. These tags will only work properly in browser they are designed for and may cause trouble for you in others. An example of a proprietary tag would be <marquee> in Internet Explorer.
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