Internet: The Internet And Responsibility

The Internet And Responsibility

Written by Richard Lowe

Many years ago, when I was a young lad, a wise man gave me repparttar

best advice that anyone has ever given. "Richard", he told me, "Never lose your integrity." I've followed that advice all of my life, and it has served me better than just about anything else. Here on repparttar 118880

internet, we webmasters have a substantial amount of power. Because of that power, we also carry a burden of responsibility.

My wife has been very sick for several years. In fact, four years ago she went into a coma for 5 days and came within seconds of dying. It's a major league miracle that she survived. Her recovery has been tough on her, both because of pain and because she has trouble leaving repparttar 118881 house. In order to make things more tolerable for her, I gave her all of repparttar 118882 tools she needed to become a webmaster along with some training and help.

Now she has become a very good webmaster. She has created a site about how she survived asthma (http://www.survivingasthma.com) and another about how she survived diabetes (http://www.survivingdiabetes.com). These sites explain her experiences, give some advice from her heart and attempt to give people hope.

Recently, she got an email from someone who just stumbled across her site and was greatly moved. In fact, that person had been contemplating suicide, read her site, and decided to live. Another person was able to get help based upon my wife's advice. Many others have sent in emails explaining how their lives were changed or in a few cases even saved.

Things Newbies Need To Know

Written by Richard Lowe

Be Cautious - Be cautious about anything you read on repparttar

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"fantastic" money making opportunities and so forth. When I was a newbie, I fell for repparttar 118882

Don Lapre 900 number scam, lost $700, but learned my lesson. You need to understand there is no free lunch, no quick get rich scheme and no one tells you how to make a million for a hundred bucks.

Don't use a debit card on repparttar 118883 internet - debit cards are attached directly to a checking account. If there is fraud, why not let it be repparttar 118884 banks money (with a credit card) instead of your own money (with a debit card) that's at risk.

Learn to design - Take a web class on web design before you learn HTML or any other language. Design is much more important and significant than code.

See "A well designed site is a pleasure and a money maker" - http://www.internet-tips.net/Webmaster/design.htm

Choose your domain registrar wisely - There are hundreds of companies that will register your domains. Take your time, read some reviews and choose a registrar that gives you a good price, excellent features and that you feel comfortable with. To register a domain, you should expect to pay less than $10 per year and you should have a web-account to be able to make changes at will. Remember, in repparttar 118885 case of domain registrars repparttar 118886 biggest and most well known is not repparttar 118887 best by any means.

Practice safe computing - Install a hardware firewall appliance to protect your home computer; Install an anti-virus program and keep repparttar 118888 definitions up-to-date on a weekly basis; Program your spam filters to block all executable attachments; And, most importantly, backup, backup and backup (and test your backups to be sure they work).

See "Backing up your system is an essential part of your security scheme" - http://www.internet-tips.net/Security/Backups.htm

Never, ever spam anyone - It might seem attractive to send out a newsletter to a hundred people who don't know you from Adam, but don't do it. And, of course, those 200-million email address CDroms are to be avoided at all costs.

Teach your kids about repparttar 118889 dangers of repparttar 118890 internet - If you have children this is a must. Tell them about repparttar 118891 dangers of chat rooms and strangers. Inform them that things are not always what they seem. And watch everything they do while on repparttar 118892 computer.

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