The dream I nearly gave up ......Written by Nicholas Dixon
======================================== Special Requirements For Reprint: Article may be freely reprinted in your ezine, in your e-book and/or on your web site with authors resource box included and without any changes. ========================================Hello again to you my loyal readers.My very first article which I published sometime last year dealt with topic of positive thinking and success.Today I am going to talk to you about your dreams and what they mean to your life's purpose.I am going to give you a glimpse into my life and how before-mentioned topic relates to me. In year 2000 , I suddenly had this crazy idea that I was going to learn to build websites.The idea just sprang “out of blue” and I did not know a single thing about what I was getting into.Somehow I got money to pay for web design course that I needed to do , and three months later I finished course and my first website (determination). During this period of time , I was laughed at and ridiculed by some of my co-workers who thought that my new field of endeavor was a crackpot.I even gave up on myself for a few months just to ease tension and to avert criticisms.Eventually , I came around to and decided that I was going to do it and follow things through no matter what (courage). For period of three years , I marketed my website ( without a computer of my own) from obscurity to top of search engines.You may be asking yourself , “how did he do it “ ? I spent my lunch hour (most of it !!) and any free time that I got to work on it , day after day without any visible signs of progress (persistence).
| | Do your images slow down your site?Written by Dianne Reuby
You can make your pages load more quickly by making sure you include height and width attribute in all your image tags, like this: picture">
Now browser knows exactly how much space to leave when drawing page on screen. If a page has several graphics, and you don't specify their size, browser will download page, then pictures. Now what? It discovers it hasn't left enough room for picture number one, so it has to re-draw page on screen. Next picture - same problem! Another page re-draw. And so on, right through your page. Any visitors on a slow connection, or with a slower PC, may simply give up and move on to another site. What does that "alt" attribute do? If you put your cursor over a picture and leave it there for a moment, you'll see contents of "alt" attribute that webmaster has used for this picture. It's handy for giving visitors information such as "Click to go to ..." or "Download here".
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