Website tips - ‘H’ tags
Posted on November 8, 2008
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When entering content into a website, it is imperative that content be organized, easily understandable and well displayed.
This is most often and easiest to accomplish using the H1, H2 etc. tags.
What are they?
‘H’ tags are used to promote and organize content. They are very helpful in content as they provide the user with text that stands out as title information for a webpage.
Think of ‘H’ tags as a way to outline webpage content.
When to use:
- H1 tags are used as a Heading. Each webpage should have only 1 heading.
Technical Coaching - Voice over IP
Posted on November 8, 2008
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Voice over IP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol or VoIP.
When people think of VoIP, they usually think of services like Vonage or their cable company. In fact, these companies usually advertise their services as “Broadband Phone Service”.
While these companies do offer VoIP services, we will be discussing services much simpler than full-fledged telephone service.
VoIP cab easily accomplished without subscribing to a service and without a specialized telephone or other equipment. Basic VoIP can be accomplished by an internet connected PC which contains a soundcard that supports a headset or microphone and speakers.
Tech tips - MS-Word templates
Posted on November 3, 2008
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If you’re like us, you have several documents that are used all the time as a starting point or template if you will.
Did you know that you can save those documents as a MS-Word template?
That way when you want to use one of your documents as a starting point you can select it from the ‘New from template’ MS-Word menu!
How? Simple…
- Open your document in word.
- Select ‘File’ ‘Save as’. You will get the ‘Save As’ window.
Tech tips - Keyboard shortcuts
Posted on November 2, 2008
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Here are quite a few keyboard shortcuts. They are specially useful to those of us that are ‘mouse challenged’ 
Ctrl B, Ctrl I, or Ctrl U apply bold, italics, or underline to highlighted text, respectively.
Ctrl P prints whatever is in an active window.
Ctrl Backspace erases an entire word at a time, instead of a letter. Ctrl up or down arrows let you scroll an entire paragraph at a time, instead of one line, and Ctrl Shift up or down arrow will select an entire paragraph.
Ctrl Enter inserts a page break in Word.
Tech tips - Help for all those ID’s and passwords!
Posted on November 2, 2008
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If you’re like us, you visit many websites and have several applications that require a user id and password.
It is quite a daunting task to keep track of all these id’s and passwords.
However, a company called FutureWare has an excellent product called KeyRing.
What key ring does, is allow you to store unlimited user id’s and passwords for any and every application. It can even launch the application or website.
It’s very easy to use, easy to learn and best of all it’s reasonably priced.
You can find it here:
http://www.futurewaredc.com/keyring/
