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TEN Mistakes in Web Design


1. Bad Search

Overly literal search engines reduce usability in that they're unable to handle typos, plurals, hyphens, and other variants of the query terms. Such search engines are particularly difficult for elderly users, but they hurt everybody.

A related problem is when search engines prioritize results purely on the basis of how many query terms they contain, rather than on each document's importance. Much better if your search engine calls out "best bets" at the top of the list -- especially for important queries, such as the names of your products.

Search is the user's lifeline when navigation fails. Even though advanced search can sometimes help, simple search usually works best, and search should be presented as a simple box, since that's what users are looking for.


2. PDF Files for Online Reading

Users hate coming across a PDF file while browsing, because it breaks their flow. Even simple things like printing or saving documents are difficult because standard browser commands don't work. Layouts are often optimized for a sheet of paper, which rarely matches the size of the user's browser window. Bye-bye smooth scrolling. Hello tiny fonts.

Worst of all, PDF is an undifferentiated blob of content that's hard to navigate.

PDF is great for printing and for distributing manuals and other big documents that need to be printed. Reserve it for this purpose and convert any information that needs to be browsed or read on the screen into real web pages.

3. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links

A good grasp of past navigation helps you understand your current location, since it's the culmination of your journey. Knowing your past and present locations in turn makes it easier to decide where to go next. Links are a key factor in this navigation process. Users can exclude links that proved fruitless in their earlier visits. Conversely, they might revisit links they found helpful in the past.

Most important, knowing which pages they've already visited frees users from unintentionally revisiting the same pages over and over again.

These benefits only accrue under one important assumption: that users can tell the difference between visited and unvisited links because the site shows them in different colors. When visited links don't change color, users exhibit more navigational disorientation in usability testing and unintentionally revisit the same pages repeatedly.

4. Non-Scannable Text

A wall of text is deadly for an interactive experience. Intimidating. Boring. Painful to read.

Write for online, not print. To draw users into the text and support scannability, use well-documented tricks:

* subheads
* bulleted lists
* highlighted keywords
* short paragraphs
* the inverted pyramid
* a simple writing style, and
* de-fluffed language devoid of marketese.

5. Fixed Font Size

CSS style sheets unfortunately give websites the power to disable a Web browser's "change font size" button and specify a fixed font size. About 95% of the time, this fixed size is tiny, reducing readability significantly for most people over the age of 40.

Respect the user's preferences and let them resize text as needed. Also, specify font sizes in relative terms -- not as an absolute number of pixels.

6. Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility

Search is the most important way users discover websites. Search is also one of the most important ways users find their way around individual websites. The humble page title is your main tool to attract new visitors from search listings and to help your existing users to locate the specific pages that they need.

The page title is contained within the HTML

Page titles are also used as the default entry in the Favorites when users bookmark a site. For your homepage, begin the with the company name, followed by a brief description of the site. Don't start with words like "The" or "Welcome to" unless you want to be alphabetized under "T" or "W."

For other pages than the homepage, start the title with a few of the most salient information-carrying words that describe the specifics of what users will find on that page. Since the page title is used as the window title in the browser, it's also used as the label for that window in the taskbar under Windows, meaning that advanced users will move between multiple windows under the guidance of the first one or two words of each page title. If all your page titles start with the same words, you have severely reduced usability for your multi-windowing users.

7. Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement

Selective attention is very powerful, and Web users have learned to stop paying attention to any ads that get in the way of their goal-driven navigation. (The main exception being text-only search-engine ads.)

Unfortunately, users also ignore legitimate design elements that look like prevalent forms of advertising. After all, when you ignore something, you don't study it in detail to find out what it is.

Therefore, it is best to avoid any designs that look like advertisements. The exact implications of this guideline will vary with new forms of ads; currently follow these rules:

banner blindness means that users never fixate their eyes on anything that looks like a banner ad due to shape or position on the page

animation avoidance makes users ignore areas with blinking or flashing text or other aggressive animations

pop-up purges mean that users close pop-up windoids before they have even fully rendered; sometimes with great viciousness

Taglines on homepages are a related subject: they also need to be short and quickly communicate the purpose of the site.

8. Violating Design Conventions

Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience. Every time you release an apple over Sir Isaac Newton, it will drop on his head. That's good.

The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it. And the more the system breaks users' expectations, the more they will feel insecure. Oops, maybe if I let go of this apple, it will turn into a tomato and jump a mile into the sky.

Jakob's Law of the Web User Experience states that "users spend most of their time on other websites."

This means that they form their expectations for your site based on what's commonly done on most other sites. If you deviate, your site will be harder to use and users will leave.

9. Opening New Browser Windows

Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer's carpet. Don't pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management).

Designers open new browser windows on the theory that it keeps users on their site. But even disregarding the user-hostile message implied in taking over the user's machine, the strategy is self-defeating since it disables the Back button which is the normal way users return to previous sites. Users often don't notice that a new window has opened, especially if they are using a small monitor where the windows are maximized to fill up the screen. So a user who tries to return to the origin will be confused by a grayed out Back button.

Links that don't behave as expected undermine users' understanding of their own system. A link should be a simple hypertext reference that replaces the current page with new content. Users hate unwarranted pop-up windows. When they want the destination to appear in a new page, they can use their browser's "open in new window" command -- assuming, of course, that the link is not a piece of code that interferes with the browser’s standard behavior.

10. Not Answering Users' Questions

Users are highly goal-driven on the Web. They visit sites because there's something they want to accomplish -- maybe even buy your product. The ultimate failure of a website is to fail to provide the information users are looking for.

Sometimes the answer is simply not there and you lose the sale because users have to assume that your product or service doesn't meet their needs if you don't tell them the specifics. Other times the specifics are buried under a thick layer of marketese and bland slogans. Since users don't have time to read everything, such hidden info might almost as well not be there.

The worst example of not answering users' questions is to avoid listing the price of products and services. No B2C ecommerce site would make this mistake, but it's rife in B2B, where most "enterprise solutions" are presented so that you can't tell whether they are suited for 100 people or 100,000 people. Price is the most specific piece of info customers use to understand the nature of an offering, and not providing it makes people feel lost and reduces their understanding of a product line. We have miles of videotape of users asking "Where's the price?" while tearing their hair out.

Even B2C sites often make the associated mistake of forgetting prices in product lists, such as category pages or search results. Knowing the price is key in both situations; it lets users differentiate among products and click through to the most relevant ones.

Copyright: Jakob Nielsen's

U KNOW : Newton’s Color Theory

Newton’s theory of color was that the sun’s light, or any other white light, was a mixture of raysof light, each with its own refrangibility, by which he meant characteristic angle of refraction in aprism. “Homogeneal” light (which modern writers would call monochromatic) would always bend at its characteristic angle in a prism, but the “differently refrangible” rays that make up white light are separated out into the rainbow by refracting to different degrees in the prism.

This certainly is consistent with what we see when we put white light into a prism at just the right angle: the spectrum forms at a predictable angle, with its red end bending least from the path the light was taking before entering the prism, and the violet, the least. In our lab, we setup an optical bench where we used a bright line light to simulate the sun coming through Newton’s window “shut”, made the rays parallel with a collimating lens, shined it on a prism, then focused the spectrum (using a lens) on a little screen.

However, at the time Newton was working on his “Opticks” experiments, there were other explanations being proffered as to how the prism produced the rainbow. Hooke, for example, thought that white light was simple (presumably uniform, or pure) and that the prism somehow brought the colors into being by “distorting” the simple white light. Just by looking at the spectrum, we can’t distinguish which of these two explanations is closest to the truth.

In addition to producing the spectrum on the optical bench, we simulated Newton’s two-prism experiment, and directed the spectrum into a second prism, which turned the mixed light white.

Newton’s theory explains this result by saying that the second prism is recombining the separate rays so that they get to the observer’s eye mixed together in the way that we perceive as white. Also, according to Newton’s theory, we should only see the recombined light as white if all the parts of the spectrum are mixed together. When we inserted a little post in the spectrum so that the part of it falling on the post was not entered into the mix at the second prism, the recombined light was a color, not white. For example, if we blocked the middle part of the spectrum (the green) with the post, the recombined light was magenta! In fact, all of modern color mixing theory could be demonstrated this way.

Newton said that “homogeneal” (monochromatic, in modern terms) light is not changed by passage through a prism or lens, or by reflection off a mirror. For example, when we put a green filter in the path of the light, the screen was dark where the red and blue light of the spectrum had been, and bright green just in the narrow middle. This is consistent with Newton’s claim.

Newton said that white, black, and all the grays in between, were compounded of all the colors of the spectrum, mixed “in due proportion.” I would restate that as meaning “in equal amounts”.

When we placed a gray item in the spectrum, it reflected all the colors of the spectrum, albeit less brightly than the white background. Even something we would call black reflected uniformly across the spectrum, just not very much. In fact, as our instructor showed us, a “true” black, which does not reflect any of the light falling on it, is hard to come by. She made a small hole in a piece of “black” construction paper, and used that as a window into a box. The hole was much blacker than the construction paper. Even the truly black object is on the same scale as white and gray, since it reflects uniformly across the spectrum, except that the amount of reflection for all parts of the spectrum is zero.

Newton thought that colors were a sensory experience, rather than a property of light. Insofar as the light had a physical property, it was the refrangibility of the ray, which we saw remained constant whether the color was “made” by a filter or by the prism. Lights of different refrangibility tend to cause us to experience different colors. (So far as I know, Newton made no claim as to how the light caused the sensation, or whether this had anything to do with refrangibility.) The property of objects, on the other hand, which causes us to call them colored, is their propensity to reflect this or that part of the spectrum more than another. This claim predicts that a colored object only reflects certain parts of the spectrum, and when placed in the spectrum, should either look the same color as the part of the spectrum shining on it, or black. If you can make a bright spectrum in a dark room, you can test this. We put variously colored objects into the different parts of the spectrum, and all of them either were the same color as that part of the spectrum shining on the white background, or were dark. For example, a saturated red object reflected the red part of the spectrum very strongly, but was dark everywhere else.

Orange objects strongly reflected the red, orange, and yellow part of the spectrum, but were dark elsewhere, and so on.

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I PREFER TABLESS LAYOUT

Because:

• Main
  (X)HTML says; tables are for tabular data not for website-layout
• Speed
  Tables have much design code than content, divs are faster for download. Save bandwidth!
• Usability
  Tables let confusing while creating layout(You have to remember which TR or TD ends in which template file)
• Debug
  Debug is easier with CSS, mostly all design code is in one css file
• Update
  Change design anytime just using css-style files without need to touch template files
• Overview
  With CSS you can separate design from code.
• Cache
  Most CMS support cache for CSS. Less work for server-cpu and more speed for visitors.
• Print
  Printing pages in css-layout are easier than pages with tables
• Position
  Absolute or fixed positioning is not avaliable for table-cells.
• Priority
  With tables you cannot set priority of content. (Browsers scan from top to bottom)
• Access
  Disabled people who surf with help of special devices cannot get the content of pages with tables in the right order.

About Alcohal : YOU MUST HAVE TO READ.....


Getting the Facts

Just about everyone knows that the legal drinking age throughout the India is 25. But according to acorrding to my knowledge, almost 80% of high school students have tried alcohol.

Deciding whether to drink is a personal decision that we each eventually have to make. This thoughts provides some information on alcohol, including how it affects your body, so you can make an educated choice.


What is ALCOHAL?

Alcohol is created when grains, fruits, or vegetables are fermented. Fermentation is a process that uses yeast or bacteria to change the sugars in the food into alcohol. Fermentation is used to produce many necessary items — everything from cheese to medications. Alcohol has different forms and can be used as a cleaner, an antiseptic, or a sedative.

So if alcohol is a natural product, why do teens need to be concerned about drinking it? When people drink alcohol, it's absorbed into their bloodstream. From there, it affects the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), which controls virtually all body functions. Because experts now know that the human brain is still developing during our teens, scientists are researching the effects drinking alcohol can have on the teen brain.

How Does It Affect the Body?

Alcohol is a depressant, which means it slows the function of the central nervous system. Alcohol actually blocks some of the messages trying to get to the brain. This alters a person's perceptions, emotions, movement, vision, and hearing.

In very small amounts, alcohol can help a person feel more relaxed or less anxious. More alcohol causes greater changes in the brain, resulting in intoxication. People who have overused alcohol may stagger, lose their coordination, and slur their speech. They will probably be confused and disoriented. Depending on the person, intoxication can make someone very friendly and talkative or very aggressive and angry. Reaction times are slowed dramatically — which is why people are told not to drink and drive. People who are intoxicated may think they're moving properly when they're not. They may act totally out of character.

When large amounts of alcohol are consumed in a short period of time, alcohol poisoning can result. Alcohol poisoning is exactly what it sounds like — the body has become poisoned by large amounts of alcohol. Violent vomiting is usually the first symptom of alcohol poisoning. Extreme sleepiness, unconsciousness, difficulty breathing, dangerously low blood sugar, seizures, and even death may result.

Why Do Teens Drink?

Experimentation with alcohol during the teen years is common. Some reasons that teens use alcohol and other drugs are:

* curiosity
* to feel good, reduce stress, and relax
* to fit in
* to feel older

From a very young age, kids see advertising messages showing beautiful people enjoying life and alcohol. And because many parents and other adults use alcohol socially having beer or wine with dinner.

Why Shouldn't I Drink?

Although it's illegal to buy alcohol in India until the age of 25, most teens can get access to it. It's therefore up to you to make a decision about drinking. In addition to the possibility of becoming addicted, there are some downsides to drinking:

The punishment is severe. Teens who drink put themselves at risk for obvious problems with the law (it's illegal; you can get arrested). Teens who drink are also more likely to get into fights and commit crimes than those who don't.

People who drink regularly also often have problems with school. Drinking can damage a student's ability to study well and get decent grades, as well as affect sports performance (the coordination thing).

You can look really stupid. The impression is that drinking is cool, but the nervous system changes that come from drinking alcohol can make people do stupid or embarrassing things, like throwing up or peeing on themselves. Drinking also gives people bad breath, and no one enjoys a hangover.

Alcohol puts your health at risk. Teens who drink are more likely to be sexually active and to have unsafe, unprotected sex. Resulting pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases can change or even end lives. The risk of injuring yourself, maybe even fatally, is higher when you're under the influence, too. One half of all drowning deaths among teen guys are related to alcohol use. Use of alcohol greatly increases the chance that a teen will be involved in a car crash, homicide, or suicide.

Teen drinkers are more likely to get fat or have health problems, too.


How Can I Avoid Drinking?

If all your friends drink and you don't want to, it can be hard to say "no, thanks." No one wants to risk feeling rejected or left out. Different strategies for turning down alcohol work for different people. Some people find it helps to say no without giving an explanation, others think offering their reasons works better ("I'm not into drinking," "I have a game tomorrow," or "my uncle died from drinking," for example).

If saying no to alcohol makes you feel uncomfortable in front of people you know, blame your parents or another adult for your refusal. Saying, "My parents are coming to pick me up soon," "I already got in major trouble for drinking once, I can't do it again," or "my coach would kill me," can make saying no a bit easier for some.

If you're going to a party and you know there will be alcohol, plan your strategy in advance. You and a friend can develop a signal for when it's time to leave, for example. You can also make sure that you have plans to do something besides just hanging out in someone's basement drinking beer all night. Plan a trip to the movies, the mall, a concert, or a sports event. You might also organize your friends into a volleyball, bowling, or softball team — any activity that gets you moving.

Girls or guys who have strong self-esteem are less likely to become problem drinkers than people with low self-esteem.

Where Can I Get Help?

If you think you have a drinking problem, get help as soon as possible. The best approach is to talk to an adult you trust. If you can't approach your parents, talk to your doctor, school counselor, clergy member, aunt, or uncle. It can be hard for some people to talk to adults about these issues, but a supportive person in a position to help can refer students to a drug and alcohol counselor for evaluation and treatment.

In some states, this treatment is completely confidential. After assessing a teen's problem, a counselor may recommend a brief stay in rehab or outpatient treatment. These treatment centers help a person gradually overcome the physical and psychological dependence on alcohol.

What If I'm Concerned About Someone Else's Drinking?

Sometimes people live in homes where a parent or other family member drinks too much. This may make you angry, scared, and depressed. Many people can't control their drinking without help. This doesn't mean that they love or care about you any less. Alcoholism is an illness that needs to be treated just like other illnesses.

People with drinking problems can't stop drinking until they are ready to admit they have a problem and get help. This can leave family members and loved ones feeling helpless. The good news is there are many places to turn for help: a supportive adult, such as your guidance counselor, or a relative or older sibling will understand what you're going through. Also, professional organizations like Alateen can help.

If you have a friend whose drinking concerns you, make sure he or she stays safe. Don't let your friend drink and drive, for example. If you can, try to keep friends who have been drinking from doing anything dangerous, such as trying to walk home at night alone or starting a fight. And protect yourself, too. Don't get in a car with someone who's been drinking, even if that person is your ride home. Ask a sober adult to drive you instead or call a cab.

Everyone makes decisions about whether to drink and how much — even adults. It's possible to enjoy a party or other event just as much, if not more so, when you don't drink. And with your central nervous system working as it's supposed to, you'll remember more about the great time you had!

Search Engine Optimization & Submission

Search engine optimization is the art of placing your website in the first few pages of a search engine for a defined set of keywords. Search engine optimization leads to an increase in targeted traffic to your website thus resulting in more leads and sales. Research shows that 90% of internet traffic comes from search engines. But if your site is not ranked high enough on the search engines none of that traffic will come to you. Worse, it might all go to your competitors. We are a leader in search engine optimization & promotion and assures you complete satisfaction. You can avail our search engine optimization, search engine submission, search engine promotion at competitive prices. We do not use software programs like most companies to create the content rich pages. We do all the creation work and submission work manually by hand. This makes a big difference when the search engines index our work and helps to develop top search engine placement. Optimizing your page will save you money that you would need to spend on advertising otherwise. Global Solution's SEO experts know how to improve your search engine ranking and placement. Using innovative and widely accepted Search Engine Optimization techniques, we produce a risk free search engine marketing campaign that creates more top rankings than any other search engine optimization company.

Why Search Engine Optimization

* Search engine optimization is a long term and permanent answer to your traffic woes. Once a website has been optimized for search engines it can stay at the top for long periods of time.
* Major search engines command over 600 million searches everyday, day after day. Search engine optimization helps you get this, which you might be losing otherwise to your competition.
* Search engine optimization results in huge savings on ad-spent using traditional channels of marketing.
* Search engine optimization offers a much better return on investment compared to banner campaigns or pay per click campaigns.

Search Engine Optimization Services

Global Solutions is a India based search engine optimization firm. Our clients hold top rankings for keywords in various fields like aviation, diamond, jewelery, travel, exporters etc. We offer comprehensive search engine optimization programs, which include:

* Website Review
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Best Way For Flash Website Optimization

Software,Website Design,Website Promotion Optimizing flash websites is not easy. It requires more time and efforts to optimize a flash site rather than a simple HTML site.Here are some tips that will help you flash website optimization.When the flash site is in designing and development stages, then it becomes necessary for web designer to use a trick, which disables the browsers BACK button. This doesn’t mean that Back button needs to be disabled. Simply you have to apply a trick, which prevents your site from being viewed from beginning when one clicks the back button. Make use of something like meta fresh.Use CSS element, which is used in Javascript to allow the web browsers to display and view flash websites. This will also help in eliminating the ranking disadvantages associated with Flash websites.In a flash website, it is essential to insert the text within NOEMBED tag and NOFRAMES tag.Usually, it is suggested not to go in for “all flash” approach. Create HTML version for the site (a distinct page for every site). This will help the spiders in indexing the site and site will gain visibility.Make use of SDK tool, swf2html for extracting the text from flash files and converting them into a simple HTML document.Create meta descriptions for each page.Check for the navigational links and see that the flash links point to other HTML pages.Don’t have a clumsy web design for your website. This will create more complications on the website.On your website provide the visitors with the option to skip the animations and sound. This will make the site completely user friendly.Test your site on different browsers including WAP enabled phones. See that they work well on all.To get the right flash website designed and developedhire an experienced web designing company or an interactive design company.

15 Top Windows XP Secrets:

1. Useful key shortcuts available:

- Windows key + D - shows the desktop
- Windows key + M - minimizes all open windows
- Windows key + Shift + M - maximizes whole enchilada open windows
- Windows key + E - Runs Windows Explorer
- Windows key + R - shows the RUN dialog
- Windows key + F - shows Search window
- Windows key + Break - shows System Properties box
- Windows key + TAB - Go fini taskbar applications


- Windows key + PAUSE Display the System Properties dialog box
- Windows key + U Unlatched Lift Executive
- ALT + TAB - Cycle through opened applications
- Hold down CTRL while dragging an item to Copy it
- CTRL + ESC Exhibition the Inauguration menu
- ALT + ENTER View the properties for the selected item
- F4 key Display the Address bar list leadership My Computer or
- NUM LOCK + Asterisk ( * ) Expo all of the subfolders that are under the selected folder

2. Pair Windows to protect computer

You can melt Windows to protect the computer when leaving the station succulent by creating a scheme with the corridor rundll32. exeuser32. dll, LockWorkStation. The Windows key + L is also a shortcut to this feature.

3. Edit sysoc. inf to list all software

To show thoroughgoing software that can be removed from your computer ( including protected Windows services ), you can manually edit ( using notepad for model ) the sysoc. inf file located in Windows \ inf \. Just remove the word hide next to the software bring.
* Note * - use this at your own risk. Removing critical components of the system will make Windows instable.

4. Windows XP comes with IPv4 and IPv6

Windows XP comes both IPv4 and IPv6 support. To enable IPv6, you can originate the protocols needed with the command " ipv6 install " in the command - prompt. Then type ipv6 /? to see the options. The installation will not remove the IPv4 protocols so your stock configuration will still work.

5. Access Task Manager with shortcut

To access the Task Manager easier, you answerability make a shortcut that points to % windir % \ system32 \ taskmgr. exe.

6. Stop treating ZIP files like Folders
If you don't want your Windows XP to treat ZIP files like folders, you can disable this component by lofty regsvr32 / u zipfldr. dll at the command prompt or Run dialog. If you start missing it, you encumbrance enable solid by typing regsvr32 zipfldr. dll.

7. Run program as diffrent user

You obligation run a program as a different user. Moral click an application and select Run As command.

8. Switch users leaving applications opened

You can switch users leaving the applications opened too
( * NOTE * advantage this only when needed since live could lead to system instability ).
Snap to Task Manager - processes and end the process explorer. exe. This will end only your session and not all applications. Then go to Applications tab, click New task and type runas / user: domainname \ username explorer. exe. A password prompt will appear to login to the desired username. The user's session will start, with all your previously applications running.
I recommend to unlatched first a command - line prompt and type runas /? to see uncut the options available.

9. Rename multiple files in Windows at once

Rename multiple files in Windows at once. Select them all, right click and select Rename. Enter the desired name. They will mean renamed using what you specified, with a number in brackets to distinguish them.

10. Task kill feature in Windows

Windows has a task kill feature similar to Linux. Go to a command prompt and drop the power tasklist to see running processes hole up PID numbers. Then type tskill to end the specific task. This forces an instant closing of the chore.

11. Edit features with GPEDIT. MSC

You can edit many features by running gpedit. msc. You can add ledger on / observation off scripts here and many features.

12. Edit accounts weight the command prompt

You can edit accounts by gangling " control userpasswords2 " at the command prompt.

13. Use systeminfo. exe to see System Information

You can habit the systeminfo. exe command in the command prompt to see System Information, including all Windows updates besides hotfixes.

14. Disable system services for maximum performance

There are system services that you can disable to free unfolding the system's load. To access the interface that permits you to make changes to system's services, standing services. msc and the command prompt.
This is a list of services that are * usually * useless and can be safely disabled.
Alerter
Application Layer Gateway Service,
Application Management
Automatic Updates
Background Intelligent Transfer
Clipbook
Distributed Fasten Tracking Client
Distributed Transaction Coordinater
Error Reporting Service
Fast User Switching Compatibility
IMAPI CD - Relucent
Indexing Benefit
IPSEC Services
Messenger
Net Logon
Net Meeting
Remote Desktop Sharing
Network DDE
Network DDE DSDM
Portable Media Serial Numeral
Remote Desktop Help Session Executive
Remote Registry
Secondary Logon
Smartcard
SSDP Discovery Service
Uninterruptible Power Vouchsafe
Universal Plug and Play Device Host
Upload Manager
Webclient
Wireless Zero Framework
WMI Performance Adaptor

* NOTE *: Make sure you don't need them since some applications you're using could depend on them. If you make any application to fail by disabling any of the services, go back and enable unaffected again.

15. Keep up Windows XP by using the XP installation CD

If your system failes to start due to an error related to missing HAL. DLL, invalid Boot. ini or any other critical system boot files you can repair this by using the XP installation Video. Simply boot from your XP Setup CD and allow for the Recovery Console. Then run " attrib - H - R - S " on the C: \ Boot. ini file and delete it. Run " Bootcfg / Rebuild " and then Fixboot.

E-Learning

Electronic learning (or e-Learning or eLearning) is a type of Technology supported education/learning (TSL) where the medium of instruction is through computer technology, particularly involving digital technologies. E-learning has been defined as "pedagogy empowered by digital technology" . In some instances, no face- to- face interaction takes place. E-learning is used interchangeably in a wide variety of contexts. In companies, it refers to the strategies that use the company network to deliver training courses to employees. In the United States, it is defined as a planned teaching/learning experience that uses a wide spectrum of technologies, mainly Internet or computer-based, to reach learners. Lately in most Universities, e-learning is used to define a specific mode to attend a course or programmes of study where the students rarely, if ever, attend face-to-face for on-campus access to educational facilities, because they study online.

Practical Methods of Achieving Success

Practical Methods of Achieving Success

Based Upon Conservation of Sex Force
by Max Heindel




It is just as impossible to attain true and lasting success without living in harmony with the laws of life, as it is for a criminal to live at peace in the community whose laws he breaks. Just as he is eventually punished because of his predatory habits, and incarcerated and restrained, so also Nature punishes, incarcerates, and restrains us when we break her laws. This restraint is called disease and is an enemy of happiness, for one, no matter what wealth he may have or what position he may occupy in the world, can never be happy when he is in ill health. Only in the measure that we are supplied with bubbling-over health can we feel sufficiently optimistic, cheerful, and vigorous to attain the success which we are seeking.

The Bible tells us that death and disease came into the world through eating of the "tree of knowledge," and though from the materialistic point of view this may sound silly, let us not dismiss the story without looking at it a little closer. We shall find that it is perfectly in harmony with scientific facts as shown in the world today. Consider first the meaning of "the tree of knowledge," as illustrated by the later remarks: "Adam knew his wife and she bore Abel;" "Adam knew his wife and she bore Seth;" and Mary's words to the angel, "How shall I conceive seeing I know not a man?" From these and many similar remarks it is evident that the tree of knowledge was a symbolical expression of the generative act. Mankind is thus, as the Bible says, conceived in sin and therefore subject to death, and from this there would seem to be no escape.

We would, however, do well to remember that evolution is a fact in Nature; that man as he is today is the result of a long past, and that this present state is not the final attainment of a standard of perfection, but that there are greater heights ahead of us. We are in a state of ever becoming; there is no halting nor resting upon the path, which is as limitless as the age of the Spirit. Moreover, as what we are today is the result of what we were yesterday, so also, whether we shall be one thing or another tomorrow, depends upon how we use our faculties today. Let us then examine the past; by learning what we have been, we may gain an inkling of what we are to be.

According to the Bible, mankind was male-female before being separated into two distinct sexes as man and woman. We still have with us hermaphrodites who have this, as we think today, abnormal formation to prove the truth of this biblical assertion; and physiologically the opposite organ of either sex is latent in all. During the period when man was thus constituted fertilization must have occurred within himself; nor is this any stranger than that many plants are so fertilized today.

Let us now see from the Bible what was the effect of self-fertilization in the early days. There were two prime facts that stand out: one is that there were giants in the earth in those days; the other, that the patriarchs lived for centuries; and these two characteristics, great growth and longevity, are possessed by many plants of today. The great size of trees and their length of life are wonderful; they live centuries where man lives only a few score years. Then the question comes, what is the reason for the evanescence of human life, and what is the remedy? Let us first take up the question of the reason, and the remedy will later be apparent.

It is well known to horticulturists that plants are stunted in their growth when they bloom too prolifically. A rose may bloom to such an extent that it dies; therefore the wise gardener prunes the buds from the plant so that the strength may go partly into growth instead of the blossom. Thus by keeping the seed within itself, it attains the strength required for growth and longevity. This was the secret of the great size and long life of the earliest races, as it is the secret of size and longevity of the plants today.

That the creative essence in the seed is a spiritual substance is evident when we compare the dauntlessness and impatience at restraint of the stallion or the bull with the docility of the steer and the gelding. Moreover, we know that the confirmed libertine and the degenerate become sterile and emaciated. When these facts have sunk into our consciousness it will not be difficult to realize the truth of the Bible assertion that the fruit of the flesh, which brings us under the law of sin and death, is first and foremost fornication, whereas the fruits of the Spirit, which make for immortality, are said to be principally continence and chastity.

Consider also the child and how the creative force used within and for the child itself causes an enormous growth during the early years, but at the age of puberty the birth of passion commences to check growth; the vital force then produces seed in order to find growth and expression elsewhere, and thenceforth growth is stunted. If we continued to grow during life as we grow during childhood, we should be giants as were the divine hermaphrodites of long ago.

The spiritual force generated from the time of puberty and all through life may be used for three purposes: generation, degeneration, or regeneration. It depends upon ourselves which of the three methods we choose; but the choice that we make will have an important bearing upon our whole life. It overshadows every single moment of our existence, and determines our attitude in each and every single phase of life among our fellow men: how we meet various trials of life, whether we are able to grasp our opportunities or let them slip by, whether we are healthy or sick, and whether we live our life according to a satisfactory purpose -- all of this depends upon the way we use the vital force. That is the very spring of our existence, the elixir of life.

The part of the creative force which is legitimately sacrificed upon the altar of fatherhood and motherhood is so small that it may be entirely neglected for the purpose of the present considerations. There is no reason whatever from a physical or spiritual standpoint why celibacy should be insisted upon in any religious order, neither is this at all in harmony with the Bible. The mere suppression of sexual attraction is not a virtue in itself. In fact, it may be a very serious vice, for there is no question that many millions who on account of convention are prohibited or prevented from seeking the natural satisfaction, fall into the most unspeakable vices on that account. Even if they abstain from the sexual act, their thoughts are of such a nature that they make themselves whited sepulchers, horrible within though outwardly seemingly pure and white. Paul himself, though not in the condition mentioned, said: "It is better to marry than to burn;" and the natural expression is far to be preferred to such an inward state as above described.

While there are very few who will defend abuse of the generative function, many people who follow spiritual precepts in other things still have the feeling that frequent indulgence of the desire for sexual pleasure works no harm; some even have the idea that it is as necessary as the exercise of any other organic function. This is wrong for two reasons: First, each creative act requires a certain amount of force which burns up tissue that must be replenished by an extra amount of food. This strengthens and augments the Chemical Ether. Secondly, as the propagative force works through the Life Ether, this constituent of the vital body is also augmented with each indulgence. Thus we strengthen the two lower ethers of the vital body by sending the creative force downwards for gratification of our desire, and their interlocking grip upon the two higher ethers, which form the soul-body, becomes tighter and more powerful as time goes on. As the evolution of our soul-powers and the faculty of traveling in our finer vehicles depends upon the cleavage between the lower ethers and the soul-body, it is evident that we frustrate the object we have in view and retard development by indulgence of our lower nature.

If we turn again to the garden we may obtain a striking illustration of the result of following the apostle's advice to "keep the seed within," by considering the qualities of the seedless varieties of fruit. Seedless fruits are larger and better flavored than those which have seeds, because in them all the sap is used for the single purpose of making the fruit delicious and succulent. Similarly, if instead of wasting our substance we live chastely and send the creative force upwards for regeneration, we thereby etherealize and refine our physical bodies at the same time that we strengthen our soul- bodies. In this manner we may materially lengthen life and so increase our opportunities for soul-growth and advancement upon the Path in a very marked degree.

When we realize that success does not consist in accumulation of wealth but in soul-growth, it will be evident that continence is a vital factor in the attainment of success in life.

Instead of seeking physical gratification when conscious of the surging impulses of the lower nature, if the individual will focus his thoughts and imagination upon something he desires to create -- whether it be a poem, an invention, a picture, a musical composition, or some material demonstration such as a home or a new business venture -- he will find that a double purpose is served. The objective demonstration will be accelerated and the process of transmutation or regeneration within his body will, at the same dime, be noticeably stimulated. Physical exercise alone is also of help, but when accompanied by creative thoughts is more effective.

Meditation upon high and inspiring subjects has power literally to transform forces impregnating the sexual fluids, for these fluids are really carriers of etheric force, the true creative agent. An inspiring poem or passage from the scriptures can be the channel for immediate direction of the thoughts and creative power into uplifting currents. By consciously directing pure love currents from the heart into the creative centers of the brain, sexual activity may be transmuted into activities of mind and Spirit, with a corresponding birth upon the mental and spiritual plane.

Every cell of the body is, or can be made, subject to absolute control of the Ego by means of the mind. It is possible to raise the body above the forces of physical passion and to center one's whole being in the currents of Spirit. Patient persistence always succeeds, and the rewards are exceedingly gratifying: permanently better physical health, increased mental power, purer desires, unfoldment of the innate spiritual faculties latent in every human being.

The sex-pervert, or sex-maniac, is a proof of the correctness of the contention of occultists that one part of the sex-force builds the brain. He becomes an idiot because of drawing and sending out, not only dhe negative or positive part of the sex force (according to whether male or female) which is normally to be used through the sex-organ for propagation, but in addition to that, some of the force which should build up the brain, enabling it to produce thought -- hence the mental deficiency.

On the other hand, if the person is given to spiritual thought, the tendency to use the sex force for propagation is slight, and whatever part of it is not used in that way may be transmuted into spiritual force.

The Holy Spirit is the creative energy in Nature, and the sex energy is its reflection in man. Misuse or abuse of that power is the sin that is not forgiven, but must be expiated in impaired efficiency of the vehicles, in order thoroughly to teach us the sanctity of the creative force.