Nowadays, the price of hard disk is getting cheaper. Eventually two days ago, I decided to buy a 320GB storage of hard disk to extend my current available 40GB of disk space at my laptop. The price I bought the 320GB hard disk was RM174 after RM5 discount, and I paid another RM10 for “first year one to one exchange without physical damage” warranty.

Specification:
1. Brand of Western Digital.
2. Capacity of 320GB HDD 7200RPM 16MB SATA II.
3. Product of Thailand.
4. Date Manufactured at 19 July 2008.
5. Total Price at RM184.00

At first, I tried to put into the HDD enclosure that supports for both IDE and SATA hard disks. During the first time I turned on the power, the new hard disk drive was not show on my computer, even my laptop had detected this new hard disk was properly installed and ready to use. I tried to search around the Internet to find the solution. At my first thought, I suspected my USB ports are not supported for this fast USB2.0 drive plugged into it, and I spend half day for this problem and kept checking around at “Drive Manager” and found that I have “USB Enhanced Host Controller” that is the universal serial bus control that supports any USB2.0 fast drive plug into the USB ports.

Finally I found the solution for this problem. Because, this is the new hard disk and it was not initialed, not formatted and no partition(s) were created, so my laptop can detect this new hardware but can not display the drive at my computer there.

So, I right click at My Computer -> select manage -> select Storage -> select Disk Management, then I saw the external hard disk drive there, I followed to initial the new hard disk, format it then create partitions (NTFS). At last, I am able to see the external hard disk drive showing at my computer and I can access to this new hard disk. Actually, this was a minor setting problem, that cause me long time to solve it, I had learned from this problem, there must be a way to solve the technical problems as long as you not give up easily for the problem solving.

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Traffic for your website or weblog is sometimes rely on the SEO that done for your website or weblog. There are a basic example of self checklist succeeding at web promotion and search engine optimization. Using these knowledge probably you can generate more solid and reliable traffic and sales for your online business website as well as your weblog.

If you are on the learning on the basic knowledge of SEO, the following points should able to help you get through the most essential part to be fully utilize the advantage of search engine to bring you traffic.

1. Create and use search engine friendly content.
Content that easy to understand with proper grammes and unique is your most valuable asset, and ensuring search engines can read it and crawl on it. Text embedded in image or flash can not be read, so make sure you use the important keywords, headings and hyper links in plain text form.

2. Using the keyword properly and wisely.
One of the basic step of SEO, is the keywords. It determines the high rank of your webpages to be show on the search results, and the higher scored with be listed on the first page of the search result by Google, Yahoo or other search engine. Start writing down general terms that describe your products, services and web content end up with simple but user friendly keywords or phase in the contents.

3. Backlinks or incoming link to your website.
Offer a contest, link exchange with other webmaster. The most links from other websites to your website can increase the search rank by any search engines. If a well established site link to yours, that link carries more weight that normal website. This is why people willing to purchase an advertisement at popular website or weblog with the high monthly advertisement fee.

4. Join others social media network.
It had been proved, social media is a great place to populate your website, get more people to know about your website, so that the flow and large volume of people accessing to your website can generate a stable rank for your website traffic. The key to use social media and bookmarking websites is to get your entries and content widely distribute in short period on time.

These are the basic SEO for any learners and beginners that try to get more traffic to their website. Hope that these tips that I learn from articles can also apply for you and your online business.

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Placing advertisements on your website are not the bad idea, while you can earn a bit extra revenue from advertisers either directly or through third parties such like Google AdSense; widget-bucks and so on, you are deserve to get those compensation for your hard work on your web contents.

Sometimes, people might make a mistake by put too many slots of ads; put everywhere on their website/ weblog; make heavily load of the webpages cause by the tons of ads slots; flash and bright of ads colors; unrelated ads; fully animated ads. All these issues can absolutely reduce your web quality; stop the traffic to your website/ weblog as well as turn you origin website/ weblog into advertisement portal, at the end you not only lose your visitors but also stop your income from your blogging.

This is the serious mistake I nearly did when I still fresh in my blogging path. So as a conclusion, ads are good (Bring you extra revenue) but too much of them will give your the negative effect of results what you not expected to happen.

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Cascading style sheets (CSS) is the essential element that required for the web development, It used to handle the web pages’ presentation such like font, positioning color and style information and make a beauty of your website and allows you to easily link to other documents in your website. It also allows you to retain control over the various element in different web pages of your website.

Basically, There are 9 advantages of using CSS in your web development.

1. Webpages are easier to load and uses less bandwidth, because they are lighter than table layout and the style sheet is downloaded only once and stored in the cache memory.

2. CSS compliments well with HTML, especially when combined both CSS and HTML they can result in technically stronger webpages.

3. CSS allows you to position your element anywhere in the webpages and CSS reduce the risks associated with maintenance of the website.

4. CSS is compatible with all web browsers, and the websites that use CSS appear similar in all the web browsers.

5. CSS can be used to print friendly webpages. In term of images, sentences, words, layout can be easily print, it look tidy printed out on A4 size paper.

6. CSS allows user to customize the webpages without affecting the contents. This is because CSS style sheets are stored externally and allow user to make requisite changes by themselves.

7. CSS makes it easier for your website to feature in search engines, and it also gives cleaner HTML codes thus cutting down the job of web spider to search the real content from the multiple table usage codes.

8. CSS allows the webpages to have absolute consistency because all the expressions and text will get their characteristics from external style sheet and It makes easily altered at any time from the external .css file.

9. CSS leads portability to content. This provides user the great flexibility in presenting they website content.

CSS is created to make the things easier for your website and also to give you control all over different elements in your website. Most of the great web designer, strongly use CSS to make their website become web2.0 (Table-less) and get listed on many CSS directory. This could be the solid reasons for me to further down learning the usage of CSS and apply to my webpages and weblog.

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