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We are all shivering away here at Mr Site towers, and have the heating on full blast. Not so much a white Christmas,
but we reckon a white January is on the cards!
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Check out the start of our A-Z series of Internet Terms to help you jargon bust the crazy world of the internet. This month we cover A-L.
See the Mr Site A - Z Guide
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A website to warm the cockles of your heart and inspire you to shift those extra Xmas pounds. These young Princes
Trust entrepreneurs set up the SoccerTastic Team and Individual Academy© to provide a professional and personal 1 to 1
football coaching service for girls and boys, men and women of all ages. Based in Hertfordshire in the UK, they aim to
get young people off the streets, and to get people of all ages fit, active, healthy. Good work lads!
If you want to say "wellies" to New Year's Resolutions and start 2009 in the same way you ended 2008, by stuffing
your face with sweets and chocolates, why not pay a visit to the fabulous Retro Sweet Shop?
Here you will find a tasty selection of some of the best retro sweet classics like Shrimps, Flying Saucers, Space Dust, Wham
bars, Sherbet Pips and loads more! It's the best place to find traditional sweets, just like your old-fashioned sweetshop, but
online. Woolworths may be no more, but you can still pick and mix from your living room on this beautifully laid out and
colourful website.
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If you are not the copyright holder of an image, as a rule, you should not use that image unless you have the express
permission of said holder. You should never, ever presume that just because an image is on the internet that it is
yours for the taking, especially if this image belongs to Getty Images. If you do, a letter from their lawyers is
bound to come your way. Some Mr Siters have been billed thousands of pounds (GBP) for copyright infringement for doing this.
To ensure this doesn't happen to you use one of the online royalty-free sites such
as www.istockphoto.com
or www.sxc.hu.
You can get professional, high quality beautiful images to help make your website gorgeous for next-to-no money. That is
surely preferable to being fined thousands!
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The new Takeaway Website Beginner was awarded 5 out of 5 stars in the December edition of ComputerActive
Magazine. At £19.99,
the price may be small, but Beginner still packs a punch!
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If you are looking for an extra source of income, need a second job as the credit crunch bites or want to break
out of the rat race in 2009, you can start earning hard cash now on your own website, selling whatever you want with
your own secure online shop. Perhaps you have a business but still haven't got website? A website is as
important as a business card nowadays and during these credit crunch times, it's important to get the word out as much as
possible. A website is always 'open' - even at night - allowing products and services to be seen by millions of potential new
customers all around the world.
Getting a professional website online is so easy with Mr Site and, this January, it is even more affordable. In the Mr Site
January Sale, you can get 25% off both the Mr Site Standard and Pro Takeaway Website packages by clicking here.
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Mr Site recommends using Firefox as your browser on a PC or Mac. It can be downloaded for free from
www.getfirefox.com. If you are
using Internet Explorer, however, try to keep up to date with the latest IE releases. Internet Explorer 7 is the most current version
and can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/ie
Every website looks a little bit different in each web browser. This is why, when a web designer finishes creating a site,
they normally check to see how it looks in the most popular browsers: IE7, IE6, Firefox and Safari. As your site visitors can
potentially come from anywhere in the world using any browser, Mr Site recommends you also do this. This is simply good web
practice as you are effectively swapping places with your potential visitors/buyers and will be seeing your website as they will.
The browser on your computer doesn't always store the most up-to-date versions of your website. It can store (cache)
previous versions, so sometimes any amendments that you make to your website will be live on the internet, but may not show
immediately on your computer. If this happens, once you have published your site, there are two things you can do:
1) Refresh – Hit the F5 function key (PC users) or command + R key (Mac users). This will effectively refresh your page.
If this doesn't work, you will then need to...
2) Empty Your Cache - the cache is where the temporary internet files are stored on your computer and it contains a
record of the items you have seen, heard, or downloaded from the Web, including images, sounds, web pages, and cookies. Typically
these items are stored in the Temporary Internet Files folder. Storing these files means the next time you go to a previously
visited site; it will load quicker as page elements will already be saved in your Temporary Internet Files folder.
From time to time you will have to empty this folder. Follow the instructions below for your browser:
PC Internet Explorer: Open Internet Explorer (you don't have to be online) and click on 'Tools', then
'Internet Options'. Under 'General', click on 'Delete Browsing History' and various options will
come up for you to delete
such as 'Temporary Internet Files' or 'Cookies'. Simply select what you wish to delete. PC Mac Firefox: go to 'Tools', then 'Clear Private Data' and select which items you wish to delete.
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