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What Are RSS Feeds
RSS Feeds.RSS also known as rich site summary or real simply syndication, arrived on the scene a number of years ago, but was only recently embraced by webmasters as a means to effectively syndicate content. RSS Feeds provide webmasters and content providers an avenue to provide concise summaries to prospective readers. Thousands of commercial web sites and blogs now publish content summaries in an RSS feed. Each item in the feed typically contains a headline; article summary and link back to the online article.Benefit to the Webmaster: As the web has become more crowded webmasters have

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To handle the second of the above, you'll need to either delete any comments with images that are too wide or you can disable HTML in your Comments section altogether (which will not allow the posting of images to your Comments section at all). To disable HTML in your Comments section, simply go to your MySpace account home page, click on Account Settings >> Profile Settings and then click to clear 'Disable HTML Profile Comments'.

5) Apply the KISS Principle

Mortgage Leads for New Loan Officers
If you are a loan officer and you are new to the business, one thing you may be short on is leads.Leads can be obtained in many ways. Through customer referrals, networking groups, family members, friends, etc.However, for a new loan officer, you may need to jump start your business, and investing with a mortgage lead company may be the way to go.You probably haven’t heard many good things about mortgage lead companies. However, there are some good ones out there. And if you take your time and do your research, you may just find the right one for you.Here are a few things to

Want to impress your friends/peers/associates [choose one] with a classy MySpace layout? Here are 5 easy tips on how to do this:

1) The Power of Paragraphs

Since most MySpace users know very little about web design, what you'll often see on a MySpace page is an 'About Me' section filled up with a huge unbroken block of text. No matter how captivating the writing is, most will tire of reading this after the first four or five lines and especially so if it continues on for another 20 or 30 lines. You'll want to avoid making the same mistake of overwhelming your readers by putting your text into nice bite-size paragraphs.

Unfortunately for non-geeks, when you create paragraphs by hitting the Return key twice while typing into any text box on your MySpace 'Edit Profile' screen, this will not result in paragraphs created on your MySpace page after you hit the 'Save All Changes' button and you view your profile page. To properly format your text into paragraphs on your MySpace page, you'll need to type in:

<p> ...every time you wish to start a new paragraph. Then when you click on the 'Save All Changes' button and view your profile, you'll see your text formatted into paragraphs. That's it. That's all. Angle bracket, p, angle bracket. Three little characters can mean the difference between someone reading everything you have to say or only reading the first few lines.

2) Legible Text

Many MySpace pages are styled using MySpace layouts which often use a background image to enhance the display. But all too frequently, MySpace users fail to think through to the final result of someone actually attempting to read certain colors and shades of text displayed over certain background images. The result is quite often a text color that doesn't have enough contrast with the color of the background image in order to make the text legible.

What you'll want to do to create a truly professional and classy MySpace page is to carefully select a layout in which the text is clearly legible. This means you'll need a light colored text displayed on a mostly dark colored background image or vice versa. And this also means that high contrast background images that have a myriad of light and dark colors will make poor backgrounds no matter what as there will always be some part of the background that will make any text color difficult to read.

3) A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

You can spice up your MySpace profile page by posting images directly on it instead of just using your pics page. To do this simply upload your image(s) to a free image host like ImageShack or Photobucket, get the image URL (web address of the image) and then insert the following code in any text box on your 'Edit Profile' screen:

Simply replace URL_TO_IMAGE_GOES_HERE with the web address of your uploaded image.

Presto. Pictures on your MySpace profile.

4) Keep It Inside the Box

Another unfortunate hallmark of MySpace pages is a layout that is so wide that it creates horizontal scrollbars at the bottom of the user's web browser. This is considered a faux pas in professional web design as it forces the user to not only scroll up and down but back and forth as well in order to view the entire web page. To avoid 'spreading your layout' in this fashion you'll need to take care of two things:

a. Don't post images wider than 400 pixels in any section of your MySpace page.

b. Don't allow friends to post any images wider than 400 pixels to your Comments section

5) Apply the KISS Principle

Search Engines or Website Visitors
I see everything dark in a daytime. It is not a defect of my eyes but a situation created after I use sunglasses. I am myself creating the situation of making everything dark and how foolish would I be if I would be blaming my eyes for it. Same common problem is being faced by many web masters in the world on Web Promotion. They want search engines to bring lots of traffic to their website but fails to satisfy search engines to rank their websites higher because to satisfy search engines they use many dirty tricks which pushes their website in dark which becomes invisible for search engines so search e

Changes' button and you view your profile page. To properly format your text into paragraphs on your MySpace page, you'll need to type in: <p> ...every time you wish to start a new paragraph. Then when you click on the 'Save All Changes' button and view your profile, you'll see your text formatted into paragraphs. That's it. That's all. Angle bracket, p, angle bracket. Three little characters can mean the difference between someone reading everything you have to say or only reading the first few lines.

2) Legible Text

3) A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Simply replace URL_TO_IMAGE_GOES_HERE with the web address of your uploaded image.

Presto. Pictures on your MySpace profile.

4) Keep It Inside the Box

a. Don't post images wider than 400 pixels in any section of your MySpace page.

b. Don't allow friends to post any images wider than 400 pixels to your Comments section

5) Apply the KISS Principle

Avoid 5 Mistakes for Your Retail Business
Each year thousands of businesses fail, mainly because the owners never researched and planned their business in detail. The variety of reasons for failure can be broadly summed up under the following headings. Take note and make sure you don't make the same mistakes.Wrong locationIn retailing, location is paramount. The world will not beat a path to your door simple because you have the 'right' product or service at the 'right' price.Do not be tempted, as many other small business people have been, to take premises because the rent or purchase price is low or because you like the

t doesn't have enough contrast with the color of the background image in order to make the text legible.

3) A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Simply replace URL_TO_IMAGE_GOES_HERE with the web address of your uploaded image.

Presto. Pictures on your MySpace profile.

4) Keep It Inside the Box

a. Don't post images wider than 400 pixels in any section of your MySpace page.

b. Don't allow friends to post any images wider than 400 pixels to your Comments section

5) Apply the KISS Principle

Keeping the Net Truly Free
You may have heard of the term, Net Neutrality, but may only have a simple understanding of what this term represents. Admittedly, when I first heard about the subject, I wasn’t quite sure what it meant. Indeed, if you click on the link to the term you will get a long, drawn out explanation of what it may or may not do as far as charging users access to the internet.In short, Net Neutrality is a good thing from the standpoint of search engines, bloggers, and just about everyone else concerned about free speech. No “tollroads” are set up by the various internet service providers such as AOL, Bell

ddress of the image) and then insert the following code in any text box on your 'Edit Profile' screen:

Simply replace URL_TO_IMAGE_GOES_HERE with the web address of your uploaded image.

Presto. Pictures on your MySpace profile.

4) Keep It Inside the Box

a. Don't post images wider than 400 pixels in any section of your MySpace page.

b. Don't allow friends to post any images wider than 400 pixels to your Comments section

5) Apply the KISS Principle

I Can Always Work At Walmart And Other Lies From The Creative Entrepreneur
I sometimes wonder why there isn’t a 12-step program out there to help ease the frustrations and heal the heart of the “creative entrepreneur.” If I were to stand up at a meeting of fellow sufferers, my story might go like this: Hello, my name is Mary, and I’ve been a creative entrepreneur all of my adult life. In my efforts to chase the dream and figure my role in this world, I have changed careers more than ten times in 25 years, started and restarted self-employment about 3 times and spawned financial stress significant enough that I’m pretty sure sent my husband to the hospital with chest pains. It

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5) Apply the KISS Principle

And finally, apply the KISS principle, i.e., Keep It Simple Stupid. It's a shame that in some respects, MySpace has become a gigantic online club of abominable web designers (and is subject to great ridicule because of this). Just because you see other MySpace users load upwards of a dozen flash videos and 100 image files all on one page (and this is not an exaggeration) does not make this good web design. The best web pages on the net are not those that are stuffed to the gills with the most bells and whistles but rather those that are user-friendly, color-coordinated and efficient at getting their particular message across. If you want a truly classy MySpace layout then keep in mind that sometimes less is more.

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Many people often condemn Corporations for only giving when it is a trendy issue. For instance every one was ready to help out in the Indonesia Tsunami, Pakistan Earthquake and Hurricane Katrina. But even so what about all the other issues and what about those areas after a couple of years have gone by and help is still needed there?

Selling is a ‘winner take all’ competition. If you are just a little bit better than your competition, you will earn much, much more money. The fastest way to dramatically increase your sales is to understand and help your customers. Study and understand how your customer is going to use your goods or services – in depth. The best salespeople see things through their customers' eyes.

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