Posts Tagged ‘web tips’

To reduce the bandwidth usage and the server load, the web browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari stores a cache of the websites you visit. It is a mechanism for temporary storage of web documents such as HTML pages and images.  It is recommended to clear it once in a while to free some space in your computer especially if it’s running slow.

Since most of us are using different web browser, this is  a tutorial on how to clear the cache for widely used web browsers.

For  Internet Explorer 8

1.  Open your browser and click Tools menu then click Delete Browsing History.

2.  Select Temporary Internet Files then click the Delete button at the bottom.

Note:  You can also clear your browsing history, cookies, saved passwords and saved form data information in this section. 

For Internet Explorer 9

1. Open your browser then click the gear icon in the upper right hand corner of your browser which is the Tools menu.  Click the Internet Option.

2. In the Browsing history section click the Delete button.

3. Select the Tempory Internet Files then click the Delete button.

Note: You can also clear your browsing history, cookies,  saved passwords and saved form data information in this section.

For Google Chrome

1. Open your browser,  select the Tools menu (the wrench icon at the upper-right corner)  and select Options.

2. Select Under the Hood then click Clear browsing data. 

3. You can choose the period of time you wish to delete cached information using the drop down menu  then click the Clear browsing data button. 

Note:  You can also clear your browsing history, download history, cookies, saved passwords and saved autofill form data in this section. 

 

For the latest Mozilla Firefox Browser  ( version: 3.5 / 3.6 / 4.0 / 5.0)

 1.  Open your browser then Click the Tools menu, then select Clear Recent History.

2.  Choose the time range of cache that you wish to delete.

3.  Click on Details and make sure Cache is checked then click the Clear button.

 Note:  You can also clear your browsing & download history, cookies and active logins in this section. 

Hope you enjoy and find this tutorial helpful.  We will be providing more tutorials to help and educate our clients and future clients about computer tasks they can do without paying professionals to do it.

 

I’m sure if you own a website that in your mail,  just about everyday is a company selling Search engine optimization services. What I find interesting is when you check on their own sites they are often not even ranked or indexed in Google.  No wonder they have to spam our email boxes. They also usually promise to put you on the first page of Google in short order.

If any of these companies violate one of  Google’s terms by using black hat methods you pay the ultimate price by being penalized, suspended or even banned from Google’s index.

Just be careful and do your research on these companies. Ask them for websites they have optimized and check out their ranking in Google. Do keyword searches for the websites and see how they have done. Call the companies to verify they actually did the SEO work they claim they performed.

Search engine optimization should be incorporated in any website from the beginning. There are many techniques and search engines often change their policies. A good web design and hosting company offers ongoing optimization and keeps track of your web traffic statistics. This is a value added service and is usually billed along with your hosting.

Be careful and believe the old saying “If it sounds too good to be true it probably is”

Another testimonial from one of our clients.

“With the start of our blog in March (and I’m so glad you suggested it!) we’ve been able to phase out our paid Google Ad Words completely.  I believe the key to making the blog so successful is being committed to writing new content every day.  At first it seemed like a daunting task but our passengers send us photos and testimonials, and there seems to always be something exciting happening on the airboat!  Fresh content on our web site has steadily pushed us up in our organic web site rankings”.

“Every week we have passengers tell us that they chose us because of our excellent web site! Thank you Rick, and 2Behold Web Design, for being an integral part of our business success”.

Debi Clark, Owner

-Spirit of the Swamp Airboat Rides