Good tips and tricks on keeping your Mac running OS X up to speed. We’ve all experienced the lag from time to time…

This article courtesy of Macworld and is attached below.

Prevent Mac Disasters

eWeek, in a September 17, 2007 periodical, published an article outlining the top mistakes made during the Website design and development process.

After reviewing this article, Eight Eleven wanted to share our thoughts, as our Web design and development process incorporates processes that account for and effectively avoid making all of the mistakes outlined by eWeek.

Eight Eleven incorporates the following processes that speak directly to the article.

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• Usability planning and content organization, which optimize a users experience with a site and streamlines their interactivity, taking them to their desired content or end result, faster and easier.
• Intuitive navigation and graphical linking creation, which helps users find what their looking for faster and easier.
• Image optimization for faster page load times and a cleaner, more user-friendly interface.
• Standard HTML and CSS development languages to ensure optimal cross-browser/cross-platform functionality.
• Flash animations to compel, attract and persuade audiences.
• Optimizing page text to get the message across faster, with less words.
• Adhering to ADA compliance color guidelines and utilizing clean, professional color palettes, which will be readable and attractive to all audiences and users.
• Resolution friendly page layouts, which remain consistent in the display of content across varying resolutions.
• Clean, professional content generation, which is aligned with the professionalism our clients’ clients and customers expect.

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Mozilla’s Firefox browser is gaining popularity with internet users. Usage percent is up to 34.5%, a 9% increase over this time last year.

Browser statistics provided by W3Schools.com.

Loyal Mac users,

There is a common error when reinstalling any CS3 product on a Mac that involves being prompted for a Toolkit that doesn’t appear to be on purchased software CDs. To solve this, download the following file. When prompted for the abject Toolkit, open the DMG file below, then click OK to the Toolkit prompt. You should be well on your back to blissful Macland from there.

>> http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/bridge/sdk/AdobeExtendScriptToolkit2.0.1All.dmg

Annoyed with Adobe,
Drew

Senior Web Designer

Eight Eleven Inc.

A new domain lookup resources is available at:

http://instantdomainsearch.com/

This tool allows you to look up .com, .net and .org domains instantaneously, as queries are typed into the engine.

The resource is very useful for:

• Corporate and product naming
• Online promotion and campaign planning

Enjoy!

From Biz911, an Eight Eleven client that specializes in dealing with debt management for small to medium sized businesses, some sound advise for dealing with pesky debt collectors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er29OZb–fo