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The Importance Of Preventing Data Loss

Data loss itself can come in a variety of forms. A virus can infect your network deleting documents throughout the company. An employee might maliciously delete sensitive documents. An important document might be accidentally overwritten by using the same filename. An electrical outage might cause your server to crash and damage the hard drive storing all company data. The company database might become corrupted. There are a very wide variety of potential technical disasters just waiting to happen. In the networking world, it is a known fact that not all companies adequately protect themselves from data ...

What Do I Look For In A New Computer?

It is a common question. Smartnetadmin.com provides you with the following items to look for when purchasing a new computer. Processor : The processing speed of a computer is important. With continuing advances in computer technology, comes greater dependency on the speed of your computer. In order to maintain a solid and robust system for years to come, it is important to purchase a system with a processor that meets your needs now and into the future. On a workstation, we recommend the Intel Pentium 4 processor. Although the AMD Athlon is impressive, the Intel Pentium 4 processor is an industry standard and therefore supported by a wide variety of software titles. The Intel Celeron on the other hand is a great deal for a reasonable price, but is ultimately outpaced by the Intel Pentium 4 processor. On a server, we recommend an Intel Pentium 4 or Intel Xeon processor. Top Pick: Intel Pentium 4 or Intel Xeon Internal Memory: The internal memory – also called RAM – is directly related...

What are essential tools for Web Design?

This is a great question. HTML Editor: Macromedia Dreamweaver is a prequisite. Other HTML Editors tend to modify your HTML without your knowledge. Examples of of this include corrupting Javascript embedded in your HTML document or inserting needless MetaTags. Dreamweaver is very nice because it keeps your HTML document intact in the manner that you had originally designed it. URL: http://www.macromedia.com Image Editor: Adobe Photoshop is also a must. Both Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop maintain their lead on the forefront of web design software. Adobe Photoshop is a very diverse program that makes image creation/photo manipulation a very simple task with professional results. URL: http://www.adobe.com Search: It may sound odd, but when designing PHP, HTML and other documents you need a product that will quickly find a particular line of code within a document for you to modify. Sowsoft's Effective File Search is very quick at searching within docume...

What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

There are a myriad of businesses that claim to be capable of SEO by either (a) driving traffic to your site or (b) optimizing your web pages for best results. In the last couple of years however, Google has significantly enhanced the bots used to index web pages on the internet. It is the intention of these enhancements to minimize or eliminate tricks used by web designers for a higher Page Ranking on search engines. The term Page Ranking being the point where the link to a website is shown in search engine results. In fact, SEO businesses sometimes simply reroute traffic from one of their clients' popular sites to your site. This means that traffic consisting of individuals searching for Movie Tickets are now being rerouted to a site selling Hair Curlers for example. This is not necessarily in your best interest. How many visitors searching for movie tickets are going to buy a hair curler? As mentioned previously, SEO also often involves optimizing your web pages. There...