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Windows 7 Service Pack 1
Questions about Service Pack 1 Microsoft released the first service pack for Windows 7 earlier this week on “Patch Tuesday” and I’d like to help answer some questions about this update. What is a service pack? A service pack is a massive collection of updates (or “hotfixes” as Microsoft calls them) that makes it convenient for a newly installed operating system to be fully updated. They typically don’t add many new features, and Service Pack [...]
Posted in: Windows
Tagged: automatic, bandwidth, download, firewall, flash drive, hotfix, operating system, quicker, reboot, restart, service pack, speed, System Restore, update, wallpaper, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
CSS Sprites Speed Up Your Site
CSS sprites work by creating a single graphic with all your site icons, calling for it once, and using the background-position style attribute to show the appropriate section of the graphic. It sounds a little complicated and will take some work setting up, but your visitors will love you for it even if they don’t say so. It’s important to know you’re not adding all the images of your website to the sprite image. You [...]
Loading Your Site With Google Adsense Quicker
You decided to add some Google Adsense to your website for a little ad revenue, but your web page loads much slower now. That’s because the browser is trying to call an external script (Google’s) and their Adsense servers seem to always run slow. Google wants you to put the Adsense script directly into the element it’s to be displayed. In our case, it’s: <div id="topAdvert"></div> There is a better way! Create a division element [...]
Posted in: Web Development
Tagged: Adsense, code, CSS, Google, HTML, JavaScript, load, quicker, speed, syntax, web, web development, WordPress