Selecting the very best Fish Finder for Your Boat

March 29, 2010 by Jason58 · 3 Comments 

HTML clipboardHaving grown up around the New Jersey shore I’ve fond stories of spending long summer days on the Barnegat Bay fishing or sailing with good friends. I also have memories of coming home late and needing to explain I’d lost tabs on distance on the water and gone too far south. Anyone who spent their childhood years on the water can appreciate the challenge of getting my mother and father to believe me though it happened over and over again.
 
 Needless to say, there’s no room for such a poor excuse nowadays with the available Garmin Marine GPS devices that happen to be in the marketplace. While we were certainly not beyond sight of land in the bay, you nevertheless could lose track of the length of time you may have drifted when doing some fishing. This problem of distance is magnified if you were required to sail back against the wind. With the new Garmin Marine GPS devices you are able to pinpoint your actual location within seconds.
 
 An additional excellent marine electronics device which I would like to have had when young was a good fish finder. Although we got very good figuring out where the fish would hide, our abilities simply could not match up against the newest fish finders in the marketplace.
 
 A friend recently exposed me to the convenience of using an electronic fish finder. He favored the Humminbird fish finder units which are available in a number of different designs and styles.  They vary from somewhat inexpensive simple fish finders to more state-of-the-art chart plotters. I remember trying out similar devices many years ago when they were first presented to the market and they were pricey as well as occasionally very difficult to understand. That’s not true considering the modern electronics.
 
 Another fascinating product is the Lowrance fish finder. Needless to say anyone who has ever been around the water is familiar with the Lowrance brand. You can find their name dressing many a radar mast on the expensive yachts in the marina. But the Lowrance fish finder is not only inexpensive but very practical. Just like other brand names, they feature numerous types of products and you really are just restricted by your budget and fishing needs.
 
 For those who have been away from the water for virtually any length of time as I had been, you really should take some time to check out the big variety of marine electronics that not just will add to your boating pleasure but also can contribute to your basic safety on the water.

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Web Conversion Rates

February 22, 2010 by Jason58 · 5 Comments 

If you need to increase website conversion rates then you need to begin trying out different copy because your copy will have the greatest impact on your overall profits. Powerful, focused copy that positively promotes your products or services clearly and addresses all the classic objections will trounce badly written, slack, unfocused and badly laid out copy.

But the process of copy testing is not quite as simple as it ought to be. And this is a barrier to implementation. Ask nearly any online marketer about the value of copy testing and they’ll tell you it is vital. But few people actually get round to doing it themselves.

Why so?

Because it is hard. However, there’s some new technology about now called Evolving HTML which does copy testing for you automatically. Better than that, it reacts to the results of tests in such a way that your website gets better and better at converting as time progresses. The way evolving, or Darwinian HTML, works is via a clever feedback mechanism. Every time some copy is displayed it either generates a conversion or it doesn’t. If you get a conversion, then the copy that was displayed essentially gets a vote of confidence. Conversely, if copy fails to get a conversion it gets a negative mark.

Over time some copy will clearly outperform other copy and a feedback system ensures that, as data comes in, the most effective copy gets displayed more frequently which results in your HTML evolving to become fitter as a conversion engine.

The commercial value of increasing web conversion rates is massive and you can actually find a punchy little training course about it on the website ReallySimpleTesting.com. One of the most interesting things you can find out there is how just tiny changes in website conversion rates at various stages in the purchase funnel can make a massive difference to the amount of money you make.

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Locate Harley Davidson Parts & Accessories on the net

February 10, 2010 by Jason58 · 3 Comments 

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Each and every year it would seem there are more motorcycles on the road. Being on the east coast in the 1960’s, I often felt really alone at times on the road. Yet in recent years, motorcycle riders reflect a very good cross section of our society. Quite a few would acknowledge that the marketing for the Harley Davidson motorcycle has had a lot to do with this new degree of respectability. It’s not unusual today to see your neighbor trade in his suit for his leather and Harley over the weekend.

Needless to say with the rising popularity of motorcycles, the need for parts and accessories have grown greatly. Most of us who have ridden motorcycles for any length of time can certainly remember when buying accessories or parts seemed to be truly a inconvenience. You were restricted to motorcycle dealerships that generally just stocked their own merchandise and in many cases only a extremely minimal variety of aftermarket parts or accessories. It had been common to observe an aftermarket product or part in a show or in any magazine only to find out no one was going to stock the item in your state. As you might expect, as more men and women began experiencing motorcycling, more outlets for Harley Davidson Parts & Accessories popped up online.

I’ve found that for best final results, you ought to look for a web-based retail outlet that offers motorcycle parts, accessories and clothing. Online shopping is not that different from buying in your neighborhood in so far as it can be much easier and cheaper if you’re able to locate all your needs at one place. You will fare better also if your internet site provides goods from a variety of retailers. This presents the shopper with not only the greatest selection but the best prices at the same time.

I’ve located outlets stocking just about everything associated with motorcycles from aftermarket motorcycle parts, and custom motorcycle parts to accessories such as bell motorcycle helmets, full face motorcycle helmet, to carbon fiber motorcycle helmets. The best part regarding shopping online for parts and accessories is you’ll find that most items just require a few days to reach you, which can be a massive improvement over the local retailers that tell you any particular order can take two to three weeks.

Typically the most popular category for motorcycle accessories is clothing. Once more, this is where online retailers stand out since they carry such a large variety. With little effort, you will have no problem locating Harley Davidson clothing, Harley Davidson women’s clothing, mens leather motorcycle jacket, motorcycle racing leathers, motorcycle racing boots, and leather motorcycle pants in just about any size and color.

As the more comfortable weather approaches, it will soon be time for getting our equipment together for one more season of riding. This time around, make the first stop your own Computer in order to equip yourself the easy way.

 

What Is Better: Home Theater Speakers or Home Stereo Speakers?

February 8, 2010 by Jason58 · 3 Comments 

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When shopping for home theater surround sound speakers, those who are new to home theater question if there is any difference between a home theater surround sound system and standard home stereo speakers. We’ll try to consider the basic differences in a brief fashion.

Just compare the size of small satellite speakers used in a home theater surround sound system with standard bookshelf speakers or tower speakers and you’ll get a clue as to why they were not created equal. The difference of size alone makes a world of difference in their sound characteristics. The standard two-way bookshelf speakers and three-way tower speakers have a good\decent size woofer included in the speaker enclosure. The smaller satellite speakers produce excellent quality mid and high frequencies but can’t produce that rich sounding bass we’ve grown accustomed to. This is why all standard surround sound speaker systems require a good powered subwoofer to produce the bass frequencies.

Music lovers will always want to enjoy their old favorite CD’s as well as the sound tracks from their new DVD. The best way to do this is to expand upon basic home theater sound systems. Basic surround sound speakers which average anywhere from three to six inches across do do alright in producing high frequencies for movie sound tracks. So you can replace the front two channel satellites with good quality bookshelf or tower speakers and boost your listening pleasure to both music and your favorite movie on DVD. The standard bookshelf speaker will bring greater sound quality overall to your system. Most surround sound systems will include a home theater subwoofer and the addition of bookshelf speakers or floor standing speakers will make a world of difference.

The basic and inexpensive home theater systems might serve you well for home theater. When spending a substantial amount of money for a home audio, you really should pay close attention to the quality of home speakers and components you select. Remember the old saying: “you get what you pay for.” This is especially true in the field of home audio speakers. Most are very happy with JBL bookshelf speakers in their home theater and home audio systems. In the majority of situations, you can make a good sounding surround sound system sound great by upgrading those front channel speakers.

Apple iPod touch 16 GBis spreading like wildfire!

January 19, 2010 by Jason58 · 8 Comments 

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Apple iPod touch 16 GB ” All in one Multimedia Player slick type gadget”

This player is the iPod touch, not the Apple iPhone. 16 GB capacity for 3,500 songs, 10,000 photos, or 20 hours of video. Up to 36 hours of music playback or 6 hours of video playback when fully charged.

3.5-inch widescreen multi-touch display with 480-by-320-pixel resolution. Supported audio formats: AAC, Protected AAC, MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV; supported video formats: H.264, MPEG-4; supported image file types: JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PSD (Mac only), and PNG.

The iPod touch has always been an amazing iPod. And with its groundbreaking technologies–including a Multi-Touch screen, the accelerometer, and 3D graphics–and access to hundreds of games, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. It comes in 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB models with new volume controls and a built-in speaker. Play hours of music. Create a Genius Playlist of songs that go great together. Watch a movie. Surf the web. View rich HTML email. Find your location and get directions with Google Maps. Browse YouTube videos. And shop the App Store for games and applications.

This 16GB iPod touch lets you listen to music, watch video, surf the web, get email, and shop for games and applications on the App Store. A new contoured design and revolutionary Multi-Touch touchscreen interface combine with a brilliant 3.5″ widescreen display to make the iPod touch the funnest iPod ever.

Play music, watch video and surf the Internet with the touch of a finger. The revolutionary multitouch interface is easy to use and the built-in wi-fi comes with a Safari Web browser. Music, movies, games and the Internet — with a built-in speaker and groundbreaking technologies such as accelerometer, and 3D graphics, iPod touch puts an amazing entertainment experience in the palm of your hand.

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Using CSS Instead of HTML Tables

October 14, 2009 by Jason58 · 4 Comments 

Times have evolved on the internet and back when you thought coding couldn’t be made any more simple for you to style your websites you were wrong. CSS has taken the basic HTML coding to the next level and again when you thought your coding couldn’t look any neater, you were wrong. CSS doesn’t need the likes of HTML tables and what a fantastic advantage CSS is and I’ll explain why.

In the old days of HTML coding, website designers would have to use the HTML tables tags which made the coding looking untidy. Not only that, without the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) coders would be coding for a lot longer which meant a lot of time was wasted. This all stopped when CSS was introduced and don’t get me wrong, a lot of cross browser problems still occur but it’s such a good transformation to the web design industry all this is worth it.

Cross browser compatibility problems do occur a lot more frequently with the use of CSS because some browsers compile the CSS functions differently and cause the website to be shown differently between most common browsers such as IE7, IE8 and FF. There are many myths and different information on the internet which discusses cross browser compatibility and how coders should only code for the latest browers which are the likes of IE8, FF, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari etc. None of this information is true and if you do only code for the latest browsers, a significant proportion of internet viewers still use Internet Explorer 6 so you’re not allowing for a large amount of internet users who can’t view the sites you code properly.

There are lots of hacks and different CSS functions you can use to cater for the whole internet browsing industry and all you need to do is learn to code for one browser such as Firefox (as recommended by professionals, given that IE7 doesn’t compile the codes correctly) then once you’ve learned to code for one browser you can make the specific changes so your site is viewable in all browsers and on all systems.

Website creation basics

June 25, 2009 by Jason58 · 3 Comments 

Tim Berners-Lee published what is considered to be the first website in August 1991. Berners-Lee was the first to combine Internet communication (which had been carrying email and the Usenet for decades) with hypertext (which had also been around for decades, but limited to browsing information stored on a single computer, such as interactive CD-ROM design). Websites are written in a markup language called HTML, and early versions of HTML were very basic, only giving a website’s basic structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to link using hypertext. This was new and different from existing forms of communication – users could easily navigate to other pages by following hyperlinks from page to page.

As the Web and web design progressed, the markup language changed to become more complex and flexible, giving the ability to add objects like images and tables to a page. Features like tables, which were originally intended to be used to display tabular information, were soon subverted for use as invisible layout devices. With the advent of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), table-based layout is commonly regarded as outdated. Database integration technologies such as server-side scripting and design standards like W3C further changed and enhanced the way the Web is made. As times change, websites are changing the code on the inside and visual design on the outside with ever-evolving programs and utilities.

A web site is a marketing tool but in basis is a collection of information about a particular topic or subject. A web site might be compared to a book, where each page of the book is a web page. Multimedia and diseño web is the key for a success website.

There are many aspects (design concerns) in this process, and due to the rapid development of the Internet, new aspects may emerge. For non-commercial web sites, the goals may vary depending on the desired exposure and response. For typical commercial web sites, the basic aspects of design are:

The content: the substance, and information on the site should be relevant to the site and should target the area of the public that the website is concerned with.

The usability: the site should be user-friendly, with the interface and navigation simple and reliable.

The appearance: the graphics and text should include a single style that flows throughout, to show consistency. The style should be professional, appealing and relevant.

The visibility: the site must also be easy to find via most, if not all, major search engines and advertisement media.

A web site typically consists of text and images. Since a website can be a business, selling and trading on internet is comercio electronico.

Once a web site is completed, it must be published or uploaded in order to be viewable to the public over the internet.

Once published, the web master may use a variety of techniques to increase the traffic that the web site receives. This may include submitting the web site to a search engine posicionamiento google, exchanging links with other web sites, creating affiliations with similar web sites, etc.

Multidisciplinary requirements

Web site design crosses multiple disciplines of information systems, information technology and communication design. The web site is an information system whose components are sometimes classified as front-end and back-end. The observable content (e.g. page layout, user interface, graphics, text, audio) is known as the front-end. The back-end comprises the organization and efficiency of the source code, invisible scripted functions, and the server-side components that process the output from the front-end. Depending on the size of a Web development project, it may be carried out by a multi-skilled individual (sometimes called a web master), or a project manager may oversee collaborative design between group members with specialized skills .

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Making a Clickable Country Map For Your Website

April 28, 2009 by Jason58 · 5 Comments 

For many directory owners it could be helpful to have a link to different geometric areas of the world or of their territory, whether it be for location specific information, sales of products or types of directory. A visual image like a map with areas that are clickable would be the right idea. Visitors can be presented with a clickable map of Germany rather than a bunch of links or a dropdown menu for Germany.

It takes time and care for a webmaster to make a clickable map and it would be an impressive addition to the website content.

First you need to find the correct size of map, either by scanning and reducing to desired size and then working to make it clear and colorful in a decent graphics program. That includes enhancing the boundaries of the states that you will eventually make clickable.

Next, the difficult part is to import the map image into a html editor or some map editing software that is capable of drawing hotspots upon the image and in turn make these hotspots into readable coordinates within the html code and when that is done each hotspot will be clickable when presented in the browser.

Each clickable region can hyperlink to an url of your choice so for a clickable state map of UK and Ireland for example can link to an informative page for your visitors when they choose Greater London, Warwickshire, Devon and Cornwall etc etc Great for sending visitors to images or your affiliate links or regional news as another example.

Of course all this work to make a clickable map is too time consuming or probably unfathomable for some people without knowledge of website building but the vast majority know how to add hyperlinks.

You can find ready made clickable maps of USAat clickablemaps.com or the webmaster can make one just for you. Clickable maps of Europe, UK, USA and Asia are all available and with the new MapHilight JQuery Plugin by David Lynch. Now that would save time and a nice idea too.

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What is a Text Ad Exchange?

March 23, 2009 by Jason58 · 4 Comments 

 

A text ad exchange has similarities to Traffic Exchanges & Safelists, in that you earn points by reading other peoples ads and can swap those points for your own advertising. You can earn points in a number of ways. Firstly there are the text ads, which are a single line of text (100 chars). If you find one interesting click on it, and the site that is being promoted will open. When you have viewed that site for more than 10 seconds you will be awarded points to go towards your own advertising. HTML ads work in the same way.

You can add banners to a text ad exchange and can earn points by clicking on any banners on the text ad exchange and viewing the promoted site for more than 10 seconds. Banners appear on the text ad exchange itself and whenever someone clicks on a credit link in a solo ad (see below), they appear at the top of the window.

Guaranteed Traffic Links are a great feature of text ad exchanges. They guarantee a number of unique visitors to your site. They are available in 50, 100 & 200 views. The traffic links are featured on the text ad exchange and can be clicked on to earn points. You can only earn points from each traffic link once and if someone clicks on your traffic link more than once, it will only count as one view. That way it guarantees you will get a set number of unique visitors to your site.

You can swap your points for a solo ad to all the members of the text ad exchange’s contact email addresses. We send a maximum of 5 solo ads a day at THE Text Ad Exchange (some text ad exchanges send a lot more!) and don’t send them all at the same time of day so that each ad gets the attention it deserves. Each solo ad has a credit link at the bottom which links to the site being promoted and earns you points. Solo ads earn you the most amount of points for a click so people like to click on solo ads.

When you login to a text ad exchange an ad is displayed for 10 seconds. You can swap your points for one of these login ads for a number of views (not all text ad exchange have this feature). When you have logged in to the text ad exchange you will see a navigation bar on the left of the window. You can add your own navigation button to the menu for a period of 7 days in exchange for points.

One other way of earning points is to refer other members to the site. You will earn points every time they log in and a percentage of the points that they earn. You will also earn commission on your referrals upgrades and ongoing advertising purchases. So referring others is a great way of getting free traffic & commissions.

If you don’t feel you have the time to be clicking on lots of ads to earn points you also have the option to buy points and advertising at text ad exchanges.

Some other features of the sites are, Downline Builder, Viral URL Cloaker, Weekly Draw for free advertising, Email Your Referrals, Plus More are added all the time.

There are two levels of membership at THE Text Ad Exchange, Free & Pro. Pro membership means you receive more points when you click on ads, free points each month, higher commission levels, more URL cloaker links, ability to save more ads, email your referrals more often and a pro bonus section. You can pay to upgrade to pro or can swap points for a free pro upgrade.

I hope that gives you a good overview of a text ad exchange. When you reduce it down to the basics it’s a case of you look at my site and I’ll look at yours. So you need to make sure your site catches peoples attention pretty quickly. Often a splash page of some sort is the best way of doing this. Also you need to realise that often people wont pay attention to a site until they have come across it a number of times and curiosity get the better of them! So you need to advertise constantly to get the best results. If you have a good landing page and advertise consistently you will get results from text ad exchanges. I know, I have, and that’s why I decided to set up THE Text Ad Exchange.

My name is Seb Brown and I run THE Text Ad Exchange which is a free advertising site.

Feedjit With Visitor Maps and Real-time Blog Traffic Feeds

January 9, 2009 by Jason58 · 1 Comment 

It is the same for all websites and blogs: You need traffic to the site. Without traffic nobody will learn about what you have to offer of goodies at your website or blog. Feedjit is the smartest and most simple innovation I know of to help you get more visitors to your site at present. And Feedjit is a fun experience for your visitors, too. Did I forgot to tell you that Feedjit is free? Feedjit will appear at your blog or site when you add a small snippet of code to each of your web pages.

Show the real-time traffic stream

From a list of visitors displayed as a live traffic feed you can go to a webpage of Feedjit with a list of your visitors: Where they are coming from and where they are going in real-time. This is really amazing to see. See Feedjit in function live here about stock photo search Again, as this list is on the Feedjit website it is at the same time giving you links back to your site and in that way enhancing your position in the search engines like Google, see http://live.feedjit.com/live/jubiii.com/

The world map of Feedjit

The most fun thing to add is a small world map. On this world map small red dots will show from where your visitors are coming from the latest 24 hours. The map will show up to 100 dots, not to cover the whole map. This is in itself a nice addition to the visitor experience to your site as the map will function as a kind of testimonial about that you get a lot of visitors from all around the world. See Feedjit in function: The Feedjit world map of visitors to Island Vacation Tips. When visitors click on this small map widget they will go to a web page at Feedjit with an interactive map with flags. The flags show the location in each country from where your latest visitors are coming from. This map is really looking impressive and will take up to 1000 visitor locations. The visitor can move around on the map and also use its zoom function. The beauty of this world map from a marketing aspect is that on the map a small window is showing the most popular of your web pages with links. In other words this big world map url will provide you with dynamic links back to individual web pages of your site. This should help you quite a lot for your ranking in Google and other search engines At the same time this list will invite your visitors to click on other pages at your site. All in all a fine visitor experience and a good marketing help for your site or blog.

Most popular pages today – list

Another snippet is listing the 10 most popular pages of your site today. Again this is just a small code to install, and placed in your menu it will invite visitors to click on more of your pages.

Installation of the Feedjit snippets

The installation of these Feedjit snippets is very simple on a blog. There are special easy install on Blogger but else you just cut and paste the small script into your blog template or website HTML (should be on each page). In a WordPress blog the easiest way is to add a text blog in the Design section: Widgets. Add the text blog, save it and edit it by pasting in the relevant code for the Feedjit snippet. Then you can move this widget around to where you want it to show on your blog. Experiment for the best results.

The effect of Feedjit widgets on your website

Webmasters report an increase of time spend, number of visited pages per visitor, number of repeat visitors, and amount of earnings from 2 to 4 times. Not bad for installation of a few small codes – free.

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