Trisha Cupra » Note to Self http://www.trishacupra.com Professional Website Makeovers for Freelancers, Consultants and Entrepreneurs Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:56:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 To Do List: 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Website http://www.trishacupra.com/to-do-list-101-five-minute-fixes-to-incrementally-improve-your-website http://www.trishacupra.com/to-do-list-101-five-minute-fixes-to-incrementally-improve-your-website#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 06:50:49 +0000 Trisha Cupra http://webdesignwatchdog.com/?p=116 patientHere’s a great ready-made To Do List of quick improvements you can make to your website. Definitely one to bookmark. I know I’ll be working through them. I may not agree with 100% of them, but most look pretty spot-on.

Here are a few items from the list:

  • Keep background colors and images at a minimum. Backgrounds are often less than visually appealing and can make your site load slowly.
  • Reduce choices. Avoid overwhelming your visitor with lots of different options.
  • Stay consistent. Check to make sure that colors and design are in the same general scheme so that visitors know they’re still on your site.
  • Validate design in alternative browsers. See how your design renders in browsers like Safari, Opera and Firefox to make sure that it looks right no matter who is viewing it.

101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Website

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]]> http://www.trishacupra.com/to-do-list-101-five-minute-fixes-to-incrementally-improve-your-website/feed 2 Mac Problem – When moving the mouse moves the entire enlarged screen http://www.trishacupra.com/mac-problem-when-moving-the-mouse-moves-the-entire-enlarged-screen http://www.trishacupra.com/mac-problem-when-moving-the-mouse-moves-the-entire-enlarged-screen#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 15:04:21 +0000 Trisha Cupra http://webdesignwatchdog.com/?p=100 Apple keyboard and mouseI’ve owned my iMac for just a few months now. I love it, but the most frustrating hiccups I’ve had is when I’ve had my toddler, Rocco, on my lap and he’s gone crazy on the keyboard. He’s already renamed my hard drive, but the worst thing that happened was when the whole screen became larger and would move around with the mouse. It really freaked me out. It makes the computer only just usable. Just usable enough to try to find the fix.

The first time this happened was about a month ago, and I managed to google the answer. I promptly forget what the trick was, and today it happened again.

Well, I very much freaked out this time when I just couldn’t find the same web page with Google as I had before.

But I did find the fix. It turns out that Rocco had pressed the Control key while I was scrolling up a web page with the middle scroll button of my mighty mouse. That made the screen zoom in wildly.

All I needed to do was hold down the control key and scroll downwards with the scroll button.

I’m posting this partly as a reminder note to myself for next time Rocco does this trick, and for anyone else who has this happen to them.

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