To start, let’s take a look at what CSS is and why it’s so important to modern web design. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and was introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium in late 1996 with the aim to separate web page content (written copy, images, multimedia, etc.) from presentation (fonts, colors, layout, page structure, etc.). Another chief goal of CSS is to improve and enhance web accessibility. Previous to the introduction of CSS, a web page’s HTML markup defined both content and presentation. (more…)

The Validation of Viewstate MAC failed error commonly occurs when an ASP.NET application developer uses the Membership, Roles and/or Profile Providers included with the .NET Framework. The usual scenario is the developer creates the application on their local machine and stores the project files in a local directory. When the developer copies or publishes the project files to another local directory or to a remote server, the login system doesn’t appear to function properly.

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A privacy policy is one of the most important documents on any website. A privacy policy is technically a legal document or notice placed on a website providing information about how a website owner uses personal information collected throughout their website when someone visits it.

Privacy policies usually contain details about what types of personal information are collected, how the personal information may be used, the persons or parties to whom the information may be disclosed and the security steps taken to protect the personal information.
Why is it importance for me to have a privacy policy for my website? (more…)

A website is an online representation of your company and is the most cost effective way to connect with customers all over the world, not just your physical geographic region. With competition increasing within many business industries on a global scale and with general business market trends shifting towards increased technology adoption, having a website for your business is of vital importance. (more…)

In simple terms, a web browser toolbar is any group of buttons or icons that activate a given program function when clicked. They are designed to offer shortcuts to commonly used functions when you browse the Internet.

It’s a worldwide accepted fact that Google is the most popular search engine amongst thousands of Internet search engines. But if you have to pull up Google’s home page every time you run a search, you’re wasting time. (more…)

What is ASP.NET? ASP.NET stands for Active Server Pages .NET and is developed by Microsoft. ASP.NET is used to create web pages and web technologies and is an integral part of Microsoft’s .NET framework vision. As a member of the .NET framework, ASP.NET is a very valuable tool for programmers and developers as it allows them to build dynamic, rich web sites and web applications using compiled languages like VB and C#.

ASP.NET is not limited to script languages, it allows you to make use of .NET languages like C#, J#, VB, etc. It allows developers to build very compelling applications by making use of Visual Studio, the development tool provided by Microsoft. ASP.NET is purely server-side technology. It is built on a common language runtime that can be used on any Windows server to host powerful ASP.NET web sites and technologies.

In the early days of the Web i.e. before the release of Internet Information Services (IIS) in 1997, the contents of web pages were largely static. These web pages needed to be constantly, and manually, modified. There was an urgent need to create web sites that were dynamic and would update automatically. (more…)

Are you having the same problem I’m having in Captivate 4 with recording in mono but playback comes through the left speaker only.  I’m a professional sound engineer and I had to come up with a work around to reprocess the audio and then re-import, but what an unnecessary hassle.  This is a major flaw with Captivate 4.

Also, the first machine I tried installing Captivate 4 on wouldn’t allow the audio Calibrate dialog to popup (winXP).  There was no way for me to calibrate any audio source (I tried three different sound cards)  After wasting almost a full day on this, I finally decided to give up and install it on a different machine.  Now I have the mono/stereo output problem.  I couldn’t function without Adobe software, so it pains me to mention anything negative about them, but this is buggy software and was obviously released from beta too soon.  Over ambitious feature enhancement for v4?  Maybe, but not what I expected from Adobe.  I’m disappointed with the product.

Note to Adobe:  I understand why your audio Calibrate tool is simplistic in it’s design; it needs to automatically calibrate sound levels for the 90% of Captivate users that don’t know anything about audio recording and use a generic $5 microphone.  For these users it probably functions just fine.  However for those of use who use (or are thinking about purchasing) Captivate for creating professional quality e-learning systems, this Calibration tool falls well short.  We need real-time audio monitoring for more fine tune control over our input levels.  To solve the stereo/mono issue, we also need a simple toggle for stereo input or mono, not automatic handling of the input signal type.  These two features could be added to an advanced tab in the Calibration tool.  It would solve a lot of problems and allow Adobe to market Captivate 4 as including upgraded tools for professional audio recording.

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