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If you’ve been using Dreamweaver for a long time, you may think you know it all. Odds are however, that you could still benefit from learning a few tips and tricks to make Dreamweaver more powerful and versatile. Even experts can benefit from Dreamweaver training. Here are a few things you might not know.

Prepare pages for CSS
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) allow page designers to separate information about a page’s appearance from information about its content. Among other benefits, it makes it easy to change the style of a whole website. The designer has to change only one file, the CSS definition, rather than each page.

If you have an existing site, stripping all the style information out can be a daunting task. A Dreamweaver training course can tell you about the tag replacement feature. Open a page and select Edit/Replace. Select Tag from the “Find What” list, then select a style tag such as Font from the tag list. Click the minus button to remove any attributes, choose “Strip Tag” from the action list, and then click “Replace All.” All the Font tags will be removed in a flash and the page is one step closer to being ready for CSS.

Clean up Word pages
Microsoft Word can export its documents as web pages. However, Word puts out very bad HTML. Before posting such a page it should be cleaned up, a task that could take hours. As you will learn in Dreamweaver training, this task can be fast and painless. Select “File/Import Word HTML” from the menu. Once the document loads, select the options in the “Clean Up Word HTML” dialog, and click OK. In moments you’ll have a clean document that is ready for the web.

Check web pages at various resolutions
One common mistake in designing web pages is to forget that not everyone runs in the same screen resolution. A web page must be just as usable to someone using 640×480 as another using 1600×1200. Dreamweaver training shows you a dropdown menu that lets you change the size of the displayed document so you can see how it will appear on smaller monitors.

Changing a page name
If you change a page’s name or location, you run the risk of breaking all links that refer to it. You might think you have to change all the links manually, but Dreamweaver training shows you an easier way. Use Dreamweaver’s “File” menu to rename or move a page and Dreamweaver will offer to update any links on your site to the new page location.

Dreamweaver training makes sense
This is just a hint of the kind of information you can get from Dreamweaver training. Even if you know these tips, there are certain to be more that you don’t. A class is an effective way to hone your skills and improve your productivity. Take the time to enroll in a class today. You’ll be glad you did!

Author is a freelance copywriter. For more information on Dreamweaver training, visit http://www.MicrosoftTraining.net/.

Many businesses are upgrading their older versions of Microsoft Office to Office 2007. Microsoft has made some fundamental changes to the interface and functionality of the software suite and some users may have trouble with the transition.

Revised interface
The most obvious change in Office 2007 is the new ribbon interface. Menus are gone, replaced with toolbar-like “ribbons” that group command icons in categories such as “Insert” or “Review.” Many have found these new ribbons to be more intuitive by putting any command just a couple of clicks away. Many of the commands have keyboard shortcuts displayed putting them even closer to the user.

Whether or not the ribbon interface is more efficient than the old menu interface, it still takes time for new users to find all of their commands. For example, an Excel user might be frustrated when not finding “Insert Cells” on the Insert menu, not realizing it’s on the Home menu where the most common commands are stored.

Office 2007 supports keystrokes from older versions of windows. Using the previous example, a user might reflexively type Alt-I (to call up the old Insert menu) followed by R (for Insert Row). Excel 2007 will dutifully insert the row. This can make the transition easier, but it also leaves users depending on outdated commands.

Training in such a program helps your employees learn to navigate the new interface quickly. This not only improves their productivity, but also reduces their frustration and their resistance to using the new version of MS Office. Training gives them confidence and makes the transition to the new interface a snap.

New features
New users often overlook features of applications because if they don’t realize a feature exists, they don’t know to look for it. They may not realize that the “Document Inspector” allows them to remove hidden metadata such as personal information that they may not want shared with the document’s recipient. They may not know they can mark a document a final, automatically preventing anyone from making any future changes to it. They may not know about the countless other new features that make their jobs easier.

An MS Office course can educate your employees about all the new features in Office 2007. Employees will find new ways to use Office applications that were impossible before, such as the use of digital signatures to create paperless and secure contracts with Microsoft Word.

MS Office training is cost effective
Each day of training can replace dozens of hours of lost productivity. Employees will be confident in their use of the new applications, navigating the revised interface with ease. They will discover features that make them more accurate and more productive. A small investment today will provide huge returns in the future. The best solution would be to get your employees started on some sort of MS training program. There are many online and offline classroom courses available.

Author is a freelance copywriter. For more information on Microsoft Office training, visit http://www.MicrosoftTraining.net/.

If you’ve been using Excel for a number of years, you may feel you already know everything you need to know. You are in a comfort zone and feel that Microsoft Excel training would be a waste of your time and your employer’s money. As long as you can do your job, you feel that you’ve learned all you can.

No matter what your level of expertise, you can always benefit from further training. Here are just a few reasons that training can help you and your employer.

Learn better ways to do things
When looking for a solution to a problem, it is human nature to stop once a solution has been found; even if it’s not the best solution. For example, you may know how to get to a feature by navigating the menus but not realize you can activate the same feature with a simple keystroke. Or you might be using cumbersome formatting commands over and over, not realizing Format Painter or AutoFormat can streamline your actions.

MS training can optimize your work, showing you more efficient ways to accomplish tasks and increasing your productivity.

Learn new ways to do things
It’s hard to get answers when you don’t even know what the questions are. Many experienced users don’t know about all the features available in Microsoft Excel. Training can reveal a whole world of functionality you probably don’t even know about. Database features can give you a new way of sorting and extracting data from your sheet without tedious copy and pasting. Objects from images to hyperlinks can improve the look and functionality of your workbooks. Macros let you automate redundant tasks or even create your own Excel functions.

Explore new versions
You might have learned to use Excel on a previous version. For example, you learned your techniques on Excel 97 and your job uses Excel 2003. Microsoft’s backward compatibility allows you to continue to do things the same way, but you may be missing out on new features. MS Excel training can help you break out of patterns that might have been the right way to do things years ago, but aren’t the best way to approach problems today.

Or perhaps you are an employer considering the move to a new version of Excel. Your company is comfortable using Excel 2003 but might benefit from the new features of Excel 2007. Training can help you evaluate if the upgrade is going to increase productivity enough to make the expense of an upgrade worthwhile.

Think about enrolling in MS training
A few days of training can save you or your company hundreds of hours in wasted productivity. No matter how skilled you are in Excel, you can always pick up a few more tips to make your work faster and easier. Explore the true potential of Excel by perhaps signing up for a Microsoft Excel training class. This way you can interact with seasoned professionals while honing your computer skills.

Author is a freelance copywriter. For more information on Microsoft Excel training, visit http://www.MicrosoftTraining.net/.

A lot of people have had their electronic devices come into contact with liquid, whether it’s a glass of milk or a bathtub full of water, but most people do not know what they are supposed to do with these items afterward. Can they be fixed? Is there really anything wrong with them?

Well, depending on how long they were in the water and whether they were on at the time, they can probably be fixed. It also depends on what kind of liquid you drop the device into.

A lot of electronic devices switch of automatically as soon as they come into contact with a liquid and this is important, because it is not the liquid itself that causes the damage to the device. It is the electric current running through it when the water hits it.

Even if you put a device that is not on in a puddle of clean water and let it stay in it overnight, it is not likely to be irreparably damaged as long as the power was off. You can most likely pull the item out of the water, allow it to dry completely, and it should power back on fine.

I would not advise trying this as an experiment, though, because not every electronic device is made of the same material. As long as you do not attempt to power on the device while it is still wet, it should be alright. Allow the device to dry in a dry, cool area, but not so cool that it will let the device pick up any condensation.

Anything that has been submerged in dirty water, such as flood water, will probably require a bit more attention than that.

Flood waters have been known to contain just about any kind of pollution that you can imagine. Silt, mud, sewage, and other chemicals could be getting inside your electronic device and it will take a lot more than simply drying the device out to get it to work properly again.

Even computer hard drives have been known to be restored with the proper cleaning procedures after having been flooded. The particle debris that has made its way inside the hard drive has to be cleaned out first and quite thoroughly before the drive will work again.

Simply plugging the hard drive back into the computer after it is dry will NOT work and will damage the drive irreparably.

Unless you know a lot about electronics, your best bet is to take whatever water damaged device you have on your hands to a specialist.

Depending on what the value of the device is or if it is a hard drive, the importance of the information stored on it, you might want to fork over the cash necessary to have it repaired.

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As the need for system availability increases, especially in 24 hour operations, the backup “window” must decrease to prevent data from changing while being backed up.

Backing up “live” data can cause erroneous or partially updated files after such data is restored from a backup. This is particularly problematic with databases, which typically have relational data that must be kept in sync.

SBAdmin includes the ability to perform a snap shot, or point in time backup of any live data contained in Logical Volumes. Logical Volumes are software storage devices used exclusively on AIX systems and are quickly becoming a standard installation storage configuration on Linux systems.

Logical volumes are created by the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) package. SBAdmin performs snap shot backups by backing up an offline copy of all data in the logical volumes.

This allows users to continue to access and modify data in the online copy, while the backup includes all data as it was when the backup process started. This ensures the relational data, when restored, is all at the same point in time, no matter how long the backup takes.

SBAdmin uses a Split Mirror Backup process on AIX systems to capture data from an offline copy of a mirrored logical volume. All AIX systems use the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for storing all data.

Logical volumes may be mirrored, keeping a separate up to date copy of all data as the data is changed. SBAdmin will allow you to configure split mirror backups, which will break off a copy of the live data, and use the offline copy to perform the backup.

This is especially useful for backing up live data such as Oracle, DB2, or MySQL databases. When the backup is complete, SBAdmin returns the mirror and syncs it up with the online copy. LVM also allows for 2 mirrors (3 copies) of a logical, so SBAdmin can break off one copy while data and system availability is still preserved using the remaining mirrored copies.

A backup job configured to use split mirrors, whether a specific file system, raw database, or the entire system, performs all the steps in splitting off copies, backing up, and re-syncing the copies making the process automatic and transparent to the user.

On Linux systems SBAdmin uses the Snapshot Logical Volumes. Most Linux systems now support the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for storing all types of data, from file systems to raw database data. SBAdmin provides a simple user interface for performing LVM snapshot backups.

Now, when performing any SBAdmin backup of LVM data, a copy of the live changing data is automatically created, allowing the original data to be “frozen in time” at the point of the backup. At the same time, users can continue accessing and updating the changed data while the backup is running.

When this “hot backup” completes, the system is returned to normal operation, and the entire process is completely transparent to the users. The interface gives you several options such as which logical volume to create the snapshot, whether to create them all at once or sequentially and whether to continue or fail if there is a problem.

Since the snapshot backups are performed on any data residing in logical volumes, including raw databases and file system data, any and all data, even on a full system backup, may be captured.

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Linux provides numerous options for configuring storage, such as Logical Volume Management (LVM), Software RAID (metadisks), and many various filesystem types. After a full system failure, recovering a server to its previous configuration can be quite a daunting task.

Also the cost involved to have a hardware technician perform the work could be very expensive. Add a change in disk hardware to the mix, and you may experience days of downtime!

While SBAdmin for Linux is a tape and disk backup management solution with many advanced features for managing your user data backup and restore strategy, it is the full system backup and recovery features that set us apart. Storix SBAdmin for Linux is the leader in Adaptable System Recovery (ASR).

This is the process to be able to perform hardware migration of the entire system (operating system and user data) onto different system and disk configurations. SBAdmin understands your Linux system and can individually backup and restore files, directories, filesystems, raw partitions, volume groups, raw logical volumes, software RAID devices or the entire system in case of disaster recovery.

Another versatile advantage is that backups can be archived to local or remote tape or disk.
Most bare metal restore products for Linux create disk images that limit your ability to flexibly restore the system.

SBAdmin records your system and storage configuration with each system backup. This information can then be used to rebuild the system from the ground up. Since we are rebuilding the system and not copying the system, within our System Installation Menus, you can easily make changes to that configuration to restore onto completely different hardware.

SBAdmin for Linux can not only restore your user data, but also can easily rebuild and restore your entire system. Every detail, including the disk placement of partitions, logical volumes (LVM1 & LVM2) and RAID devices, file system types and attributes is retained.

You can then change the configuration when reinstalling from a system backup to install onto different hardware or migrate to a different software storage configuration to increase flexibility, performance and availability. When it comes to Linux backup and recovery SBAdmin offers the most flexibility and reliability.

SBAdmin is very versatile and supports virtually any Linux distribution including RedHat (RHEL and Fedora), SuSE (SLES and OpenSuse), Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva and Slackware, on the following hardware platforms.

Intel 32-bit (x86) systems, AMD64, EM64T, and x86_64 64-bit systems, IBM System p (pSeries/RS6000) and System i (iSeries), IA64 Itanium II (HP Integrity).

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Here are a few tips I found that could be useful:

Let’s get to the important part first - if you’ve just lost your data, skip past this introduction and go directly to our first tip, so you can start your rescue operation. If not, a few minutes spent now might help you a lot in the future. Pay special attention to our third tip.

I always thought of myself as a reliable guy with reliable data. I never deleted my files accidentally; I made regular backups and had a power supply for my computer to protect me against surges and outages. However last year I experienced two cases of data loss where I needed to use recovery software. The first was a dead hard drive that’d hardly served a year. Subsequently, I accidentally deleted a large project file that was too big for the Recycle Bin. Happily I’ve got all my data back, thanks to good advice and a little preparation.

These handy tips will help you stay confident in the face of data loss, no matter how it occurs.

Steps
Tip #1
Use your system as little as possible until you recover all of your lost files. The more activity taking place on your hard disk, the greater the chance that some of your lost data might be written over.

Don’t copy any files to the disk containing your lost data;
Avoid browsing the web, because your web browser saves cache files on the disk;
Don’t launch any unnecessary programs, because they can also use your disk;
Don’t restart your computer.

Tip #2
Before you go further, take steps to free up some space on the disk containing your lost files. The more free space your system has, the less chance of overwriting any lost files with new ones. You can do one or more of the following things.

Delete old files that you don’t need anymore (you can also move them to another source, like a USB flash drive, instead of deleting);
Empty your Recycle Bin - making sure that you haven’t put any important files in there by mistake;
Empty your browser cache. For Internet Explorer, click on the “Tools” menu, and then select “Internet Options”. Then, on the “General” tab, click the “Delete Files…” button.

Tip #3
To install any software after data damage increases the risk of your data being overwritten, so if you haven’t had any data problems yet, consider installing a data recovery program just in case. Prevention is always better than cure, and a recovery program is good insurance for your data. However, if you don’t yet have a recovery program, find one and - if possible - avoid installing it to the disk where your lost files are located.

Most recovery programs work fairly similarly. You need to select the disk where the lost files are located, let the program analyze the content of the disk - this can take a while - and then select the file you want to recover. Then, provide a location where you want to save that file. You should try to avoid recovering files to the same disk. You could use another hard drive, a network or removable media like a floppy disk or USB flash drive.

After you recover your files, check that they are correct. If you’ve recovered applications, check that they still run, or if you’ve recovered documents, check that your words are still there. Even the best recovery software can’t guarantee 100% results. If some parts of your files were overwritten - meaning that other data was saved to their location on your disk - after recovery they might contain invalid information. Depending on the type of file involved, partially recovered files like this can be mended by special utilities.

The author writes about Linux Tip and blogs at http://www.hackitlinux.com/.