Hi Kids, Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to another fun edition of Merle's Mission. What do you mean you don't think it's fun? Sure it is. If you have a great sense of humor and love the Internet as much as I do we're going to get along fabulously. I promise! Just to show you how much I care I'm going to remind you that Sweetest Day is this Saturday the 18th so if you forgot or haven't picked up a card you better get to the store. You don't have to to crazy, but at least get a card. Us women are really easy to please. We don't need big gifts and diamonds to be happy. Of course those things are nice, but not a necessity. All we really want is for you to remember us with a sweet card once in awhile or say something nice. That's it! really. I see every guy in America shaking his head right about now. Try it and you'll see that I do know what I'm talking about here. At the least it might get you a little extra physical activity if you know what I'm talking about <grin> I wanted to let you in on a new website I found that is the bomb. If you need an ebook cover, an ezine cover, banners or something else graphical you'll want to check out this great site! I had them make some ezine covers for me and I LOVE THEM! Their prices are very affordable and if you publish an ezine or an ebook you owe it to yourself to have a classy cover. Check them out at... http://www.bannersandcovers.com/index.php?ezid"19 We did have a pretty mild week of weather this past week. I told you Indian Summer was coming. Once you live some place long enough you know the weather better then the weather man. No offense to Dick Goddard. The word on the street is that this is suppose to be one of the worst winters in years here in N.E. Ohio. I've heard that before but what I'd like to know is when did you ever see a good winter? Their all bad as far as I'm concerned. People who ski seem to enjoy them, but I'm more of a summer girl myself. Give me a sunny sky and the warmth of the sun on my skin and I feel great. Teddy Bear (my dog) has already started shaking like a leaf due to the slight chill in the air. It's going to be a long winter as far as he's concerned. I'd love to hear your comments over at our discussion board. This week's winner for a free ad is....Mark at http://www.securemarketingsolutions.com For your own chance to win fill in the survey. You'll find the link at the very bottom of this ezine. A winner is pulled twice a month. Enter now. Thanks for joining me, let's get to the good stuff. If you have any comments you can send them to Me.
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"Enhance Your Web Surfing with the Right Toolbar"
By Merle http://MCPromotionsPress.com
Have you ever wanted to do research on a topic and didn't feel like going to a specific search engine to do it? Well, you don't have to. If you download a "search toolbar," you can actually perform research from wherever you are online and do some other pretty cool things depending on which one you may be using.
Most of the major search engines offer "free search
toolbars" for download, to enhance your surfing experience
and make tracking down information a
snap. You need to keep in mind that most toolbarswill only
work in Internet Explorer 5.0 and above.
Let's review some of the most popular bars available
for download:
1) Google: http://toolbar.google.com
The king of search engines, Google offers up a superb toolbar and my personal favorite. The latest version contains a pop up blocker, a mechanism to fill out online forms with one click, a way to check the page rank of any site you may be visiting and more. Since Google also bought Blogger.com, members of that free service can also post to their personal Blogs with a click on the toolbar.
2) Yahoo: http://companion.yahoo.com
With this you can bookmark your favorite websites, search the web, peruse yellow pages and get notified of new Yahoo email you may have. If you'd like to refine your searches to just images or news, you can do that or check on your favorite stock quotes. Click the included yellow marker and instantly highlight the search words on any web page you're presently visiting.
3) Hotbot: http://www.hotbot.com/tools/
Hotbot allows you to search over 200 search sites including Hotbot itself. This toolbar installs itself into your windows task bar (unlike the others, which attach themselves to your browser).
4) Alexa: http://www.alexatoolbar.com
Rated by CNET Editors as a top pick download, it contains
a popup stopper and combines Google search results with Alexa
information. Search Amazon for products, check news and stocks,
find out a site's traffic ranking, find
similar sites and use their handy "tell a friend"
to inform your pals of great websites -- all with just a click.
This is a great one for online marketers to research your
competition. Use the "wayback machine" to view archived
versions of any website you're visiting.
5)Altavista: http://www.altavista.com/toolbar
This toolbar allows you to search within Altavista or within a particular site you're visiting. In addition to its built-in popup blocker news & image search and weather & zip code finder, this one will translate text or web pages into 10 different languages.
6) Teoma: http://sp.ask.com/docs/teoma/toolbar/
Search Teoma from any web page. Includes a built-in highlighter that highlights your search terms as they appear on the page. Dictionary and page email functions are built right in. This toolbar is dynamically upgradeable as new versions become available.
7) Ask Jeeves: http://sp.ask.com/docs/toolbar/
Search Ask Jeeves from anywhere on the web. Use the built-in "kid friendly" search function to find sites suitable for children. Get financial info, weather, news, search for local events or get a map of any location in the U.S. Also includes email this web page to a friend function.
As you can see, your options for a toolbar are pretty impressive. But which one should you use? That depends on which search engine is your favorite. Most of them offer similar features and with the inclusion of popup blocking, that's one less pieceof software you need to have on your machine.
There are also toolbars served up by "Meta Search Engines." Meta engines do not maintain their own database, they actually query other major search engines for their displayed results. So if you use one of these toolbars you'll actually be doing a search across several different search engines at one time.
Let's look at a few:
1) Trellian: http://www.trellian.com/tooblar/index.html
Search across all major search engines such as: Alta Vista, Fast, Google, Inktomi, Overture, Teoma and more. Includes a popup killer, spellchecker, and is a handy tool for anyone doing search engine optimization.
2) Dogpile: http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/tbar/
Queries 13 major search engines including Google, AllTheWeb, Inktomi, Ask Jeeves, Overture and more. Includes image search, stock quotes, weather, news and much more.
3) Groowe: http://www.Groowe.com
Search across Yahoo, Google, Teoma, AllTheWeb, MSN and others. Perform specialized searches, such as news or images.
4) Ultrabar: http://www.UltraBar.com
Search across multiple search engines. Ability to highlight search terms within the page you are visiting. If you'd like a customizable version of this toolbar that you can give away from your own site. Add your own menu items, icon and additional search engines. This could be used as a great promo item for your site and pricing starts at only $89.00.
As you can see, you have many choices when it comes to browser toolbars. By choosing wisely, you'll have a desktop tool that will help you be more efficient and perform smarter web searches -- and with a price tag of free, that's a terrific bargain!
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Need help with your CSS? Use this visual online
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you choose your tags.
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Learn how to build a drop-down menu for Web pages
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If you build websites you'll want to check out all of
the super cool tutorials from Net Magazine. If you
read and learn enough you might almost become as
cool as they are.
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Want to easily add site search to your site? Google
offers a pretty handy search function that can search
your site and also search Google if your visitor wants
to. Free and customizable.
http://www.google.com/services/free.html
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If you're trying to learn about basic web building
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Yes, there are even websites for people begging for
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