It Shouldn't Take a Scare! 

April 1st has come and gone without the disaster that had been reported.

The lesson to learn from this is that attacks happen and you always need to be prepared.

Having up-to-date Antivirus, SPAM, and Malware protection are a must.  A secure Firewall should be in place; and a plan for targeted web site restriction and managed internet access are strongly encouraged.

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Spring has arrived.  We even had our first April Showers.  We wish you all a wonderful spring!

I am pleased to introduce a topic that answers a question that has been coming up more and more.  Do I have to pay to improve my likelihood of being found on seach engines?  The answer is no; the answer is SEO - Search Engine Optimization.

Also this month, John Hayes shares some of the 'OOH, how'd you do that' tricks of keyboard shortcuts in our Tech Talk segment.

Enjoy!

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Everyone uses search engines.  If you have a website, as close to the top of these search engines is where you want to be.

Ranking on search engines like Google, Yahoo Search, MSN Live Search, etc. can be purchased; it is what drives their stock price and healthy dividends.  For huge corporations with deep pockets this approach is wonderful.  For the rest of us, there is another way to maximize exposure.

Through the use of Meta-tags, unseen web text hidden on each page, search engines can be given information that helps 'push' your site up the page.  You can control the title displayed, the 'blurb' that describes the page, and influence the keywords associated with each individual page of your website.

Meta-tags, the Unseen Power of the Web

Keyboard Shortcuts - keep your hand off that Mouse!!

by: John Hayes

Constantly taking your hand away from the keyboard, finding your cursor and moving it to where you want it?  In most programs, tab will skip to the next field.  Did you go too far?  Holding down SHIFT + TAB will go in the opposite direction.  Need to select something?  Hitting the space bar acts like a mouse click when you have a button selected.  Make a mistake?  Hit ESC.  That’s short for Escape.  Same as WHOOPS!  LET ME OUTTA HERE!!