For a better web experience:
If you're sick of popups, popup stoppers, spyware, spyware cleanup sessions, security problems, and slow performance, try Firefox, the better browser. It's free, trustworthy, safer, and faster. Install and setup are easy, and so is customization. Firefox won PC World's 2005 Product of the Year Award, it's recommended by USA Today and Forbes, and it's rated higher than IE in CNET's reviews, too. Firefox makes your time on the web both safer and more enjoyable.
Is Firefox for home PC's only? Uh-uh! Corporations have the same problems you have with browser security, popups and so on. Many corporations now recommend Firefox to their employees. A CNET News.com article says IBM has chosen this option, to reduce future support costs, and is now providing in-house support and training for Firefox. School districts, colleges and universities are also choosing Firefox, for the same reason.
And for better and safer e-mail, try Thunderbird, from the same team that developed Firefox.
Free, with built-in spam filters, message organization and search tools, and imports for Outlook Express mail and address books, it's the jelly to Firefox's peanut butter.
It also has better immunity to e-mail delivered viruses and worms, and it's currently the safest Windows-based e-mail client out there.
If you're studying web design or development on your own, and you feel bogged down in your progress, check out HTML Writers Guild classes. Their offerings range from introductory classes to challenging intermediate-level courses. Classes and courses are web-based. It's a very comfortable and productive experience. Besides valuable feedback and teaching from the instructor, you will also benefit from being exposed to other students' assignments, which will reflect P.O.V.'s. different from your own. The net effect is a challenge of the rules and boundaries you unconsciously set for yourself. You'll end up opening up your approach to design and content development. (You can also join their IWA certification program, too.)
If your interest is backend, web programming and purely technical issues, Evolt is an outstanding resource.
For more, please check the web design resources on my professional site.
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