In my recent book “50 Biggest Website Mistakes” that I’ve just launched with Bret Ridgway, we talk about problems with website images one of them being website images being the wrong size and taking forever to load.
If you’ve run into that issue you’ll appreciate this video. If you’d like to find out more about the book visit http://50BiggestWebsiteMistakes.com
In this video I show you how to use Shrink-O-Matic which is a free application you can download obviously I receive no commission for promoting it I simple think it is a good application you’ll find useful.
All the best and much success in everything you do!
Frank Deardurff III - That One Web Guy!
Here’s another quick tip to help you AND your PC be more productive.
This tip is for Defragmenting your hard drive. Sounds scary I know but it’s not really. There is some debate whether this is still needed or not I believe it is. So first here’s the video on How to do it and if you want more information on what Defragmenting is read on past the video.
First let me explain what causes your files to be fragmented and what that actually is. We all know that are files are written to the hard drive and that our hard drives have so much space. So as files are added to your hard drive they are added to the next available space on the drive, kind of “stacked” if you can think of it that way.
If you think of a file as blocks and say you have a file that is stacked side by side 10 blocks long it fills that much space. The next file gets added filling how ever many blocks of space lets say 15 blocks. So now you have 25 blocks in a row.
So now after awhile you decide to delete the first file you added, the computer leaves that 10 block “gap” open for the next file to use, which is fine but the next file you save is not 10 blocks but 20 blocks. So the computer fills in the first 10 blocks and then puts the remaining 10 blocks in the next spot available.
The computer of course knows where to get all the pieces but as you can imagine the more and more this happens the longer it takes to get all the blocks (files) to open up the document you are wanting.
So you can see with the blocks being separated into sections or “fragments” it slows up the process. So by defragmenting it takes all of the pieces and rebuilds the data so that it’s all restored into one stack per file again. Which of course improves overall performance and makes us all happy again LOL.
If you found this video useful please let me know. It helps to know if I should add more in the future.
Also you might check out this other video on my blog Computer Cleaning Tip
All the best and much success in everything you do!
Frank Deardurff III - That One Web Guy!
