02/04/2008 by swordfish.

How many times have you had your computer freeze with the message System Failed CPU Test appearing on your monitors screen or even spoken to you through your speakers? Hopefully never, because it can be a difficult task to track down the reason for this error message.

To see the steps to follow take a look at our latest PC Help article “System Failed CPU Test“.

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13/03/2008 by swordfish.

At QBS PC Help we do not use tables to design websites as keeping the content and styles separate (XHTML and CSS) produces a quick loading site that’s search engine friendly and far more accessible than a table based layout.

We do use tables to contain data that’s best served via a table. So rather than a plain table lets look at a few ways to smarten up our table displays, using CSS. To see how to do this take a look at our latest web design article - How to use CSS to style a table.

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11/03/2008 by swordfish.

Millions of serviceable computers in the UK end up in landfill sites rather than being recycled, a study has claimed.

The research, sponsored by Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC), found that 12.5 million unwanted PC’s and laptops have not been reused or recycled by their owners.

The survey found that one in four machines are taken to tips and more than one million computers have been dumped in household rubbish or the countryside.

This is clearly a growing problem and our PC Help articles can help you deal with the disposal, or reuse, of your old computers in a much ‘greener’ way.

Disposing of old PC Equipment.

How to reuse an old PC.

Source: ZDNet

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10/03/2008 by swordfish.

To help with speed of download, search engine friendliness and accessibility CSS navigation is no doubt the best solution.

So where do you start? The best thing to do is lay out your navigational links using an unordered list. You can then style this list any way you want using a linked CSS style sheet.

Find out more…

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04/03/2008 by swordfish.

If you change a file name of one or more of your web pages and a visitor tries to access the old page saved in their browser they will get a 404 page (not found) response from your hosting server. So what’s the best way of ensuring all your visitors end up on the right page?

Our latest web design article focuses on using a .htaccess file to achieve these redirections - read more about this now

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27/02/2008 by swordfish.

One of the problem areas of designing a web site is how to produce a good looking and accessible contact form.

At QBS we firmly believe in using CSS rather than a table based solution. So our latest article explains how to use the CSS approach and shows you all the CSS and XHTML code you will need to to design your own accessible form.

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