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How often do you come across a site with 125x125 banners on them, or maybe you see them on every site because drop Entrecards, and a lot of the time they look really terrible.

I know some people don't have the expertise to produce a good looking banner, but why on earth would yo settle for something that does nothing for you. Let's put aside the quality of the banner and only look at them from a marketing point of view.

125 pixels isn't very big so it's important to make sure you make good use of it to get traffic. If you look at a lot of banners, many don't have any text whatsoever, perhaps just a photo of the author or some icon. How many of these relate to their website at all? Well, who can say? If the image on a 125x125 banner doesn't include either text ora visual representation of your main keyword, it won't be as effective.

These days with Entrecard having a real value I think it's important to maximise the number of clicks you get so even if you can't design a button, at least use a background color or image and put your main keyword on the banner. I guarantee you'll get more traffic because of it.

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I say this because often what you think you need, and what you end up with can be two different things and in webhosting you often don't know what you need until you've looked around and seen what's on offer. Quite a few webhosts provide free domain names with their plans, while others have lower monthly fees if you pay in advance. Make sure you email them or test their live chat first to make sure they respond in a timely manner.

With that in mind, be sure to read the "Learn more about Web Hosting" articles that give a great roundup of what to expect, such as the web hosting guide.

If I was given a Euro for every time my man asked me what's for dinner I'd be rich. I guess that idea wouldn't ring true considering his money is my money. Hmm for a minute there I was getting excited about hiring someone to cook for me.

A girl can dream, but for now I am stuck cooking the meals, unless he can smarten up his skills or we can make friends real fast with a cooking whiz. Wouldn't it be nice to be spoilt, trying out new meals, and the friend might even teach the man how to cook.

At the moment his cooking expertise stretches as far as the freezer. He can take out a frozen pizza base, jazz it up and 20 minutes later it's on the table piping hot. Pizza nights are great but a girl has to watch her figure!

OK, I'll be reasonable he can make a mean pizza and fry up a steak or two, but mutli-tasking in the kitchen spells DISASTER! He tends to yell out for help, with this tone of desperation that he has botched up the meal.

It's down to me to the rescue the meal and save the kitchen from filling up with smoke. He does try and I shouldn't be too hard on him but I don't want to tempt fate, so maybe it is time to buy a barbeque. At least if he burns anything it will be outside, so the kitchen and I will be smoke free.

Science Daily reports that researchers are perfecting a method that allows severely handicapped people to use a computer or move a wheelchair simply by moving their tongue left or right.

They're so happy with the results of their tests that they actually believe it is possible for handicapped people to teach the device many commands based on where in the mouth they position their tongue, perhaps even to the extent of using a different command for each tooth that is touched.

Now I don't know about you but I think this is completely revolutionary and should be given the highest priority to make it happen. The way it works is that the tongue isn't controlled via the Spinal column, it has it's own direct connections to the brain so is very rarely damaged when spinal injury results in severe handicapping.

A small magnet is attached to the tongue, either by tape, a piercing, or even using surgery, and a small array of magnet sensors on the boom of a headset detects the position of the magnet and sends this to a small computer that converts it into a command. Isn't that awesome?

As the harsh heat of summer hits can I just say how grateful I am to have three Air Conditioners around the house. We've got one in the living room and one each in the two bedrooms and believe me they do make a big difference.

Ours are the split system air conditioners with the hot part outside so it's a little bit quieter inside. with temperatures over 30 degrees celsius in the shade you can understand why we love our air conditioner.

On Sunday I got up earlier than usual and mosied on down stairs and got this strange look from the man. It was the look of "oh you're up and oh you're going to disturb (read annoy) me".

As I am such a nice person, :) I sat on the couch with my coffee trying really hard not to annoy him. With the coffee drunk, and my brain and body now in sync I headed for the kitchen to make him surprise, pikelets.

The last time I made pikelets I had a little problem with the mixture, the pikelets kind of looked like rubber coasters. Two batches later they were still less than desirable so this morning I thought I would try out a recipe that I found online.

I liked the look of the recipe because it didn't call for a lot of ingredients, I had to use a minimal amount of sugar and a little butter to the pan.

With the ingredients whipped up and the pan ready to go I popped the first tablespoon in and perfecto, it looked like we were having nice thick pikelets for breakfast.

In between cooking the pikelets I was running back and forth organising the breakfast table. I got out all the conserves, lemon and sugar, honey, maple syrup and butter to turn them into heavenly delights.

With the table set, the coffee poured, and pikelets nice and hot we sat down to a long breakfast sipping coffee and enjoying the most amazing pikelets we have ever tasted.

This is recipe is fantastic and if you would like to make them yourself you can find it at taste.com.
Definitely a 5 star winner!