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Jul32013
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Website User Experience Testing

BusinessBy Espresso EducationJuly 3, 2013

Testing the user experience of your new or redeveloped website should be an important step during the process before the big launch. Undertaking expensive website design, redesigns, redevelopments and upgrades can all be for nothing if the final product results in a site that is not logical, easy or targeted perfectly to the intended user. Once you understand the way users interact with your website, you are in a much better position to gain their attention for longer and to ultimately convert them into customers (or whatever the overall goal may be).

How To Undertake User Experience Testing

Paying a professional usability testing company to undertake testing for you is not within the budget of every webmaster or small business owner. While this methods provides arguably the best results, alternatives are now available that allow advanced user experience testing for a fraction of the expense of a professional consultation.

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May62013
Raising Healthy Children

Complexity in Health and Medicine

Health & BeautyBy Espresso EducationMay 6, 2013

Getting vindicated for announcing bad news years before anyone recognizes them is a bittersweet validation.

I spent almost 8 years, from 1990 til 1997, writing a book that never got published. It ended up being 700 pages long, after three major re-writes, with hundreds of references, and a clear but unpalatable message. The working title, which went through many changes, was “Raising Healthy Children.” The original title was actually “The Fourth Generation”.

What was the message? Essentially, it was “be careful with the drugs of pharmacological medicine – they could make your children really sick. And they’ll make their children sick and their children’s children too, until the fourth generation.” With much research in the biomedical literature, I had uncovered numerous issues that at the time very few people addressed. Among them were the following:

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Mar232013
Gardening-Ideas

7 Gardening Ideas to Make Your Garden Pop

DIY, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationMarch 23, 2013

Are you tired of your old garden that seems to be more weeds and dirt than anything else? Having an attractive garden around the home can add value and aesthetics and enhance your lifestyle. Everyone needs something pretty to look at and if you are constantly surrounded by dreary, half-dead plants it will eventually get on your nerves and poison your mood. So here are some tips to not only make your garden pop, but to brighten up your mood as well.

  • Spend a little more on organic fertiliser to ensure your soil is healthy. Few plants can grow well in soil that cannot provide the nutrients they need.
  • Start again with your basic garden shapes and add different plants for a better look. Do a little research so you know what their growing habits are and can plant them accordingly. There are many great gardening makeover books available you can learn from.
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Mar182013
Own Home

Tips on Budgeting for Your New Home

Finance, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationMarch 18, 2013

Everyone would love to be able to purchase their own home, but these days it seems to be getting more and more difficult to save enough for the deposit, let alone to pay off a mortgage. Saving for a home can be done, but unless you are very rich, it usually takes some serious budgeting efforts on your part which will affect everyone in the family, not just yourself.

There are many ways to save money and setting a goal over some years will make it easier. If you can’t stick with budgeting for this small time length how will you do it for the 20 or more years it takes to pay off a mortgage?

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Feb242013

Review Management – Important For Your Business

BusinessBy Espresso EducationFebruary 24, 2013

Review is the customer’s feedback with respect to your website services’ and products’ quality, reliability, efficiency, safety and flexibility.

These reviews could be both positive and negative. Either way, they play a significant role in affecting your business’s performance online. The performance could be increasing and decreasing, depending on your method of managing these reviews. Some companies do not pay attention to customer reviews while others consider these the only criteria to rate their company’s progress.

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Feb102013
Security Fencing

Thinking About a Security Fence To Protect Your Property?

DIY, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationFebruary 10, 2013

Secure Protection

Security fencing is erected to either protect items on your property from being stolen, or vandalised, or to protect people from hurting themselves in an accident on your property when nobody is there. Security fences have become a fact of life for most businesses, particularly if they keep anything outside the buildings in the yards, such as heavy equipment. Even churches are having their grounds surrounded by security fencing to keep vandals out. Thieves like to steal air conditioners and copper wire. It seems nothing is sacred anymore.

The Location

If you are contemplating a security fence, you need to work out where it’s going to be erected. If the ground is rocky, or uneven, it might pose some problems come installation. If you don’t mind a bit of labour, you can even out the ground where the fence will be placed, otherwise the contractors will charge you a lot more for that anyway.

Fencing Material

You have to decide what type of fence you want – made of steel, aluminium, steel mesh or chain link, which we call cyclone fencing. Chain link can be cut with bolt cutters, but you can’t cut steel and aluminium so easily. Well, not at all with bolt cutters. Cost comes into play when you are deciding on the materials for your security fence. Weigh up the cost with the level of protection you require.

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Oct22012
Dream-Home

Ten Tips for Buying Your Dream Home

Finance, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationOctober 2, 2012

If you are tired of renting you may be thinking about buying a home. While this is a big decision and a big responsibility, here are 10 tips to make the process go more smoothly – and to help you work out whether you can really afford to buy a home.

  • Use online tools to work out the weekly cost of a mortgage. You also need to add in other costs such as insurance, solicitor’s fees, government charges, interest and other bank charges. Only when you know you can afford those repayments will you be able to go ahead.
  • It’s wise to get pre-approval for your loan so you can move quickly once you find something you like and can afford. It could make the difference between success and missing out.
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Sep302012
Photo booths

How to Make Your Party Rock

EventsBy Espresso EducationSeptember 30, 2012

One way to ensure your party rocks is to add a photo booth to the mix. Kiss and Tell Photo Booths come with many different props that are fun to dress up with to make everyone’s photos crazy and more fun. Parties are great fun for everyone, helping us to celebrate the many joys in life, whether it is a seasonal one like Christmas or a personal one like a birthday or anniversary. There are many reasons to throw a party and many ways to make your party even more enjoyable.

People love to take selfies and being able to take them with their friends at your party will increase their fun and enjoyment. They can be the ones to organise who they want to take photos with and they don’t have to pose formally, like they would with a photographer. Besides, it puts many people off having their photo taken when a photographer is peering at them through a lens.

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Aug222012
Alternative Medicine

Complementary/Alternative Medicine: The People’s Choice

Health & BeautyBy Espresso EducationAugust 22, 2012

I used to think of it as “the underground health economy.” For those of us who have been involved in complementary/ alternative medicine (CAM) for ten or more years, there was little surprise in David Eisenberg’s findings, published in the January 1993 New England Journal of Medicine, that a sizable portion of the public was using these therapies. The surprise was in just how large a portion this was – one in three, or 33% of the population — and the amount of money this group spent out-of-pocket: more than 10 billion dollars, exceeding what was spent on all hospital visits throughout the country.

Eisenberg’s paper unleashed a torrent of reaction. This was one large market! The alternative side beamed and glowed – and grew. Mainstream health professionals and physicians who had long been in the alternative closet came out in droves, now that there seemed to be a demand. “Alternative Medicine” conferences were organized, and journals were born, such as Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, spearheaded by Larry Dossey, a physician who had been paying attention to these issues and writing books on them since at least the early ‘80s.

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May122012
removalists

Bought a New Home? Beat the Removalists

Finance, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationMay 12, 2012

When you buy a new home the decision is usually made taking into consideration your budget and your lifestyle needs. Even if you love the look of your new home, you may want to change something before you move in, so don’t book Brilliance Removalists Melbourne too far ahead of time. In fact, it’s a good idea to go through your new home before you move in, jotting down notes about what you don’t like and can afford to change.

While the house is still empty is the ideal time to have any renovations done because you won’t have to move furniture around. And of course, you won’t be living there so the noise and dust of the renovations won’t drive you mad.  So what kind of renovations are likely? Even simple ones can make a difference to the kind of life you will lead in your new home.

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Apr252012
online review

How Your Restaurant’s Online Reviews Will Bring More Customers

BusinessBy Espresso EducationApril 25, 2012

When looking for a new place to dine-out, people often turn to sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor to look for reviews on different restaurants.

This means that online reviews are an essential part of business for restaurant owners. A bad review about your restaurant may make you lose potential customers. Therefore, if you run a restaurant, you need to ensure that you have a rock-solid online presence.

Customers View Online Reviews Before Dining At A New Place

This is a digital age and there’s a shortcut to everything online. Therefore, when it comes to eating out at a new restaurant, customers highly rely on online reviews. The restaurant with the most impressive reviews will be the one that will be picked out by everyone. No one would want to eat at a place that doesn’t offer nice food, has bad ratings on ambience, and poor reviews on customer service. Therefore, if you want your restaurant to be the first choice, make sure that people are posting nice reviews about you. Positive comments on a well written food menu, nice staff members, pricing, location and the atmosphere are some of the common topics written about in reviews.

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Jan152012
automatic-pool-cleaner

How to Choose an Automatic Pool Cleaner

DIY, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationJanuary 15, 2012

Having your very own swimming pool installed is very exciting. You and your family just can’t wait to dive into that cool, clean water on a hot summer day. No need to go to the beach or a public pool.  The kids will still be able to take a dip even though even when you wouldn’t have time to take them for a swim.  But after the excitement dies down, reality hits. You have to clean that pool to ensure the water is safe to swim in. Automatic pool cleaning products such as Kreepy Krauly immediately spring to mind.

Cleaning is about much more than just getting the pH right and adding a few chemicals. It is an ongoing and onerous task that has to be done both summer and winter, because leaves, dust and other debris to fall or blow into the pool where they start to decay, changing the pH of the water and allowing nasty bacteria to breed.

Cleaning a pool manually requires a great deal of time and elbow grease, a bit like vacuuming a houseful of carpet only it’s worse because of the wet environment. If the thought of all this fills you with despair, it’s time to invest in an automatic pool cleaner.

There are many kinds of automatic cleaners, so you’ll have to research them and choose based on your pool type and budget.  Just make sure you don’t simply jump for the most affordable one. The prices should be considered, but your needs and the time and energy you have available for this job are also important.

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Dec22011
Graphic-Design

9 Essential Components of Graphic Design

BusinessBy Espresso EducationDecember 2, 2011

Many amateurs throw up a website any old how and wonder why they don’t get any visitors or any conversions from the few visitors they do get. While such a website may be fine for personal use, a business website or blog needs to have a more professional look and feel.

This happens via graphic design. It has been explained this way: Design in not just to do with looks, it has to do with how it all works. So what are the essential components of graphic web design?

  • Some people concentrate of the first page to the exclusion of other pages. In fact, each page of your website needs to have a clear purpose that caters to the needs of your visitors. It should inform, entertain or amuse and give a clear call to action, offering at least one way to allow your visitor to interact with you.
  • Good communication. This does not mean being wordy. The best communication is short and to the point. If it must be long, it should be broken up with white space, bullet points, attention grabbing subheadings, images and even video.
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Jun272011
Separation and Divorce

How to Get Through Separation and Divorce

LegalBy Espresso EducationJune 27, 2011

The break-up of a relationship is never easy to get through, but it is sometimes necessary, to get your life back together the way you planned for it to be. A family law firm can help you when you are at your wit’s end, not knowing what to do for the best. While there is much information online, a solicitor can give you advice that is specific to your unique circumstances and they can also support you.

It makes a big difference to be able to talk a problem through with a professional who knows all the legal ins and outs of the matter. They can explain all the ramifications of a certain decision, something that people may not understand fully because they are too close to their problems, as well as being emotionally upset about everything.

It is usually better to try and settle things out of court. For a start it is a speedier process and it is also a great deal cheaper. Having a solicitor on your side will facilitate matters and help you understand how you can proceed to get that separation and divorce underway with the least amount of strain and stress.

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May22011
A Bug In The Dark

A Bug In The Dark

Health & BeautyBy Espresso EducationMay 2, 2011

Our language is so curious. “I have a bug,” we says, and the mental images can be varied: we hold a small cage with a little bug in it; we cradle a bug in her hands; a bug sits in our throat. The latter is probably the closest to what we mean: an invisible organism (bacteria or virus) has taken hold of us, attacked our integrity, and caused us to have certain symptoms such as a cough or a stomachache. The image is compelling, but is this really how we get sick?

Our notions of sickness are peculiar to our time and culture. Immersed as we are in this culture, these notions have the aura of absolute truth. We KNOW that bacteria exist: smart people see them under the microscope, and are able to influence them in one way or another. We KNOW that certain bacteria or viruses are associated with the appearance of certain symptoms: smart people tell us so. They also tell us that the fact that the “bugs” appear together with the symptoms means that the bugs caused the symptoms.

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Mar152010
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Tips on Excavating for Renovations

DIY, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationMarch 15, 2010

Once you have decided to renovate your home it is wise to take a second look at the job to ascertain just what is needed. Many home renovation jobs are quick and simple fixes with all the work done internally. Others that may seem simple can sometimes prove to be more complicated – and costly – depending on whether you need to do foundations or structural work.

One thing about adding a deck or another room is that foundations will be needed and this usually includes some kind of excavation. Few homes are built on dead level ground, which means that an excavator hire will be required and the excavation needed could be more comprehensive that first thought. In addition, people don’t use a pick and shovel to excavate these days. You will need to hire an excavator of some kind to do the job.

When the budget seems to get blown out and you can’t see where it’s all going to, it is usually those hidden things such as excavation, foundation work, plumbing and so on that it must be spent on. Here are some tips to help your budget if you are renovating with excavation.

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Dec62009
Cleaning-Carpets-Tips

8 Cleaning Carpets Tips

DIY, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationDecember 6, 2009

While nothing can clean your carpets like a good steam clean from Brilliance Carpet Cleaning Perth, you cannot call them in on a weekly basis. And when you have children, pets, visitors, food and drink all in the same room there is bound to be something that gets spilled, staining or dirtying your carpet. Leaving it there for months until the next professional clean job is due is a bad idea. Not only will it look horrible, it will set and become almost impossible to get out. So here are some carpet cleaning secrets that you can use to keep your carpet looking respectable in between times.

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Apr202009
colorbond-metal-roof

4 Reasons to Choose a Colorbond Roof

DIY, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationApril 20, 2009

Once, all roofs were built with tile and corrugated iron was the only other choice, but it was seen as the cheap alternative. Even though it lasted well, was easy to transport and erect and offered a strong and durable roof, it was still mostly used for sheds or homes in the outback or rural areas. There was no colour choice in those days as metallic silver was the only available colour.

Then Colorbond roofing was invented, adding a whole other dimension to the building industry. Here are 4 reasons why so many people choose to build their homes with a Colorbond roof:

  • Its physical attributes. It is light yet durable and made for Australian conditions. These include bushfires. Colorbond is idea for roofs in bushfire prone areas as the smooth shape prevents windborne embers from sticking. It is easy to maintain and the colours remain bright and vibrant over many years. It is quick and easy to install, thus saving building costs. And it has thermal properties that mean it helps to keep the home cooler.
  • The great colour range allows your creativity to bloom. With colours that reflect the Australian landscape you can mix and match to your heart’s content, or choose just one colour overall so that it complements the other colours in your home. Many people love the look of a lighter roof colour enclosed by a darker colour for the guttering. This defines the shape of the roof like a frame does with the picture it surrounds, setting off the colours so that they are more vibrant. You can even choose a colour to reflect some aspect of the environment around your home.
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Oct122008
home-improvement

6 Ways to Save Money on Home Renovations

DIY, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationOctober 12, 2008

Renovations can often make a difference between staying in the home you love or calling a removalist such as Brilliance Removalists Perth to get you to a new home. While many people try to work out which renovations will cost less or provide the most value, they may not think about ways to save money when doing those renovations. But once you put your mind to it you will find there are plenty of ways to save on renovations so you don’t blow your budget.

Here are 6 ways to save money while doing those renovations or improvements.

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May122006
How to Save Your Carpet from Tradies’ Boots

How to Save Your Carpet from Tradies’ Boots

DIY, House & GardenBy Espresso EducationMay 12, 2006

If you have carpet on your floor you will no doubt know that having carpet cleaning done on a regular basis will keep it looking bright and fresh all the time. But regular does not mean often. According to Brilliance Cleaning, Six to twelve months is usually enough, depending on whether you have pets and toddlers. Professional cleaning done more often than that simply causes unnecessary wear the tear to the carpet, plus it disrupts your life while you wait for it to dry.

So what happens when you have tradies coming through the house to renovate or repair it? You can’t expect them to take their boots off at the door; they have to wear them on the job for protection.  But if the route to their job leads across your carpet it is highly likely to get very dirty, especially if the weather is wet and they’ve had to tread on unpaved areas to get to your door.

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