DailyVisits.com -- Tips

A: Website Safety and Security

Check www.DailyVisits.com:

The McAfee SiteAdvisor Report on DailyVisits.com is good. Better than just "good".
This website has been tested by the impartial McAfee SiteAdvisor and shows no spam, no bad downloads, no cookies, no links to unsafe websites, no popups, no adware, no spyware, no viruses, no annoyances of any kind, and has their best rating which is "green". Great! Nice to know.

Check Other Websites:

To see the McAfee SiteAdvisor Report for any website, go to www.siteadvisor.com and type in the name of the website. It'll show you their safety and security findings, including any dangerous downloads, viruses, browser exploits, adware, spyware, spam, scams, phishing or other nasty things.

From www.siteadvisor.com you can also download their free SiteAdvisor program. I use it and like it. It displays a button on your browser (Internet Explorer /FireFox) that changes color according to the safety level of the website you're viewing. Clicking on the button shows you safety and security information about the website being viewed, including any of the dangers mentioned in the previous paragraph, in a separate window. Very useful, informative and even interesting. The free SiteAdvisor program also has other features that you can read about on their website.

I'm keeping the SiteAdvisor toolbar button, after having positioned it to where I want it. However, I uninstalled the Yahoo toolbar that came with it, because it took up way too much room on the top of my browser! **

** I dislike the browser toolbars from "partner companies" being bundled together with other programs. I either de-select them during the download or installation process (when I can), or uninstall them afterwards. To uninstall them (in Windows), go to 'Control Panel' > 'Add or Remove Programs', then find and highlight the name of the unwanted toolbar, click on the 'Change/Remove' button and remove the entire toolbar.

If I had kept all of the 'toolbars' I've been offered by installing other programs, there really wouldn't be much space left to view the webpages themselves! While it's true that most of them are of some use, there are almost always other less intrusive ways of doing the same things they do. Trying to minimize your number of browser toolbars is a good policy.

B: Free Anti-Popup Programs

See windowsmarketplace.com for a list of free anti-popup programs with descriptions. Also has links to product reviews, compatibility requirements, software publisher's website and other useful information.

You can test your popup blocker safely on different types of popups at www.popuptest.com.

They also have a list of anti-popup programs with their tested evaluation results.

After safety & security software such as: A) a good anti-virus program and B) a separate good anti-adware/malware program, I recommend the following software for more enjoyable web surfing to my computer students and others who ask for my advice:

What I Use:

I currently use Super Ad Blocker. It passes all of the tests and more. They let you try the full version for free for 15 days, so it's definitely worth trying out, even if it's just to compare with whatever you may presently be using, out of curiosity. It blocks over 99% of all advertising - not just popups.

The company has been around for at least 5 years (that I know of) and continually develops blocks for new types of ads as they appear online. So, it includes updates when new types are developed. Setting it to not even download blocked items (ads and whatever) saves bandwidth, meaning that the pages you view load faster.

It can block popups, pop-unders, Flash and advanced 'rich-media' ads, DHTML/fly-in & 'floating' ads, Windows Messenger ads, banner ads, webpage dialogs, sponsored/search ads, IM ads (from Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc. Instant Messengers), and too many others to list here... Its purpose is to block all unwanted advertising online.

As if that weren't enough, the program has many other unexpected and unrelated useful features. Personally, I wouldn't want to be without it now. Rather than go on about how much I like it, and its other features (protective, clean-up, scanning, stats, security-related, etc.) you can read about it yourself on its website.

It's also fully customizable, so you can have it not block certain ads, not delete certain cookies you may want to keep, etc., from websites of your choice. Surfing online without any ads at all makes it more enjoyable. You can read more about it by clicking here. It's easy to uninstall too, in case you just want to try it out.

One of the most interesting recommendations for Super Ad Blocker comes from an evaluation by spywareguide.com. The article begins;
~ "Every now and then we come across a product that really puts its use in an ethical quandry. We feel advertising is an important part of the Internet. These ads do help keep content free and pays the salaries of writers, researchers and support staff".
It then acknowledges:
~ "Advertising on the Internet today has become so intrusive and so distracting it is ruining the end-user's experience",
and goes on about the negative aspects of online ads. It concludes:
~ "In our opinion it is the only advertising blocker a person will ever need.
(And I agree with that.)

I want to mention that I prefer well-recommended freeware programs, which I can almost always find by searching and comparing. It takes something really special for me to pay for it. I have only 2 paid software programs on my computers so far. One of the 2 is the paid version of Super Ad Blocker. After trying it out, I was so pleasantly impressed by what it does that I got a lifetime subscription for it, which turns out to be very economical.
(The other paid software program that I have is a multi-part security suite, even though I could theoretically use 4 separate freeware programs together to replace it.)

C: Helpful Tips About This Website

This website is browser-friendly and user-friendly. It should display and function correctly with any web browser.

Links within this site will open in the same window. External links are scripted to open in a new window. Personally, I usually choose to open those external links in a new tab rather than in a new window.

There are a couple of facts that you should be aware of, some of which affect the display and functionality of the pages on this website:

Cookies:

This website doesn't use cookies. It doesn't matter if your computer blocks cookies or not, because this website doesn't use them to track visitors or for anything else.

However,

Some of the websites I link to use cookies. On the Page For Free Daily Charitable And Humanitarian Donations for example, many of the websites listed there need to use cookies to check how many times per day a single visitor clicks to make a free donation. That's because some of those websites want to limit your free donations to one per day per website.

JavaScript:

The floating website menu on the left side of this page and most other pages on this website will not be visible if your browser has JavaScript disabled.

If that's the case, just use the regular links to navigate the pages of this website. No problem. Or enable JavaScript, if you prefer. Your choice.

All of the live newsfeed pages are scripted in JavaScript. The newsfeeds will not be visible unless your browser has JavaScript enabled.

Using Popup Blockers:

This website has no popups at all.

But...

All links to external websites ( including the links on the live newsfeeds ) are set to open in a new window. Some popup blockers will actually prevent a new window from opening when you click on these links to other websites. If you have that problem, you've probably already found a work-around. Otherwise, you could do one of the following:

- Open them in a new tab, if you use tabbed browsing.

- Use an "intelligent" popup killer, or a popup "filter" rather than a popup "blocker". See the above heading called "Free Anti-Popup Programs".

- You could turn off your popup blocker for this website if it's the kind that's not "intelligent" enough to open a window when you click on a link. I'd get a better one if that happened to me, unless the program had a "whitelist" that you could add certain websites to.

- Copy the shortcut of the external link and paste it into a new (or the same) browser window.

- Set your popup blocker to accept popups from www.dailyvisits.com if you want. That wouldn't be a problem, since this website has no commercial popups, pop-unders, or any other kind of commercial ads.

D: Domain Names

This website is (obviously) www.DailyVisits.com

I've also registered DailyVisits.net , DailyVisits.org , and DailyVisits.ca ; all of them configured to forward visitors automatically to the home page of this website.

I've set my domain name aFriend.ca to automatically take visitors to the Page For Free Daily Charitable And Humanitarian Donations on this website.

I've set my 2 domain names ClickToDonateFree.com and ClickToDonateFree.org to automatically take visitors to the Page For Free Daily Charitable And Humanitarian Donations.

At some future date (when I switch to a full-featured professional hosting service) I'll be moving the "Page For Free Daily Charitable And Humanitarian Donations" (and related content) to ClickToDonateFree.org -- to be a completely separate and independent website using its own domain name. I'll redirect any visitors from ClickToDonateFree.com to the dot-org.

After that, I'll be putting a lot of fresh, interesting content here at www.DailyVisits.com, a lot of which will be updated daily. The purpose will be to turn this into a website that will be worthy of the "Daily Visits" name, by providing a variety of interesting content.

My domain name PeaceBunny.com is configured to take visitors to a page meant for younger visitors here at www.DailyVisits.com/bunny.html

E: Other Domain Names

My Domain Names Available is a short list of what I think are the best domain names that I have -- that I don't have time to set up as separate websites yet. Maybe some day. Hopefully. But right now I don't have the time to develop and run all of them myself. Any offers? Ideas? Partnerships? Trade/Barter? Suggestions? Comments?
First have a look at the list of names. Then, if you're interested, follow the links to find my contact information.