A laptop company called Rizeon, based in the UK seem to be getting some positive praise on the net yet I had never even heard of them until crawling through the notebook forums. Their whole laptop range seems to be focused on the high end of the performance scale, featuring Intel centrino technology and targeted towards enthusiasts and the gaming community.
Buying a Rizeon laptop is not cheap. As they are all performance focused the starting prices are in the region of £600 up but after comparing some other deals I think it’s fair to say they are some of the greatest value laptops around. Specification for specification they usually work out cheaper and they don’t even skimp on the quality of parts. According to their site they include brands like Seagate, Kingston and Intel. They do pride themselves on supplying reliable and high quality laptops. Their website is rather easy to use and it’s good to see the large range of upgrade options available. I’m always more inclined to custom built laptops because the mass market laptops you find in high street shops just lack performance components. Their current range varies from 13.3inch up to 17inch systems with the latter being primarily positioned as a gaming laptop because it features the Nvidia 8800m GTX graphics chip which is the fastest available today. I must say I’m very impressed on first glance. Its refreshing to see that you can buy high spec notebook computers without having to pay the premium prices like when purchasing from the larger manufacturers. Sure there are other brands doing similar things but they seem to be aiming at other niches or trying to battle with the big boys in the industry which is usually a losing battle. You do get a lot for your money when buying Rizeon laptops so I would recommend checking them out.
Losing website sales and traffic is sometimes simply a case of web usablity - your website just isn’t clear to your visitors. By fixing these simple mistakes, you’ll easily increase your conversion rate and make more online sales.
Mistake #1: No Clear Web Navigation System
Is there a clear navigation system of links both at the top and bottom of each of your web pages?
Does your visitor scroll down to the bottom of a web page only to find one or (even worse) NO links there? Do they have to scroll all the way up to the top of the web page to continue browsing your website?
Guess what - your customer is out of there. So many websites make this mistake and needlessly lose traffic.
Another mistake websites make is putting the navigation system in an out-of-the-way place that makes it difficult for the user to find. Maybe it blends in with the background. Maybe the font is so small, visitors easily miss it.
Don’t assume your visitors are web savvy or automatically know where to look to navigate your website. Make it easy for them by having a clear, easy to find navigation system. They’ll stay on your website longer, which increases the chance that you’ll make the sale.
Mistake #2: Ignoring the WIIFM Principle (What’s In It For Me?)
Does the home page state clearly and concisely what your website can do for your visitor?
Forget about telling your visitor how wonderful you are, how much experience your company has, how many years you’ve been around or how many awards you’ve won.
They don’t care. They want to know what you can do for them - and they want to know it now. In the fast-paced, hectic world that is the Internet, you have about 3-5 seconds to convince your visitor that your website is worth their time. That’s it (and that’s being generous).
Your website should have one clear statement - in an easy-to-find place - about exactly what you can do for your customer. It should state the major benefit of doing business with you or the major benefit of your product. Your web visitors shouldn’t have any questions about your site’s purpose after reading that statement.
For example, instead of, ‘Welcome to our web site about affiliate programs’, how about ‘Complete reviews of over 500 different affiliate programs. Find out who has the highest payouts and the best selling products for your website.’
Mistake #3: Overloading Your Visitor’s Senses
Have you ever gotten eye strain from the first 10 seconds of reading a website? You know the ones I’m talking about - bright red font on a bright yellow background. Or dark purple font on a midnight black background.
What was the webmaster thinking (or smoking)? Quick fact: If your visitor has to work to read your website, they’re already gone.
While your website may not be this bad, take a second look: Is there an overload of bold font? Is the web font so small you have to squint to read it? Are there tons of blinking images all competing furiously to capture your readers’ attention?
Make sure your website isn’t turning visitors away because it strains their eyes or overloads their senses.
When all else fails remember that the old standby is best: black font on a white background is the easiest for everyone to read.
Mistake #4: ‘Am I Still On The Same Website?’ - Having an Inconsistent Layout
If you want visitors to remember your website, nothing says ‘professionalism’ more than a consistent layout throughout your website. Keep your navigation bar in the same place on all pages. Keep the colors consistent and the logo in the same spot if you have one.
There’s nothing more confusing than clicking on a link and feeling like you’ve entered a completely different website. Trust is a big factor when it comes to making sales online. To keep that trust, give your visitor a feeling of always knowing where they are and which website they’re visiting!
So there you have it - 4 simple website mistakes that cost you traffic and sales. These mistakes may seem obvious, but you’d be surprised at how many webmasters make them. Steer clear of them and you’ll automatically put more money in your pocket at the end of the day.
About the Author: Kate Fox is contributing writer to Web Conversion: How To Sell More With Your Website
For more free tips and articles on how to improve your web conversion rate and make more sales, visit: http://www.web-conversion.com
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Temperature control is the control of the amount of heated or cooled air that is in an area. By monitoring these levels, temperature can be adjusted to fit the needs and the desires of the people in the area. In most cases, a thermostat is used as a gauge to allow this process to happen. Temperature control can be set at whatever is needed but this does have a direct bearing on the resources that are used as well. Managing effective temperature control goes beyond this though.
For example, if you are a business owner with a store that is surrounded by glass, your thermostat may read 68 degrees in the winter but will most likely feel much lower. In maintaining temperature control, you need to do more than just regulate the air you are forcing in. You need to have proper insulation on the windows, in the walls and by doors. There are of course many ways to do this, but the most effective is insulation. Temperature control can be better maintained when the room is blanketed and protected from the outside elements.
Yet another point to be made about temperature control is that it needs to be protected from human error. For many, you can not go to the thermostat to turn it on and off, this would not be useful. But, the thermostat will monitor the air’s temperature and turn on the units to cool or heat the room as needed. But, in temperature control that you want to maintain efficiency so programming the correct temperatures for day and evening and overnight hours is helpful. Because you can safely lower the temperatures on a cold night and raise them slightly on a hot day, you can better manage the effectiveness and the cost of the temperature control. How you manage temperature control is up to you but you can benefit from using any of these methods.
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Many industries and business must monitor and document
temperature. Using a digital data logger eliminates the inherent
draw backs of the older chart recorder. The digital data logger
doesn’t require paper, pens or maintenance. It is all-electronic
without the moving parts of a chart recorder.
Industries that have traditionally used a digital data logger or
a chart recorder can benefit from the ThermaViewer. The
ThermaViewer does exactly the same thing as the digital data
logger and the chart recorder without the downside of having to
have a computer to view the results.
The ThermaViewer, in addition to collecting temperature or
temperature/RH measurements over a period of time also
immediately displays the results as a time-temperature graph on
its large LCD screen. It is sort of like a combination of a
digital data logger and a chart recorder.
The ThermaViewer is a digital data logger:
The ThermaViewer samples and stores in RAM memory temperature of
temperature/RH measurements. It can store over 44,000
measurements for each of its two probes. This means that it can
store over 10 months of data if a measurement is taken every ten
minutes.
The ThermaViewer is a chart recorder:
The ThermaViewer draws a chart of the sampled data on its large
LCD display. The big difference between the ThermaViewer and the
mechanical chart recorder is that the ThermaViewer draws its
chart electronically, whereas a mechanical chart recorder draws
its chart with a pen on a paper chart. This means that you never
have to replace a pen that has run out of ink or change the
chart at the end of the day, week or month.
The ThermaViewer is easier to read:
The chart created on the ThermaViewer is a line graph and not a
circular line drawn on a circular piece of paper like the chart
recorder creates. This means that any employee who has gone
through middle school will be able to tell what the chart is
telling them.