Sections Home About Us Services & Prices Work - highlights Work - all Hosted Domains Hosted Pointers Client Help General Help Contact Us   General Help This section is a list of commonly needed websites and information for all flymedia clients. www.NetNames.co.uk See if your domain name is available. www.NetCraft.co.uk This site is useful to see other occurrences of a chosen word within a domain name. Type in 'flymedia' and see the frequency of this word within a domain name. Type in 'www.flymedia' and see the frequency has decreased. Type in 'www.flymedia.co.uk' and see 1 result. Advertising Banner Sizes Here you can see the actual sizes and dimensions of all standard banner advert sizes used on the internet. Screen Resolutions When looking at this page, the largest whole size is the resolution that you screen is set at. 800 x 600 is the industry standard optimisation size for a website. This is because most people have a screen set to this size, people with smaller screens are in the stone age, people with bigger screens get a bit of space around the sites they see. This does not account for sites that expand to fit the screen. All Web-Safe Colours This is how you can see all the colours that are stable on a standard Mac or PC monitor set to 256 colours. There are 216 web safe colours, written in hexadecimal form. A monitor displays colour using RED, GREEN and BLUE light. In RGB 0 is the minimum and 255 is the maximum (i.e.: 255,0,0 = pure red). On the internet hexadecimal is used, this allows 100 percent to be written using 2 characters that may not necessarily be numbers, websafe colours are always multiples of 51 when written in RGB. 00=0, 33=51, 66=102, 99=153, CC=204, FF=255 (i.e. red in HEX is: #FF0000) Some people ask if we should use Web-Safe colours any more, my feeling is NO. The graphics card in nearly all modern day computers can handle thousands if not millions of colours, it seems that only emerging technologies will have trouble displaying non Web-Safe colours, and this should only be for a short time. This stance can be backed up by this article: The Web-Safe Color Dilemma. A Complete RGB to HEX Chart This chart shows how to convert RGB values to their equivalent HEX value. The values in green are the Web-Safe values. Pantone colour chart This chart can be used to test the quality of your own printer. Pantone to RGB conversion chart Lorem Ipsum This is dummy text, created to look like the average text on a page, but to be unreadable, so as not to distract the viewer from the design, which is what they are supposed to be looking at. forms and buttons, what they look like, for visual screen grap purposes. JavaScript Various stupid bits of JavaScript which add functionality to pages. Font Sizes, for comparison purposes, displays Arial and Verdana in font sizes 6pt - 12pt, normal and bold. Font Faces, commonly used web safe font faces. Special Characters All the special characters, not recognised by older browsers. Internet Domain Names Domain names, also called TLD (top level domain) are unique to each web site and are administered by ICANN. A to Z. IP PING Shows the IP address your PC is using. Search Term Suggestion Tool, suggests search words for your site base upon your criteria. File size / speed - Download Calculator, Use this download calculator to estimate file download or transfer speeds. Actual transfer speeds will be slower than these times due to latency, physical signaling overhead, layer 4 transport and transmission protocol overhead, and handshaking negotiation procedures like "slow start" and others. What is a hard refresh? various other useful links   Work - highlights 102 Dalmatians ArtPraxis Blakes International Celebrity Big Brother Cluedo Comic Relief Coyote Ugly Debenhams Dinosaur Dorothy Perkins Ergo High Fidelity Hudsons Property it is what it is IT Network Keatons Property Last Train SKY Digital VFAG Vinnie Jones Vogue