Spinal Cord Injury and Thrill Seeking Wheelchair Adventures
Posted on August 8 2009 Read more...

Gimp – A Word Not A Condition

Two Certain Things About Being a Gimp: Each of us wonders how or why it had to happen to us. If you haven't experienced it, you will probably never fully understand what it's all about.   For me it happened gradually and nobody connected the dots. In my 30's I was on "the rack" to stretch my spine. The symptoms went away and the whole thing was forgotten. In ...
Posted on August 1 2009 Read more...

Skin Care After Spinal Cord Injury

People with spinal cord injury living life in a wheelchair are at greater risk of skin damage like pressure sore areas due to loss of feeling and reduced sensation to parts of their body. Combined with loss of muscle function, poor circulation and often poor nutrition people with spinal cord injury often develop such pressure sores. Left unattended these can quickly become life threatening. While both vulnerable, people with quadriplegia ...
Posted on July 25 2009 Read more...

Janine Shepherd – Learning To Fly

Janine Shepherd was a 24 year old cross country skier in training for the winter Olympics when her life took a dramatic turn in 1986, hit by a truck while training in the Blue Mountains. Janine suffered terrible spinal cord injuries breaking her neck and back. Doctors and family feared she would not survive. Her incredible strength and determination forged an inspirational life story of great ...
Posted on July 18 2009 Read more...

MND Carers – A Very Special Kind Of Person

Hi my name is Marilyn and I would like to share with you an experience that changed my life forever. Going back can open old wounds that I have been trying to heal for the last six years after caring for my dear husband who eventually died of Motor Neurone Disease. A progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the upper and lower motor neurones. Degeneration of the motor ...
Posted on July 11 2009 Read more...

Portfolio – MSC Web Site Creation

Web Design Portfolio - Creative people build creative web sites. MSC web site design and creation covers a diverse range of websites from simple HTML to customized CMS (Content Management Systems) storefronts and ecommerce web sites backed by databases and merchant accounts. We build new or update existing web sites and convert between formats if you need to move hosts. We also provide statistics, maintenance schedules and SEO (Search Engine ...
Posted on July 4 2009 Read more...

Improving SEO with a valid XML Sitemap

Google Webmaster Tools offers a Python script to help you build an XML Sitemap quickly. You don't need to know XML or Python code to get your website indexed correctly. A valid XML sitemap also makes your website more search engine friendly. Here I'll show you how to modify, setup and run these files to create your XML Sitemap. I will be using Powweb as the host ...
Posted on June 27 2009 Read more...

Publishing a New Dreamweaver Website

You've made your website in Dreamweaver and want to upload or publish it to your host webspace. When uploading or publishing your web page files for the first time with Dreamweaver you first need to 'Define' where you want to 'Put' your local and remote files. In this example we use PowWeb as our host and Dreamweaver MX 2004 screenshots. Open Dreamweaver and Click on Sites> Edit Sites ...
Posted on June 20 2009 Read more...

Dumping Windows XP Cache

How to delete Windows Xp cache and remove temporary internet files that Disk Cleanup fails to. This is a good maintainece practice. Dumping your internet cache files completely in Windows XP or any Windows version from 98 to Windows 7 can increase performance, free up disc space and prevent people from tracking you on the internet via old cookies stored on your system. 1) Close all Programs 2) Run Disk Cleanup: ...
Posted on June 19 2009 Read more...

New Mad Spaz Club Web Site

The primary focus of the Mad Spaz Club is disability adventure, personal stories, advocacy and information supporting those impacted by spinal cord injury. Many people don't fully realize a spinal cord injury not only affects the person living in a wheelchair. Their own immediate family friends and loved ones are impacted. Relatives, work collegues, your local doctor all become involved in one way or another. One third of the population ...
Posted on June 13 2009 Read more...

WYSIWYG Website Builders

WYSIWYG (pronounced "whizzy-wig") A website building application that enables you to see content on-screen exactly as it will appear when uploaded to the internet or printed out, hence What You See Is What You Get. The market for WYSIWYG editors is blazing new territory. Rival companies fuel the fires creating sophisticated, feature packed, powerful applications time after time. Back end capabilities through an intuitive interface ...
Posted on June 6 2009 Read more...

FTP ASCII File List

FTP file types and extensions to be uploaded in ASCII mode. When FTP uploading or publishing files to the internet they need to be transferred in the correct mode to display properly. ASCII (pronounced Ask-ee) stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII files are plain text files usually created in a basic text editor like Notepad or Simpletext. ASCII mode transfers each text character ...
Posted on May 30 2009 Read more...

Mirror Reflect Java Applet

While some Java Applets such as Java Chat applications and 3D room navigation are still used by webmasters and designers these simple applets are not so common on the net these days. More of a trip down nostalgia lane than anything practical. If these Java Art Applets inspire you to tinker with them yourself simply download our zip file. They contain the necessary class and ...
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