The Rhyldmc website
Help & Information Pages
How to get the BEST out of our (and other) websites
Compiled by your ever caring, sharing, browbeaten, webmaster
If YOU are having (or
have indeed, surmounted) any problems with the website, or the internet in
general, then please drop me an email, or have a chat with myself at any club
meeting.
I'll be happy to add queries on this web page for all fellow members to benefit
from the answers.
DISCLAIMER: All information
given on these pages is given in good faith - neither the Club, nor the webmaster,
will be responsable for any errors caused by any sites or downloads suggested
on this site
You are STRONGLY RECOMMENDED to install QUALITY Anti Virus software on ALL
your computers BEFORE accessing the internet or doing ANY downloads
Iain Rhyldmc webmaster
| Hint No.1 Reading
a .pdf document If your pc will not open a web page which is suffixed ".pdf", for example, the page on our site named "MARSHALSTROPHY2009.pdf", then it's most likely you don't have a program on your computer called a "pdf reader", which allows such documents to be read with ease. Probably the BEST pdf reader is produced by Adobe and can be easily downloaded FOR FREE at the link below
However - I now use a much smaller & quicker loading, but equally effective and FREE pdf reader called "pdf Xchange Viewer". This is a free, very lightweight program and it can be easily downloaded at the link below. The ADVANTAGE of this reader is that it also allows for additions to be made to the document, so you can fill in forms etc "on line".
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| Hint No.2 Install
AV Software Before
you attempt to access the internet with your computer or laptop
(or mobile phone!) make SURE you have propietry AV software installed
on your machine!
which is certainly not FREE, but gives a very comprehensive cover for about £30 a year. It runs quietly in the background whenever my pc is on and you really don't know it's there! Some free AV software is ok, but nothing "FREE" is really free at all and is often bugged by slow responces and advertising. It's also well known for slowing computers to a crawl pace at times (whilst scanning for virus threats etc) No matter which way you go (free or paid for) my advice is "GET SOME PROTECTION RIGHT NOW" - don't leave it until tomorrow, or even later today - it may well be TOO LATE, if you've currently got no AV and you're on the internet, then the chances are REALLY HIGH that your pc is infected with virus' already - a decent AV program will soon clear any malaware or virus' out of your system
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| Hint No.3 Page Updates
Want to know when pages on your favourite website have been updated? Then simply install a little program called
This will update you by email, on a daily basis, whenever the page(s) you have "marked for watching" have been updated on a website. I find this very useful for keeping fully up to date with event entry lists and scoretables. YOU might find it handy on the Rhyldmc website for keeping up to date with the "What's on" (diary) pages, as an example, which is constantly under review.
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Hint No.4 Reading a .pdf document (2) Because of the file size of some of them, if you open a .pdf document on this website, it will sometimes appear as tiny print, almost too small to read. If
this happens to you, simply go to the toolbar at the top of the .pdf
page and increase the viewing size from whatever is stated (say, 20%)
until the page is clear enough for you to view properly (Maybe 200%,
or more, or less)
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