Online Shopping hints, joys, pitfalls

I don’t want to hear anyone complaining about being too old for online shopping. My Mother is 89 and she still banks and occasionally shops online. She was over 80 when she got her first PC.

If you are a site owner or designer you had better take the aging of America into consideration. Accessibility is already becoming very important and will only grow in importance as more of our population is aging

And to you Mom a salute. You hang in there even though that computer sometimes drives you nuts. Yes Mother you are mighty.

We didn’t know how peaceful our life was until Cancer came along. My wife was found with Lymphoma about three years ago, and while she is now Cancer Free it still runs our lives. The treatments are very demanding on patients and care givers. Of course it’s worse for the patient, but it’s not easy watching someone you love suffer.

Even though she is Cancer Free we have to keep running back and fourth to Shreveport which is 200 miles one way. Now they want to do a bone marrow transplant just for prevention. We tired it a couple of months ago and they couldn’t get enough stem cells from her and had to call it off. Now Monday she will try an experimental drug to aid in the cell harvest, and if that works they will bring her to the edge of death and snatch her back.

Most all of the evil ware is aimed at Internet Explorer since about 90% of the people use it. It’s time efficient for the bad boys giving them the most bang for their buck. So I’m saying just give Firefox a try. It’s Free and you don’t have to make it your default browser until you are sure you like it.

The extensions are what make it great even though it comes with all that most folks need. I have 30 installed, but a lot are specific for web designers. Here is the Firefox Extension List so you can see whats available. People are writing new ones all the time and they are free. Continue Here…