How and when to clean AirVita?

One of the most common questions about AirVita is on How and When to clean AirVita. We will share more information in this Blog on how to maintain this innovative Air Cleaner or Ionizer.

In the AirVita’s instruction manual, the Cleaning Method of AirVita is very simple and straight as below:

1. Disconnect AirVita from Socket or Outlet.
2. Clean it in clean water or detergent-dissolved water.
3. Fully dry cleaned AirVita. (For urgent usage dry it with hair dryer.)
4. Install it and turn the power on.

It is also mentioned in the AirVita brochure to clean the device once or two months.

Well, we would probably add in some new tips for you, so that it is more specific. Although it could be quite common sense but we hope this will remind and help you to maintain AirVita better and safely.

1. Please switch off the Power before disconnect AirVita from Socket or Outlet,
2. We suggest you could use an used toothbrush to brush the outlet of the AirVita gently when washing.
3. After cleaning with detergent-dissolved water, please rinse AirVita thoroughly with clean water.
4. Wipe AirVita with dry cloth after rinsed AirVita with clean water.
5. Don’t plug-in and power on Airvita immediately after cleaning with water. Let Airvita dry for at least few hours. (For urgent usage dry it with hair dryer.)
Note: Duration of drying depending on your environment.

For some indoor environment which is much smoky or the air is more polluted, please clean AirVita once in 1 or 2 weeks time. You could easily observed and determine based on the outer surface of AirVita and it surrounding area.

That’s all for the time being, if you have comment or feedback on how and when to clean AirVita, please let us know.

Best regards,

Why setup Business Blog for TLC-Trade.com?

When we first started to build our current web site, TLC-Trade.com, we did not anticipate much or any dynamic content to post on our web site. But however, as our business progress, we discovered that we need allow more channels of communication between us and our potential or new customers, suppliers, partners, associates, etc.

We need a very quick form communication mean to communicate to internal and external parties. There are many ways to do that, take for examples, using emails, newsletters or web forum. However, we discovered nowadays, others feel are rather intrusive to receive unsolicited emails or newsletter.

Moreover, at the moment we also could not know when and what information that others would be interested and like us to inform them, especially for our type of business nature. Although we could send out a broadcast to survey and ask but it is only applicable to those we know of their email contacts. Besides it will be a lot of administrative works on our parts and the time could not be immediate. Furthermore, email contacts could still be lost or emails being ignore too.

Although web forum could be a good alternative compare to Blog, since it can build a business community that could benefits us and certainly to those that join the forum. However, the forum will still need much efforts to setup, moderate, categorize, archive and increase of many other administrative and maintenance issues. But what we want is to quickly set up communication channel that allow us to disseminate information wide, quickly and with least minimum efforts. Moreover, we already have different communication channels for others to get in contact with us. So we decide to use Blog mean of communicate to the mass.

Using Blog we could inform others of our any upcoming business news, our works, how we handle some of our business problems, share our experiences and even could be electronic notice board for others to know what is going on with our business.

In view of these benefits of using Blog, we proceed to consider whether to setup our own Blog on our server or outsource to some kind of Blog services provider (BSP), like Blogger.com or Techno. We have to decide whether to get Free or Paid BSP, and we choose Free BSP for the time being to learn and find out how and what Blog will eventually lead us to. Moreover, we might consider hosting our own Blog at our own server which has resources that we still have not use.

So we decide to use Blogger.com versus other Free BSP likes, WordPress, Moveable Type, etc… since Blogger.com could allow the flexibility to use either their free hosted services at Blogspot or our web server. With in mind that we might use our server for our Business Blog, this could be a nice feature that we might consider in the future when we are ready to use our server for our Business Blog.

Moreover, it is very easy and certainly quick to set up for beginning bloggers and/or for those who don't wish to be bothered with technical know-how. Since we thought it is owned by Google.com, we should be worry much about reliability and professional services. However, this might not the case as we later found out. So we hope that the services provide by Blogger.com will improve soon in the areas of reliability and reduce downtime.

Others features that we consider it is good with Blogger.com was it ability to supports multi-author (group) blogs, which we could build community Blog when we required. Since it also allow blogging via email and supports unlimited number of blogs.

Nevertheless, we would still be ongoing efforts for us continue to review the performance and reliability of our business blog at Blogger.com. Therefore we would decide to continue staying with Blogger.com or migrate to better Blog software or services to serve our needs better.

Best regards,

Progress and status update on TLC-Trade.com web site

I just finally validated all our TLC-Trade.com main web pages to comply with W3C HTML 4.01. You could easily view this W3C Validation button at bottom of those web pages at the web sites that validated by W3C Markup Validation Services version 0.7.2.

Since I started our corporate web site in middle of February 2006, I have been diligently improving the web site not just in the design, but also in content, so that to ensure the web site would have a better chance of rank higher at most Search Engines, like Google, MSN and Yahoo. Ultimately, the goal is for others to find our products and information easily.

In actual fact, I have incubated the web site in middle of January 2006 at my local Internet Service Provider (ISP) before moving to the current web site using TLC-Trade.com domain. Since then, I have done my research and study on the Internet and others web sites. I also received some feedback on our web sites. Although, I have received some compliments but however, I take much concerns on feedback that highlight our web site’s shortcoming and not so favorable comment.

Take for example, one of the feedbacks was the initial moving Menu bar was horizontal and will follow the viewers when they scroll down or up when reading the information on the web page. This horizontal moving menu bar could be very distracting and could be an eye sore. Needless to say, I immediately look into it and consider what actions to remedy this shortcoming.

Before deciding what remedy actions to take, I did considered on static menu bar, but however, some of the web pages are rather lengthy due to the content, and static menu bar could not give the viewer the flexibility to navigate to other pages easily and conveniently. Therefore, I settled with a vertical moving Menu bar, so that it will not block the viewer when reading the information and yet allow the viewer to have easy access the Menu bar for navigate to other pages when needed. So now if you view our web site, the Menu bar will be at the Left hand side of the Web page and move accordingly with the viewer. This could be the solution until we find better solution.

I also received feedbacks that the loading on some of the web pages are rather slow, especially with dial-up users or those users that have slower broadband Internet connection. So I also waste no time to optimize all the web pages.

Firstly, I separated some large size web pages to smaller web pages and remove any redundant HTML codes. Secondly, I optimized and reduced the size of the pictures, so that to reduce web pages loading time. Thirdly, I also try to reduce number of pictures and external links per pages to reduce latency times. Fourthly, I moved the MenuBar Javascript to lower bottom of the page, so that the web page can load first and Menubar Javascript later which usually take longer time. And I hope all this changes would help to make loading our web pages much faster.

I also in the process of implementing a few more improvements, or rather SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or SERP (Search Engine Rank Page) so that the web site could rank better at the most popular Search Engines.

However, I’m still continuingly to improve and add on the contents and also the Chinese web pages. English to Chinese Translation are still in progress for AirVita, Plush Toy Web Cam and other web pages. I also hope soon I could add in more products information and relevant contents for those visitors that visit the web site.

If you have any comments or feedback on our web site, please do not hesitate to contact us and let us know.

Cheers!