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Creating an Effective Home Page

Once you have selected the content and structure of your website, it is crucial to understand how to effectively combine text and images to create an attractive site that draws in visitors. Keep in mind that design is merely a vehicle for presenting your content, which is ultimately what matters most. Both concepts must be balanced. Avoid saying too little with poor execution or having a visually appealing design with meaningless content. You may also encounter pages overloaded with pretty pictures that take minutes to download. A page that takes longer than 15 seconds to load will likely not be very user-friendly. Visitors prefer to go elsewhere.

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Common Features of IPC Light Mechanisms

These mechanisms are implemented as a unit and share common features, including:

• All mechanisms have a table whose entries describe their usage. Each table entry has a numerical key chosen by the user.
• Each mechanism has a 'get' call to create a new entry or retrieve an existing one. The parameters of this call include a key and a mask of flags. The kernel searches the table for an entry that matches the provided key.
• If the key is set to IPC_PRIVATE, the kernel occupies the first free entry. Subsequent calls will return this entry until it is released.
• If the IPC_CREAT flag is active in the mask, the kernel creates a new entry if there is no match for the provided key. If both IPC_CREAT and IPC_EXCL flags