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Setting up WordPress websites has become a regular part of my work. Much more than just for blogs, the platform is ideal for rapidly launching sites. In fact, nine out of ten WP sites I launch are non-blogging sites. I thought for my sake and for others who are looking for a checklist for what needs to be done to setup a WordPress website, I'd punch out a basic checklist for the process. This may get quite l
June 17, 2008
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While Photoshop is absolutely packed with bells and whistles, there are a few key tools to unlocking its full potential. The Quick Mask feature in Photoshop is one of them. Quick Mask is essentially a selection tool on steroids. It allows one to select down to the pixel a given area of a photo. While there are many uses for selection to alter color, sharpness and other effects, a very common use is to knock-out a background around an object.
Step 1. Select the background
WIth the shift
March 15, 2008
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We love lists and if you can compact information into a set of 10, then you've found the holy grail of blog post formats. Searching Google with the phrase "10 reasons" turned up 190,000,000 results.
There is something tight about a list of 10. It's long enough to convey a good amount of information but short enough to assimilate and remember. It just seems complete that number 10. So, in good fashion, what would a post on list-items be without rounding to the number 10.
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October 9, 2007
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When uploading an image to your blog, it's important to include some essential attributes. Using a WYSIWYG editor like FCKEditor for WordPress gives you preset elements. The screen shot above is a typical example of some of the more common attributes that you should employ.
URL is the location online where the graphic will be posted. The upload tab allows you to send an image from your desktop to the web server.
The html code looks like <img src="http://www.domain.com/su
September 28, 2007
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Today's post features the third Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) Video Tutorial on font usage. The video is just over 4 minutes in length.
One important aspect of web publishing is effectively applying font treatments to make text more readable. With a few adjustments to fonts, the readership of a site will find it easier to assimilate the important information shared with them.
The tutorial shows how to apply several different font attributes to create a more unique and design centered prese
September 12, 2007
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Today’s post features the second Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) Video Tutorial on creating horizontal tabs such as are used for the top navigation of this website. The video is 4 minutes in length.
What is most excellent about CSS is how a few lines of code in the styles greatly alters the visual structure of a page element.
With a recently purchased microphone headset the quality of the recording is greatly improved. Let me know what you think and what else you would like to learn abo
September 8, 2007
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Today's post features the first in a series of Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) videos covering some attributes of the body tag. The purpose of these videos will be to highlight basic CSS concepts that will assist bloggers in manipulating their sites. These tutorials will be rapid fire in that I will cover information with the reader in the same manner as I would if you were sitting in front of me. Rather than creating polished presentations, these are the raw, no frills facts that you can use. My goa
September 7, 2007
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My wife often comments, "what do people do who don't have a techie for a spouse?" For those of you frustrated with computing gotcha's and don't have a resident techie, here's some simple stuff to do to keep your computing environment at home humming along.
Turn your machine off at night or for longer periods when not in use. This reduces your overall vulnerability from hacking. You'll also save on electricity.
Use daily to several times a different virus and bot scanners.
April 12, 2007
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