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Free Resource – Picnik Online Image Editing

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Entrepreneurism, Web Development on 07 19th, 2010 | no responses

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Do you need to clean up or manipulate images quickly and easily? Unless you are a whiz in Photoshop or Picasa, reworking images may be something that you don’t even try to tackle on your own.

Picnik is an online image editing tool that provides a variety of textual and visual embellishments such as themed graphics to personalize photographs and even provide scrapbook-like polishes.

You can crop and resize images, sharpen or soften lines, adjust layers for optimal contrast and saturation and implement other everyday polishes.

Users can also learn tips, tricks and discuss finished photos in the forums, find information about tools and features in the topically-organized in-depth FAQ section and even give feedback to the site developers using the contact sub-portal in the Help menu.

While this is a free resource, I do recommend that you go with Picnik Premium. For as little as $2 a month you get more features and content:

More effects
Beauty tools
More collages
More fonts and stickers
Advanced editing tools
Unlimited history
Unlimited connections
Priority feedback
Ad-free and full screen
Layering and more…

Be sure to come back here and share some of your new images!

We Are Hiring!

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Web Development on 06 25th, 2010 | no responses

We are looking for Virtual Assistants or other virtual service providers who are proficient in ClickBank and PayDotCom.com.

If you have worked in one or both of these systems and are confident that your skill sets are proficient to expert, please email me at info @ virtualassistantindustry.com, subject line “Click Bank”.

Please feel free to send this information to someone you know who is expert in these systems.

Thank you!

Denise Griffitts

Quick and Simple HTML Tips

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Internet Mastery, Web Development on 04 28th, 2010 | no responses

Making text bold
To make text appear bold, use  and  around the text.

For example:

Make this boldwill look like:

Make this bold

Making text italic
To make text appear italic, use  and  around the text.

For example:

Make this italicwill look like:

Make this italic

Making text underlined
To make text appear underlined (without being an actual link), use  and  around the text.

For example:

Make this underlinedwill look like:

Make this underlined

Creating line breaks
There are two basic line breaks in HTML. Use   to break to the next line or  to skip a line.

For example:

1 23will look like:

1
2

3

Changing the size of text
To change the size of text, use  to look bigger, or  to look smaller. End with . You can also change the number value if you want to.

For example:

Make text bigger or smallerwill look like:

Make text bigger or smaller

Changing the type of font
There are a few different fonts you can use, and the most common are:

Times New Roman: (this is the default for all browsers)Arial or Helvetica: use  and 

Verdana: use  and 

Garamond: use  and 

For example:

Make this font garamond

will look like:

Make this font garamond

Changing the font color
There are many different Web-safe colors that you can use in your HTML. View the HTML Color Codes Chart.

To make text appear in a certain color, use the color codes like this: .

For example:

Make this font redwill look like:

Make this font red

To set default font colors for the entire page, use color codes in the <body> command. For example, if you want:

use:

<body text="#000000" link="#FFFF00" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#FF00CC">

Including a graphic
To include a graphic in your HTML page, use <img src="URL">. Be sure to include the entire URL of the graphic, starting with http://.

Including a numbered or bulleted list
To include a list in your HTML page, use <ol> and </ol> at the beginning and end of the list, and use <li> to create the individual lines.

For example:

<ol> <li>This is line one <li>This is line two </ol>will look like:

This is line one

This is line two

If you want to use a bulleted list instead of a numbered list, use <ul> and </ul> instead of <ol> and </ol>.

How to Work With Fonts In WordPress

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Internet Mastery, Web Development on 04 24th, 2010 | no responses

Do you have a WordPress website or blog that requires something other than the standard fonts that most computers see?

AnyFont is a marvelous plugin that allows you to automatically set any TrueType or OpenType font for your post titles, menu items, widget titles or anywhere else you want to use a custom font on your WordPress site. Ryan Peel, who is the developer of this plugin is amazinging responsive to email and fixed an issue for me immediately.

The issue that I encountered was that AnyFont was terribly allergic to the Featured Gallery Content plugin and immediately shut it down because of conflicting javascript libraries. Ryan tells me that he re-wrote the javascript to remove any conflict with the Featured Content Gallery plugin and will be including those changes in all future versions of AnyFont.

See how the font you want to use will look before installing it:

If you are on the hunt for free truetype and opentype fonts for Windows and Mac, FontSpace offers more than 13,394 free downloads. What I really like though, is the ability to type in a word in your chosen font family and see instantly what it will look like. This is a time saver!

Just type the word you want into the “customize” box, choose your size and off you go!