Online Publishing

Podcasting

February 21, 2005

Podcasting is distributing digital audio files for playback at a later time. It is a play on the words “broadcasting” and “iPod,” even though podcasting works on any music player, not just the Apple iPod. For more on podcasting, read Answers.com or download the free iPodder application.

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Digital Photo Organizer

January 18, 2005

Picasa from Google, is a free Windows download for organizing digital photos. It eliminates the need to manually organize photo files, and replaces it with a powerful thumbnail search system. Picasa also includes editing tools for cropping, rotation and red-eye removal. For sharing photos with friends online, Picassa integrates with Hello.

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Writing URLs

June 11, 2004

When writing about your website, should you include the “http://” in your URL? Here’s a rule of thumb. For offline use, such as business cards and envelopes, drop the “http://” prefix. But for anything electronic, such as word processing documents or e-mail messages, always include the “http://” because in many applications it makes your link [...]

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Search Engine Robots

June 8, 2004

If you have a website and occasionally look at your site traffic logs, you may notice visits from robots with funny names like Slurp, Scooter, or GoogleBot. These automated programs are search engine robots that crawl the Web looking for pages to add to their search data bases. To learn which robots belong to which [...]

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Royalty-Free Graphics

March 30, 2004

Royalty-free photographs for your website do not have to be expensive. PD Photo offers thousands of free, public domain photos. IstockPhoto has 85,000 royalty-free photographs and illustrations with prices starting at just fifty cents per image.

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Add e-Postcards to Your Site

November 4, 2003

It’s fun and easy to send e-postcards to friends and family. And if you have a homepage, it’s just as easy to create e-postcards (using original artwork, photography and poetry) that your visitors can send. Here are two free hosted postcard services: My Postcards and All-Yours Greeting Cards.

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Favicons

June 3, 2003

Ever notice the tiny icons that display in your browser address bar or favorites list for some sites? They are called favicons (short for “favorites icon”) and you can easily make one for your homepage with a graphics editor or with this free online tool from Favicon.co.uk.

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PowerPoint Tips

February 11, 2003

When creating PowerPoint presentations, keep in mind the distance your audience will be from your screen. Sign painter’s use this rule of thumb: a one-inch letter is readable from 10 feet, and a two- inch letter is legible at twenty feet. You can do the math, assuming that a 72 point font is one-inch tall. [...]

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News Tickers

December 24, 2002

If you have your own website, and would like to add news headlines to it, there are several sources of free news tickers that are very simple to use. Here are three popular ones: 7am Ticker, MSNBC Newsstand and Moreover.

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Learning HTML

November 11, 2002

If you are learning how to create HTML web pages, viewing the source code of existing pages is a great tool. Both Netscape and Internet Explorer make this available under View. If you are an Internet Explorer user, and you find that View Source suddenly stops working, try clearing your cache of Internet temporary files [...]

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