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Are you attending the International Freelancers 2010 Day?

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:55:34 +0000

Get you computer ready, rev up that internet connection and register for the Internation Freelancers 2010 Day Conference. Don’t worry, you don’t have to pack your bags. This conference is 12 hours of on line sessions to benefits freelancers of all kinds.

The best thing about it is that it is FREE. Yes, really its free. You just need to register before all of the spots are filled up. Go to http://www.internationalfreelancersday.com to register. Also, make sure that when it emails you that you click on the link in the email to confirm your email address. If you miss that step you spot will not be reserved!

I hope to to learn a lot. The date of the online conference is September 24, 25, 2010. Are you attending?

How to Use Filezilla to Make Simple Changes to Website

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:49:18 +0000

Many people don’t neccessarily want to learn web design just so that they can make simple changes to their website. And they also don’t want to spend a lot of money just to change out a few words on their website. Well, it is possible make simple changes to a website with buying costly software and learning html. I recommend using a few software called Filezilla and it can be downloaded here: http://filezilla-project.org/.

After you’ve downloaded the sofware just watch the video below to learn how to make simple textual changes to your website.

FREE Stock Photos for your Website

admin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:04:31 +0000

I’ve been using istockphoto.com for a few years now but I always forget about something they offer. FREE images. Once a week, iStockPhoto.com gives away a free hi-resolution image for your use. So, remember to check each week and get your free image download. Even if you don’t need that particular image right now, you should

Image I downloaded for Free from iStockPhoto.com

download it and save it to a place on your harddrive where you store interesting images to use on future websites that you will be building. You never know when you might need that image, but when you do, you won’t have to buy it!

Make Training Videos for Free

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:51:37 +0000

I wanted to tell my readers about a great Video capture software that I found. The best thing about it is that it is free. The limitation on it is that your video captures must be 5 minutes or less. But it is a great tool for the beginner because as soon as you are done it sends the video up to screencast.com and then it adds a link on your clipboard to the new video that you just made. This makes it easy to instantly send a tutorial to a friend or a client. You can download the FREE software here: http://www.jingproject.com/

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of the software.

Installing a Blog on a Website

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:47:26 +0000

In this video tutorial we will be demonstrating how to install the blogging software, WordPress, onto your webhosting.

The following items you will need if you intend to install WordPress onto your website are:

1. FTP Information (you get this from your webhosting service. It includes FTP hostname, FTP username, FTP folder, and FTP password).
2. A MySQL Database (don’t worry if you don’t know what this is. Just ask your webhosting service for one. You’ll need a MySQL database name, database username, and database password; you may also need the database host but usually this is just ‘localhost’).
3. An FTP program – there are a lot of them out there. I generally use Dreamweaver but if you are looking for a free FTP program, I suggest FileZilla. You can download it here: http://filezilla-project.org/

If you have the 3 above items you are ready to get started installing WordPress!!!

Watch the video below:

How to Design Art in Wordle for your Website

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:00:58 +0000

In this video tutorial, we are going to demonstrate how to use Wordle.net, a free service for creating interesting digital artwork for your website. The web address for Wordle is http://www.wordle.net.
To use Wordle you must have Java installed on your computer. This is a free software and can be downloaded here: http://www.java.com

Word Art – Free Tool for Web Designers

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:11:50 +0000

For those of you who are looking for art work for their website and like the Word Art that I created and used in the post “Step 1″, I am passing along this tooltip: Use Wordle. It is a free website that will take text that you paste into a box and create artwork with it.

Later, when this site has a few more followers, I will provide a video tutorial on using Wordle.

The best part is it is FREE! Here is the link to the website: http://www.wordle.net/