Serious Content Writing
You’ve got a website. A blog. You publish/sell content. You want to write great content. You don’t have a lot of time. How can you possibly make it work for you with the schedule you have? With less than half an hour a day you can be turning out regular top-quality articles; several of them […]
Home Page Content
The main page, or home page as it is often called, of your website is the first thing that a visitor will see when they visit your online business. It is imperative that you grab their attention, and their interest, in the first few seconds after they arrive. Your page should build quickly. New visitors […]
More About Content
Keywords are vital both for search engine optimization (SEO) and providing descriptive content for your visitors. Using keywords effectively in your content can make your text flow, improving its readability and assisting your visitors to fully understand what you are trying to say. But you will want to make sure that you do not overdo […]
The Care and Feeding of Irfanview
The Care and Feeding of Irfanview is Matthew Avalos’ (at caltech) detailed help site for this great little program.
Irfanview Tutorial
Irfanview Tutorial Irfanview is a great little graphics viewer/manipulator program. It is not a full featured graphics draw program but it is very useful for many tasks that bigger programs either don’t do well or don’t do at all. Here is what the author says on his website: IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact […]
Alchemy Mindworks Graphics
Alchemy Mindworks offers Graphic Workshop, the Windows image management package; GIF Construction Set, the world’s most popular web page animator; Presentation Wizard, Screen Saver Construction Set, Animation Workshop, The Ultimate Screen Clock, Calendar Wizard, Steven William Rimmer’s novels and a lot more.
Irfanview Graphics Program
Irfanview – a free graphic viewer/sizer that is an excellent starting point for the beginner and expert alike. Supports batch changes like renaming or resizing. Useful for creating .ico (favicon or icon files).
EyeBatch batch image processor
EyeBatch – a powerful and intuitive batch image processor. Ideal for webmasters, photographers, and other imaging professionals, this tool will automate your image processing by applying image commands to a set of multiple images. A dynamic preview image will show file size, dimensions, and bit depth of both the source and destination image, including effects […]
Corel Paint Shop Pro
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 – originally developed by JASC Software, Pain Shop Pro was acquired by Corel (the Corel Draw, Corel Paint, Corel Office, people) and development continues. This is still one of the very best graphics suites available.
Cropping and Resizing Images
When sizing graphics, try to work with originals, before any compression, and with the highest color count possible. Always crop first, then resize the image. To make a small square out of a rectangle, crop the square first then resize smaller. Always keep your aspect ratio correct to prevent graphics from becoming skewed when re-sized. […]