The following is a guest post by Terry Ford.
 Professional video editing software can be extremely expensive. But if you don’t have hundreds of dollars to spare, you’re not out of luck. Whether you want to edit video for a hobby, personal video blogging, home movies, or professional-quality films, there are quite a few great programs available for free on the web. They often perform the same functions as costly paid software, and they work just as well. If you’re looking for a way to edit your videos without spending money, here are some of the best free video editing software programs available.
Zwei-Stein
If you’re an experienced video editor, this program is well-suited for you. It has a complex interface …
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 With the improvements to WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System), many people are now using WordPress for their website, not just their blog. By default however, WordPress will make your posts page the “Home” page, instead of a static page. If your website is more than just a blog, you will undoubtedly want to make your home page static, instead of a listing of all your recent blog posts.
This is easier than ever and doesn’t require any coding knowledge whatsoever.
If you haven’t already created the page that is to become your Home page, in your Dashboard menu go to Pages > Add New and create and publish your page as you would any other page.
From there, …
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The following is a guest post by Randall Davidson.
Creative Commons License photo credit: javcon117
Thanks to computers, image editing has become easier than ever. With the right tools, you can edit your photos just like the pros. Today, many free editing tools are available online. The following are six free online image editing tools and why they’re great:
Pixlr.com – Pixlr was developed by Autodesk, the world’s leading computer-aided design software developer. With Pixlr, you can either edit an existing photo or create an image from a sketch online. Editing tools include red eye reduction, sepia tones, solarization, and much more. 6 Free Online Image Editing Tools and Why They’re Great
**Note: this post assumes you are using the latest version of WordPress, 3.3.1. If you’d like to upgrade WordPress and you’re not sure how to do that, please read How to Update WordPress.
Most of the time, WordPress users can get by without using any HTML code. Every now and again, however, we want to add something to our website to enhance the user’s experience and this will require embedding small snippets of HTML code. Whether it’s embedding a YouTube video, a Google Calendar, or form, it’s helpful to be able to insert this code in our pages to provide those extra features to our readers.
While theoretically, you can insert …
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Saturday was branding day. Most of the branding has been done already, these calves were saved to invite some friends over to play….well work, too, but mostly play.
Brandings are the social events of the season in many cases, and when you get friends together to rope and brand, it’s usually a pretty fun time…..especially when the weather cooperates. We’re having a bit of a dry spell in this part of California, with no measurable rain since November 20th. While this is great for a branding, it’s not so great for the ranching and farming world, since water makes the world go ’round. So, while we were happy we didn’t have to drag calves through the mud, we’re still doing secret rain dances to encourage winter to finally come and make the hillsides green again to feed the cattle and …
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Textures play a huge role in designing everything from websites to print advertisements. I use them constantly, and have even developed my own collection with some of the photographs I have taken over time.
Now I’m making some of them available to you for free!
Enjoy, and I’d love to see what you do with them!
Leather
Download Hi-res image (1500 x 1120) Wood
Download Hi-res image (2000 x 1333)
Download Hi-res Image (1800 x 997) Granite …
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 Every now and again, WordPress will come out with updates to their platform and you will need to update your version of WordPress so that you will be able to use all the new features that are included with the new version.
This is very easy to do, and just requires a few minutes of your time, and it is well worth it. WordPress always provides great new usability features to make things easier, with each of their updates. The last 2 have been great!
As of this post date, the most recent version of WordPress is 3.3.1, so if you are using a different version, follow the instructions below to update.
If you haven’t yet updated, when you log …
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For a recent final exam in school (for those of you who didn’t know, I’m almost done with my AA degree in Graphic Design), I had to redesign a website. The criteria was that this website be live and in need of a redesign. That’s it. I looked around for suitable sites, and ran across one that I just really wanted to tackle. The only problem was, it was a local organization, and I had concerns about potentially offending someone. The website I chose is for the Springville Chamber of Commerce. Springville is a local mountain community and I think it is a great little town. I have a couple of clients there and I ride in the drill team for the rodeo every spring, so this redesign is intended to only point out a few of the items that …
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SPAM – YuckPhoto credit: Joelk 75 – Flickr
My guess would be no.
After over 2 years of blogging now, I am still amazed by the SPAM comments that I get on my blog. Most of them make no sense at all, and are just a bunch of words thrown together in a completely illegible fashion.
What surprises me is that the idea of commenting on a blog is mostly to try to establish yourself as an expert in your field and provide a backlink to your website. I’m sure that most bloggers require that all comments go into moderation so they can be approved, because SPAM is such an issue, and I am no exception. Why then, if …
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Every now and again it is necessary to manually install a plugin for WordPress, instead of going through the automatic process that is provided in the plugin dashboard. Especially if you are looking for a particular plugin by name, WordPress will not always find the exact one you’re interested in, however you have access to the download through the plugin website.
In this example I will be installing the Add Google Plus One Social Share plugin to my website San Joaquin Valley Fun. While I don’t believe this is one that cannot be accessed through the plugins dashboard in WordPress, for demonstration purposes, I will be installing this manually.
To install plugins, or …
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