Quick and Easy Scrapbooking Pages
Sometimes we don't have much time to scrapbook our photos. You want to create something simple but effective and good to look at. One way to make quick pages is to use big photos. The photo needs to be one of good quality because it is going to be the focus of your page. You can use a normal size photo and just enlarge it. Most photos taken on digital cameras these days can be enlarged without the photo losing quality. I print my own photos out so I quite often print out photos in A4 size on photo paper. Since you are using a large photo your page doesn't need many embellishments. Sometimes just a few well placed words will suffice, other times you may want to add a little or two embellishment. Try...
Graduation Scrapbook: Ideas For High School Graduation Memories
Is your child graduating this year? The time seems to go by so fast. It often seems like only yesterday that our graduates started kindergarten. Now they are graduating high school and will be off to college by fall. It's important to preserve and document those special final moments of high school in a graduation scrapbook. You may already have a school scrapbooking album for your child, but high school graduation memories can fill an entire scrapbook. Dedicate one album for this special occasion. It doesn't need to be a large album, but one that can accommodate professional portraits might be important if you plan to include the sittings for senior pictures. Senior pictures are usually taken the...
Color Coordinate Your Scrapbook Page For Maximum Impact
A visitor to my website recently asked how to color coordinate your scrapbook page. A great question - since not everyone feels confident about the design aspects of scrapbooking. Of course its your use of colors which generates much of the visual impact of your page, so just how can you maximise the impact of your scrapbook page layout designs? How to Choose Color Schemes that Work? I stumbled across the concept of a Color Wheel a few years ago, and I've been using this kind of tool every since. Anyone who has studied Art will be familiar with this, but for those of you who are not, let me explain... The Color Wheel is a circular representation of the color spectrum, in order to demonstrate how the...
Creating a Digital Scrapbook Page in 7 Easy Steps
The steps to create a digital scrapbook page are not very different from creating a paper layout. Its just a case of knowing how to use your photo-editing software and then applying the same layout design elements. There are similarities between different programs, but which ever you use, this article will help you discover the key steps to creating your own Digital Scrapbook Pages. Of course, we do recommend you read the instructions of your particular program or, if you are like me, get someone else to read them and then tell you how it works. Step 1: Open a Blank Canvas Here's how to open a blank canvas in Photoshop: - Open your photo-editing software - Open a new blank canvas (file, new, blank...
Be Original With Your Spring Scrapbooking Layouts
Ah, spring! This is the season that so many of us call our favorite and with good reason. Winter may be beautiful and fun for those who love to ski or snowboard, but let's face it, after so many months of having to wear several layers of clothes and dig out the car before we can go anywhere, is it any wonder that so many scrappers are looking forward to the season and their spring scrapbooking layouts! If this describes you and you are ready to create some really inspirational pages that celebrate the season, how can you do this? What are some unique and original ways to dress up your spring scrapbooking layouts so that they don't look like everyone else's pages? The first thing you might want to...
Scrapbooking Page Layout Ideas
Scrapbooking always seems like a hobby that is easy to do, but generally that hasn't been the reality. There are countless stories of people with no real creative flare sitting for hours in front of a blank page with no real clue about scrapbooking page layout ideas. Luckily, in recent times some very creative people have done all the hard work and created some great resources to make scrapbooking a craft that someone with no natural creative talent can actively take part in. For example, there are now guides out there that teach the fundamentals of good scrapbook design with illustrated examples so you can see as you learn. There are also books filled with templates to copy if you're not really...
CMS With SEO
Much has been said about content management systems and search engine optimization in recent times. Since search marketing and search engine optimization are currently playing a bigger role in the ultimate advertising goals for businesses both large and small, more concern and caution must be given before you decide on any Web CMS solution. As surfers these days look to purchase things online or require knowledge on a particular topic, usually they head straight for the search engines. Never the less, in recent years, some companies building their own web sites and are building more content utilizing content management systems. Some of the web content management system programs on the market today...
Joomla Template Types
Joomla is an open source content management system. This means that anyone can write an extension of the core Joomla software program and the extension will work with it as if it was an original aspect of the software. With this being said, there are a wide variety of extensions available on the market today that can take the basic Joomla programming and extend it to unlimited possibilities. Extensions include components, modules, plugins and templates. We will focus on the themes. Joomla designs are what will define the style and layout of your website. There is a large variety of templates available on the market because of the open source concept. You will just need to know about the different...
Learning How to Change the "Site Offline" Screen in Joomla
There are many things that a Joomla developer may encounter that seem easy enough to do, but are really not easily answered. As an example, changing the default logo and text for the "offline screen" on a Joomla website seems simple enough, but there are a few questions that need to be answered before you can change either of these. Questions like: where is the offline logo located on the server? How do I download the offline logo? How do I change the text on the offline screen? The most important part of changing the offline logo and text, is finding where they reside on the server. To locate the logo, right-clicking on the image to get its properties is the easiest way to find out exactly where...
Website Content Management Software
What is Drupal? Drupal is an open-source content management system (CMS). Basically its an environment that allows you to develop powerful websites quickly and with relative ease. Why use Drupal? Firstly, it's free. It manages your website content. Easily store and edit all your content and data, display your website pages, easily and instantly edit the appearance of your website using Themes (templates), Color profiles. Drupal lets you easily add features to your website, such as Image galleries, Blogs, Forums, Calendars, Video Streaming, Podcasts, and many other features. Drupal has a large online community, supporting each other and developing drupal add-on modules to provide extra functionality...
Customize Your CMS to Bring Features to Your Website
A CMS (content management system) that is customized for your website is very helpful in keeping your site running smoothly. The more directly related to your needs the CMS is, the easier updating content becomes. Quick and easy content updates can be what separates your site from your competitors. The amount of customization your content management system might have will depend on the capabilities your site requires. For instance, if your website revolves heavily around pictures and videos, you'll want a simple method for uploading and editing them from within your CMS. This might be as simple as finding and installing a free plug-in or widget. Or it may require you to outsource the task to a...
Multiple Tasks With a Single Account of Joomla
Joomla is becoming popular open source content management system which helps to supervise content of the website and it has inbuilt features which are useful to anyone due to this reason many people across the world using WordPress a lot. Basically WordPress is useful for blog management and allows managing blogs easily and it can be used as a web address for your blog site. Joomla has many themes which are accessible online and easily downloadable. WordPress themes are also accessible to implement into your personal website which can help in enhancing the look of the website and increase the popularity of your blog sites. A Joomla account has ability to perform many things like you can install many...
The Simplest Content Management System
Content Management Systems are applications that allow the client to manage the web content such as text, pictures, video, etc. with ease, usually similar to the use of an editor. The content management applications allow changing the content without the necessary expertise on creating a web page. Text is written by some online html editors, similar to MS Word, allowing the formatting of documents when necessary. Three words that describe best of content management systems are simple, fast and reliable. Content management systems, are very flexible and with many capabilities for small and medium businesses with easy categorization of your products per group, type, brand and category. Also there is...
Selection CMS to Create New Website
If you interested in making a new content based website you have to take several decisions. First and the foremost we have to decide whether our new website in future will extent with number of web pages means its scalability issue. To choose appropriate CMS we have to know all these small but important issues. Are you starting a new website? If you are, then you have several decisions you need to make. First, you have to decide whether your new site is going to be a large site with hundreds of pages of content, or is it going to be a site with just a few pages. This entire one must know before to decide on the appropriate CMS to use. My personal choice or you can say my favorite CMS package is...
Are Joomla Template Clubs Worth the Price?
By now most web developers and designers have heard of Joomla because of its ease of use and its effectiveness as a fully featured and open sourced CMS. The backend is very powerful but easy enough for someone without much experience. In that respect Joomla has been increasing its presence all over the world. Joomla's back end is what the administrator and developers use to build the structure of the site however it must be tied with an equally impressive front end: the template. There are many free templates in Joomla and rarely, if ever, will you find one that isn't cookie cutter or bare bones. The free templates in all respects are very weak especially if you have any experience with free...
Page Caching - Speed Up Joomla Website
Joomla is a popular web content management system used for various types of websites, from small homepages to medium size corporate pages. Joomla is free open-source script based on PHP language. This means that there are no static HTML pages, each page has to be rendered from the data in the MySQL database, template and various extensions. This makes it very flexible. However, this approach has one big drawback. The rendering takes tame. Every time the page is requested, Joomla has to create it from scratch. For each request there are a lot of database queries, file reads and scripts processed. Depending on server load the page creation process can slow down loading in browser which can lead to bad...
It has already been noted down that CMS provides a user friendly experience to content creators, editors and publishers. Efficient CMS solutions provide clients with a perfect platform to carve up and communicate ideas and information. Features of CMS CMS features the following attributes: - Separating content and presentation - Text / content editors - Content maintenance, organization, publishing etc - Image/ icon management - Interactive features - Client management Why to use CMS? Let us take a sneak preview about the needs of using CMS: With CMS you have a grasp of each and every single page you have edited and can move speedily from one page to another. This saves your time and effort. With...
CMS - Why it Should Be First Choice For Business Websites
Traditional Websites only work if you are prepared to throw money at them. Lots of money. Continuously. This is because your website only works if people see it. You need traffic. This comes either from paid advertising or a strong SEO strategy or both. A key part of SEO is having new content added to your site on a regular basis. The cost of paying web developers to update your content is prohibitive and inefficient. It is a duplication of effort because you have to write it first anyway. This is where Content Management Systems come into their own. * You can make changes to your website content any time and with no technical skills at all. Better still, you can authorise any one of your employees...
Learn How to Add a Blog and an RSS Feed to a Joomla Website
Many times a client will ask you to add a blog to their Joomla website, or perhaps you want to add one to your own Joomla site. It really is not that difficult to do. Using articles, sections, categories and the "Syndicate" module to create an RSS feed, you can have a blog that allows you to make regular postings and have them all appear on a single page. I will show you how to add a blog, but first I must make a couple of assumptions. First, You already have a current version of Joomla already installed and second, you can access the administrator area of your Joomla installation and are familiar with it. The first thing to do is to log on to the Joomla administrator area. Now go to the "Content...
Your Web Site May Whisper "Stale Content" on Every Page
Almost every business web site has an element right on the home page that may reveal how effective it is as a marketing tool. What does this element say about your web site? You'll usually find it at the very bottom of the site. That means that it will be the last thing a visitor will see if they scroll down because they are actually interested in your message. It usually shows up on every page, so it leaves its impression everywhere. And it's so small that you may think that it irrelevant but its effect is often subliminal on visitors...and it just may make them click on to a competitor. I'll tell you what it is in a moment. Did you know that most business purchasers look for new vendors by...
What in the World is a CMS?
CMS stands for content management system. This is a set of procedures that allows for content to be organized and handled well in the Internet. This allows for collaborations to easily be managed in different sites in the Web. For forums and online information exchange, CMS creates a very desirable virtual office. There are different advantages of CMS. It generally improves the way different users communicate. The procedures used are designed to allow a large number of users to contribute information and send them from one point to another. Also, CMS allows for controlled access for different users, based on the roles given to each of them. For instance, an administrator role has access to all...
Open Source CMS - Joomla, WordPress, Drupal
So, what is an open source content management system? It's a software program that is adaptable to all websites that helps to organize the content on the website. It doesn't matter if it is text, video, music, pictures, or whatever, your content will be organized. It doesn't take someone who is skilled to operate these systems either. Someone who has little knowledge or few computer skills could easily operate the open source content management systems because it pretty much does all of the work for you. Joomla is a perfect example of an open source CMS. It actually is the most popular CMS on the market today. It doesn't matter how big or how small the website is, Joomla can handle it. Large...
Usefulness of Open Source Content Management System
As the name suggests open source content management means open source content management system permits its users to easy monitoring, storage and publishing of different types of content. Image media, electronic documents, computer files, website content, etc are types of content that can be managed by open source CMS. It is of two types namely web based and inter-office. Before implementing this system first you should be aware as to how it works so that you get maximum benefit out of it. You can achieve uninterrupted inter-office communication and smooth functioning by the traditional format of CMS. The system supports hundreds of site contributors and facilitates better communication. You can...
How To Use Wordpress As Your CMS
Wordpress is a fantastic Content Management System, but as it is set up by default more to be a blogging platform, many users initially get a little discouraged. This article will look at how to get the most out of Wordpress as a fully fledged CMS. Wordpress Wordpress started life in May 2003 as a pure blogging platform. The CMS is open-source, and comes in two forms, the hosted version, and the self hosted wordpress.org version, which allows any user to install Wordpress on their own domain. As its primary job is to be a blogging platform much of the back end is constructed in such a way to make life easy for bloggers. Features such as quick comment replies, approvals, and managing authors, make...
iNove Dofollow For Wordpress
Without going into the in's and out's of the nofollow rel tag for comment posting, let's just say I do not like it. So to this end I modified the iNove theme to take it out. There are two modifications you can make the the iNove theme. One is a fix so your can use a "Dofollow" pluging of your choice, and the other is a quick fix in the iNove theme itself. To make a modification to be able to use a "Dofollow" plugin see the steps below: With your code editor of choice find and open" /wp-content/themes/inove/functions.php" # Look for these lines of code around line 230: Erase all the lines above and instead insert the following code: Now save and check check your work. Install your "Dofollow" plugin...
How To Choose the Right Contractor
Step 1 - Organize your Ideas One of the most important steps before you begin meeting with Contractors to work up estimates is to educate yourself about the work you want to have completed. The internet, library, neighbors, etc. are all good places to start. Your goal is to get several estimates or bids that are all based on the same scope of work; apples to apples if you will. You have to be able to provide the Contractor with enough information so they can prepare an estimate that meets your goals and you must provide each Contractor with the same scope of work. If not, the pricing that you get from each Contractor will be very difficult to interpret which could slow you down and ultimately cost...
Is Now a Good Time to Remodel My Kitchen?
Well, Yes and No. It may not be a good idea to remodel if you were just laid off or are starting a new job. It’s probably not a good idea if your adjustable rate mortgage went up and you are struggling to meet your house payments and it’s definitely not a good idea if you are living off of credit cards paying interest for everyday expenditures. But let’s assume you’ve been on your job for awhile and your position is not in imminent danger. Let’s also assume you have chosen to live within your means and haven’t spent 6 cents for every nickel you’ve earned the last few years. And finally let’s assume that your credit is good and perhaps you even have some savings tucked away...
Search for Keywords in PDF
Majority of articles, dissertations, thesis and other significant written projects are now converted to PDF. The popularity of PDF files has made some paper books lose its value since PDF are accessible online and can save space physically. However, for readers who are very keen in what they read, they tend to compare and examine the exact quoted words or phrases from an article with another article. In paper books, we can easily highlight the essential information solicited in each page. But we can't do that in PDF. This type of file can't be easily manipulated by copy-paste and highlight functions. In addition to that, PDF is intended for pictures, layouts of brochures, magazines and other image...
Creating a Unique Business Proposal
In a highly volatile market, entrepreneurs undertake rigorous steps to promote their business. Marketers follow various strategies to establish a strong foothold of business in the marketplace. A business proposal is one such means to introduce an enterprise to prospective customers. It is an offer that can be contract, agreement or Joint Venture. It can also be an offer of revised products and services of an organization. A good proposal introduces business to a potential customer. It is also instrumental in encouraging customer loyalty. Features of a Good Proposal: In a proposal, a marketer should first mention the main objective of writing a proposal in a summary. In this summary, an entrepreneur...
How to Make a Photo Collage
Making a digital photo collage is not as difficult as one might think. It's really very simple with most photo editing software. It just takes a little time and patience. Even basic photo editing software that normally come with the purchase of a digital camera or printer. A very good photo editing software is PhotoShop Elements and older versions of it, which are perfectly fine, often come included with a new digital camera, printer or scanner. Photoshop Elements 2.0 is the software I have used for my step by step guide, How to Make a Photo Collage. The basic steps in making a collage are simple. The first step would be to open a blank document in your photo editing software. Your blank document...
Hiring A Wedding Photographer - 5 Vital Points To Consider
An old saying reads - A picture is worth more than thousand words. While this fits in perfectly for the all ceremonial pictures, the wedding is once in a lifetime moment that one cherishes for years to come. Usually, the wedding pictures refer to the photographs of the moments from the wedding. A majority of all these pictures capture the bride, the groom & their group. We often fail to understand that the wedding pictures are not just a mere solid representation of the event. These are a real memorabilia of all the wonderful moments the couple longs to live for so long. The culmination of all these pictures in one place that is the album is something that makes you nostalgic when ever you...