By Kirsten on September 4, 2010
Posted in Productivity, Tips for Trainers
By Kirsten on August 5, 2010
I am not usually bothered by cookies and will delete them as I need to but the “special” flash cookies that are hidden from regular cookie control windows are really bugging me. As fate would have it the lovely and talented Woody from Windows Secrets highlighted just this issue in his latest newsletter. Here is [...]
Posted in Browsers, Tips for Trainers | Tagged Cookies, Flash
By Kirsten on June 2, 2010
Ok, I’m a huge fan of the Adobe Captivate Blog but having videos autoplay is really, really annoying! I do not want any sound on my laptop that I did not ask for or install. I have some whirrs and clicks and itunes running in the background (playing whatever middle eastern pop tune struck my [...]
Posted in Adobe, Tips for Trainers
By Kirsten on May 1, 2010
The lovely folks at NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals) have done it again! They are obviously not content to write most of the really good photoshop books, make most of the decent online tutorials, and have (Photoshop World) the best damn convention ever! – because they just came out with the Photoshop CS5 Learning [...]
Posted in Adobe, Resources, Tutorials and Demos
By Kirsten on April 29, 2010
Thank You Scurvy Jake! Check out his Pirate Blog for this fine article. You also have to love a fellow Browncoat!
Posted in Tutorials and Demos, Web Design
By Kirsten on April 26, 2010
There are many places that will help you adjust the embed information from YouTube – however, if your site is XHTML Strict (like this one is) you will still not validate. In swings Tools4Noobs to the rescue! They have many great resources in the Online Tools section. I went through five or six different sites [...]
Posted in Tips for Trainers, Web Design
By Kirsten on April 26, 2010
Putting video on a website is more tedious than hard. There are resources for getting a video onto a page, post, or sidebar but you usually will need to know what the dimensions should be. If you have a large YouTube video that you want in a sidebar, you will need to scale it to [...]
Posted in Tips for Trainers, Web Design
By Kirsten on April 22, 2010
For my beginning CSS students I always share the link for the CSShark (mako4css.com). It has a really clear intro to css section. However… In playing with my advanced Dreamweaver class today I rediscovered the wonderful extras that Max Design offers. You can find them on listamatic. If you want to take your css knowledge [...]
Posted in CSS, Software, Tutorials and Demos | Tagged CSS, free help, stuff for students