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Let’s all say it together… NO AUTO PLAY!

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 [...]

Photoshop CS5 Learning Center

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 [...]

Making WordPress XHTML Strict

Thank You Scurvy Jake! Check out his Pirate Blog for this fine article. You also have to love a fellow Browncoat!

How can you embed YouTube and still validate XHTML Strict?

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 [...]

Need to scale video for a website?

Need to scale video for a website?

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 [...]