Easily Convert Video, Edit Multimedia Files and More with AVS4YOU

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Whether you are converting video, editing audio or manipulating multimedia files in some way, we all quickly run in to the problem of “how to do that” and “what is the right tool for the job.” Audio, and video in particular are becoming more and more important on the web but the barriers to dealing …Read More

Easily Resize Images for the Web and Email

Multimedia is all over the web now and video in particular is catching on but for most of us, images will are the most common form of media we’ll add to our websites.  Despite how frequently they are used one thing a lot of people don’t do is appropriately re-size images for their site or …Read More

Additional Image Sizes In WordPress

I don’t frequently “plug a plug-in” but I just uncovered one today that I can only classify as absolutely essential and almost life-changing if you live and breathe WordPress… “Additional Image Sizes” by Walter Vos. First off I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know about this sooner (I’ll get over it). In a nutshell this plugin …Read More

Flickr, Search Engine Optimization and Your Images

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I love pictures and as an avid photographer and all-around web guy I’ve loving seeing the incredible images people capture, though it matters little if your awesome pictures can’t be found. On the web as elsewhere, pictures help to tell the story, as well as visually break up your writing making it easier on the …Read More

Understanding DPI, Resolution and Print vs. Web Images

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First, why should you care about understanding DPI & Resolution? In short, if you are going to print something (particularly of quality) and are every tasked with optimizing images for the web it’s important to know just a few basics about how images work on the web. More importantly, if you are ever going to …Read More

Flash Intro Pages

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Do or Do Not really is the question when it comes to using a Flash intro on your blog. In my opinion, 99% of the time the answer is “Do Not.” There are a number of reasons for this which I’ll get into shortly but to begin with I generally look at flash intro pages …Read More