Multimedia

Easily Convert Video, Edit Multimedia Files and More with AVS4YOU

March 30, 2010

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 [...]

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Easily Resize Images for the Web and Email

December 20, 2009

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 [...]

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Additional Image Sizes In WordPress

November 24, 2009

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 [...]

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Understanding DPI, Resolution and Print vs. Web Images

August 10, 2009

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 [...]

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Flash Intro Pages

November 13, 2008

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 [...]

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