Podcasting is distributing digital audio files for playback at a later time. It is a play on the words “broadcasting” and “iPod,” even though podcasting works on any music player, not just the Apple iPod. For more on podcasting, read …[Continue]
Digital Photo Organizer
Picasa from Google, is a free Windows download for organizing digital photos. It eliminates the need to manually organize photo files, and replaces it with a powerful thumbnail search system. Picasa also includes editing tools for cropping, rotation and red-eye …[Continue]
Writing URLs
When writing about your website, should you include the “http://” in your URL? Here’s a rule of thumb. For offline use, such as business cards and envelopes, drop the “http://” prefix. But for anything electronic, such as word processing documents …[Continue]
Search Engine Robots
If you have a website and occasionally look at your site traffic logs, you may notice visits from robots with funny names like Slurp, Scooter, or GoogleBot. These automated programs are search engine robots that crawl the Web looking for …[Continue]
Clip Art Etiquette
Before using clip art or music files you’ve found on the Web, always get permission from the owner of the files. On most clip art sites, there will be a copyright statement about how the files may be used. If …[Continue]
Royalty-Free Graphics
Royalty-free photographs for your website do not have to be expensive. PD Photo offers thousands of free, public domain photos. IstockPhoto has 85,000 royalty-free photographs and illustrations with prices starting at just fifty cents per image….[Continue]
Add e-Postcards to Your Site
It’s fun and easy to send e-postcards to friends and family. And if you have a homepage, it’s just as easy to create e-postcards (using original artwork, photography and poetry) that your visitors can send. Here are two free hosted …[Continue]
RSS
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is an up and coming online format that allows subscribers to receive feeds (such as headlines or full-content newsletters) from their favorite websites. But RSS feeds can not be read by your existing browser or email …[Continue]
