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Len on August 25, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Web Design For The Beginner
I am in the field of children’s health and fitness, but I just love web design and photography. With no experience, many ask me how I have created some of my web designs, which to me, are still beginner level, but attractive and usable.
The first thing I tell someone is to go visit opendesigns.org and download a few templates. Once you download the templates, unzip them to your desktop. Look for the file called index and open it up in a web editor. I like to use Notebook++ as my HTML editor, which is a free download.
In the Notebook++ program, you can change all the text you’d like to personalize your new web site. I personally like to see what I am doing, so I also open up the index file in my Firefox browser, and click the reload button to see the changes I have made as I go along. Continue reading this entry…
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JeremyD on June 5, 2008 at 3:36 pm
When you’re a geek like me and you’re forced to survive in the wild (outside of your room), you might not know what to do. Conversations can be awkward, and often lead to you striking up conversations about that shock video you saw last week online. But I find when I’m at school, surviving in the wild is much easier, because I’m surrounded by computers. The only problem is that its not MY computer. With this article, I aim to help you make any computer YOUR computer.
All you need is a USB flashdrive. I use a 1gig LG flash drive, but something as small as 128mb will do. First of all, go to Portable Apps and download the Portable App installer. Install the program onto your flashdrive (it’ll take a while to do this, so go do something else for a while). Once that’s done, you’ll want to start up the portable version of Firefox. This is where a majority of your survival kit will be going. Continue reading this entry…
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Aeriff on June 4, 2008 at 10:07 am
So you’ve installed Ubuntu and your system is rearing to go, but what next? How about we go adding a few bells and whistles? There are many things you can tweak on your Ubuntu desktop, let alone the applications, but a simple area that is often overlooked are the panels and their gadgets.
Unlike Windows, your get two panels on your desktop: top and bottom. The majority of the bottom panel is given over to the window selector for your running applications. For most users, this leaves the top relatively empty, apart from the Ubuntu system menus on the left and the date and time on the right. So let’s make use of that space. Continue reading this entry…
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