How to Use Adobe Flash to Make Your Page Pop!
By far, one of the coolest things I’ve come across while searching for ways to make my pages more interesting is Adobe flash animations. They’re all over the place; go to any website and I can pretty much guarantee that at some point you will run into some pretty awesome (or maybe not so much) animated flash images. I always wanted to learn how to create flash animations, but was afraid of doing so because I thought they might be too difficult.
As it turns out, it’s not only easy to do, but it’s even easier to find tutorials that will teach you how to create them. Here are some pretty interesting tutorials that I found while looking for ways to create flash images that would pop on the web page.
Picture Animation — At first glance, the image on the left looks like a bunch of white dots amidst some yellow and what looks to be some water. But when you click on the Picture Animation link you’ll find out a couple of things: one, that the image on the left is, in fact, a lemon and two, that creating an animated image of a lemon is not only cooler than you imagined, but also easier than you thought. I say lemon because that’s the image that the tutorial uses, but you can use any image — a flower, a plane. a phone. You name it, it can be done. It’s a neat way of getting started with these animations.
Great Public Domain E-Book Sites Every Reader Should Visit!
As a writer and an avid reader, I not only enjoy books, but I recognize the importance of having access to them on a regular basis. I personally don’t know what I would do if I didn’t have books available to me. Now, with the Internet growing more and more each day, I find that my reading time is being taken up by blogs and web sites.
Recently, however, I started to miss reading my books and my novels. As much as I love print copies of books, the reality is that it is so much more convenient these days to look for e-books that can fill that void. The problem is that a lot of the mainstream e-book sites charge for books, which to be honest, in this economy, is not what I’m looking to spend my money on. But I did a little research and found a list of sites that have what’s called public domain e-books. Those are free to download and enjoy, and there are many titles to choose from, no matter what the genre.
Here are a couple of the ones that I found that I was really excited about!
Gutenberg.org, home of the first online project to bring free digital books to the masses, has been around for a long time, and its library is composed of over 25,000 public domain books for you to enjoy. It includes books in almost every language, ranging from classics like Machiavelli’s The Prince to Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. It might be difficult to find more contemporary titles, but this is definitely a good place to start should you be in the mood for some literary genius. Especially useful for high school students needing to read something for class!
Enhance Your WordPress Blogging Experience
I love WordPress. It’s user-friendly, simple to understand and so comprehensive when it comes to managing your blog.
I’m not the only one that feels this way. In fact, WordPress is one of the fastest growing blog hosts on the web, and bloggers all over the world can easily understand why. Its interface is easy to use and there are so many things you can do, so many templates you can choose from — the list goes on and on.
Now, there are different applications and tools that you can add to your WordPress blog to enhance your blogging experience and make it even more useful and exciting for you, while helping you bring more readers into your space.
Web Design Made Simple — Great Tools to Get You Started
It’s not true anymore that a novice web surfer can’t build their own site or get their own space online. Social networking media has made that possible, of course, but you don’t have to limit yourself to Myspace, Facebook or Xanga anymore. There are hundreds of tools that can help you build a home in Cyberland, and most of them are aimed at helping the amateur web designer create beautiful, dynamic spaces on the Internet.
From web design templates to web application creators, there are dozens of sites available online to get you started in building that web site you’ve been thinking about. Most of them are little to no cost, and they are easy to use.
SiteKreator is an easy-to-use beginner’s tool for creating, building and hosting your own web site. With different plans that range from $0-39.95 a month, you have a variety of options to choose from . The site is comprehensive in that it explains each plan carefully, indicating what’s included with each package, and it offers various levels of tech support, going from email help to a 24/7 customer service hotline. The hosting is reliable and the designs are slick and easy to get around. You get 6 different templates with the free account which, for a novice web designer should be plenty of choices. But you can always have more if you want.