Here are generic instructions on uploading documents to your blog and linking to them from a page: Steps: 1. remove the spaces in the names of the documents you have to upload. 2. logon to your blog and go to Dashboard 3. click on “Media” 4. click on “Add New” and a new page opens [...]
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To upload a pdf (or a photo, or a word document, etc.), go to the dashboard and click on the image (to the right of Upload/insert). That takes you to the “Add media files from your computer” page. Click on “Choose file”. Find the document on your computer. Then click the “upload” button. The document [...]
Need to highlight a pdf? or cut, modify, or label it? On the PC use FoxIt. On the Mac use Skim. Both are free and work very well. To get FoxIt you have to buy into a trial of a magazine or try out some other product, but Skim is totally hassle free. Enjoy!
The world just got a little easier for web developers who need to change their images. Go to http://www.picnik.com/. No need to register. It couldn’t be easier. Upload your photo, enjoy the very easy-to-use menus to adjust it for size, red eye, exposure, rotation, whatever, add some text to it if you like, save it, [...]
To make your Google calendar public you can follow their instructions but this may be easier: you go to “My calendars” (left hand column) and click on the downward pointing triangle to the right of your calendar. A menu opens (see image below). Pick “Share this calendar”. When you do that another page opens. On [...]
Okay, so you’ve created a calendar in Google and made it public, so now you want to embed it on your web page? You can either follow Google’s instructions but this brief instruction works for most people: Go to your calendar. On the left hand column of the page go to “My calendars” and click [...]
You don’t have to own Word or Excel to read these documents. Here are the free readers for these applications (couch potatoes like free): Acrobat Reader (for pdf documents) Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer. Read PC PowerPoint documents with PowerPoint Viewer 2007. PowerPoint 98 Viewer for Macintosh. Share your work with users who do not have PowerPoint [...]
Would you like a photo of your desktop? For example, if you can’t download an image but you want a photo of it, or you’re about to change a setting and want a record of what the setting is now in case you screw things up by changing it? How do you do it? Easy [...]
Okay, you have your blog up and running and you are getting tired of looking at that entry at the bottom of every footer of every page. It says something like “Powered by WordPress” or “Designed by ______ whoever” replete with live links to their web page or blog. So get rid of it. Go [...]
Q.: How can I go directly to my blog to edit it? As it is, I have to log in to the blog, which happens automatically now, but even then I have to go to the page, find the “edit page” link, click it and then edit. It’s kind of boring waiting around. A.: Great [...]
