Digital Synergy

Better Image Management With WordPress

admin — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:37:29 +0000

“Because the content of images cannot be parsed by search engines, making sure they are rich in meta information before publishing them is important. Here are a few ways to enrich your blog using some common sense, best practices and the power of WordPress.“

Author: Daniel Pataki @ Smashing Magazine

URL: http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/05/26/better-image-manage …

Automate Image Resizing

admin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:04:12 +0000

If you’ve recently purchased a new digital camera, you will probably noticed by now the very large file sizes created for each image. While this is usually not a problem for storage of these raw files, it can be an issue when you are trying to email photos or upload them to a web server where smaller file sizes are desired and recommended. If you’ve tried re-sizing photos, it can be a laborious task dealing with each photo separately.

To help you easily resize your photos, here is a link to some software that you will find handy. Go to:

http://www.12oclocker.com/soft/resizer.htm

and download the software program (and the GDIPlus if you are using Windows XP or 2000) and install.

Directions

1. Open the directory/folder that you have your desired photos in.

2. Open the PicResizer software, set Max Width and Max Height to 1600 (or whatever pixel size you prefer) and Quality to 100.

3. Then select and drag and drop your photo(s) onto the PicResizer window and it will automatically resize the photo(s), create a sub-directory within the original directory (called small by default) and place the re-sized photo(s) in that new directory.

As you can see, I’m also inferring that it will handle multiple selected photos and re-size them all, automatically.

Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:24:01 +0000

“You’ve done all the right stuff, but your site doesn’t look or work as it should in the latest browsers. You’ve written valid XHTML and CSS. You’ve used the W3C standard Document Object Model (DOM) to manipulate dynamic page elements. Yet, in browsers designed to support these very standards, your site is failing. A faulty DOCTYPE is likely to blame. This little article will provide you with DOCTYPEs that work, and explain the practical, real–world effect of these seemingly abstract tags.”

Author: Jeffery Zeldman @ A List Apart

URL: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/

What is HTML 5 and why should we care?

admin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:13:19 +0000

“HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML. This code can now be used for new functions that can benefit developers and Internet users

HTML5 introduces a number of new elements and attributes, here are some of the most important of them.”

Link to URL – http://www.focus.com/images/view/11905/

Author : Unknown @ Focus.com

HTML Cheatsheet

admin — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:54:33 +0000

Here’s a handy HTML cheatsheet to refer to when you are looking for an HTML tag that you might need.

Website – webmonkey

URL – http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/html_cheatsheet/

Microsoft seeks to rid the world of IE 6

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:20:25 +0000

Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6. And neither should acquaintances. Educate others about moving off of Internet Explorer 6.

For more information see http://ie6countdown.com/

Understanding Post Types and Taxonomies

admin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:38:01 +0000

With the release of WordPress 3.0, two great ways to better organize and display content were introduced: post types and taxonomies. These two advances improve WordPress’ role as an all-around content management system, and they continue to prove that WP is not just a blog platform. When 3.1 releases with post formats, it will be imperative that you understand how to use and understand post types and taxonomies.

Author: Adam Murray

Article URL: http://net.tutsplus.com

WordPress for iOS

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:10:44 +0000

It’s a whole new WordPress for a whole new platform. WordPress for iOS is now optimized to take advantage of the iPad’s new user interface, making blogging even easier than ever before. Download it from the App Store today.

WordPress wins “Hall of Fame” CMS Award

admin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:05:04 +0000

WordPress adds to it’s long list of awards, see Open Source Awards

Hall of Fame CMS

This category is reserved for those CMSes that have won the Open Source CMS Award at least once in previous years.

We are pleased to announce that WordPress has won the Hall of Fame CMS category in the 2010 Open Source Awards.*

Winner: WordPress

1st Runner up: Drupal

2nd Runner up: Joomla!

*As a result of a tie between Drupal and WordPress, an extra independent judge Mark King was brought in for a decisive vote.

Congratulations to WordPress and a thank you to Drupal and Joomla! for taking part in the Awards this year.

Announcing FREE Web Hosting

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:24:10 +0000

How can that be, you ask – nobody does that! But WE do, as a thank you to all of our loyal customers that help us grow our business by referring new hosting customers to us.

Here is how it works. To qualify, you need to be a current customer with good account standing (ie: paid in full). To get your free hosting, all you need to do is refer someone to us that becomes a new hosting customer. As soon as your referral completes their sign up, we will issue you a credit for the value of your referral’s annual hosting fees which you can then use against your web site’s hosting fees for the next year.

So, for example, if your referral signs up for our “Standard” hosting package, we will issue you a coupon to the value of $100.00 which you then apply against your own hosting fees for the upcoming year.

Pretty easy, huh? Especially when you consider that you are advocating our excellent full-service hosting packages that are rock solid reliable and the great personalized service and support that comes with them.

Another way that we bring synergy to your digital world!