Link shortening is the process of cleaning up the URL link which is long and converting it into a short URL. You can use bit.ly to do link shortening. Using bit.ly you can not only shorten the link but also track the users who are using those links. To use this service go to the http://www.bit.ly website. There in the home page you are provided with a text box. Enter your long link in the text box and submit it. Now the website converts the long URL and provides you with a short link which ca...
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create a FTP from a local computer to a website. In this video, viewers are shown (once you've chosen a web host) how to perform FTP file transfers from your local computer to your website. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a process that you can use to transfer files from your local computer to a remote computer (your website). Once you've set up a hosting account, your hosting company will provide you with FTP login credentials. Using an FTP softwa...
By creating a blog, you can publish an online journal about anything you want. This iLife tutorial shows you how to create a blog to put on your website. iWeb makes it easy to add a blog to your site by providing templates. Learn how to create, add and delete blog entries in this iWeb tutorial.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to protect their privacy online. Some information that is exposed every time you visit a website are your I.P. address, operating system and browser. To view what information that you are revealing to a website, visit the site provided in the video. This site will give you all the information that you are exposing in a website. This video will benefit those viewers who visit a lot of websites, and would like to learn how to view the their exposed info...
Amazon provides an inexpensive and useful data storage service that nearly any web admin can find useful. CloudFront is another valuable resource for admins, and this tutorial shows you how you can use both to increase the effectiveness of your own websites.
If you already know HTML or XHTML, you can create some pretty cool websites. The Javascript programming / scripting language allows you to make them much more interactive, dynamic, and professional. This video series will walk you through basic and advanced Javascript coding and leave you prepared to make really great websites.
This video will show you how to create a 3D cartoon character using a website called Xtranormal. In the program, you should first pick the scene where you want your action to occur as well as the 3D character which you would like to be present in the scene. You can then type a script and choose a voice for the character to speak. The website will be able to read your script and your character will say whatever you have typed. Next, you can add additional sounds and add actions to the cartoons...
In this video tutorial, Chris Pels will show how to deploy a web site using the Copy Web Site Tool in Visual Studio. First see how to connect to a remote web site and deploy an entire site to the target location. Next, learn how to synchronize an entire source and target web site. In addition, see how to copy and synchronize individual or groups of files including how the Copy Web Site tool provides status indicators of differences between files. As part of this process see how the tool provi...
Have you ever thought of building your own social networking site? Before you get to making websites like Facebook, you need to start off smaller, and this 29-part video series is where to begin with developing a social networking community website . Before you start with these lessons though, make sure you have all the following:
PHP is a scripting language that since 1995 has allowed web developers all over the world to create more dynamic websites. This video series will show you how to use it from start to finish, covering the very basics and very advanced techniques. If you want to move you web design skills beyond XHTML, watch this video.
Adobe Dreamweaver is one of the most powerful and best pieces of software for designing, creating, editing, and building a website. If you have ever wanted to make a website, this video will show you how to use Dreamweaver to do it. If you haven't built a website, then you really haven't engaged with the internet.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to convert You Tube videos to MP3. Begin by going to the You Tube website and find the video that you want to take the audio from. Once you have found your video, copy the URL of the video. Then go to this website: and paste the You Tube URL. Change the Convert to format to MP3 and click Start. Now wait for the website to finish loading the MP3 and provide you with a download link. This video will benefit those viewers who enjoy lis...
This video will provide an idea how to lunch website and desktop menu in the status bar. This will help you to add address bar and desktop from taskbar. You don’t have to minimize current opened applications. This video will help you to save your time and effort.
Information provided by Karawynn Long's website and her cat Misha. This is one of a few excellent cat training videos. You'd be amazed at what those felines can do. Poop in the toilet is just the beginning. Feline pine is eco-friendly and great for apartments & flushable!
If you're writing a college essay or report, your bibliography is a painful, yet necessary part. And thanks to all of the information available on the World Wide Web, most colleges and universities accept websites as resources in your bibliography. But citing websites can be confusing when using the MLA citation format. This video will breakdown the process.
Aimed at people who have never created a website before, this tutorial shows you how to use a graphics program to create a website that will have an impact, load quickly and index easily with various search engines. You won't even need to know much coding!
Twitter is a very powerful way to create word-of-mouth buzz for your website if you can utilize it properly. One way to do that is creating a Tweet This link on your website, which allows your users to tweet about how awesome your website is without going back to Twitter. This video will show you how to create a Tweet This link and put it on your website using Dreamweaver CS4.
Creating a website from scratch is one of the most productive and most challenging things that you can do on a computer, whether the site promotes your own services and interests or you're being paid to make it for someone else. This nine-part video will walk you through the entire process of making a website using Flash CS4. It is very complete, and if you have the patience to watch all nine parts you should be well on your way to creating a really cool, high-traffic site.
This series of video is part 6 of this epic 60-part video series on how to make a website from scratch using Flash CS4. This section covers how to construct motion tweens effectively and use symbols to create more complex animations.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to run 4 Google searches in 1 tab. This task is very easy, simple and fast to do. Begin by opening your web browser and go to the website: GoogleGoogleGoogleGoogle. There, users will be provided with 4 windows of Google. There users are able to navigate 4 Google searches at once. Users are also able to close windows and type in website URLs. This video will benefit those viewers who use Google frequently, and would like to learn how to be able to make...
Instead of using Photoshop, why not give Apple's Aperture a try? Aperture is designed more for post-production work for professional photographers, letting you cull through shoots, enhance images, manage massive libraries, and deliver stunning photos.
How to Use Your Mac as a Server: Turn your Mac Mini into a server! Yes, that's right, with a little know-how and a little spunk, you can turn an inexpensive Mac Mini computer into a server to provide services over you network. You won't even need the Mac OS X Server, just the Mac OS X Client, so there is no extra software to buy, just the Mac Mini and it's operating system.
This video will guide you through the Evolution Setup Assistant, which can be downloaded at the Evolution website. This walkthrough will help you set up your mail account in Ubuntu's Evolution Mail program to access your Gmail account. Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendar functionality to users of the Ubuntu GNOME desktop.
You might be unaware that Facebook has a separate settings menu for what your friends can share about you. This includes information about you that can be shared through websites and applications. This clip provides instructions on how to adjust friend- a group-specific privacy settings on Facebook. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started adjusting your own Facebook privacy settings, take a look.
Welcome back, my tenderfoot hackers! WordPress-based websites are among the most numerous on this planet (maybe other planets too, but I can't vouch for that). According to WordPress's own website, WordPress powers 23% of the top 10 million websites. That's approximately 2.3 million sites using WordPress!
In this tutorial, we learn how to create your own wallpapers. First, go to the website http://wallpapers.x3studios.com/. Once you are on this website, you will be able to change the background then add on graphics that are loaded in their library already. You can also add in text if you prefer to. You simply just drag and drop all the different things into the background until you have what you want. Once you are finished, save to the gallery and then you will be provided with a link where yo...
In this video, we learn how to spice up your desktop with free Windows 7 themes. These are provided on the Windows website, where you can search through the personalization gallery. You can choose from a number of different themes that best fit your personality and preferences. You can change not only what you see, but also the sounds that you hear! If you don't see a theme that you like now, check back often because there are always new themes being uploaded to the website. These are all fre...
Add music content to your website! If you want to add a scrollable, clickable playist to your Flash-based website (like to show off your band's music), this tutorial shows you a step by step process to building this interactive .mp3 player using Adobe Flash CS3 and Action Script
This tutorial is for anyone who wants to create their own Flash-based website, even those with little to no coding experience. You're shown how to incorporate animations, loader bars, and other interactive content into your website; as well as how to manage it all from the admin side.
CakePHP is the Ruby on Rails of the PHP world, an open-source web application framework that allows users to create really cool websites and software without spending money on expensive programs. This extensive video series will teach you everything you need to know about working with CakePHP and should make your website a lot more interesting.
Welcome to part 7 of this epic 60-part video series on how to make your own website using Flash CS4 from scratch, no experience necessary! This section details how to use actionscripts and other techniques to make your websites more interactive and appealing to potential traffic.
When you need a website to showcase your product or service, it can be quite confusing. Follow these easy steps to gather everything you need to have a successful website. Start your search for a domain name in the domain name registrar. (Example: www.companyname.com) Rent space from a hosting company to hold the files for your website. Set up an email account for your company. Create the content for your website (example: products, prices, services, etc). Get internet security to protect sen...
In Safari for iPhone, as far back as iOS 7, you can request the full desktop version of websites. The process was streamlined starting in iOS 9, but the process remains relatively hidden and easily missed. Now, iOS 13 shines a light on it, as well as adds functionality to set the desktop view for individual websites indefinitely.
In this video from MegaByteTV we learn how to block ads on a web page using the Google Chrome browser. If you see an ad on a website, click the icon which is actually a shortcut to a JavaScript code. It will then block the flash on a JavaScript website. Automatically all of the flash on a page will be blocked. You can do this by using the link provided in the box underneath the video. Copy and paste the JavaScript code into a new bookmark on your browser. Right click the bookmark bar and hit ...
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You may wish to block websites from being accessed on your computer for any number of reasons. Maybe you're a concerned parent who wants their kids to browse the internet safely. Maybe you're an employer who wants to secure office computers or blacklist innapropriate websites.
If you're a filmmaker or graphic designer, you need a good way to present your work, and in today's age, you need a website portfolio. But really, anyone in the visual arts could benefit form a web portfolio, and the easiest way to make on is in WordPress. This video series will guide you through setting up a WordPress site using pages to create a portfolio website.
Code your Flash-based website so that your content can remain the same, no matter if visitors are viewing your site on a computer screen, smartphone display or even a high-definition TV. This tutorial shows how you can code your fluid website to achieve the true fit effect.
What You See Is What You Get, or WYSIWYG, is a useful type of web builder which allows new users or beginning coders create their own websites by using a type of plug and play interface. This tutorial shows you how to build an entire website using a WYSIWYG Flash-based editor.
Google is the biggest and best search engine on Earth, and if you are a webmaster and want your website to be a big success it would really behoove you to know as much about how it works as possible. The Google Webmasters series of videos and website were created to teach webmasters, SEO professionals, and others how Google works by answering their questions and giving them insights into how they can best integrate and utilize Google's functionality to improve their business. This video will ...
