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How To Cheaply Create a Video of your Website for YouTube

arizonakid — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:58:38 +0000

Hi ,

I can’t take credit for this useful tip.

A friend showed it to me. So if you can’t afford to buy Camtasia Studio or equivalent software then here is a simple way to create a video of your website and load onto youtube or use it on your website
Once you have your website online, bring it up on your pc or laptop. Mount a video camera on a tripod and aim it at the monitor (zoom in enough to only show the website) and simply videotape your website.
Scroll down slowly, of course, slow enough so people can read everything.
Then upload it to youtube.

The best ideas are the simple ones
have a great day
Tony

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Disable Right Mouse Tip

arizonakid — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:44:48 +0000

Hi there

we are snowed in on the South Coast of England, two TV’s broken this year so I thought I would use the time to find some useful tips for web users

Most people know how to view the source code of a webpage by right clicking and choosing view page source. You should only do this to pick up tips on how someone has created a particular look in their website.
However some people unscrupulously use this feature to steal things. e.g. You may have an order page that sends a user to your download page to receive an ebook that they have paid for. If you can right click and view the page source you can see where the ebook is located and download without paying. Very wrong.
Nothing is foolproof but you could add this code to your html program and disable the right mouse click.

Enter in the body tag
Hope you find this useful
See You
Tony

Creating your very own Homepage

arizonakid — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:02:17 +0000

Hi All

Like most people I have been laid low for over a month so let’s get started on our first webpage using kompozer.
(Remember you can download a FREE version of kompozer by
clicking

http://kompozer.net/.)

kompozer has four tabs at the bottom of the screen labelled
Normal,HTML Tags, Source and Prview.
In Normal mode select insert Table.
Select precisely and enter rows 2 columns 1 width 550.
Select Advanced edit, attribute, and choose align center,
bgcolor aqua
click ok twice and you will see your table.

If at any stage you are not happy or you have made a
mistake. Select Edit and Undo (or press CTRL Z).

If you have created a header with an approximate size of
with a size of 550 x 100 you can enter it in the top row of
your table by completing the following.

With your cursor in the first row select Image from the top
menu and select your image that you created and press OK.

If you haven’t created an image yet just continue by
placing your cursor in the second row of the table and
select Insert from the top menu, then table
select precisely and enter rows 12 columns 3 width 550.
Select Advanced edit, attribute, and choose align center,
bgcolor aqua (if you do not like the colors listed then
choose another color and select Source on the bottom Menu, find the link (Bold and underlined below) and change the color.

style=”background-color: Aqua; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left; width: 550px;”
border=”1″ cellpadding=”2″ cellspacing=”2″>

style=”width: 500px; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;”
border=”1″ cellpadding=”2″ cellspacing=”2″>

A good place to find colors for your webpages is to be found at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

Now we can add text to the Table . Place your cursor in the relevant Cell and type the Heading Text in the relevant Cell. Highlight the text and
select Align Center.

Now place your cursor in the cell below the Heading , type in your Label , highlight the label and select Then Insert Link and type in the
Website link for the text.

Remember to save the site as ‘yourhomepage.html’

So now you can build up your Homepage with your favourite Web Sites, Utilities, Tutorials etc..

When you have finished you can edit the Tools, Internet options , Home Page in your browser – putting in the location of your Homepage.html that you have just created. So now whenever you load your Browser you will be able to see all your utilities and favourits on one screen.

If you have any problems then leave a comment.

Till next time

Take care

Tony

Creating our first WebPage

arizonakid — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:27:01 +0000

While I was laid low with ‘Man Flu’ I gave some thought to the type of website we should create and I thought that there were plenty of examples of websites on the Internet and we should look at something that was going to be useful.

Remembering that a webpage can easily be created using HTML I thought that it would be useful to create a page that you can keep on your desktop and assign it as your Homepage similar to the one shown here:-

The aim is to have at your fingertips all the important information you need when you are browsing.
As you can see my design is one of a table within another table, consisting of three columns and eight rows. The headings are the groups that are important to me, Favourites, Utilities, WebSites and Blogs. I then added a TODO category. As you can see the layout is entirely upto you and can be quite flexible so give it some thought and in the next post we will start to set your site up from scratch.

Till next time

Take care

Tony

Designing a HomePage

arizonakid — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:14:30 +0000

I was wondering what type of WebPage we would create together to start on our Website. After a little soulsearching I thought that it would be useful to look at designing a HomePage. Everytime we log into our browser we are met with a Google Page or some other commercial page so I decided to setup a page that would be useful to the user. We will start on this next time but if you want to look at the type of page we will be setting up take a look at http://www.tonyprodger.com/websitecourse/MyHomePage.html

Gathering Tools

arizonakid — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:03:11 +0000

Hello again

The weather here in the UK is damp but not as cold as earlier in the week.
I hope that you have had a chance to investigate and maybe choose your domain and set up your Web Hosting. if you have had any problems then please feel free to leave a comment or enter a support topic at my Help Desk .

Now having setup our domain and hosting we need to start to setup our first Web Page. Now again it is fairly easy to get hold of free web-pages on the Internet or even to have them written for you but I believe that it is important for you to create your own. Just imagine the feeling of achievement that you will get when you see your own site on the Internet.The first tool that you will need is a HTML Editor. As in all things you can spend a fortune on buying an upmarket web-designer in the Hundreds of Pounds/Dollars. However this course is focusing on the easy and basic methods so your task for today is to use Google and look up HTML Editors.

I am recommending you look at NVU and Kompozer. I will be using Kompozer for this series of tutorials.

Anyway, have a look and see what you think. Play around with the one you choose and I’ll see you later

regards

Tony

Welcome to My Blog

arizonakid — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:15:45 +0000

I am setting up some tutorial sites and intend to use this Blog to communicate with friends who have opted into my ReallyBasic Program. If you wish to receive emails then complete the form at the top of the page. (You will receive 9 EBooks as a thank You).

You can view details about me and my family at My Web Site.

I first got involved with Computers in 1982 when the PC first launched. Recently I have been involved in designing Websites and setting up Websites for several people. I use Hostgator as my Hosting Company and you can find and register Domain Names at the site.

Several people have been asking about Web Design so I thought that we would take a look at designing a simple Website.
However before we start we should look at two of the most important aspects that we will have to meet as soon as we have any designed our web pages..

These are Domain Names and Web Hosting.

There are several places on the Internet that provide cheap or even Free web Hosting facilities and if you only wish to place some family pictures and Family Trees on the Internet there is nothing wrong with that. however if you are looking to do something more substantial then you require a more substantial Web Hoster. For one thing your Website will appear more professional with a site called JohnSmith.com as opposed to SomeWebSite.com/JohnSmith.

I suggest that you carry out a Google Search for WebHosting to look at alternatives if you don’t like Hostgator. The one thing that I believe your WebHoster must have is CPanel Hosting. so a Google Search for cpanelhosting will yield some alternatives.

Cpanel is important because it allows you to design your website layout easily and by using Fantastico Blogs, Databases, Guestbooks etc can be added very easily.

If anyone is interested in looking closer at CPanel there are some Videos teaching Cpanel In Depth.

Anyway for now search google to find out about Domain Names and webhosting and find a provider who suits you

Talk to you later