The other day a client sent me a video in MOV format. Now you can use this on the web, but MP4 is much more flexible because programs like WordPress will automatically generate a player for MP4s. So I needed to convert my client’s file. Luckily there are numerous free online converters for video files, […]
Make Embedded YouTube Videos Start Wherever You Want
Want an embedded YouTube video to begin at a certain point? For example, you don’t want people to sit through an entire interview to hear a particular point that’s made. Making the video start at that point is easy to do. Just stop the video where you want people to begin viewing. In this case I’ve stopped […]
Your Smartphone’s Orientation Matters For Website Photos
I had a client send me photos from their smartphone the other day, to use in a slideshow on their website. Problem was, the slideshow is wide and not very tall, while the images were narrow and really tall. We had to crop the photos and several of them really didn’t work at all when […]
How To Remove Suggested Videos From Embedded YouTube Videos
If you embed a YouTube video on your site, you may not want visitors seeing the suggested videos that YouTube pulls up when the video is over. In particular, it can be frustrating to have YouTube encouraging visitors to look at competitors’ videos. So how do you stop screens like this from showing up? If you’re […]
Cool Effects For Your Website Photos
Online image editors like PicMonkey or Canva make it easy to spice up the photos you use on your website. Take this image of a door bolt from my collection of free downloadable photos (yes, indeed, take it!): I like the angle of the shot and the narrow depth of field. And the colours are nice too, […]
Stop Infinitely Looping Your Animated GIFs
Animated gifs are great. But like any good thing, too much of it is… well, too much. The idea of an animated gif is to create a mini-movie using a few still frames. It’s an easy way of illustrating a point without having to create an entire video. Plus animated gifs are quick to load and […]
Create Simple Charts Quickly
Making data easier to understand through charts is an important part of creating useful content for your website. There are a lot of free online chart generators, such as Online Charts or Raw, which creates amazing cutting-edge chart designs, but most are not so easy to use when you just need a quick chart for your website. Beam […]
Create An Easy-To-Use Set For Shooting Video
Video is an important part of getting out your message, but setting up a video shoot every time can keep you from doing lots of videos. Make it easy on yourself and create a set that you can quickly get up and running on a moment’s notice. One way is to work it into your […]
Be Careful Linking To External Images
Never direct link or hotlink to media on another site without getting permission or at least giving written credit and a link back to their site. Direct linking or hotlinking is when your site uses the full URL of images, video, or audio on another site. In other words, the media is not being loaded […]
Which File Type Should You Use For Images?
Use GIF only for animations Use PNG when you need: a transparent background, to keep photos high resolution and fast loading is not an issue, simple graphics with few colours such as logos Use JPG for most photos and for graphics with complex colours (like gradients) If you need a lot of technical details about which […]
Free Christmas Banner Backgrounds
For members of See How Support, here are some christmas banner backgrounds to use on your website. You can easily add your own text, using tools like PicMonkey: Just right click to download a background. You’re free to use these on any site, personal or commercial, but you can’t sell them or give them away claiming […]