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 Creating and Editing Sidebar Widgets: Play in Popup | Download (6)

Take charge of your sidebar in Wordpress!

This video training shows you how to create and edit sidebar widgets in your self hosted Wordpress website. A summary of which is as follows:

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Firefox is a wonderfully flexible browser. A strong community of developers have created a huge range of extensions for Firefox that add many practical and enjoyable features to the experience of using the web.

Here is my list of must-have Firefox extensions. The links open a new window directly to the page where you can download the add-on.

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I recently bought myself a PC to run Windows and some specific applications for social networking. I discovered what it’s like for people on the other side! I have a lot more empathy now but also I discovered that without some essential applications things are a real hassle.

So here you will find a list of essential software for the Mac and PC.

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 Managing Next Gen Gallery Plugin: Play in Popup | Download (78)

This Screencast video training will show you how to upload and manage galleries in your Next Gen Gallery on your Wordpress website.

There are 4 Chapters in this Quicktime movie. They are:

1. Adding Images
2. Managing Galleries
3. Adding a New Gallery
4. The Next Gen HTML Button

 The Wordpress Dashboard: Play in Popup | Download (18)

Here we give you a tour of the central control center of Wordpress. The Dashboard.

New and revamped in version 2.6 the Dashboard gives you quick access to all your main links and resources.

 Wordpress Widgets: Play in Popup | Download (12)

This Screencast will give you an introduction to the Widgets page in the Design tab

Widgets are blocks of content that make up your sidebar or sidebars depending on the Theme you are using. To re-arrange the order of sidebar Widgets click and drag them then press Save.

Adding plugins will add more widgets. Explore more widgets on the Wordpress website right here.

 Optimizing Images with Photoshop: Play in Popup | Download (14)

This training video will show you step by step how to prepare images for the web in Photoshop©. In this example I am using Photoshop CS3 but previous versions also have the same controls and menus.

A summary of the steps are as follows:

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This article outlines some essential downloads and setup you will need to make sure that your experience with Wordpress is a smooth and happy one. Screencast coming soon!

NOTE: All the links in this article open a new browser window.

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