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Embedding Video in your Microsoft FrontPage Website

Dwayne — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:15:34 +0000

One of the most common tasks clients ask me for help with is how to paste Youtube or Google video into their Microsoft FrontPage website. It’s really a snap to embed videos but there are a couple of foundation principles you must know to do it.

You’ll need to know how to use your clipboard to select, copy, and paste. You will need to be able to look at, copy, and insert (paste) html code into your page HTML. Now don’t get nervous…HTML is just some formatting that makes the page appear in your visitors browser. Normally FrontPage isolates you from working in HTML. But this is going to be easy, so follow along. Let’s get started!

The best way is to start a new page for this to practice on so you don’t mess up a working page while practicing. So open up FrontPage and make a new page in your site.

Notice in FrontPage at the bottom of the page editing window there are tabs for Normal, HTML, and Preview. If you click the HTML tab it will show you the HTML code of the current file. So if you started a video.htm page for example you can look at the code of that page. Now go back to normal view and put some text on the page. Just write a couple sentences, then go back to HTML view and see the changes. Now minimize FrontPage and go to your Web Browser.

Now go to YouTube or Google Video and locate the first video you want to embed. Both sites have embed code they create for you on the video page. Find the video you want to embed. Locate the the embed code on the video page and select and copy it to your clipboard. Then go to FrontPage and look at the html code of your page again. This is where you’re going to ‘paste’ this embed code. (Please note that some publishers block embedding so if you can’t find the embed code try a different video.)

Switch to normal view and locate the spot where you want the video to appear. Put your cursor there. You may need to hit a carriage return to put the cursor where you want it below the text. Once the cursor is there, hit the SPACE bar a couple time to make a couple blank spaces on the page. Then select these blank space with your mouse, or you can hold your SHIFT key down and hit your left arrow key to select the blank space. Either way, all you need to do is highlight the space. (This is basically creating a bookmark in the page you can see in the code.)

Now switch to HTML view and you’ll see the highlighted section that corresponds with the selection you just made in normal mode. Now if you followed the steps so far you should still have the video embed code in your clipboard so you can ‘Paste” the code into the html area where the highlighted spaces are. (A quick shortcut is just to hit CTRL+V on your keyboard to paste the contents of the clipboard. This should insert the code into the page for you.

Now go back to normal to keep working or save the page and use Preview to see how it looks with the video. Once you do this a few times, you’ll be a pro at it so have fun and start embedding video!

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A Short Sale Can Solve A Long Term Problem

Dwayne — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:50:46 +0000

There are many people who have been struggling in this current economy. Many people have been gradually sinking further and further behind on their mortgage payments. Their credit rating is being affected. They are in a terrible state and have nowhere to turn. Many have never heard of an option that is available to them called a short sale . This is an option that can allow to have some relief and start over. Housing Assist, a DBA of Lexington Realty proudly services thousands of homeowners who are fighting constantly with making their mortgage payments. They have been in this business for over 30 years. Their concentrated focus on each individual homeowner is the reason they are the countries’ foremost short sale and loss mitigation specialist. Then negotiate a solution that is highly beneficial for all parties involved with Housing Assist on your side.

Got Docs? Use Scribd to Convert and Post Them

Dwayne — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:51:51 +0000

Web publishing clients often ask us to help them find the best way to convert old documents and presentations into content for their websites. Many of them have lots of content pertaining to their niche but it’s trapped in MS Word documents or Powerpoint or some other proprietary format.

Of course we go around the block with them as they try to publish those files directly to their site, or worse yet, they try to use the built in converter in MS Office – YUCK. Once we clean that mess up we have to manually convert them to PDF or Flash (for presentations) then publish them as embedded links.

Now we have new solutions to work with and recommend. About a year ago we stumbled onto a great document converting, hosting, and embedding service and wanted to share it with you.

I want to recommend to you one of the best way to convert, host, and embed documents into your website. As you may know a large part of our expertise is focused on SEO and website promotion. With that in mind we always try to recommend solutions that take the promotion of your website into consideration. That way you can climb the SERPS (search results) as quickly as possible without spending too much money to do it.

With that said I want to recommend a free web2 enhanced document service called Scribd. (scribd.com)
You can sign up for a free account there and use scribd for several critical services to enhance your website and your sites search authority.

Scribd gives you a free way to convert word docs into pdf presentations. In fact it will convert word, pdf, powerpoint, etc into embedded presentations that you can embed right into your website or wordpress blog — the same way you embed videos. Not only does it provide the conversion and embeds, but it also provides you with hosting for the document on their website that provides links back to your website. (This is perhaps the greatest benefit of all because scribd is a very high ranking website, if you have links on it to your site it will help your site gain authority and rank very quickly.)

Hope this tip helps. Drop us a line and let us know where you use it.

SME’s Business Training & Coaching .

Kayra — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:23:28 +0000

Would you like to coach those people that would like to line up their own small enterprise? Step 1 you will need to take is to ensure you have what is required to help folks start in this enterprise on the right foot. Additionally, you have to have confirmed record in running your own business. You have to have important experience and topical university degree. Your customers will certainly achieve success in this undertaking if they sink their teeth into a kind of business that they're excited about or a leading name on. Help your customers select the right business for them. Make your training routines more fascinating and more engaging by inspiring these folk to take part. You certainly do not really wish to bore your trainees as this can impact their learning.

You may include activities that may promote fun learning. The right way to know if your training routines are efficient is by asking your trainees. Feedback. Your goal here is to persuade them you are what they want and you can offer them with the info and help that they want to grow their business. In here, these folks can raise questions and they can ask your expert guidance on issues about running a SOHO business. Offer refund guarantee. Give your customers a warranty that they will be satisfied with your service otherwise, they will get a complete refund.

Its someones voice that were connecting with in a teleseminar, but voices tell us a lot. When we hear someones voice, only their voice as you would over a telephone you'll in a minute or two be well placed to ascertain if you can connect to them. A teleseminar can let us know if somebody is a fast speaker, they let us know if they use lingo that confuses us and if they have the power to teach us what we want to get to a higher level in our business. Do they chase up with questions thru e-mail, are they concentrated on solutions or your cash? When your prospects join you for a tele-seminar they don't seem to be just trusting you with their e-mail, there trusting you with their time, which is far more valuable.

Benefit From Web Marketing Tips Which Concentrate On Pay Per Click Campaigns For Multi-Level Marketing .

Kayra — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:45:14 +0000

I've got a confession to make…a soiled one. I am a marketing pro. I'm not embarrassed of that. My job is to sell things to folks. See, some prospects need to go to the sales page. They hate the idea of having to ‘join’ a list to be well placed to see your product. OK , what about using a sales page with a hover box? Well, on the positive side, the prospect is taken right to the sales page…which is what they wanted first of all. Nevertheless the drawback to this, at least for the merchant, is that with a hover box for the opt in, the prospect is free to pay no attention to it. First off, the interpretation of RE : by most marketing experts is wrong to start with. As an example, if I were to claim, ‘Replying to your prior email’ that would especially suggest an answer. They take it to mean in answer to when actually it implies pertaining to. Nevertheless if I were to assert, ‘RE : the latest changes At Aweber’ that doesn't imply I am answering anything you recounted.

A fairly well known marketing pro came to this one forum one day and started a thread about how simple it was to earn money on the web. Well, on first reading, it was good. It was short and to the point. Well, another member queried some of the points and on reflecting on the questions, I spotted that there might have been more elaboration and further clarification. The basic point of capture page is to draw the attentions and focus of its visitors to act on one thing and also select getting additional information.

The content on a capture page should ideally be kept at minimum. It shouldn't be lengthy and should be such which draws its readers instant. If you give too much info on your capture page, you'll lose your visitors as they may navigate to some other internet site.

Rock Singing With Control – Breath Control and Open Throat Technique

Dwayne — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:21:38 +0000

Just got an email from a former voice student who is now taking on new students of his own. Congratulations Dylan!

He asked for tips on how to teach and develop breath control for hard rock singing. Since abrasive hard rock styles (like AC/DC & DIO) require power the normal singer tries to kill it by throwing more air and compressing the hell out of their voice. Ouch! Wrong!

It’s all in understanding that the throat is NOT the valve. Here I’ll just paste in what I wrote to him:

For breathing: Managing air is the hardest part of what you will try to convey. It takes a long time for most students to understand that throwing more air is not how to create greater volume. Air must be managed by being completely relaxed from the shoulders up while being tightly controlled from the shoulders down.

Controlled does not mean tension. I simply mean that is where your visualization connects to the management of muscles. Relax the instrument and control the bellows (or pillar). It is this combination of a relaxed instrument and tightly controlled bellows that allows us to go places with our voice.

The relaxing of your pipes allows opening of your passages to create resonance — and that is what creates a brighter more powerful sound – not blasting more air which leads to drying out your vocal folds.

One way I like to help, is to have the student imagine a figure eight or hour glass. A large chamber at the bottom supplies a solid pillar of air support that is focused into a narrow opening to create a large open sound on top. Most people immediately envision the small passage being located in the throat but that is way wrong. If you constrict the air supply with your throat then you are wasting effort, straining your voice, drying out the chords, and cheating yourself out of natural resonance.

Bad Rock Star!

The small opening (or Valve) for your pillar must be in the chest area NOT the throat. First we learn to capture and store a massive supply of air using diaphragmatic breathing, then we learn to control that air with thoracic gating to provide the thinnest possible stream of air we need. Then that small stream of air is bounced off the back of the throat into the resonance chambers in our throat, mouth, and nasal cavities.

This give us a big voice with very easy placement and no strain. The resonance means we don’t have to work harder. Just keep the pipes open and let a tiny bit of air out to make a big sound. This also helps our tone to be clear and keeps our pitch on the vertical so we don’t drift. Lots of advantages when you trim down all the variables like that.

So just do it right?

It sounds simple right? Smashing air downward and holding your abdomen in a tight grip to provide steady air while simultaneously controlling the amount of air you let slip out so you provide just enough to make the sound (tone) you want while also simultaneously relaxing the throat and letting it stay wide open and hardly feeling any stress or work. Not easy.

But that is the goal for effortless signing that you can do all night long with no strain or stress or ever losing your voice!

– Start with four note scales no slurring. Work from definite pitches to slurs.

– Keep that throat OPEN and relaxed – control the air before it gets to your throat.

– Tongue down flat against the bottom of your mouth.

– Chest resting at half full – you need it to control air release – not for breathing.

– Abdomen squeezing as needed to provide air.

– Open your mouth WIDE OPEN when you sing. (You can stylize later)

Don’t worry about singing loud – in fact sing as softly as possible until you get the idea of ‘singing on the inhale’ as I like to call it.

Compression and growl will be easy to do once you learn how to protect your voice. And if it’s easy then you can do it for hours.

Peace!

Blue Dial Offers Bulova Watches At Discount Prices

Dwayne — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:19:08 +0000

If you are looking for a great deal on either a Men’s or Ladies Watch then Blue Dial is the place to go. They are your one stop shop for quality watches at discount prices. They have an unbelievable variety of brands like Seiko, Casio, Citizen, Movado, ESQ and Bulova watches. The deals that I saw on a bulova watch is just one example. They have a Bulova Men’s Stainless Steel Watch that retails for $525.00 with other retailer but bluedial.com has the same watch for $215.50 and that includes 2 day shipping! That is hard to pass up. So do yourself a favor and go to Blue Dial for your online watch purchases.

Even In This Economy Your Company Can Save Money With Online Printer Ink

Dwayne — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:52:34 +0000

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I Love Zenni Optical And So Does Clark Howard

Dwayne — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:58:47 +0000

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People are losing their jobs or getting their hours cut almost on a daily basis. The stock market is dropping like a rock. People are looking for ways to make ends meet. Most of us don’t know what to do so we look for advice from experts like Clark Howard. Mr. Howard suggests that one way we can save money is buy purchasing discount eyeglasses . Zenni Optical is a favorite of Clark Howard.
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You only wish your wife would give you a Seiko Kinetic Blue Face Stainless Steel Watch. Mine did!

Dwayne — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:39:28 +0000

I’ve always wanted a nice wrist watch. You know one that screams style and class. The problem is we really aren’t wealthy people. I’ve bought wrist watches, but they aren’t something you would wear to a nice evening out. They are more the throw away type of watch. I never really thought I would ever own a real watch.
I never thought much about it when my wife started to brown bag every day. She said it was easier to eat at her desk. It gave her more time to relax. Did she fool me! When she gave me a Seiko SMY093 Men’s Stainless Steel Kinetic Blue Face wrist watch for our 5th anniversary WOW! It is great!
This watch has a stainless steel case and bracelet. The metallic blue dial with the luminous silver tone hands and markers gives it a very classy rich look. The date and day display are very easy to read. The precise Kinetic movement with the power reserve indicator shows the quality engineering involved in the construction. The scratch resistant Hardlex Crystal keeps the face looking new. This thing is water resistant to 50m, which is unbelievable at this price. They even give you a 3 year original manufacturer’s warranty.
You just can’t find a better watch at this price. I couldn’t ask for a better anniversary gift or a better wife. Get your own seiko kinetic!