Persons engaged in website design, here’s a scoop for you!
Would you just like to know that by understanding the basics of cognitive psychology around color and patterns, we could further improve our Web design!
Designing a Web site does not only concentrate on making web pages of a certain site interesting and impressive. This [...]

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Portable Document Format (PDF) is the defacto file format for presenting device-independent documents on and off the Web.
While PDFs have become quite popular on the Web, many PDFs used in web sites are designed for high quality print output and are not optimized for the Web. Even PDFs designed for Web use can have a [...]

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Hi Folks,
Those of you who run a small business with MS Office – and use Paypal for web payments – might be interested in this press release from MS and Paypal.
Microsoft is to link up with eBay Inc., Equifax and PayPal to offer online integrated services for Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2007.
“We have talked [...]

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If you’re writing your blog in Microsoft Word and you use an apostrophe, for example can’t, and then cut and paste it into Blogger, it is possible that Blogger will not be able to convert the apostrophe.
Instead you will get [] characters.
Here’s a quick trick.
Open Notepad and copy the blog from Word into Notepad. Then, [...]

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Hi Folks,
I was brought up to believe that Times New Roman was THE font for printed manuals.
They’re was no ifs, buts, or maybes about this – Times New Roman and make it size 11.
But what’s the best font for writing on the web?
Look at the different fonts used on the CNN, [...]

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You can add this cartoon to your blog, subject to one or two very basic conditions.

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
FAQs from Dave’s site
“Is it free to re-use all your cartoons?
In a blog, yes. In any other sort of publication, no.
Why are you [...]

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“My job involves writing and editing documents. I also coordinate with the graphic designer for layout and look and feel. Can you please let me know details about training for FrameMaker?”
Apologies for the delay – I couldn’t find the link I wanted to send to you.
Here it is: http://apex.vtc.com/framemaker-7.php
Regards,
Ivan
PS – Stop Writing Sales [...]

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We got an email today regarding the best template for writing case studies.
Here’s a few pointers:
1. who do you expect to read this?
Is it journalists, motorcycle enthusiasts, or those coming from a technical capacity, such as designers.
2. where will they read it?
If they will read it on the web, then use less graphics and [...]

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Want to Convert your documents into Adobe PDF for free?
Hi Folks,
Here is the full feature list from the free online Adobe site:

Unlimited conversions
Times out after 15 minutes of processing
Priority queuing over trial users
Ability to create tagged, accessible Adobe PDF documents for use by people with disabilities who rely on assistive [...]

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Ivan – can you look at this Pagemaker file? We can’t get it to convert to PDF?
Hi JB,
We had some issues with this too….
I could only get it as far as the .Ps conversion and then got an error message.
Could I suggest that you try the free service on Adobe.
http://createpdf.adobe.com/
It might be worth a shot.
Ivan
PS [...]

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