I’m thinking of moving this IT Tutor blog to another web host but the question is to which one?
I’ve had a look through most of the web hosts listed on the web hosting page at DAR wiki and that seems to be a good place to start.
Any other suggestions?
Not long ago the problem of how to embed a youTube video into a WordPress blog involved selecting the right plugin and worrying about theme compatibility not to mentiom backward compatibility on upgrading the core WordPress installation. Now it has been built in so it;s just a question of getting the right URL for the youTube video and then adding it in between square brackets with “youtube=” at the start like this:
I go to a video I want to embed, in this case it’s Jerry Springer live in London.
Copy the URL supplied on the video page just above the embed code
Then click on the “add video” button in the WordPress Post Editor as below
And paste it in.
Voila
Image editing can be really simple, like just cropping or resizing a photograph or it can get extremely complicated when used by professional graphic designers tp produce high quality retouched illustrations for printed magazines.
In between those extremes there is also a space for the amateur photographer, website builder or blogger who wants to do a bit more with images but doesn’t have the time or money to get to grips with a 10 tion gorilla piece of software thet is Photoshop.
There have always been simple image editing programs for Windows computers, I remember Paint Shop Pro which was pretty good. On a Mac there is a program called iPhoto which comes bundled with the iLife package, pre installed on Mac computers – which is remarkably good for cropping, and making some automated adjustments with edit tools like sharpen, highlight and shadow.
To go beyond iPhoto but short of Photoshop I recommend Seashore the free image editor for Mac. It’s based on Gimp technology, so it’s quite powerful, but uses the Mac Cocoa system which makes it integrate really well with the Mac way of working, and fast.
The possibility of a swine flu pandemic is always a good cue for increased interest in the idea of remote working, distributed teams and working from home.
WordPress Themes are more than just “skins”, they play a vital role in how a blog develops. This IT Tutor blog is currently powered by WordPress and the Mimbo Theme, which is really intended more as a magazine theme which places an emphasis on featured categories and does clever things with images. I’d better upload a few more images then!
Here is the Information Technology news for the UK as supplied by Google news.