How to edit photos for your website using Picnik | Local Knowledge Episode 22

September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Need to prepare your photos or images for your website? You bet you do!

Episode 22 of Local Knowledge shows you how to edit the dimensions (pixel size) of your photo/image, crop your photo and also reduce the file size of your photo so your website loads faster.

You can use common photo editing software that comes with your camera or computer to do this but these programs often lack the ability to change file size, a critical component for web images. Not only that, PC and Mac software is often overly complex and expensive due to its myriad functionality.

One free solution to this problem is to use Picnik.com (not affiliated in any way with Local Knowledge). Picnik.com is easy to use and their free version gives you the ability to quickly change your photo/image dimensions, crop, and reduce file size.

Watch our how-to video in HD to learn how.


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- Julian

Julian Seery Gude
editor Local Knowledge
LOCALNa8ion.com

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What every small business should know about WordPress, Episode 21 Part IIIb

August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment

Today’s Local Knowledge video tutorial is a two-parter (this is part 2 of 2) so be sure to catch the first half by watching here.

This lesson shows you how to add a new blog post to your WordPress small business website while also optimizing your post for search engine optimization.

You’ll love this information if you’re a small business owner who wants to generate more sales leads from search engines like Google. To accomplish this, you’ll want to pair frequent website updates with our search-engine savvy blog post formatting tips.

Julian Seery Gude
editor, LOCAL Na8ion
www.localna8ion.com

Posted by Julian | Filed Under Blog, Connect, Video 

What every small business should know about WordPress, Episode 21 Part IIIa

August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Today’s Local Knowledge video tutorial is a two-parter (this is part 1 of 2) so be sure to catch the second half by watching here.

This lesson shows you how to add a new blog post to your WordPress small business website while also optimizing your post for search engine optimization.

You’ll love this information if you’re a small business owner who wants to generate more sales leads from search engines like Google. To accomplish this, you’ll want to pair frequent website updates with our search-engine savvy blog post formatting tips.

Julian Seery Gude
editor, LOCAL Na8ion
www.localna8ion.com

Posted by Julian | Filed Under Blog, Connect, Video 

Part II – What every small business should know about WordPress

July 17, 2009 | 3 Comments

Episode 20 continues our Local Knowledge video series on basic skills you’ll need in order to run your small business Website using WordPress.

Our lesson today kicks off with some background on how your normal website (the frontend of your website) relates with the WordPress Dashboard (the backend of WordPress) and concludes by hightlighting the most often used parts of WordPress. Our examples even give you a sneak peak of editing and adding a blog post and page – something we will cover in greater depth in our next video lessons.

This lesson assumes you have a working WordPress installation and that you have logged in.

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What every small business should know about WordPress

July 15, 2009 | 6 Comments

Episode 19 begins our Local Knowledge series on basic skills you’ll need in order to run your small business Website using WordPress.

Our lesson today kicks off with some background on using WordPress to power your small business website and concludes with a how-to video showing you how to log in to WordPress. This lesson assumes you have a working WordPress installation.

I’ll be continuing the WordPress for small business video tutorials by covering the most common things you’ll need to know to update your WordPress website on your own.

You can also follow the Pictorial under the video if you don’t want to watch the video intro and video lesson.

Step-by-Step Pictorial Below

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