Big Foot Web Marketing

This is something any blogger simply MUST have. One of the most awkward and cumbersome parts of writing a new blog entry for me has been inserting a link. It makes me nuts. I often have 7-10 tabs open in FireFox, I will find a great bit of text or an idea I want give credit to in my blog. I go back to my blog, write the post, think up some anchor text or go back to the inspiring site, copy the URL, back to my post draft, click create link button in my WordPress blog.. blah blah blah. Sometimes just not worth it and I take a pass and promise myself I will “write about it later” and it will end up in possible post purgatory aka Evernote.

The simple little little extension, Copy as HTML Link available for both FireFox and IE7 , has improved my ability to blog and add quotes and links add links ten-fold.
All you do is highlight text you want to use as anchor text, right click and you will have option to pick “Copy as HTML Link” , paste into post. DONE.

It is probably one of my top five favourite extensions and I use it constantly. After you install it you will seriously wonder how you did without for so long.

related Copy To HTML Links
Plugin Author’s website : Justin Watt

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My friend Ruud Hein has been trying to get me to use Evernote s for years now. I took the plunge and signed up ( again) this time I will make a concerted effort to use it. He swears by it.
Normally you have to get an invitation from am existing user , but today anyone can join ( If you miss this promo and if I have some left, twitter me or email me and I will invite you)

Evernote Open Registration

I am told it will be an improvement over my copy everything into an email and send to myself method of information management … AND best feature is it can search text in a photo- so can take photo with phone and scan later….

Tags: Free Tools and Utilities by Lisa Stewart
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Adding a Flash gallery to your blog can really make your pages and posts pop. If you are a small or home based business a flash gallery can really step things up a notch and breathe life and visual interest to a page. They add a professional look and give blah pages pizzazz. You don’t have to be an expert programmer or know anything about Flash to create a slick Flash slideshow - here’s how.
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Tags: Free Tools and Utilities, Internet Marketing and Blogs, Tuesday's Tool, Web Site Accessibility, WordPress Plugins by Lisa Stewart
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One of my dreams is to master or- at least having a working knowledge of how to use Photoshop. I have tried using several tutorials- including the excellent “Lynda” series. But I just can’t get it. I can follow step-by-step directions on how to do pretty much do anything using step by step intructions but to do it on-the-fly is above my abilities.

The software I use is called MicroGrafx Picture Publisher. The program came on a CD that I got with my first scanner- in 1996!.
It is with great shock when I write this and realize that I am using a piece of software from 1996 that is almost 12 years old. Gosh- does that make me feel old. It does what I need it to do.. most of the time.

I have been looking for FREE alternatives and found one called GIMP. I tree to make suggestions that anyone can do with little or no experience and little or no money- using free stuff whenever,.
I am all about free anything and open everything and this is an Open Source project. I found it looking for a tutorial on how to make rounded corner buttons. They look much slicker and more *web 2.0* then plain old square corners.

Make Rounded Corners On Your Buttons

The tutorial for making rounded corners is here: Gimp Tutorial

I am using the rounded corner images for ads and “Your Ad Here’ type buttons on some of my blogs. They are also good to make buttons to some of your “best” work posts or more popular posts, rather than just using text links which can get over looked.

I keep my buttons simple and not too jazzy mostly because of my limited abilities. if this is something you are good at- go for it.

Tags: Free Tools and Utilities, Internet Marketing and Blogs by Lisa Stewart
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