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How to Embed Interactive Calculations in Adobe PDF Documents

So I’m the poster child for writing niche content these days!  Here’s another one for those of you who want to put interactive calculators in your PDF documents, but need some more advanced functionality than basic arithmetic functions.  Like, who would read this stuff anyway??

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Creating a “Torn Paper” Frame Effect in InDesign

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One of the recent issues that I ran into with InDesign is that the program doesn’t have the same brushes and advanced masking capabilities that Photoshop does so when it comes to creating a document element like an object frame that looks like it was made from torn paper, InDesign presents us with some challenges.

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How I Built the World’s Worst Website and Still Made $1,500

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You’ve got to be kidding right?  Why would anyone want to read about this?  I mean, last month alone, Pat Flynn made almost $120,000 so who cares about a measly $1,500?  Most people think that ‘www’ stand for World Wide Web, but I have a special URL where it stand for World’s Worst Website.  Here’s the start of my story.

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A Collection of Premiere Pro and After Effects Training Resources

As part of my series on “How I Went from Knowing Nothing About Adobe Premiere and After Effects to Producing a Client Video in 2 Weeks” I consulted a lot of videos and training resources as I attempted a crash course in Adobe video production.

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Creating a “Flicker On” Effect in After Effects

I’m going to compile this and several other posts into a series I’m calling “How I Went from Knowing Nothing About Adobe Premiere and After Effects to Producing a Client Video in 2 Weeks.”  How’s that for a short, catchy title?  Since this effect was the last item I did in the video, I’m going to lead off with this one (and reorganize later!).  If you prefer this as a video tutorial, just scroll down to the very bottom of the post.

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How to Move a WordPress Website to a New Hosting Provider in 4 Easy Steps

I’ve recently decided, after several years at another hosting provider, to move this website to Bluehost.  I’ve hosted a number of websites at Bluehost for various purposes, but just never got around to actually moving my personal blog until now.  This post will walk you through the 4 steps to move your site!

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How to Create HTML Email: Getting Rid of the Annoying Spaces in Gmail

The most frequent question I get about HTML email is, “How do I get rid of the annoying white spaces in Gmail?”  If you’ve been trying to figure out that problem, you’re in good company and I’m here to help!

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How to Create HTML Email: Combining Images and Text

One of the frequent questions I get about creating HTML emails is how to combine images and text.  In this tutorial, I’m going to cover creating an HTML file similar to the one in this post, however instead of using the text image, I’m going to use actual text.

Using a combination of images and text allows you to create hyperlinks, change the text formatting however you like and using whatever HTML elements you want to in order to enhance your email communication.

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How to create HTML email

Many firms that rely on marketing have a similar scenario:  The marketing staff has created various marketing pieces that work great as print pieces, but when they want to do some customized e-mail marketing, the effort boils down to sending attached PDF documents or using template based subscription services.