This new plugin offers an easy way to configure the following settings for your WordPress image gallery.

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W3 Consortium

Did you know that having broken links on your website can have a negative impact on your rankings in the search engines?  Not to mention the fact that you may turn away potential customers as they will have lower confidence in your services or products.

Thankfully there is a quick and easy way to check the links on your website as well as a way to verify that your website is using accepted standards and protocols.  And it’s FREE! 

Use the following free tool to locate potentially broken links on your website. 

http://validator.w3.org/checklink/ 

Be sure to check box to “Check links documents recursively”.  A depth of 2 or 3 is good for starters. 

Use the following free tool to verify that your website uses valid and accepted Markup. 

http://validator.w3.org/

The first class fillled up. Don’t miss out on the second class.

Come to this class if you’ve never worked with WordPress before, or if you want to learn how to change headers, graphics, and logos of your WordPress site.

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At $700, Photoshop is reserved for professionals and those with lots of spare cash. Did you know that there is a free alternative? The GNU Image Manipulation Program, lovingly referred to as GIMP has an active developer community, and is updated regularly. It can do pretty much anything that Photoshop can do.

GIMP has documentation in 10 different languages, including English, French, and German.

If you would like to see a free in person GIMP training class offered, please feel free to say so in the comment fields below. If there is enough interest, then I will most definitely setup a GIMP class.

For those that don’t know, Photoshop is the defacto standard software used to create and manipulate digital images. You may often hear people say, “oh, that picture was photoshopped”. This means that someone has altered the picture in some way. This statement is used whether the Photoshop software was used or not. Perhaps we need to start a new trend and say “Oh, that pictures has been GIMPed out”

Come to this class if you’ve never worked with WordPress before, or if you want to learn how to change headers, graphics, and logos of your WordPress site.

The first 30 . . . → Read More: WordPress Basics : Free Class : Thursday, August 12th 2010 at 5:30pm]]> Host Pond Web Hosting is proud to announce its first free website training class on Thursday, August 12th at 5:30pm.

Come to this class if you’ve never worked with WordPress before, or if you want to learn how to change headers, graphics, and logos of your WordPress site.

The first 30 minutes of this class is devoted to some very basic web hosting concepts, like uploading files and pictures to your website, and to defining some of the basic terminology used when dealing with hosting a website.

For further information, or to register for this free class, click HERE.