11 Top Tips To Make Your Site An Enticing Place For New And Existing Customers There’s nothing like a chaotic website to drive away customers. So how can you make your website an appealing place? Here are my tips for humanizing 11 key characteristic of your websites or membership sites with website content ideas. Site Continue reading »
Embedding Windows Media Files Using HTML Using HTTP progressive streaming for Windows Media is a cheaper alternative to "true" streaming media, though not "true" streaming, just a good simulation of the process. For this to work the viewer must have the correct plug-in installed on their computer. Once you have created a Windows Media "wmv" Continue reading »
Embedding RealMedia Files Using HTML There are two options for streaming RealMedia: Using a Streaming Server, or HTTP Streaming. A streaming server, such as Helix Universal Server from RealNetworks, has the capability to support many different formats including RealMedia, Windows Media, Quicktime and MPEG-4. There are many advantages to this: You can make use of Continue reading »
Embedding QuickTime Media Files Using HTML To create a true streaming QuickTime multimedia environment you will need access to a streaming server such as the Apple QuickTime Server. The example below shows an alternative method using a simulate streaming environment with progressive download, which is a lot simpler and cheaper. Once you have created a Continue reading »
Streaming Media Primers, Reports, White Papers The following is a list of streaming multimedia, video and audio primers, reports and white papers I thought might be useful to those engaged on this topic. If you know of any documentation that should be added to this list, please let me know. My list is as follows Continue reading »
Embedding Mpeg-4 Media Files Using HTML MPEG-4 was developed in the late 1990s. Initially development was supported by many companies including Apple, DIV-X and Microsoft, but Microsoft has since abandoned active support. MPEG-4 is a very good quality standard with low file sizes. Embedding MPEG-4 video file into your web page requires the use of Continue reading »
How to Create a Multimedia Streaming Video File To make a video file which will be streamed from your website can be done in two ways: Use a multimedia conversion utility program to convert an existing file into the streaming file format you require. Multimedia conversion can range from the very expensive to free. There Continue reading »
HTTP Streaming Multimedia Video & Audio HTTP streaming, or progressive downloading is the simplest and cheapest way to stream multimedia video and audio from your website. With HTTP streaming you don’t need any expensive, special website or hosting package, just a good web hosting provider which recognizes the multimedia file types you will be using. Continue reading »
Streaming Video Servers A streaming multimedia server or "true streaming" server is a specialized application which needs an Internet server to run. True streaming has advantages such as: The ability to handle much larger traffic loads. The ability to detect users connection speeds and supply appropriate files automatically. The ability to broadcast live events. There Continue reading »
Streaming Multimedia Video and Audio This article introduces the two main methods of streaming video on the Internet, streaming servers (true streaming) and HTTP streaming. Creating Good Streaming Videos Formats Popular Video File Formats Streaming Methods Downloading Advantages Disadvantages HTTP Streaming Method – Streaming Method – Progressive Downloading Which Method? Creating Good Streaming Videos Continue reading »
Managing authors & users in WordPress The users page gives details of the users on your blog and allows you to manage user roles. The following is a quick summary of the differences between the user roles. Administrator Global scope. Can also assign other users as Administrators. Editor Author rights plus, moderate comments, Continue reading »
Perl Regular Expression Cheat Sheet This document presents a quick tabular summary of the regular expression (regexp) syntax in Perl, with examples. The methods used here are also the methods you will need for manipulating your htaccess files. Meta Characters To present a meta character as a data character standing for itself, precede it with Continue reading »
Making Money from WordPress Plugins, Themes and the GNU General Public License Are you planning to release a commercial "premium" WordPress theme or plugin or even a software application maybe? Have you thought about how you are going to market the product? Have you though about the licensing issues, especially if the source code is Continue reading »
Top 10 Blog Traffic Tips Do you remember that day, the day you first launched your new blog? The thrill, the excitement, the feeling of having accomplished something. A special day in every blogger’s life. Now unless you purchased someone else’s blog, without the thrill and excitement, but with a reasonable visitor list the changes Continue reading »
Clear “Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance” Message Just finished redesigning my web site and along came an update from WordPress, so without thinking and without doing a backup, I clicked on the link to do an automatic upgrade. I know, I should always do a backup first but normally everything proceeds without a problem. Continue reading »
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