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Thinking about a career change

March 29, 2007 by Tricia

Since I’ve been stuck at home due to my illness I’ve had a lot of time to think. Considering that I’ve been spending so much time on the computer and have always had an interest in design and graphics I’ve toyed with the idea of taking some courses.

Everything I know about computers, networking, writing code, designing sites and creating graphics has been self taught. I’ve been teaching myself for a long time of course. LOL Since 1990 or 91.

I’m a nurse, but given my illness and the fact that I don’t seem to be getting any better I may have to face the fact that I might not return to the ER or even nursing.

I guess I still have some thinking to do on the subject of course. I could take some computer network courses, or perhaps even do something completely different and study interior design. Yes, with all the home renovations, planning and designing you could probably say I have a strong interest in interior design and might do well with that too if I were to go in that direction.

I think I’ll Contact Collins College and get some information on their courses. It can’t hurt to do a little research just in case I decide to change my career.





Filed Under: Education, Web and Technology Tagged With: career, change career, college, college courses, computer, Graphics, interior design, pc network technology

Personalize your posts and e-mail with a signature

March 28, 2007 by Tricia

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I think that most people try to personalize the e-mail that they send in some way. Often people will add their name and possibly a link to their website to the end of the e-mail that they are sending. In fact, most e-mail programs can be set up to do this automatically.

Wouldn’t it be nice to make your email signature even more personal? Well you can with My Live Signature. In fact, you can use the signature that you create on Mylivesignature.com in your e-mail, forum posts, blog posts, website, and documents.

I suppose that pretty much anywhere that you can attach or embed an image you could use your personal “MyliveSignature” image.

You can create an imitation of your signature using the signature creation wizard. The creation wizard is completely free to use. All you have to do is register for a free account on the MyLiveSignature site.

Using the signature creation wizard I typed in “Tricia P.”. Yes, my last name is probably easy enough to find, but for now we’ll just go with the initial for my last name. I was then taken to a page that listed examples of Tricia P. written in different font styles. I was given over 100 choices of styles.

I could chose from styles that were in very ornate, or old English style font or ones closer to true hand writing or printing. I’m left handed and I was pleased to see that some of the signature styles had the appearance of being written by a lefty.

I picked a signature that was close enough to my own handwriting style, and then clicked on the “next” button at the end of the page. On the next page I picked the size of the signature that I wanted, and after that I picked the color of the signature.

I was surprised, and pleased, to find that I still had more choices to make. The fourth step in the Signature creation wizard was to select the “Slope” or angle of the signature. I chose one on a slight slope to give it a more hurried and authentic look.

The final step was to simply name the file. When I clicked finished the file was saved as I’d named it “triciap” and I could access it from a menu on the left side of the page by selecting “Use my Signature”.

When I clicked on “Use my Signature” I was taken to a page that gave me a choice of HTML or BB code. I picked HTML code and was given two more choices as to how I wanted the final signature to look and then I generated the code.

Here’s the signature file that I created:

Isn’t that cool?

The MyLiveSignature.com site has a tutorial that you can go through to see all of the options you can use while creating a signature.

They also offer a service where you can submit an image of your actual signature and their designers will create a MyliveSignature” file of your real signature. If you’d like to use your real signature they have two options and the prices range from $9.95 for a scanned image, to $19.95 for an animated image. You can get 20% off the price of an animated signature right now.

I like how easy it was to create a signature file. You can easily create new signatures in different styles or colors to suit the site or document that you wanted to use them in.

I can see signature files from MyLiveSignature.com being used on blogs all over the world to give posts a personal touch.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Graphics, Services, Web and Technology Tagged With: animated signature, create signature, documents, forum signature, left handed, MyLiveSignature.com, personal signature, personalize, posts, real signature, use signature in posts

Ashley Tisdale – Live chat on the Cartoon Doll Emporium

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

Any parents reading this site should take note that pop princess and Disney Star Ashley Tisdale will be appearing on the Cartoon Doll Emporium’s chat forum for a live discussion on April 2nd between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. EST. Your kids will absolutely adore you if you tell them about Ashley’s special appearance.

Actually this week on the Cartoon Doll Emporium there will be a contest. Ashley Tisdale fans can submit questions for Ashley. The best questions will be chosen and given to Ashley to answer during her online live chat session. The fans names will be mentioned when their questions are asked too.

If you still aren’t quite sure who Ashley Tisdale is, she stars in Disney’s “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody” and the movie “High School Musical”. She’ll also appear in the the sequel to High School Musical – High School Musical 2 when it’s released later this year.

I actually really like the Cartoon Doll Emporium. It’s one of those dress up games sites where you can create different dolls by dressing them up in different outfits and using different accessories for them. Kids love to spend time on sites like the Cartoon Doll Emporium and many adults do too as it’s a great place to create new avatars for online chats and forums.

You’ll find over 650 dress up games on the site. You’ll also be able to play arcade games, participate in quizzes too. There’s even a music section and a “cuteness” section.

Check out the site for your own use, and don’t forget to tell your child about Ashley Tisdale’s live chat and the question contest. I’m sure you’ll get good parent points if you do!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Graphics, Hobbies, Recreation, Web and Technology, Website Promotion Tagged With: Ashley Tisdale, avatar, Cartoon Doll Emporium, Disney, Disney Star, doll maker, dolls, dress up games, High School Musical, Live chat, make dolls, pop princess, question contest, questions for Ashley Tisdale, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody

Advantages of becoming a top commenter on this site

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

In an earlier post I was telling you that I’ve been working on our sites and that I’ve added a few new WordPress plugins as well.

One of the new plugins is one that allows me to show who my top commentators are in my right side bar.

See that area below Recent Comments? Yep, that’s where my top commentators for each month will be show. I can change that to daily, weekly, monthly or yearly top commentators if I want. Right now it’s set to monthly but I might change it to yearly.

One thing that I like about this new plug in is that it gives my top commentators a real link. There is no rel no follow tag added to the link, so Google can pick up the link. This might help you, my visitors and those making comments, build your sites Page Rank. So it’s in your best interest to leave comments on this site and work towards becoming the top commentator each month.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Web and Technology, Web Design, Website Promotion Tagged With: comment, comments, google, page rank, plugin, PR, real link, recent, Top Commentators, visitors, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin

SimpleTags a great WordPress plugin

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve been busy working on organizing, fine tuning and even changing the themes for several of the blogs that my husband and I work on.

One of the new WordPress plugins that I’ve added to a few of our sites is called SimpleTags. It’s a wordpress plugin that allows me to tag each post, bring up related posts, and create meta tags for each page of my site, as well as a category and tag cloud.

Take a look at my category section on the right. I have a tag cloud there now so that you can see what subjects I talk about most. The tag cloud is in a roll up menu that I made using the Flooble Expandable menu script, and I’ve labeled the cloud “Category and Tag Cloud”. You can’t miss it if you’re looking for it.

If you do take a peek at the tag cloud you’ll notice that one of the biggest topics right now is “General Musings”. Now really … not everything I write about can be categorized as general can it? In fact there’s probably very few things that really are general. I just got lazy when I created this site and didn’t use categories as well as I should have from the start.

I know that a lot of people make this mistake. How many of you have a huge category section called “Uncategorized”? Yeah, I suppose the subjects you’ve talked about really are uncategorized if you left them in the default WordPress category, aren’t they? LOL

If you want to optimize your site so that some of the topics you write about will end up coming up on search engine search result pages you really should go over your site and make sure that each of your posts are categorized properly. Or that your posts are at least in somewhat descriptive categories. Believe me – you’ll end up getting a few more visitors if you do categorize your posts properly, and your current visitors will be able to explore your site and read any posts that you’ve written about on subjects that interest them too.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Web and Technology, Web Design Tagged With: category cloud, importance of categories, optomize, organize, plugin, related posts, search engine, SEO, SimpleTags, tag cloud, tag comments, technorati tags, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin

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