Archive for the 'Web Design' Category
Picasa Marries Flickr
Picasa2Flickr is a dream come true for many Picasa users
I was able to get this nifty open-source program working in a few minutes with a little tinkering. It adds a button to your Picasa bottom bar that lets you upload pictures directly to Flickr. When you click the new Picasa2Flickr button, a popup window appears […]
Check your website’s importance and visibility
SEOmoz.org is a leader in optimizing websites for search engine rankings. The folks there have this handy-dandy Page Strength tool that will check any website based on 13 factors including internal links, Technorati links, and Google page rank.
They have several other tools that might interest you if you’re a website […]
Linkrain’s Technorati Experiment
Update: Technorati has introduced an “authority” ranking for each blog, which is simply a number reflecting every link your blog has received in the last 6 months (even if it’s spam). Ionut of the Google Operating System blog makes a good point that Google’s pagerank is much more sophisitcated and useful because it takes into […]
how to use the custom forms included in the cforms plugin
This is an amazing plugin, but it can be a little difficult to jump into and figure out as a new user, especially if you want to use the custom forms and CSS required to put the form in the sidebar. The following will walk […]
Five Favorite Picasa Templates
and a few others we like too
For an explanation of Picasa Web Templates and installation instructions, see my article Use Picasa to Publish Professional-Looking Web Galleries.
Note: horizontal images will generally look better than vertical for web display. And if you have a template you’d like to mention or have us review, please comment or write […]
Amateur and pro photographers, alike, have asked us for a painless way to put their pictures online in customized galleries. One of the easiest ways is to use Google’s free image organizer and editor, Picasa. It comes with an hard-to-find but easy export that can create professional-level flash or lightbox galleries that have no links back to Picasa.
Website Baker Template Tutorial
Port any html-css template to Website Baker
This tutorial takes you step by step through a complex layout and shows you how to port it to website baker. It’s complete, though not as polished as I’d like. I posted it now at the request of several users in the website baker forum. If you have further […]



