Stop American Censorship – PIPA and SOPA Profile Banners

Millions of Americans oppose SOPA and PIPA because these bills would censor the Internet and slow economic growth in the U.S.

Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.

The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel. Sign this petition urging Congress to vote NO on PIPA and SOPA before it is too late.

You can show your support on your social networks with these free profile images and Facebook Timeline photos below and by signing the petition on AmericanCensorhip.org.

To Download or Save any of the images below:
Right click on the image and select ‘Save File As’ from the menu options that drops down. Proceed to select the folder on your computer that you would like to save it to & save the file.

Profile Pictures:

Facebook Timeline:

Machu Picchu Photos for Facebook Timeline

Check out the Machu Picchu photos for your Facebook Timeline in our Downloads section. They capture the splendor of the beautiful Machu Picchu and bring it to your Timeline for your friends and subscribers to see!
 

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Facebook Timeline is Here

Facebook Timeline Cover

AP – Facebook’s 800 million users can now access the site’s Timeline feature, which turns their profile pages into a virtual scrapbook full of big photos, memorable posts and life events.
 

People can add pre-Facebook memories, too. The Timeline goes back as far as the user’s birth date. The Timeline is blank for now, but Facebook hopes people will fill it up by scanning old photos and adding…
 

Get your Facebook Timeline Cover Photos here! Made by me and free for you!
 

How to Make a Screenshot

Do you know how to create a high quality screen shot from your computer? No, you don’t need to get out your cell phone camera ;)

One way to take a screen shot is simple. Basically, you push the CTRL button at same time as the PrtScn button on your keyboard. The screen will then be copied into your clip board & you can paste it into any image editing studio such as paint.

Another is via the Firefox add-on for screen shots called Pearl Crescent Page Saver Basic (image above). This allows you to click a drop down menu & select either the full page or just the visible portion of the page. Once you have chosen to either make it a full page or just visible area, the image will then save as a .png image file. You can then choose to edit it or to use it as is. That’s it!

The Curve of Sitefinity 4.0

Working with Sitefinity 4.0 CMS has been a challenge & a great learning experience. The learning has mostly revolved around how the CMS works & figuring out how to meet the client’s requests without modifying the CMS itself. Therein lies the challenge.

While using this system, I have faced many difficulties in attaining the desired goals including but not limited to: adding multiple tags to the head section through the page title screen, and adding a custom user control through the user interface. Documentation on how to help yourself is limited by Sitefinity. There are a lot of default settings in place that are not modifiable by the user or developer.

So, where do we go from here? I have successfully deciphered their “help” for the user controls, you can find step-by-step instructions here – more details coming soon. As for adding multiple meta, script or css tags to the header: there is no solution as of yet. Currently there is a character count limit of 255 characters. You can view the Sitefinity Discussion thread here. If you are also experiencing issues in this area, please check back for a solution at a later date. I am still working on it.

 


Search Trends and Hot Topic Hit Lists

Millions searches are going on right now from Google to Bing and everything in between. If only we knew what they were searching for, we could increase traffic to get the best impact with every article or blog post. Several major search engines provide a way to look at the search stream to find the most popular search topics, keywords and or tags.  Here are a several resources that will help you increase your search rank along the way.

  1. Dogpile SearchSpy
    Up to the minute search information.
  2. Google Trends
    Hottest 100 searches on Google.
  3. Google Insights for Search
    Compare search terms against each other for a better keyword effect.
  4. Google Trends for Websites
    Google Trends for website traffic data. Type in a website address to see visitors by region and related sites visited.
  5. Google Hot Trends
    The top 100 fastest-rising search queries right now (U.S. only). Updates throughout the day.

Additional Resources:

  1. Google Adwords Keyword Tool
    Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas.
  2. Search Engine Watch
    Great resource for all things search engine.

Select All Friends on Facebook Invites

Having to click on each and every Facebook friend can become tedious when you are trying to share a page, event or group. Is there a better way? Of course there is, just follow these easy steps. I have used this code myself several times for the Anything Web You Can Imagine page and a few of my friends’ events on Facebook.

  1. Go to the group, event or page and click the suggest to/invite friends link.
  2. Once you see your friends’ pictures loaded, erase the current URL from the address bar of your browser.
  3. Click on the box below containing the code and copy/paste into the address bar of your browser and press enter.
  4. Depending on how many friends you have you may have to wait for a few seconds to see them all selected.
  5. Once you see them all highlighted, click the ‘send’ button on the Facebook invite window.
  6. Please keep in mind that also depending on how many friends you have, it may take a while for all of the invites to be sent. They get queued.

javascript:(function({elms=document.getElementsByName(“checkableitems[]“);for(i=0;i<elms.length;i++){if(elms[i].type=”checkbox”){elms[i].checked=true;if(elms[i].parentNode.className.indexOf(“disabledCheckable”)<0){elms[i].click();elms[i].parentNode.className+=” selectedCheckable”;}}};})();

UPDATE: Facebook has changed the way they display friends when trying to invite. I have not yet found a solution to the new code changes they have made, but as soon as I do I will update.

What and Where is the Fold?

This is a question that I get asked regularly…

Q: Hi, would you kindly explain what is not above the fold?

A: Above the fold is a graphic design term that was coined from the Newspaper industry. It is the concept that the most important news or most appealing content is located at the top to entice people to go further. “Above the fold” refers to the part of a web page that is immediately visible when a visitor loads that page. This is the content of the page that can be seen without scrolling the page. The fold for 1024×768 monitor is on average 578 pixels down from the top of a webpage.

In turn, the space that is not above the fold is anything you have to scroll down to see. If there is no scrolling involved to view what you are trying to view, than that content is considered above the fold.

For more details visit: Above the fold – Wikipedia