This short training movie will show you how to easily import a CD of images into Apple iPhoto ready for your slide shows or web display.

We also touch on an important iPhoto management tip.

If you hold the Option key when you launch iPhoto it will allow you to create a new library or choose a previous one. Great if you have many projects and do not want them to be mixed up together.

The steps to importing a CD of images are:

1. Launch iPhoto and/or choose the correct library.
2. Create a new Album by clicking the plus sign on the bottom left sidebar.
3. Drag and drop the CD from your desktop into the new album on the left.
4. Watch the slide show as the images import.

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Take the time and follow this guide step-by-step and Wordpress will be only 2 clicks away!

First you need to make sure that all the following elements are downloaded and functional. (links open in a new window)

Downloads:

1. Firefox - make sure that first you are using the very latest version of the Browser (3.0.7 19th March 09). Mozilla often release security updates that you should allow.
2. Secure Login Add-on - This Firefox extension makes logging in to websites a simple matter of clicking once.

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Security Note: This add-on makes it very easy to login to any sites that Firefox has stored passwords for. This extension is not recommended on a public computer.

If you have a private machine but want an extra degree of security you can designate a master password by going to (on a Mac ) Firefox > Preferences > Security > Use a Master Password. Make sure you remember this!

Once you have updated your browser and have the Secure Login addon installed we need to put our Wordpress links on our Firefox toolbar for quick access.

1. Open the email you would have received when you installed Wordpress that contains your account login details. it will look something like this:
2. Click on the Admin URL link.  This is the link that contains /wp-admin/.
3. Enter your username and password. Allow Firefox to remember it.
4. Once you are successfully logged in, drag the URL in the top of your browser onto your toolbar (assuming you have space - you may need to create it)
5. You can right-click on the link in the toolbar and choose Properties to customize the name that appears.

Now next time you want to login to your Wordpress website, all you need to do is click this new link, then click the Key icon (when it lights up) and voila, you’re in!

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After much searching and in some cases praying,

Shopp e-commerce plugin wins the Wordpress e-commerce wars! (In our humble but well informed opinion)

In the browser wars just after the rise of the internet, Microsoft managed to intimidate their way to the lead briefly. But the damage was done and they went on to become market leaders (obviously).

Fortunately on the internet their will always be healthy competition, and we have innovators such as Mozilla and most prominently Apple.

So here we have a Mac user creating software for Wordpress. Yay!

Here are some of the main benefits:

• Smoothly integrates into the Wordpress 2.7 interface.
• Very efficient code means a swift buying experience for your visitors.
• Flexible setup and product display options.
• Sell digital and shipped products together.
• Good support and upgrading options.

Head on over to http://shopplugin.net now to Check-out this great software.

You do have a gmail account don’t you? If not fix this now by clicking here: http://mail.google.com/mail/signup

To create your language translation gadget visit this link:

http://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en

On this page you can also add one-click translations from with your browser.

Pick the language of your blog or website then copy and paste the resulting code into a text widget in Wordpress or in dreamweaver simply paste in the code where you want the Gadget to appear.

Thats it! Refresh your page to see the new Google language translation tool.

He defines it as:

The art of telling a story to a consumer that they want to hear, that lets them persuade themselves to buy something. Inherent to that story:

1. You have to have something they want. You must not force it on them.
2. You have to be authentic. Tell the truth.
3. Your story has to be so remarkable that people want to tell your story to others.

Remember, we have so much choice today that permission marketing is just the beginning of your strategy.

The nature of the web has ubiquitized products and services. What you provide must serve a real need in your audience but also have that special quality that shows a deep regard for elegant solutions.

Take the new Apple MacBook for example.

Apple MacBook

Never before has there been a portable computer so remarkable. Read more about the new MacBooks here.

They have an excellent uptime guarantee that mostly keeps to its word. By mostly we mean 99.7% rather than 99.9% uptime!!

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Creating fast, user defined search adds a service to your website that serves your visitor and you. Create the search engine, copy and paste some code to one of your web pages and then you can edit it later from your gmail account.

Add the credibility and reliability of Google powered search by following these steps (links open in a new window) :

1. Sign in or create a Gmail account.
2. Go to ~ http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
3. Create a name, description, keywords and what sites to search. You can copy and paste in a list of urls into the field to allow Google to emphasize or search exclusively.
4. Remember to tick the No Ads section at the bottom.
5. The next page will let you do some test searches and send yourself a convenient email reminder.
6. To manage your search engines visit ~ http://www.google.com/coop/manage/cse/
7. Click on the control panel link for the search engine you want to embed. Note: the Home Page link takes you to its own simple page on Google.
8. Click on the Code link. Now you can choose to host the results on Google or on your own site. The zippy and cool way to have them appear on your site is go choose the Modal Overlay which makes use of Ajax to return the results but still being on your website.
9. Take the resulting code from this page and copy and paste this into your static pages or a Wordpress widget perhaps.
10. Test the new search engine on your site.

This short video Screencast will show you how to upload plugins (or anything for that matter) using Cpanel.

Cpanel is a very common admin backend system that comes with most hosting packages.

In this case we want to upload and install the WP-Easy Uploader plugin. This one plugin gives us the ability to upload anythign to our Wordpress blog. Plugins, Themes and anything in fact.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-easy-uploader/

This one plugin allows you to upload and install many other plugins and themes from within the Wordpress admin interface. Very cool!

Geeks basically, that make really cool new features available by creating little applications that run within the structure of Wordpress.

Hot Tip: Find new plugins and themes fast! Try our new Google Wordpress search engine page.

Want to add video from YouTube and Quicktime movies to your site? Try the Vipers Video quicktags Plugin. Maybe you want to make sure the email addresses you display on your page can’t be harvested by spam bots. Go for the DBD EMail encoder.

This 5 minute screencast will show you the most elegant expedient way to try out new plugins on your site.

Keep in mind that some (not many) of these plugins require some coding experience too.

2 Plugins feature in this Screencast:

• WP-Easy Uploader - allows you to upload anything to your Wordpress web space, try out plugins or themes and upload media.
• Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu - gives you the quick drop down menus for Wordpress 2.6.5 and earlier.

Installing a new plugin goes as follows:

1. Find the plugin you are after by using our Google Wordpress search engines on this site. Go to http://effectiveclassywebsites.com/wordpress-search/
2. Find the download link on the Wordpress.org website.
3. Right-Click on this link and choose Copy Link Location (in Firefox). This will copy the url to the plugin file to your memory.
4. Go to your Wordpress Dashboard and select Manage > Upload Files.
5. Paste into the From URL field by Right-Clicking and choose Paste.
6. In destination, choose plugin. Options can generally be left alone.
7. Press Upload!
8. Go to the plugins page and activate your new plugin.
9. Make any settings and options changes you need to operate the plugin.

Seth is a fantasic teacher and an innovative marketer with some very relevant ideas that reflect the general state of what it takes to make an impression in the current marketplace. Enjoy!