Doing it for love

Creating Valentines to give away

Graphic Artist Marian Bantjes shows how she creates her art. Her course on Linda.com Marian Bantjes, Graphic Artist is a one hour tutorial in how to build your own Valentines.

Sign up for a 7-day free trial to lynda.com and you can watch the whole course free.  A Lynda.com subscription has thousands of courses that will awaken the creative person inside you or someone you love. lynda.com software training My problem in writing about it is she checks this column.

Lynda.com makes photo book production a breeze

Online course explains how to plan, organize and publish a photo book on Blurb.com

Lynda.com Creating Photo Books with Blurb, showing book cover design

Self-publishing a book is a daunting task made relatively easy with the Lynda,com course Creating Photo Books with Blurb.

For example, if you want to create a really special Valentine’s Day photo book covered in How to make the best Valentine for under $50, the related Lynda course takes about 2 to 3 hours to complete and costs $25, or $37.50 if you use their sample files. The fee is a one month membership and you can also take other courses during the month. There also is a Lynda.com 7-day free trial.
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Apple and Android Apps are headed to the computer museum

44% of 800 million Facebook users go online with a smartphone and incompatible websites are losing customers

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The world isn’t going mobile. It is mobile.

Internet sites that want to increase traffic need to migrate to HTML5. It’s new and takes some effort but that’s where the market will be.

Look around and everyone is on a smart phone. They are not talking. They’re connecting with Tweeter, Facebook and StumbleUpon and surfing the web.  Continue reading