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Jan 15
2010

How To Compress Video For The Web

Steve Floyd

Dallas Video Tutorials

Video compression for web can be a complicated, tedious and time-consuming process if you don’t have the right tools. It’s actually very, very simple if you do. This tutorial assumes that you know something about video already. If you do not please reference Microsoft’s resource on this subject.

Jan 15
2010

How To Secure Your Joomla Website

Steve Floyd

Joomla Security

One of the biggest problems plaguing the Joomla! community for the past few years has been security. Many people have actually dumped Joomla! for Wordpress or Drupal because of this. The sad part is, 99.9% of people who get hacked is because of their own negligence, not because of the Joomla! CMS.

Jan 08
2010

How To Blog (For People That Hate Computers)

Steve Floyd

Dallas Content Management System

After doing support on countless cms based projects over the last few years I began to see a reoccurring theme: the average person has no idea how to blog, nor do they care to. This would be fine, if the entire foundation of someone building search engine presence didn’t hinge on him or her developing relevant, well written content, which is, well… basically blogging.

Dec 02
2009

How To Set Up A Blog

Steve Floyd

How To Set Up A Blog

First off, if you are going to blog, you need what is called a Content Management System (CMS) so you can organize your posts and media in one place and not have to mess with code. Fortunately there are wonderful free and open source content management platforms like Wordpress, Joomla! and Drupal that will enable you to set up a dynamic highly customized blog, as well as other 3rd party hosted services like Blogger, Tumblr and LiveJournal (which have some limitations but are very easy to use) so setting up your own blog has never been easier.