A couple of weeks ago, I taught a class where I built a live WordPress Web site as part of the 2017 International Awards & Personalization Expo. For those who want to see the site we built, click here. Note that this site will be deleted after a few months. So if...
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We share tutorials on getting the most from your software.
Over the last few days, I spent quite a bit of time with Web security experts. Some worked for private Web security firms and others worked for some of the big Web hosting companies. The scope of all the discussions we had dealt specifically with WordPress. Though...
Search Engine Optimization can sometimes be very frustrating. If you are trying to improve your ranking in a very competitive segment, moving a page up even a spot or two in the rankings can take a lot of work. But we had a recent situation where some minor page...
When someone comes to our Web Design Solutions Unleashed site and has interest in having us build or makeover a site for them, the first question is always about the cost. It is also one of the hardest questions to answer without knowing a lot of details about the...
I have a number of stories to share today about helping others. I was called “pompous and foolish” because I had the gall to ask someone to pay for my time. I’ll get to that story after another short story. Last week was the Thanksgiving holiday here...
Recently I was making some changes to the CorelDRAW Unleashed and Vehicle Templates Unleashed sites and I wanted to integrate seamless textures into the headers and footers of those sites. I turned to our Textures Unleashed collections to find the perfect texture to...
I’ve been hard at work at another tutorial in our Success Kit series. The latest success kit, Vectorizing Bitmaps in CorelDRAW, covers the many techniques for converting bitmap artwork into vector artwork in CorelDRAW. The techniques described apply to CorelDRAW...
A loyal reader used the Hire the Geek service to have me do some research on a CorelDRAW file and the resulting PDF file. When this reader presented the PDF for printing, they were told it contained “rich black”. My first step was to look carefully at the...
I’ve been teaching CorelDRAW users for more than 20 years. One area that is a constant frustration to users is getting just the right colors. I want to make sure that you all have a resource that will give you the knowledge to get the perfect colors and...
A few weeks ago I told you that a Comprehensive Font Management Tutorial In The Works. Some of you provided specific suggestions for what you’d like to see. I combined the recent requests with the more than 20 years of working with users having font issues to...
A big change happened with color starting with CorelDRAW X5. In all prior versions, colors defaulted to CMYK and users rarely changed this. CorelDRAW X5 and higher allow you to choose if a file defaults to CMYK or RGB as shown in the drop-down of the dialog box at...
One of the great things about being at a trade show is talking to all the people who visit the booth and solving the problems they are having. Some of the solutions require a detailed solution while others are quite simple. A woman visited the booth and her goal was...
I still remember the first time I provided training at the ARA Awards Market in Las Vegas. In trying to show the attendees how to do some of the basic functionality of CorelDRAW, I had used some example graphics using objects filled with something other than black....
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