If you’ve ever recorded audio, the first thing you will have noticed is that compared to commercial CDs for example, it sounds pretty quiet. No matter what you do with the volume, it just doesn’t come close or worse still, starts clipping (exceeding the audio ceiling of 0dB) and so distorts horribly. So how do… Read More »
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Formatting Your eBook
After countless hours, weeks, months, maybe even years of perfecting a novel, the next and final step for many self-published authors is to upload their Word document to Amazon’s automated eBook conversion service. If you’ve experienced using the uploader, you’ll know it often results in errors. Here are a few I’ve encountered in commercially available… Read More »
Responsive? That’ll cost you…
Today, I heard about someone who’d been quoted for a website with responsive design as a chargeable extra. Google recently introduced a change in their algorithms that demotes fixed-width sites further down search results in favour of responsive sites. The reason for this change is usability – as more and more of us consume sites… Read More »
WordPress Plugins – 7 Free Essential Add-ons
Plugins are a simple way to easily and quickly enhance your site without the need to start delving through lines of code. There are literally thousands available in the WordPress repository (over 36k at time of writing), offering just about every customization you could imagine. This is a list of the plugins I find essential… Read More »
Simple WordPress Security for Beginners – no coding required!
Placing a few extra locks on your site is common sense – you don’t want all that hard work destroyed by some random attack. But it can also seem a little daunting when you first start out with a website, especially if the advice from your Google search tells you to start altering php code.… Read More »