Seattle Bound #lci2011
On a flight before 7am this morning as I am heading to Seattle for the Lions Clubs International Convention.
In addition, I am looking forward to seeing all my Washington friends!
How to Add Images to Gallery Leaf in Headway
As many of you know, I build a good amount of Custom WordPress Sites for clients. One of the main themes I use for these sites is Headway. I like it because of the ease in making changes with it’s drag & drop theme. It also comes in handy if the client decides they want to make some changes down the road to their site. With a few simple clicks they could make all types of color changes & move things around on their theme.
One of the leafs (similar to a widget or plugin) that Headway has is called the Gallery Leaf. It allows you to quickly & easily install a gallery either on a page or in the sidebar of a page. One of my clients that is using this was having difficulty getting new images to load, so I made this quick video below on how to add images to the Gallery Leaf in Headway. I figured that if he was having a problem with it, that there were probably others out there as well who could use some help with it too.
Optimizing the Resolution on a Kodak Playtouch for Online Video
Over the past few months I have really tried to integrate more and more video into my online marketing plan. I wrote about my recent purchases of the Kodak Playtouch and all the accessories that I purchased to go along with it. However, once I pulled the camera out of the box and shot my first video, I must admit I wasn’t blown away by the resolution. I figured that if I wanted the absolute best quality video on YouTube that I needed to shoot it at 1080P which was one of the options available inside my camera.
To me, highest resolution meant best possible quality. Well, not exactly. So, I set off on testing all the different resolution options to find which was the best option. Below is a simple video I shot in my office. Each scene has all the exact same variables, the only thing different was that I changed the resolution setting inside the Kodak Playtouch.
To my surprise, what I found is that it appears that either setting the resolution to 720HD or 720HD @ 60 frames per second delivered a much higher quality video. So, if you have the Kodak Playtouch and are looking to get the best quality video to share on YouTube, you may want to play with your resolution settings.