$401

Ten Ton Commodore VIC-20 Essentials, by Geoff Blake

Platform: Commodore

Format: DVD-ROM;

100 hours

Level: Beginner to intermediate

Release Date: April 1, 2010

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Product Description

Have you ever been curious about the fascinating world of “computers?” Not just the imaginings of bizzare science fiction movies, computers are very much a reality, and can perform an array of vital tasks, like making pie charts, or holding down loose papers on the bow of a clipper ship. In Ten Ton Commodore VIC-20 Essentials, you’ll be introduced to this amazing cyber-world, where running programs is as easy as hand-typing just 800 lines of code! Explore the deep caverns of the VIC-20’s vast 3,583 bytes of memory (more than any human could ever need), learn how to expand your machine’s RAM to a whopping 16k, and discover the secrets and techniques to BASIC that are sure to help you get your ass handed to you by much cooler people at school! All this and more awaits in Ten Ton Commodore VIC-20 Essentials! Order today!

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Product Highlights

• Over 100 nauseating hours of training spread across more than four hundred lessons, hands-on tasks, and professional techniques!
• Nail down the basics like the QWERTY keyboard, what a monitor is, and how to load in additional RAM (Random Access Memory) cartriges; Learn the ins and outs of tape drives; Master heaps of type-in programs, and a whole lot more!
• Learn at your own pace with Ten Ton’s easy to navigate player interface—skip ahead, rewind and review, and jump between the lessons at your own pace![ Watch the player interface demo ]
• Packed with loads of free extras, including product discounts, bonus lessons, a Commodore VIC-20…and hidden easter eggs!

Installing WordPress
Setting Up a Free Blog on WordPress.com
Setting Up a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog
Installing WordPress Locally on A Mac
Installing WordPress Locally on A PC
Applications You May Use Along with WordPress

Touring the WordPress Interface
Viewing and Customizing the Dashboard
Touring the Admin Interface
The WordPress Codex and Online Forums

Setting Basic Blog Options
Setting up Your Profile
Setting General Options
Changing your Blog’s Theme
Exploring More Themes
Viewing the Theme Files
Using the WordPress Theme Directory
Ten Awesome WordPress Themes

Creating Posts
Writing a Post in the Visual Editor
Formatting and Previewing Posts
Inserting and Editing Hyperlinks
Using the Kitchen Sink Toolbar
Setting Post Publishing Options
Understanding Excerpts, Trackbacks, and Pingbacks

Additional Posting Techniques
Editing Published Posts
Adding a More Link to a Post
Creating and Editing Posts with the HTML Editor
Creating HTML Posts with Dreamweaver
Adjusting Writing Settings
Password Protecting A Post

Adding Media to Posts, Part One
Setting Media Options
Inserting Images Into Posts
Including an Image from a URL
Adding Images to the Media Library
Inserting Images from the Library
Editing Inserted Images
Editing Images in the HTML Editor
Using Wordpress’s Image Editor
Preparing Images in Photoshop
Illustrator to Photoshop to WordPress Workflow
And Now on to Video

Adding Media to Posts, Part Two
Adding Video to a Post
Using Auto-Embed to Add Video
Adding Audio Files
Linking to PDFs and Other Types of Media
Managing Your Media

Working with Categories and Tags
Getting Started with Categories
Creating New Categories
Applying Categories to Posts
Setting the Default Category & A Fast Way for Creating New Categories
Applying Tags to Posts

Working with Pages
Understanding Pages Versus Posts
Creating A Simple Contact Page
Creating An HTML Contact Page
Setting your Blog’s Front Page
Controlling Page Order
Using Page Templates

Creating and Managing A Blogroll
Getting Started with Your Blogroll
Adding Links to the Blogroll
Editing Links
Creating Link Categories

Viewing Comments & Adding Users
Viewing Comments
Moderating Comments
Setting Discussion Options
Adding Additional Users
Understanding User Roles

Customizing Permalinks and RSS Feeds
Setting Your Blog’s Permalinks
Creating Custom Permalinks
Working with your blog’s RSS feeds

Extending Your Blog with Widgets and Plugins
Getting started with Widgets
Going Further with Widgets
Using Dreamweaver to Creating A Custom Widget
Adding A Twitter Widget to Your Blog
Now on to Plugins
Exploring The WordPress Plugin Directory
Installing and Configuring Plugins
Manually Installing plugins
Ten Killer WordPress Plugins to Explore
Adding Custom Widgets

For the sake of time, this video’s been edited so that it moves along pretty quickly, but the DVD version goes into much more detail…and it’s nearly twice the width and height too — nice ‘n crisp!