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Pre-Order Ten Ton WordPress Essentials!

Geoff — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:14:13 +0000

Let’s Git Learnin’! Here’s the Ten Ton WordPress Essentials DVD Outline:

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

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Ten Ton WordPress Sneak Peek!

Geoff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:22:21 +0000

I’ve been getting a lot of emails and a lot of people asking about when the Ten Ton WordPress DVD will be released. The good news is, recording is nearly complete, so we’re looking at a March release! Even better news is, here’s a super-sweet sneak peek (below). Enjoy, and stay tuned for more updates, and an upcoming WordPress promotion!

*Video:ten ton wordpress sneak peak!

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!

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And Tha Winnahh Is…

Geoff — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:09:28 +0000

Announcing the winner of our Ten Ton Photoshop Essentials draw!

*Video:ten ton photoshop essentials winner!

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Ten Ton Give-Away!

Geoff — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:13:59 +0000

Ten Ton Give-Away: Win A Copy Of Ten Ton Photoshop!

Yeah, that’s right baby! Here’s your chance to score a copy of Ten Ton Photoshop! Why the give-away? Well did you know that this month marks the 20th birthday of Adobe’s image editing titan? To celebrate, Ten Ton is giving away a copy of Ten Ton Photoshop Essentials! How much does that rule? Our randomly drawn lucky winner can choose between either Ten Ton Photoshop Essentials Part One or Ten Ton Photoshop Essentials Part Two.

So how do you shoot for a copy? Easy. All ya gotta do is throw a comment into this post. You can talk about whatever you’d like: Your favorite Photoshop command, why you want to learn Photoshop, a war story from the Photoshop trenches…whatever you’d like. Just keep it clean for the youngins, kay? The contest runs until the end of the month, so you have until Feb 28 to enter. Sound sweet? Damn straight!

On March 1st, we’ll randomly draw a name from our list of comments and announce the winner. In the meantime, check out this fantastic post over on WebDesignerDepot about the past 20 years of Photoshop and the origins of your favorite image app!

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Ten Ton TV Episode #3: Setting Up Browser Redirects

Geoff — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:13:14 +0000

Here it is, Episode #3 of Ten Ton TV! In this episode, I get into discussing browser redirects; specifically, how to set up what are called “301 Redirects” using htaccess files. You’re sure to dig it — and this could possibly save you some cash, too. Also in this episode, I reveal the next set of DVD titles coming from Ten Ton Books. The Ten Ton community as spoken, and I’m answerin’ the call! Enjoy!

Copying Assets To Other Sites

Geoff — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:16:01 +0000

Here’s an older article from the previous incarnation of the Ten Ton website that a few readers have been looking for. Enjoy!

If you have content in one site that you’d like to use in another site that you’ve defined in Dreamweaver, you could certainly copy your files to the second site’s local root folder on your hard drive. However, there’s a much easier way to do this is directly from the Assets panel itself.

Here’s how to copy assets to other sites:

In the Asset panel, open the category that contains your asset, then select it.
From the Asset panel’s Option menu, choose Copy to Site, then select the site you’d like to copy the asset to in the sub-menu.

Not only does Dreamweaver copy the asset into the second site, it also creates any necessary folder structure that the current site has.

For example, if you copied a file that was saved in “img / products / camping” and the new site has an “img” folder, but not the “products” or “camping” subfolders, Dreamweaver will create them for you. Further, if the copied file was a part of your Favorites asset list in the previous site, Dreamweaver will add it to your Favorites in the new site. How smokin’ is that!?

To copy a folder of favorites to anther site, try right-clicking on it (Control-clicking on Mac), and choosing Copy to Site.

Click Refresh Site List at the bottom of the Assets panel.

This updates the Assets panel. If you add or remove assets, either within or outside of Dreamweaver, the Assets panel won’t reflect the changes right away.

Note: Because colors and URLs have no file to copy, they’ll only appear in the Assets panel’s Favorites when they’re copied to another site.

Here’s another cool tip: A really helpful fella is the Locate in Site command. Wanna know where an image is stored in your site? Right-click on it (Control-click on Mac) and choose Locate in Site. The Files panel opens (unless it’s already on screen) and highlights the corresponding asset.

Ten Ton Dreamweaver Essentials DVD Trailer!

Geoff — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:53:34 +0000

Up for some serious learning? Then it’s all about Geoff Blake’s Ten Ton Dreamweaver Essentials DVD. With 10+ hours of training and 100+ lessons, techniques, and hands-on tasks you’re sure to gain the skills needed in today’s marketplace!

Would you like to know more about Ten Ton Dreamweaver Essentials? Then be sure to check out these sample clips, Chapter 1: Web Design Fundamentals > Lesson 1: HTML Fundamentals, Chapter 6: Going Further With CSS > Technique #1: Simple Typography Control, and Chapter 9: Graphics > Technique #4: Illustrator to Photoshop to Dreamweaver. Enjoy!

Ten Ton DVD Player Interface Tour!

Geoff — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:15:13 +0000

Completely scratch-built from the ground up, and designed to be simple, intuitive and easy to use, it’s Ten Ton’s own custom video player! This video gives you a tour of the Ten Ton Player that’s used during your DVD-based training from Ten Ton Books. Enjoy!

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Ten Ton TV Episode #2: Building E-Commerce Websites!

Geoff — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:13:15 +0000

Didja dig Episode #1 of Ten Ton TV? With such an awesome response, I’m totally revved up to keep crankin’ out weekly episodes! This week, I answer a commenter who wants to know more about building e-commerce websites. So I lay down four options, ranging from simple, easy to implement options, right up to fully customizable web interfaces. Plus I ask the question of the day, and can’t wait to discuss your answers!

Links mentioned in this episode:

Paypal.com (click on the Business tab at the top)
2checkout.com (click the Start Selling button at the top)
WP-Ecommerce WordPress plug-in
Eshop WordPress plug-in
FreeWebShop.org
Fright-Rags.com
Tentonbooks.com/shop
E-Start Your Web Store With Zen Cart
CucumberMedia.com

Ten Ton TV, Episode #1: Welcome to Ten Ton TV, and HTML & CSS Fundamentals!

Geoff — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:02:06 +0000

Check this out! It’s the debut episode of Ten Ton TV! Geoff Blake leaps in front of the camera to lay down some straight up, no-nonsense info in his fun and energetic style! In this debut episode, Geoff discusses the concept of Ten Ton TV and what it’s all about, then digs into some very basic, very fundamental info about HTML and CSS for the complete novice. Oh, and at the same time, he single-handedly calls out every single college professor on the planet too. Blake brings the thunder and throws the lighting!