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Virtual Mechanics Forum User: Tonga (Working Mechanic)
Video Tutorial on creating popup's in the same screen as the thumbnail.
This is my first video tutorial, we all got to start somewhere right! Any way the tutorial is about making large images show from a thumbnail in the same screen instead of in a popup browser. Also adding transparent borders to your images.
How to expand my website to fit any size screen
A topic came up in the forum about getting your web page to expand inside the browser of users with larger size screens. The problem was that this person created a web site on her 15 inch laptop, but when she published the site and viewed it on a PC with an 19 inch screen the content in the web page didn't expand or spread out to cover the area with in the browser. I know of one solution, which I have explained here.
How to scale an image - .jpg, .gif, .png, .ico and more:
Now there's gotta be more than a hundred ways to scale an image, some methods are better than others. You can import an image into your web building software then scale it to your liking, which then gives you the option of adding the 'popup to full size image' option, or you can use graphic software to scale your images before you import them into your project. For a rundown on both methods click here.
How to add linear shading to a text box:
This topic was an interesting one that popped up on the forum, the question was 'Can anyone help me to create a linear shade on my text box?', so how do you add linear shade to the background inside of a text box when SiteSpinner doesn't have a strait forward way of doing this?
In SiteSpinner you can easily change the colour of the text box background as you wish but when you try to apply linear settings to the colours the changes don't show. To see what I came up with click here.
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About this vid:>> This video was created by Rob from treasurelamp.com The video is an exellent beginners guide for SiteSpinner uses, showing a huge amount of fundemental usage information in a short period of time. Rob shows us the how to:
Make a home page
Create and name a new page
Colour the pages background
Center a project and an object
Add text to your project
Change colour and font styles
Arranging objects
Create links
Preview and publish your site
Add images, videos and more.
Quite alot of usfull info for a SiteSpinner video tutorial under 10 minutes long. Thanks Rob.
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