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Using Our News Manager

This tutorial explains how to use our News Manager. This will step you through the four major sections of the News Manager and how each one functions to ensure you can obtain the information you require as quickly as possible and utilizing the least amount of navigation and keystrokes....

Using our Product Search Feature

Our Product Manager also incorporates a Product Search Feature. The Product Search is like an advanced website search feature, designed specifically for products. With it you can search using keywords, limit your search to a specific product Category, or limit your search to a specific product Sub Category, or limit your search to a specific Manufacturer. You can also choose...

Creating an Email Newsletter Using Outlook.

This tutorial will step you through how to create a Group Email address book entry, so that you can create periodical Email Newsletters. This tutorial assumes that Outlook is configured correctly on your computer and that you have an email account configured so that you can send and/or receive email. It does not include information on how to setup Outlook....

Cropping and Resizing a Picture in Microsoft Paint

For most of the applications we have developed for you to use on your website, there is the ability to upload pictures, however the issue always remains if the picture you wish to upload is not in the correct aspect ratio that the application would recommend. WHAT IS ASPECT RATIO Simply put, this is the ratio of the pictures width to the pictures height. To find the aspect rat...

Microsoft Outlook Express How to Add a Signature / Stationary

Often people would like to add default text to the bottom of each email that they wish to send. You could manually enter that information on each email, but that is quite time consuming. So what are the alternatives? Create a Signature Microsoft Outlook Express 6 allows for basic signatures to be added. They can include text and links, but don't allow for much formatti...

How To Configure an email account in Microsoft Outlook 2007

This tutorial will guide you through the steps of manually configuring an email account in Microsoft Outlook 2007. This tutorial assumes you know the domain name for your website and that Microsoft Outlook 2007 is installed and configured correctly on your computer and that your internet connection is working....

Pictures and Aspect Ratio

What is Aspect Ratio? Aspect Ratio is the relationship between the picture width and its height It does not matter what units of measure you work in, the aspect ratio will remain constant. You could use inches, mm, points or pixels. Why is Aspect Ratio important? Our applications are designed to optimize / resize and display images in a pre-defined space on your web...

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Tutorial : Using our Product Search Feature

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Our Product Manager also incorporates a Product Search Feature.

The Product Search is like an advanced website search feature, designed specifically for products. With it you can search using keywords, limit your search to a specific product Category, or limit your search to a specific product Sub Category, or limit your search to a specific Manufacturer.

You can also choose to apply just one of those search limits, some of them, or all of them. This is ideal if you wish to display all products available from a specific manufacturer. That way you do not have to manually check through every category or sub category. The Product Search will put all of that manufacturers products on a single page for you.

You can also choose to view as a text list (no thumbnail pictures), making it even faster.

This Tutorial was last Updated on Friday, 14th of October 2011

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Tutorial : Creating an Email Newsletter Using Outlook.

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This tutorial will step you through how to create a Group Email address book entry, so that you can create periodical Email Newsletters.

This tutorial assumes that Outlook is configured correctly on your computer and that you have an email account configured so that you can send and/or receive email. It does not include information on how to setup Outlook.

This Tutorial was last Updated on Tuesday, 21st of February 2012

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Tutorial : Cropping and Resizing a Picture in Microsoft Paint

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WHAT IS ASPECT RATIO

Simply put, this is the ratio of the pictures width to the pictures height. To find the aspect ratio you simply divide the width by the height. For example our Trader / Advertising Manager requires images to be 300 pixels wide x 180 pixels high. So 300 / 180 = 1.66667 (this is 5:3 which means for every 5 pixels of width, there are 3 pixels of height). An Example. (300 / 5) * 3 = 180, and (180 * 3) / 5 = 300 and 5 / 3 = 1.6667

Our Image Manager will resize the image the best it can, but to ensure your pictures look correct (not stretched or squashed) it will retain the original aspect ratio. This means that your picture may not use the full space available when being viewed. We suggest that you take a few minutes to understand just how important the Aspect Ratio is and ensure that all pictures you upload are in the optimum Aspect Ratio.

This tutorial will demonstrate taking a scan of a business card for use with your Trader / Advertising Manager. Therefore we need the image to be in 5:3 aspect ratio. (1.6667 : 1).

This Tutorial was last Updated on Friday, 14th of October 2011

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Tutorial : Microsoft Outlook Express How to Add a Signature / Stationary

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Often people would like to add default text to the bottom of each email that they wish to send. You could manually enter that information on each email, but that is quite time consuming.

So what are the alternatives?

Create a Signature
Microsoft Outlook Express 6 allows for basic signatures to be added. They can include text and links, but don't allow for much formatting beyond that.

They are fine if you wish to include text, such as your business name, phone number and other contact details.

Create Stationery
Stationery allows you to create and format another document that is then appended to each email you create. This allows for much greater flexibility and provides you the ability to include pictures and different text colours.

This basic tutorial will show you how to create a text signature and then how to add stationery (that is in the form of a HTML file).

This Tutorial was last Updated on Friday, 30th of August 2013

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Tutorial : How To Configure an email account in Microsoft Outlook 2007

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This tutorial will guide you through the steps of manually configuring an email account in Microsoft Outlook 2007.

This tutorial assumes you know the domain name for your website and that Microsoft Outlook 2007 is installed and configured correctly on your computer and that your internet connection is working.

This Tutorial was last Updated on Saturday, 9th of June 2012

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Tutorial : Pictures and Aspect Ratio

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What is Aspect Ratio?

Aspect Ratio is the relationship between the picture width and its height

It does not matter what units of measure you work in, the aspect ratio will remain constant. You could use inches, mm, points or pixels.

Why is Aspect Ratio important?

Our applications are designed to optimize / resize and display images in a pre-defined space on your website. Sure the pre-defined spaces can be configured to whatever size you need, but that's not the point.

The main point is whatever space is allocated to display picture, to ensure you use all of that space efficiently you need to make sure the pictures are in the correct aspect ratio before you upload them.

Our applications will preserve the aspect ratio of all pictures you upload. This is to guarantee the image will be displayed accurate and not squashed or stretched.

This Tutorial was last Updated on Wednesday, 28th of August 2013

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