In the Spotlight
How To Fix Red Eye with Picasa
Picasa is a popular free digital photo organizer from Google. It includes a tool for red eye removal that helps you quickly remove the glowing red pupils from your snapshot photos.

Decorating Easter Eggs in Illustrator
Sara Froehlich shows you how to make Easter eggs in Adobe Illustrator — from drawing and coloring them, to dividing them using the pathfinder palette and using brush strokes and symbols to decorate them.

Graphics Challenge: Think Spring!
Still caught in the clutches of Winter? Can’t wait for Robins to return and the Crocus to poke through the ground? Well then it’s time to Think Spring! This week’s challenge is to create your image of Spring.

More Topics

• Easter Egg and Chicks with Painter
• 3D Easter Eggs in Illustrator
• Free Christian Brushes
• Free Christian Shapes
• Free Easter Egg and Bunny Graphics
• Resize a Batch of Images with XnView
• Turn Color Clip Art into Line Art

Tax Time
Taxing Matters
Get all the advice you need for tax preparation, from gathering documents to budget planning and tips for saving more.

In the Spotlight
Kreate-a-Lope Envelope Kit
After designing and printing a fabulous greeting card or photo card, why stick it in a generic envelope? This kits makes it easy to create a perfectly sized envelope using all kinds of great papers.

Parts of an Envelope
Did you know that envelopes have throats and shoulders? Learn more about these parts as well as folds, seams, and flaps.

Envelope Styles and Dimensions
Announcement, Baronial, Booklet, Catalog, Commerical, and Square Envelopes come in many standard sizes.

More Topics

• No Bitmap Photos, Please
  BMP, Perhaps?
• Setting Up File for Perfect Bind
  Discuss It!
• Character Style Problem in QuarkXPress
  Can You Help?
• Framemaker Bullet Problem
  Any FM Experts?

Tax Time
Taxing Matters
Get all the advice you need for tax preparation, from gathering documents to budget planning and tips for saving more.

What is a Font?
If you know the five families of fonts on the Web, you can use the one that will get your point across more clearly.

Using Points, Pixels, Ems, or Percentages for CSS Fonts
Font sizes are problematic on the Web. Learn what sizes you should use and when.

Dynamic Fonts
While not 100% reliable, it is possible to define specific fonts for your Web pages and have them display, even if your readers don’t have the font on their system.

Coming Up Next
Next lesson, we’ll cover navigation – it’s an often skipped and misunderstood part of Web design.

In Spotlight
Review of Audacity Audio Editor
My review of Audacity, the free, cross platform audio editor has been posted. Audacity is great choice for people getting started with podcasting on a budget (or without one!)…read more

The Danger of Doing a Top Software Picks List
Some people have asked me about not having Adobe Audition on the list. Honestly, I haven’t looked at Audition in a while. There is such an array of…read more

Adjusting Audio Levels with The Levelator
The Levelator is an interesting (and free) software that adjusts the audio levels within a podcast for volume differences between the host and guests. You used to have to go into…read more

More Topics

• Using Effects – Opening Up Audio’s Toy Box
• Adding Music – Taking Your Podcast to the Next Level
• Making Your Own Music – When Inspiration Hits
• ID3 Tags and Show Notes – The Finishing Touches
• Distribution and Services – Making Your Podcast Public
• Audacity Review
• Setting Up Audacity

Tax Time

Taxing Matters Get all the advice you need for tax preparation, from gathering documents to budget planning and tips for saving more.

Use Ready Made CGIs
Guestbooks
Before you start building your own forms, it’s a good idea to learn the basics with something like a guestbook. They are useful, and if you look at the source code of the HTML you can get a better sense of how forms work.

Set up your form with a Free CGI
Once you’ve installed a Guestbook, you’re ready to return to the form you wrote yesterday. Take the form, and if you used a mailto link at the top, remove it. Then go to one of the many Free CGI sites and find a free form to email CGI to use. A great place to start is with your hosting provider – many provide form to email scripts for their customers.

CGI for Forms
Perl/CGI Script Basics
There are a few things you need to understand about Perl before you put up a CGI. Emmie Lewis the Perl/PHP Guide has an excellent lesson on Perl CGIs. This lesson comes from the Perl 101 course, ignore the homework at the bottom.

Using Forms and CGI
If you have access to Perl on your Web site you should be able to use this CGI. You’ll need to copy it exactly as it’s written – change only the location of Perl on your site and the email address to send the messages to.

Homework
Post Your Answers to the Forum
Put up a form that uses a CGI as the action. This can be as simple as a ready-made guestbook or as complex as a form you wrote yourself. If you want feedback, post your URL to the HTML forum, in the HTML class folder.

Class versus ID
Understanding when to use class and when to use ID is crucial to writing good XHTML documents.

Syllabus
Day 3

• FONT vs CSS
• Font Properties
• Text Properties

The FONT Tag vs CSS
Why should we use Cascading Style Sheets when we have the FONT tag?

Font Properties
And there are a lot of CSS properties to help modify your pages

Text Properties
And finally, if that’s not enough, these text properties will do more to your text than just change the style and face.

Day Three – Lesson
The Requirements of Spending Time With God – Continued
Making time for God and then persevering in your commitment are vital steps to developing a devotional life.

Additional Resources
4 Essentials to Spiritual Growth
Are you a brand new follower of Christ, wondering where to get started on your journey? Here are 4 essential steps to move you forward toward spiritual growth. Though simple, they are vital to building your relationship with the Lord.

Day 3 – Loneliness
Loneliness: Toothache of the Soul
Loneliness is one of life’s most miserable experiences. Everyone feels lonely at times, but is there a message for us in loneliness? Is there a way we can turn it into something positive? Never married, Jack Zavada understands how single life can be difficult, especially when dealing with loneliness. He believes that Jesus, who also never married, offers understanding and compassion for the unique feelings of loneliness and frustration that singles often experience. Read more…

Day Three
Wonderful Impossibilities
“When God intends to make something wonderful he begins with a difficulty. When he intends to make something very wonderful, he begins with an impossibility.”
– Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Coggan
Read more of “Wonderful Impossibilities.”