What is all this Latin text in my webpage?

When designing a website, it is necessary to fill your pages with content to see what the overall page will look like once it is finished. To that end, web designers including The Site Smiths have long been borrowing from the graphic design profession and specifically their use of dummy text for graphic designs. All of the Latin you see in a pre-launch website is simply there to show what text will look like on the page. All of the text will be replaced by the correct and relevant content prior to launch.

You can read more about the use of Latin text and even generate random paragraphs for your own use with this very helpful site, Lorem.com

Sometimes my clients need an easy way to modify the size of their digital photos in order to use our Content Management System, Wordpress. The easiest way to do this is to use the website Resizr.

Once at the website, click “browse” and choose an image from your computer just like when we were adding one to your website. The next box is for width. About 700px would be good for a large picture, 350px for a medium and 150px for a small picture . Click “Resizr” and wait about 10 seconds. A page will come up with your picture on it. You need to save this picture.

You can save any picture from anywhere on the web by simply right clicking on the image, and then choosing “save picture as”, and then choosing the where to place it on your computer. This is the same way you will grab the newly resized picture.
To use this image in your website, continue with these directions -

Once you have saved the new picture somewhere on your computer, just go into Wordpress, and into the page you want to add the picture to, browse down to the upload box, choose “browse” and fill in the description and title, then click upload, and then make sure the radio button “thumbnail” is selected. Click upload to browser and there you are.

This page is under construction! Hold on to your hats - this new site is still in development, and was just launched Friday, April 9th @ 9:50pm... so when Monday rolls around, we'll get our content loaded up! Thank you!