Creative Commons

All creative work that comes out of your imagination is automatically copyrighted (© all rights reserved). All of my work is copyrighted for my use only.

However, there are a number of folks that wish to collaborate on their work and they have a site called Creative Commons.

There is a short, informative video to explain how to use the work of others that choose to share their work--there are some conditions that you need to know on some of the categories.

Here are some great backgrounds that can be used for your web site from A Million To One on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ All you have to do is link back to his stream using this url:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grope4mac/sets/

Take a look!

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Google Yourself

Hey,

Have you Googled yourself yet? I just did and found this with me in my classic pose!

http://www.fordracing.com/news/detail/?article=29004

If you aren't there yet, take a look at my previous blog on this subject...

http://rltphotoartist.blogspot.com/2008/02/helpful-seminar-for-webmasters.html

for helpful information Search Engine Optimization.

Hijacked Email on Hotmail

Last night a message went out at 12:47 on my email account to all 157 customers and friends on my contact list. The message was this:

Hey ,friend I find a site to sell electronic products with very good price. Laptop ,iPhone even Motorcycle are very popular .their products are original quality with very low price as wholesale business supplier.They also can do retail business for end user now. maybe it is fit for your business . if you like you can contact them : www.wholesaler-electronic.com E-mail: wholesaler318@188.comMsn : wholesaler3188@hotmail.com

They did it by hijacking my email account somehow. I was able to get into my account and change the password. Hotmail gave me a great clue by telling me that I still had the "automated vacation response message on the account. They used this feature somehow to send this stupid message to all my contacts. Also, as insult to injury, they included this ridiculous message in my automated signature line so it would go out to everyone I replied to. Make sure you change your password to a strong one.

This message is a public service to fellow Hotmail Customers. If this happens to you,
change your password if you can. Then change the automated vacation message setting and signature line settings in your options. I don't know where they are but I sure don't want anything they are selling after this mess.

Colleen Shows us how to make her rolls!

Click on the underlined title link above to see the video from
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day showing how Colleen makes those
wonderful rolls that our family devours at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I hope you enjoy the streaming video! We kind of missed the
gravy part--so we'll have to try this again on Thanksgiving.

In the meantime, enjoy! Colleen was a great sport for
letting me do this!

Love,

Renee :-)

Cookie's Halloween Hat

New Mission Inn Photo Gallery

I just reformatted my photo gallery presentation for Mission Inn and wanted to point it out. The newest items from our 2008 stay at the Mission Inn are mostly on page 2 of the gallery. The new rotunda and pergola shots were well received at the CBU Gala this year and silent auction for school scholarships. Everything in the galleries can be ordered from me--even if you don't see it in my store. I retired about 5 works this year have not included those (in case you don't find one you saw earlier.)

You can see the new gallery at this link: http://www.rltphotoartist.com/AdobeFlashMissionInn

I would very much like to thank the growing number of friends that follow my work. It is tremendously gratifying to create art that hangs in their own homes.

My best to all,

Renee

http://www.rltphotoartist.com/ Thanks for stopping by....

Website Publishing

It's been a while since I have shopped for WYSIWYG website publishing software. Back in the olden days--I used FrontPage and Adobe Pagemaker....then Dreamweaver (I own a very ancient copy).
I bought a new copy of Microsoft Office Publisher and thought it would be just great because it lets you just plop anything anywhere. It gets tricky when you publish because things are "taken care of" on the ftp side of things.

Additionally, if you make any changes and go back through their interface and publishing "magic", you end up with a bunch of new names for your pages and the graphics on your pages and a folder/organization system that is more complicated than necessary. In fact, you spend a lot of time trying to figure out where files were uploaded by the helpful wizard.

I am looking for a program that lets you plop down graphics anywhere without worrying about tables and columns but still lets you work in source code anytime you wish. After that, I would like to arrange the files and use the FTP program of my choice to upload files my way. I have used CuteFTP for years and I like uploading my own files directly to the server without any user interface rigamarole.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks in advance,
Renee L. Theuer
www.rltphotoartist.com