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Pimp your Dubsado Portal

Well, I wanted to share this article with you, because recently I shared some pictures around how I revamped and redesigned my tips Auto portal in order to make it easier for my clients to understand how to access the information I was sharing with them, as well as Make sure that it was consistent with the rest of my branding and I’m telling you I got an overwhelming response of people who were really interested in how I did this.

What’s really appreciative of the style and things like that that I implemented with my depth, Auto rebrand, I figured I would create a article that would help you understand my process and some of the tips and tricks that I learned in order to ensure that everything was Consistent and well branded this article will help you understand how to not only design your dips, auto portal banners also associated emails, that you can use to share with your clients on how to use the depth auto portal and sections and graphics that can be used throughout Additional forms that you may have throughout your depth saddle site.

So let’s get started and hope you learn a lot. So the first thing we’re going to talk about is the file that way I use to generate my graphics. So what I use in order to generate my graphics was Photoshop. Now a lot of you may not have access to Photoshop or you have access to Photoshop and are still may be intimidated by using Photoshop, because it is a industry standard for graphic design and photo manipulation.

So if you don’t have Photoshop or if you don’t want to use Photoshop, then certainly you can use something like canva. You can use adobe spark. You can do use any of the online and mostly free resources to generate your graphics. But it’s important to understand kind of the sizing that I use, and I know a lot of people were had a lot of questions around what size were the different items and most of the sizing I got from reading.

Some of the support articles end up Sado. As well as some of the articles and Facebook live sessions that depsite will put out, so the portal banner should be 1800 by 200, so I have that here. So this is the portal banner. The mobile banner should be 760 by 200. The hero image for any of your form should be 2,000 by nine-thirty, and then the section dividers can be 2,000 by 110. Now go into that a little bit later about the section dividers and how I use those now.

The first thing, I will say is what I’m showing you the example that I’m showing you is one of our dub Sado members reached out to me and asked me about recreating a rebranding heard of Sado, and so her name is Lauren and she’s, with captivating calligraphy. Beautiful work, beautiful branding, and so in order for me to do this so quickly and efficiently, she had to provide me a few things, one of them being her brand guideline.

Thank goodness, she had a really strong, clear, cohesive brand guideline for her, which included her logos. Her colors her typography, and with that information and a few pictures and textures that she shared with me, I was able to come up with the following designs, so once I changed, the overlay get the sides overlays off of this. This is what I came up with for captivating calligraphy. Now I’m going to be referring to some of my notes as you can see.

So if you see me looking away not because I’m not paying attention to you, it’s because I’m you know wanting to make sure that I don’t miss anything. So basically what we did was created a client portal banner. This banner is going to go right at the top of the portal so that people know where they are so. It says welcome to your client portal and has her branding and some of the graphics that she shared with me as well as some of the graphics that I obtained from her social media or Instagram blogs.

Now they provide. They tell you to create a portal banner as well as a mobile banner. Now, one of the things that I will say about the portal banner versus the mobile banner is don’t try to squish every single thing in the portal banner for the desktop into your mobile banner. It should be a good kind of modification of it, but still consistent with your branding. So, as you can see you know, the picture of her is not on there, but you you try to make sure that you’re putting the most important most representative images in your mobile banner from a party standpoint versus trying to really fit everything from the desktop banner Into the mobile one, because you have clearly a lot less space, so then what you will do is also create a header or a hero image for your portal guideline, and so, when you’re sharing with your clients, hey you have this client portal.

You can access it anywhere, here’s the way to access it. Then you have this beautiful image up top so that it welcomes and invites your clients in and they understand they hate, you’re, very professional, very top-notch, and things are consistent with your branding. I also developed section dividers so that, as the different sections of your Deb Sato, information in your guideline are talked about.

There’s clear separation of them using these images and again consistent with her brand colors, her logos, her fonts and things like that. I was able to develop the dividers so that we can really separate the information out much more clearly. Also, you may wonder why the content and the imagery is only filling half of this available space and the rest of it. When you see these checker marks, that means it’s transparent, because when you import images into DEP Sado, it will default to filling the available space, a hundred percent.

So if I were to make this particular divider shorter, just to fit the content, when I imported it into DEP Sado, it would stretch it. It wouldn’t necessarily stretch it, but it would make it bigger, wouldn’t distorted, but it would stretch it to fill the 100 % width of the space and I would have to manually, go in and adjust the percentage that it took up and it may Center it and Things like that, which may not be things that are really intended, so I made sure that the size of the portal section dividers was 2,000, so it’s consistent with the size of the hero image.

Now you’ll see a lot better. What I’m talking about in this piece of it when we actually start filling out her client portal guide and we’ll be getting into that very soon? But basically, what you have are what I use is artboards. I use artboards very extensively because you can create different artboards of different sizes and one document and not have to worry about. You know creating completely different documents because you’re using different sizes, and so once I’ve created all of my images at the correct size.

All I have to do is go to file export artboards to files and then browse to the right folder that I want to put everything in you can export selected artboard, but if you want to just export everything you can uncheck this export. The artboard content only make sure it’s PNG if you were going to use something that went all the way across and was completely filled and there was no transparent pixels that you wanted to keep in the document.

Then you could use jpg and that would reduce the size of the file significantly because JPEGs are compressed files. But if you wanted to make sure that you have the transparency you’re going to have to do PNG so once all of these selections are made. Also, the prefix, you can add a prefix, you can just create something that says dubs and what will happen is when these files are exported. Your file name will be dubs, underscore portal banner dubs underscore mobile banner and that’s how it will be exported into whatever file folder that you wanted to use as your destination.

So that’s basically it you would hit and-run and then you would have all the files. You need to start updating your website or portal and associated forms. So now, let’s mosey on over to Deb silo where we can make the adjustments to the portal associated with the design we’ve just made. Now, when you first log into the dub sava, your dashboard may look a little different than this, but that depends on how you customize your account where we’re going to go.

First, is the gear icon for settings? If we’re going to go to Puerto and as you can see when I first logged in all of these, things were set up like this, and what I’ve done is made sure that I click hide. The welcome message, as well as hi logo and your portals, because the design that I created already has the logo and already has a welcome message embedded in it. So then, are you going to do I’m going to exit out of these from now and show you exactly what you need to do so for the portal banner here you have the general banner for desktop upload and we’re going to get the portal banner image.

You see that is 1800 by 200, which is recommended hit, choose then you’re going to get the mobile device banner. You choose that one okay. So then we have both the portal banner for desktop and for mobile here and we’ve hidden the welcome message and the logo. I’r going to go ahead and grab this link for the portal and hit save now what I also did to make sure that I can take a look at the portal banner in context before I send this to my clients, is I set up a test account Inside my projects and make sure that I could just log in with my email address, and so with this link, you can come over here and paste that link here and it’ll show your portal login before I actually put in my email address.

I’r going to go ahead and take a screenshot of this image and I’ll show you why, in a few minutes, okay, so that screenshot is available all right now, I’m going to put in my email address, I didn’t put a password associated with this test account. So I’m just going to hit login, and now you see portable banner is sits very nicely up here. Does it have an overlay of any welcome messages or additional logos, and you can see very clearly where everything is now, while I’m here, I’m also going to take a few more screenshots, because these screenshots are going to be useful when you’re developing your client portal guide.

So I’m going to take a screenshot of this homepage and of the documents page you emails page and the profile page. Okay. So again these are going to be useful a little bit later. So let’s go back to Deb Saito and now we have this information in the portal and people will once they come to their portal, will see that that new, updated graphics now we’re going to actually look into updating the client portal guide.

So you see, if there’s no client portal guy set up yet, but if you want to set one up and don’t want to have to do it from scratch, you can go to the template library and see that they have a client portal guide there as well. Now you see a laundry list of templates very helpful. I’ve looked through, several of them might be using more of these, and all you have to do is kind of filter it by quest questionnaire to make the list a little bit smaller and go all the way down to the bottom and you’ll see the client portal Guide here go ahead and preview it so that you can see kind of what you’re working with you see.

This big image is probably going to be appropriate for the larger image that we created in Photoshop, and here is where I wanted to bring your attention to the screenshots that we made. So currently. If you use the client portal guide as a template, as is it will have their branding in it, it’ll have kind of the way that their portal looks. If you want it to use your portals design, then you, those screenshots that we just took, will come in handy.

You can use some of their images and things like that. But generally I’m using my own images, you see here they have kind of like a article as well, and this is really just a gif animated gif that they incorporate it. You don’t have to do this. I did not use this animated gif for mine at all, but if you are going to, if you meet some guidance or to provide some guidance to your clients on how to upload things into the file uploader, then that’s exactly what you can use, but yeah everything Else here is pretty straightforward: alright, so then what you’re going to do is hit copy to account and that’s it.

You’ve got the client portal guide and then you got ta start adjusting this client portal guy to fit your needs. The text that is in bold is usually notes for you, the designer or the entrepreneur, to give guidance on how these sections can be used and very helpful. But what you definitely want to do is delete them before you actually send this to other people. So I am, I’ve read through this, make sure you read through it and get the information you need, but I just generally delete any of these because I’m not going to be providing that information to my clients.

I’ve got the home page, and so you see where it says, portal login here we’re going to delete that and we’re going to delete a lot of the headings. The first thing you’re going to want to do is actually take this image and you’re going to click on it and you’re going to actually upload all of these images from what we created into your image gallery. So we’re going to need this one. You know to need all of these where the section headers, okay and I believe, that’s it.

We took a picture of the portal login, the branded portal login. So I’m going to move that on over okay and I think that should be it from what we exported from what we export it from Photoshop, okay. So the first thing you’re going to make is this welcome guide? First, you got hit upload. All all of those are uploaded. You can go ahead and replace that hero image, the bearer image with the one that we create clothes, looks very nice.

Okay, I’m not going to be adjusting any of her copywriting. She will be doing that a little bit later, but what I will do is start adjusting the section headers and some of the screen shots. So this is the start of a new section and I am going to actually add an image block here. Click this and because this next section is just talking about the portal login. I want the portal login section here, so you kind of have to click through them, because it’s hard to see now before I put this in there actually I’ll show you what it looks like you see.

It fits very nicely in this space for the portal login. This is halfway across exactly what we wanted now, if I would have used what I mentioned before is making the size of the section headers without that extra transparent space. If I would have done that, I’m going to show you what it would look like. So when I created the portal login – and I just made it the size of the actual image – you see how large it is, it fits a hundred percent by default of the available space.

And if you don’t want that section header to be that big, you would have to adjust the width here to maybe take it down to 50 percent and then align it to the right in order for it to show up the way that you want it. Okay, but to avoid those extra clicks in those extra steps, I just created the portal login and any of the section headers with the empty, transparent space as part of the image, so that it’s actually sized the exact way that I want it to be sized and Then it fits perfectly where it needs to go.

I’r going to go ahead and change this to the branded one right. When I look at it, I still feel like it’s a little large for the space, so I’m going to go back into the image and maybe make it 80 % of the lid. I, like it being centered, that’s fine, and by default it is centered, and so now it looks like this. So again, the screenshots of the areas where you may screen shots in the portal would be added in these remaining spaces.

So we’ll just go to where my screenshots, our homepage, we’re going to do is click here. We’re going to drop all of these images in upload them all and we’re going to select this one to be the next one close. So this reflects what the client portal would look like once they logged in all right. This still seems a little bit big, I’m going to take this down to 60 % all right. I like that better all right there.

So again, you would continue on replacing images with images from your portal making sure that if you want to detail something, that’s in the Documents folder that there’s content in there too to detail. If you wanted to keep this again deleting any of the bolded text that are notes for you personally and adjusting everything like that, so that’s it! I’r not going to go through and do everything else, but you get the point which is replacing the images with your images is going to make your client portal guide.

Look very professional and brand it to you now. Once you have everything uploaded all the pictures and the screenshots that you need uploaded, we’re going to assume that I’ve done that. What I found is that I liked that when someone came to the client portal and was on the home page, but when they came to the home page, I like for the client portal guy to be one of the first things they saw now. Here’s a couple of things that I’ve noticed about deaf side.

1. If you do not have a field on a form, then once you act that form to a client’s job, then it will automatically be completed. It will automatically be a completed form because there’s nothing for them to fill out, nothing for them to do so. It would not appear on the Home tab, it would only appear in the documents, tab and it would be complete. I felt like that was a little bit confusing, because people are looking at these documents as if they need to do something or they don’t need to do something and if there’s a form somewhere in their portal that says incomplete, then they’re more likely to actually open It up read it and do something with it and if it says complete, then they’re probably not going to do anything.

So I make sure that I added a field here at the bottom, and I said I have read and understood the information provided yes or no. You can even make this a required field if you want to um, but you know, or you can leave it unrequired, but basically this allows that question to be asked and if that field is available, then there’s going to be a submit button and that’s my submit Button on my personal, dub, Sato account says I’ve read this.

You know something you know more of a call to action. Yes, I’ve read this or if you even want to do something as as far as if you select no, then I have additional questions all right, and so then they can say. Okay, I didn’t quite understand this. I didn’t quite understand that or my login is not working, etcetera whatever, but they will see that they can provide additional feedback on the client portal form if you want them to put that as a response in that field, I don’t have this online.

I just have the yes or no, and that allows the button for submission to show up, because otherwise it won’t and then it’ll be an incomplete form. That’s shown directly on the home page that they will be prompted to do something with, and they all have to go into the documents page in order to see it. Okay, so that takes care of developing your client portal form your client portal guide and your portal.

Graphics, all right, so that’s it! Now that you have your client portal guy created, then you can actually set up a page on your website for your clients to log into what you’ll need in order to start. This is the embed code from your client portal settings. So let me save this document, we’re actually saving clothes all right and then we’re going to go back to the settings we’re going to go to the portal and what you’re going to use is your embed code.

Now this embed code is very important. Most web hosting providers, whether you’re using Squarespace, Wix WordPress, I personally use WordPress, will allow some sort of space for you to add specialized code into your site so that this will show up. So, for example, if you go to captivating calligraphies page, this is her home page and you see in her menu there’s a client portal. When you click on that.

You see at her client portal log, okay and we’ve already got the image of the actual log in with her branding on it. So, armed with those two things, what you’re going to go do is go back to the up side, oh and you’re, going to go back to templates, we’re going to go to canned emails right and then what you’re going to do a new canned response. In the end, bro say: okay and then the subject is, if I use the same or you can call this client portal well phone a little bit shorter, and so here you’re going to say hello, client, name.

Cuz we’ve got smart fields, we don’t have to type everyone’s name out, hello. You may say hello. First name, you can put whatever content you want in here. I’r just going to type some sample text. But again you would create the email that you would want. Your clients to see you you and what you’re going to do is add a linked all right and you, as you know, when you have links form Ling’s, then there will be a color-coded button that they can use, and then you can also say you can also Log in to your portal, using the say from my website as indicated below all right, then you can take the image drop.

This image. Okay, you’re, definitely going to make it bigger right so that people can see it. You have questions. So, of course you would. You know copyright this in a way, that’s more engaging to your clientele more than I did and I’ll do some more work on hers as well. So don’t think that she’s going to be left with this text, but basically, what you’re going to do is say that so now you have a wonderful email with an image on how to log into your client portal and what people will find once they log in You also want to do this if you are setting up passwords and their password protected for the for the portal, you want to make sure that you add the password here.

So the link to the portal is one thing, but you also want to add. The link to the past are the information for the password to access so the portal password. So that’s it. That’s the template for your canned email. Well, I hope you enjoy spending this time with me going through how to update your client portal. I know it seemed like a long process, but hopefully it’s pretty clear of many of the tips and tricks that I use to make sure that my client portal and associated documents looked great.

So if you really enjoyed the article but felt like I don’t want to do this, I want you to do it. Then I am available to help you redesign your client portal right now. I am offering an introductory rate for people who want to hire me to redesign their client portal redesign their canned emails and provide them templates for additional forms, as well as create the client portal guide for you, I’m available for that for two hundred and seventy-five dollars.

I have a link here to my website and the product page for that service and if you are interested and purchasing that, then I’m available. I hope to hear from you soon and I thank you for spending this time.

 

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How to Create a Blogger Blog Step by Step Tutorial – Blogger Beginners! Tutorial 2014

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EASY Way To Create A Website For Your Salon Using WIx.com

Com, and I want to show you guys how easy it is to create a website for your salon. I use a company for my salon website called Wix, I’m not really affiliated with Wix in any way. I just think it’s a very simple website builder for anybody. Anybody can do this, so I’m going to go ahead and I’m going to show you guys so, let’s switch over here alright.

So let’s get started in this way. So this is basically the Wix website builder. It looks exactly like a website, that’s what makes it very convenient a lot of you don’t know, but most of the time websites are built with something that they call code and code is basically a bunch of letters that somebody that went to school for a long Time learned to write – and you know most people cannot do that.

So this is so simple, and what I like about Wix is. Let me just show you. This is our front page of our website, so my salon is gratitude, salon, education. This is definitely not if you’re a website builder already. This is not the article for you. This is just me, showing you salon owners out there that it’s easy and you can create your own site very simple, so this is the basic menu. We have our social media stuff up here, so you could click that that’s easy to set up.

So the cool thing about Wix is it’s just as easy as clicking it? Let’s say I don’t like that there and I want to put it over here. I can do that and I just drop it, but let’s I want to keep it right there. So we have that up there and then I have my main menu here. All of this is connected to each page that I have developed for our website. So if I want to shrink that down a little bit, so we have our home menu, which is this, then we have our salon like about the salon and what? What the salons all about so the bio of the salon.

Then we have our menu for the salon. We have a portfolio with some pictures of hair that we’ve done and then a contact page and then the salon professional page is the free salon, education, komm page, which you can also click this image here. So, let’s just start with the basics over here is how you create pages. So if I click that it opens up, it shows you all of the different pages that are connected to our website.

So if you wanted to, let’s just start with the salon page so I’ll click – that this will show you what the salon page looks like it shows a picture of our salon very simple, and this is a slideshow. So it’s many different pictures put together. We have basically the description of our salon, what our salons all about, then there’s drop-down menus from that. So if actually let me open up, let’s open a new tab and let me go to salon gratitude comm, so this is our actual page and how it works.

So if you go to the salon, you can see this drop down menu here you can see that the slideshow is working here, showing some of the staff and everything so to create these drop-down menus. Let’s go back to our editor. I have my main salon page. Then you can see how these pages are offset. So now each of these pages, this one is the salon. Then we have owners so a picture of me and Christina and Hayden, and it just talks about us being owners and what that’s all about.

Then you go to our team and it has the BIOS of our whole team in here kind of breaks down everything. It’s really simple to do. So if I want to create the main salon page here and then have drop down menus from it right here, you can see these are a little offset. So if I want to actually show up in the menu I drag, let’s see I could take this page drag it over and now you can see team shows up here.

So if I want it to be in a drop down menu from the salon page here, then I just drag it over. So it’s really really simple. Anything I want to do if I want to change this picture. I’ll have to do is double click it once. I double click that picture see here. It’ll bring up this editor and you can upload there’s some of our friends in there. This is also connected to the free salon, education, comm page, but any picture I want to add in there let’s throw Josh XO a bone.

Let’s say I want to become Josh Excel, so let’s change the image and boom it puts it right there. You can change the size if you want, and then that becomes your bio. So let me go back to let’s change it back to me. I don’t have to be Josh, so, let’s see here and there we go. So it’s back to me. So it’s just that simple to change the pages and whatever you want it to be. Now we’ll go back to our pages here we have our menu.

That brings up the same thing. If you want to click an image, you can add images, you can change your pricing, you can write whatever you want. So let’s say I want to edit this text. I double click it I can highlight. I can write whatever I want, so I can come in here and type in and then you click out of it and you’re good to go. Let me just take that away here, so it’s just really simple: to create a website on Wix and the cool thing about Wix.

Is that it’s free for you to start so you just create the page and then the maximum amount that you’re probably going to pay, is $ 10 a month to be able to have a website. You can create your own domain and everything, and as soon as you have your page, the exact way that you want it, you save it up here so once you save it you’re good, then you hit publish and whatever is already done on your website.

Once you hit publish its going to go live so you can do all your editing and then, as soon as you have it the way you want it, then you publish it and it’s it’s ready to go so again up here. You can change your your logo and everything, and this is something that you want to get into it. Try it out and you’ll you’ll discover different things. This isn’t a full tutorial on it, but this is just showing you how easy it is to create a website.

Nowadays, now the other cool thing and let’s go back to our home page here, creating a slideshow is simple, so you can see all these images that I have added in here. So that’s going to rotate through. You can add your titles, whatever you can link them to other things, so that’s kind of a cool function as well. So if you have something, maybe you’re running a special in the salon – and you want to link it to that – I also we gift cards in the salon and we use millennium a gift, so they’re online gift certificates.

So what I did was I created an image and then this don’t do that. I linked it to our Millennium a gift. So now, if you go to our salon website and you’re like oh, I want to order a gift certificate. You click that it takes you to our page on millennium, for them to purchase a gift card which is really cool as well. We there we go so has our logo here they pick a design whatever they want. They buy the gift card to emails it to someone which is another cool thing that you can do, but you can click and add everything to whatever you want.

We have our reviews in here wedding page, so I think that’s pretty much it, but if you guys have any questions, please post them below on anything about building a website on Wix. I can answer them. I hope I’ve kind of clarified some things for you on this, but make sure that you subscribe to us on youtube and follow us and again post any questions below I’d love to answer them. Hopefully, this helps you guys and make sure you go to Wix comm create a website, have fun with it, and you know this will save you a lot of money and it allows you to have a little bit of creative control on what your salon looks like Online, so thank you guys, Matt Beck from free salon, education, calm and I’ll.

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AWS Serverless Web App Tutorial

We will be covering a new concept in cloud computing, namely the serverless architecture. What does this mean? Well, essentially, server less computing allows you to build and run applications and services without the need to manage the actual server. It also provides flexible scaling under heavy load and automated high availability becoming a very versatile tool.

The AWS server less platform has many capabilities, as you can see, but for the purpose of this article we will be showcasing the creation of a server less web app from scratch. The structure of this project can be easily understood by following this diagram. All of the front-end code will reside in the s3 storage unit, which allows us to host the website publicly. Therefore, we start by creating an empty s3 bucket, like so give it a unique global name and click create and now to upload the static websites content into the bucket.

I simply click upload and drag and drop the build folder into here. Like so note that I am using react as a framework, so it might be a bit different for you. The next step is making the pocket public and for that we go into permissions and pocket policy and paste this bucket policy. In order now public reads: click save and do not forget to change the bucket name. Now this bucket has gained public access.

As far as configuration is concerned, the only thing remaining is enabling the website hosting in the S stream, which will allow the objects to be available at the website. Endpoint of the bucket click properties and select this card to do so. Check use this pocket to host the website and input a route for us. It will be index dot HTML. Furthermore, you can set up a custom domain for your s3 bucket by following the tutorial right here, which will be linked in the description anyhow.

Now you have the endpoint of the website and if you click it, you will see that the static website has come online. Going back to the diagram. There are a couple of things left to do. We should set up an instance of the Amazon Cognito user pool which enables us to register log in and authenticate securely. Then we will write the backbone of the serverless project that are the various AWS lambda functions which replace the server as they access and manipulate of Amazon DynamoDB now SQL database and respond to easy to use restful api calls.

But first the user pool head to Amazon, kognito and click manage Azure pools. Here you can create one or several. These are pools based on your application, for instance, one for regular users and one for administrator. You give it a name and click preview default settings here. There are various options: the password length, some type of restrictions, for it. Verification by email is a really important one, because you actually also gain a two-factor authentication while using the Amazon, Cognito and finally create the user pool.

You can find it under the user pools category and make sure you note down the pool ID that it has given itself as well as the previous endpoint of the website. The final step of configuring, the user pool, is creating an app client for your project. I already have one in here, but you can always add multiple ones, just give it a name and make sure you deselect the generate secret client option, because that means that it doesn’t support the JavaScript SDK.

You can also manage and configure every single user in your user group by clicking here and, for instance, having the option to disable delete users even creating or importing new ones as well, and most projects use JavaScript these days after that, leave the other options as default And click create app client make sure you save the app client ID for future use. Once you have the two IDs you can insert them into your application and benefit from the various cognitive.

A P is like the login and register ones. Let us test this new functionality into the website. Now we can register a new user, for instance, with this email password that satisfies the constraints and of verification code has been sent to the said email. It has sent this Jason using the user pool ID and client ID that we have just provided it with, and we have already appeared as an unconformity in the user pool after user verifies himself.

He can also login by following the same procedure and of course you would get a warning if his password is incorrect, once kognito is out of the way. All that remains is the server less back-end. Aws lamda interacts with the database, so we must first create one head on to dynamo DB and click create table here, give it a name and the primary key you can choose between various types and then create.

For instance. Here is my database. I have events with various categories: DynamoDB is a non relational database and you can edit the data inside at any time as long as it is not the primary key of the item. For instance, here I have made a mistake. Event capacity should be a number and then click Save it successfully changed it. Furthermore, you can customize it by adding new fields inside it. Let’s say time of day morning, and then it would add that category now that we have the database, we need to create a role more specifically Identity and Access Management role for the future function, so that it has access to read and write to this database.

Specifically, so let us do just that: go on to the overview, tab and write down the Amazon resource name so that we know which database we’ll use then proceed to go to. I am and create a new role here: choose lambda as that’s the type of function that we will use in the filter, policies, search bar, begin typing, lambda and choose AWS lambda basic addiction role so that it will have permissions to write to cloud read logs so That you can see whether you have errors or not, then click Next provide a name for it and then you’re ready to create an actual role.

You can find it here in my case now to attach the policy for our specific database. Click here add inline policy for choose a service type DynamoDB actions. Let’s give it all the types of read rights and lists and for resources with specific option checked, go on to table and click. Add a RN here you can paste your your own database AR m and it will automatically fill in the fields, for you click Add, and then you can review the policy giving it a name as well once the role is created with both policies in place.

We are now ready to create the actual and the function. This is easily done by going to AWS lamda and clicking create function. I like living author from scratch. Option enabled for runtime give it the programming language of your choice, a name and the role. You can choose an existing role, and here you can see the one that we’ve just made. Example, lambda role create function and the base one will be created for you.

After we create a function. You can see that it already has access to the cloud read logs, as well as the Amazon DynamoDB database that we’ve just created the function itself is a hello world stub onto which you can build other functionalities in order to test it. You click here, give it a name and some parameters if needed. In our case it doesn’t use them, so it doesn’t really matter. Click create and again test.

As you can see, it says hello from lamda back. This is why we’ve added the cloud read logs policy. Now, on to a more complex example, we go into functions and get events. This is a lambda function which takes all of the events in the database. We’ve previously looked that that have reached past a certain hard-coded date due to this line here, using all the big land scan method, we click test and check out the results, seeing that it it does output all of the events.

In the same way, you can make a most event function, which takes into account the parameter is required to make a new entry in the database. Let’s name it test three in this case and click test. The function has added test three, so let us see that, and here it is going back to the function. Okay, I would have noticed that we have something called an API gateway here as a trigger what this does is.

It enables an URL which we can use in our application, on which we call witta get or post, for instance, and receive the result of the function back in JSON format. This is essentially the final piece of the puzzle that connects all of the services together. In order to create one remember, every function has one API gateway. We give it a name, a description if necessary and an endpoint type as choose edge.

Optimized in this case create the API. Go to actions, create a method of the type that your function is. Let’s put it at any select, lambda function, the region and the function that you’ve wanted. The API, for, let’s continue with the example function in our case, use the full time mode should be checked as well. You will land in this page and the API gateway is almost ready to be deployed. You’ll notice here in method, request, authentification is set to none.

What does this mean? Well, if we change that, we can make it so that, for instance, the view events viewing all of the events in the database is only allowed if you’re already logged in so after we do so only then we’ll be able to see the events. This is done by creating a new authorizer click kognito and give it a name. Let’s call it user select, the user pool that you’ve previously created and the token show source should be authorization create and then back in resources, click, any method, request, authorization refresh, and you can see the newly created user now only being logged in into that specific cognitive User pool, who will I allow you to access the specific function? Those being said, we are now ready to deploy the gateway API.

You should also note this option here enable cross-origin resource sharing. I recommend you to enable it if you like me, have opted to use Axios as a method of communication with the api, otherwise it wouldn’t work and finally deploy api, select a new deployment stage, with the name of your choice and clicking deploy. This will yield invoke. Url, which you will put in your application and don’t which will call with the get or post, depending on the function that you’ve wanted to call this server less web app functionality is now complete.

You have the static website sitting in the s3 storage in it with all the images CSS HTML, then the user pool uses kognito to manage the login register and authentication followed by the newly created database, which is populated and manipulated by the various lambda functions that you Will create which are called from the project through the Gateway API. Thus, they all amounts to a single web application which can be expanded upon easily.

Last but not least, regarding price. Well, the cost of creating the serverless web app is known as AWS accounts only for the time its service is actually run, which is mainly the amount of traffic and how many times the lambda functions compute. For me, personally, it has been less than 0.1 dollars and I have had the webapp on for a period of about two weeks time with extensive function tests. Ultimately, all of these resources are available in a github project and check the article description for more details.

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How to SELL YOUR SERVICES

So I asked why, wouldn’t he sell his services and earn money to buy a drone, but how can I sell my services? He asked: let’s talk about how to sell your services whatever they are. I was a freelancer for nine years, so I know that struggle is real, especially in the beginning, when you don’t completely know what you want to do, what are your strongest sides? Who is your client and what that client wants a bit of autobiography? I wasn’t always a VFX artist.

In fact, I was really distanced from any kind of tricky stuff. I started my journey in Photoshop. I was doing web designs at first and the first thing I ever sold was a redesign of hip hop or not even on an entire design, but some elements like hero, image, icons, buttons and stuff, like that earned my first $ 50. It wasn’t even an online day the guy who ordered that was someone I knew, and he knew I was doing some stuff in Photoshop.

So what is it all about? Pointers start small. If you know anyone who needs design of any kind talk to them, offer your services for cheap. These happy clients will spread the word and you will start getting more and more projects. On my own example, the guy I just mentioned was happy was with what I did for them and they started to order posters for every event. They have for $ 50 each and it was super awesome for a school boy over time.

Other people started to ask me to do stuff for them all sort of things. Business cards logos, web designs, posters: this is how word-of-mouth works, and this is how you build your real reputation. Word-Of-Mouth is great, but in order to get more and bigger clients, you need a portfolio to showcase your current level. It isn’t the challenging in the very beginning when you don’t have any clients. Yet my solution was simple and I’m pretty sure that’s what a lot of you are doing.

Anyway, I was making logos, websites and all that stuff that I already mentioned for fictional clients, and that way it was a good practice for me as well as I was able to build my portfolio, it’s a perfect way of doing it, because you don’t have any Limits or guidelines to follow you can showcase all you got at its best, so do it as much as you can, because clients work is rarely something you would want to put in your showroom or portfolio clients.

Work is a strong mix of their desires. Your resistance, shitty compromises, because, in the end of day, client has to be happy, and this is a rule. Clients happiness in your reputation are too closely connected. Things always always always finish your job as good as you can, while good feedbacks will slowly pull you forward. One bad feedback will throw you back really painfully where to showcase your portfolio.

A while ago, I had a really good custom-made website. It was my design executed by a really talented front-end developer. But when I was changing my brand, I got rid of website and lost that source fast. I don’t know what I was thinking about, but I remember I wanted more flexibility across multiple platforms, so I used Behance portfolio service for a while. Nowadays, I believe it’s free for anyone.

Who’s subscribed to Adobe software. Great thing about this service is that it’s linked to your Behance page. So whatever you upload to be hands automatically appears on your website. It’s actually really convenient, so much convenient that I already said. I got rid of my unique website, which still was a dumb thing to do. Speaking of Behance its portfolio showcasing platform more than it’s a platform to find a freelancer or jobs.

However, I had several projects from it, so, even if you don’t want to use their website service make sure to have a profile there, cuz it’s it’s anyway, beneficial to you. Behance is number one platform: employers surfing when they’re looking for creative solutions, inspiration or people. Behance is a good base, apart from it try to maintain a strong presence in social networks, Facebook Instagram Pinterest, whatever platforms there are nowadays, your ultimate goal is to showcase what you got to as many people as possible on faith on Facebook in particular.

Find groups that are relevant to what you’re doing share your work. There comment on other artists works, be active, employers are sometimes checking those groups out and in some of them I’ve seen they’re proposing projects looking for people. So, for instance, I’m a member of octane render group in facebook. Apart from brilliant artworks, people are posting their iíve. Seen couple of job offers project offers posted.

There are two, so whatever you’re doing logos, Web Design, CG and VFX paper origami find relevant group and be active in it. Finally, one of the most effective ways of selling professional services, for me personally was dedicated freelance website. There are free ones and paid ones for both freelancers and employers. I haven’t used any of these websites for years now, but I suspect not a lot of things changed.

Last year we used freelance com to find a guy who would be able to model some stuff for us, and I was impressed by service on this particular freelance that come both employer and freelancer are safe. So it’s flawless safe and straightforward. The freelancer we were working with wasn’t allowed to do any other project while he was working on our stuff and he was paid only when the project was approved.

As an employer. We had to fully pay everything to freelance calm, but the money got released only upon projects, a pro approval and it’s super awesome. Cuz. Both sides know that they are serious about the work. Freelancer knows that money are there and they’re waiting for him to finish the work. Employer knows that freelancer won’t steal the money and disappear. This service really makes communication between freelancers and employers really simple.

Ten years ago, when I was freelancing, workflows were not developed on that level I personally experienced when employer disappears and not paying you, I’ve seen other freelancers disappears and not delivering works, and things like that with freelance comm, it’s just not possible it’s eliminated, so both sides Are honest, awesomeness just check it out? What about the price price is very important start small, remember $ 50.

The trick here is, as the demand to your work grows. Price can grow too. Remember demand price, not vice-versa. If you over value your work, you’ll, probably find yourself without any clients at all to estimate the cost of your work. Use freelance websites as well go to projects find a project. You would like to work on and usually under description. Other freelancers are able to propose to the client check out their work check out how much they want for day work and compare your level to their level and that way you’ll be able to find out what what’s the price be competitive.

Do better job slightly cheaper than others, but don’t drop your prices crazy low, be adequate? Last thing I was doing was least effective and least appealing to do. I was doing cold calling sort of. I was sending emails to every studio alight, offering my services I’ve, sent hundreds of emails and felt myself like hardcore spammer, but from those hundred couple of them replied and the collaboration was great.

We worked on numerous projects over years. Any possible way of reaching out to client is a good way. I’ve been there. I’ve done it, you can too. To summarize, if you want to freelance and effectively sell your professional services, you should concentrate on building a strong presence on both social media and freelance websites. I’ve listed a couple of freelance websites in article description for you.

There are paid services, some freelance websites for freelancers things like boost your rating or somehow decorate your portfolio. I don’t know how it works not now, but so, if you can use this services cuz, it’s really beneficial to you like in games, same principles. You pay you benefit and what’s more important and shows the employer that you’re serious about your work, be active and just grow your network.

Apart from that, don’t forget about your personal projects, creative stuff and stuff, your most passionate about! Do it upload it to your portfolio and push yourself to grow? Your level comes up if I was helpful in this topic thumbs down if you’re one of those guys thank you for reading guys, see you in the next one peace.

 

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How to Setup Online Orders and Delivery – Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash

By my friend Darlene from GoDaddy’s “ How To” And we wan na talk with you today about adding delivery service. Options to your business – That’s right Emma! I know that I’m doing my part to stay home during the COVID-19 crisis, as are many others that Don’t have essential jobs and using services like Uber Eats DoorDash and Grubhub are great ways to Still get food delivered right to my door from my favorite restaurants Yeah.

So let’s talk About delivery service, Each of these companies has Their own business models, so you research to determine which option works best for you. Some things to consider are One costs for you and your customers, Two delivery areas So like how far do they Deliver from your location And thirdly, how user friendly is the app or the website for you and your customer. Another thing you can do is Check out other restaurants in your area and see what they’re, using.

If you determine that everyone’s Using a specific service that means that there may be More drivers in your area – Oh and another thing to Point out is that I’ve seen that a lot of these companies are offering different promotions right now to encourage customers. To use their services, I know that I’ve taken Advantage of them for sure Me, too Darlene Once you decide which Company you wan na use you’ll work with them.

To get things set up And when your menu displays On their website or app, you can add links on your Website right, Darlene, That’s right! Emma! Let me show you how to do that. We’re going to start on Website Builder. There are a couple of Different ways to show that you’re now offering delivery, You can add the information To the header of your site, or even call it out in A promotional banner To update the header, all you Need to do is click the text you want to update and make the change.

I’r going to change my text to Say “ Now offering delivery.” When you click on the header, it opens that section Over here on the right, so you can make any other Changes to the image accent, color or alignment We’re going to leave ours, as is Now, let’s update our Call-To-Action button, We’ll click the button In our preview window and make the changes in The pane on the right We’re going to put Order Now on our button.

Now we’re going to link to the website URL of the delivery service. Where our menu displays, I’m going to paste in my Url and then click Done Now when people click a button, they’ll jump over to the Delivery company website with your restaurant displaying so they can place their order. If you want to add a promotional banner, you can do this by going to The Promotional Banner option in the Header section, which Is where we currently are In this section flip the Toggle to Show promotion Add to your custom Message We’re going to say “ Now offering delivery through Uber Eats.

”. Now we wan na add the link To the external website, URL Click, the toggle and paste in the link. Now click Done: Let’s go preview, our site. We can see our header and promotional banner front and center And they’re both advertising that we’re using a delivery service and both linked to that site. Don’t forget to publish If you like, what you see, Thank you Darlene as Always you do such a great job of showing us how to do these things.

I hope that more and more Restaurants, take advantage of delivery services during these times when we’re all at home, And I know that I love Seeing new restaurants pop-up here in San Diego, because I love to support small businesses, I hear ya Emma and I feel the same way I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my favorite local restaurant Adds their delivery soon. So, thanks for joining me today, Stay safe.

My pleasure Darlene Stay healthy

 

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How to Setup Online Orders and Delivery – Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash

By my friend Darlene from GoDaddy’s “ How To” And we wan na talk with you today about adding delivery service. Options to your business – That’s right Emma! I know that I’m doing my part to stay home during the COVID-19 crisis, as are many others that Don’t have essential jobs and using services like Uber Eats DoorDash and Grubhub are great ways to Still get food delivered right to my door from my favorite restaurants Yeah.

So let’s talk About delivery service, Each of these companies has Their own business models, so you research to determine which option works best for you. Some things to consider are One costs for you and your customers, Two delivery areas So like how far do they Deliver from your location And thirdly, how user friendly is the app or the website for you and your customer. Another thing you can do is Check out other restaurants in your area and see what they’re, using.

If you determine that everyone’s Using a specific service that means that there may be More drivers in your area – Oh and another thing to Point out is that I’ve seen that a lot of these companies are offering different promotions right now to encourage customers. To use their services, I know that I’ve taken Advantage of them for sure Me, too Darlene Once you decide which Company you wan na use you’ll work with them.

To get things set up And when your menu displays On their website or app, you can add links on your Website right, Darlene, That’s right! Emma! Let me show you how to do that. We’re going to start on Website Builder. There are a couple of Different ways to show that you’re now offering delivery, You can add the information To the header of your site, or even call it out in A promotional banner To update the header, all you Need to do is click the text you want to update and make the change.

I’r going to change my text to Say “ Now offering delivery.” When you click on the header, it opens that section Over here on the right, so you can make any other Changes to the image accent, color or alignment We’re going to leave ours, as is Now, let’s update our Call-To-Action button, We’ll click the button In our preview window and make the changes in The pane on the right We’re going to put Order Now on our button.

Now we’re going to link to the website URL of the delivery service. Where our menu displays, I’m going to paste in my Url and then click Done Now when people click a button, they’ll jump over to the Delivery company website with your restaurant displaying so they can place their order. If you want to add a promotional banner, you can do this by going to The Promotional Banner option in the Header section, which Is where we currently are In this section flip the Toggle to Show promotion Add to your custom Message We’re going to say “ Now offering delivery through Uber Eats.

”. Now we wan na add the link To the external website, URL Click, the toggle and paste in the link. Now click Done: Let’s go preview, our site. We can see our header and promotional banner front and center And they’re both advertising that we’re using a delivery service and both linked to that site. Don’t forget to publish If you like, what you see, Thank you Darlene as Always you do such a great job of showing us how to do these things.

I hope that more and more Restaurants, take advantage of delivery services during these times when we’re all at home, And I know that I love Seeing new restaurants pop-up here in San Diego, because I love to support small businesses, I hear ya Emma and I feel the same way I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my favorite local restaurant Adds their delivery soon. So, thanks for joining me today, Stay safe.

My pleasure Darlene Stay healthy

 

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Business Etiquette – Art Of Introductions | Personal Impact

Introductions are part of everyday business, so it & # 39 s, essential that you & # 39 re, comfortable and confident when introducing others and also when being introduced to others. So one of the questions I & # 39 m asked a lot is whose names you say first in an introduction. Well in a business & nbsp, introductions are made based on rank and precedence.

Gender is not taken into consideration and women are treated equally based on rank, not chivalry. So in making an introduction, the person who holds the highest rank within an organization would be considered the most important person or the person who would take precedence over the others. So in most organizations that would be the president or the CEO, the lower ranking person is always introduced to the higher ranking person.

So when making an introduction, the junior person would always be introduced to the senior person. So the easiest way to do this is to face the most important person and to say their name before introducing the other person to them. When making an introduction, it & # 39 s, always a good idea to give a little bit more information about the other person than just their name. That way, it can act as a conversation starter, and it can also make both parties feel more comfortable okay.

So let & # 39 s review the formula based on order of precedence. The senior executive always receives the junior executive. The name of the senior executive is spoken first, the name of the junior executive is spoken last, for example, if I was to say mister senior executive. I would like to introduce mr. Junior executive from the LA branch, and then I would say mr. Senior executive is our director of national brands.

When it comes to introducing government officials, it & # 39 s really important to do your research ahead of time. On the correct customs of address, there are lots of really great ways to do this. One way would be to check the internet, and another way would be to check some of the great resource books that are out there on the topic. When introducing a client to someone from an organization that provides them service, the clients name comes first, for example, John Jones, I & # 39 d like to introduce Jim Smith our department manager.

Jim John is our customer from Seattle, and he & # 39 s due really well with our product line. They & # 39 re. A government official always receives a non-official, for example, if I was to say mr. Mayor, I & # 39 d like to introduce Miss Smith, one of the provinces leading exporters here & # 39 s, a article that demonstrates the formula for introductions. So I was the introduction I mean I budgeted Miss Jones and a fake, Miss Jones.

I would like to introduce our new employee, mr. Smith. Mr. Smith is just started at this location here and Cooper recently and Miss Jones for this, and then you can add something like my understanding of both the width of us because being and that over to give them an ice scraper, so they need each other later. It & # 39 s always talked about, so you always want to try to add a little bit of extra information if you can so in a situation where you might have to introduce to your colleague to a client now who & # 39 s important movie, Nobody speaking for the CEO, the client we never oh, we always have and person and then introduce the other people to that person and then add a little bit more information.

Okay, so interactions. The keywords are allowed to introduce, or without introducing to you you to meet as soon as you say I & # 39 ve met you to meet. It basically turns the table and gives the other person 11 hours. Okay. Thank you very much. < /p >

 

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How We Make YouTube s: The Gear, Process, Kdenlive, Gimp, OBS & Other Open Source Software

So this is how I make youtube articles. I’ve actually gone through a lot of iterations, but because this is the first one I think I’ve documented top to bottom we’re going to call it version 1.0. When, technically, I have lost track of versioning, but for purposes of YouTube here and when I go back and say: okay, what did I change? I can make version, you know one point whatever or when I do a lot of changes.

Maybe a version to X, we’ll figure out like all projects that are open-source and you try to figure out what you’re going to do for versioning numbers and that can be the complicated part. Occasionally at least for me, because I think gives us a big change. An incremental change, but let’s get started. What we have here is, and I’m going to swap between the cameras and then I’m going to show how I actually put this article together on the editing side, and the reason I have to do both is because my youtube blog is obviously a lot of tutorials And some articles like this, so there’s a mix of things I do and I want to kind of show all of them.

So this part is the filming part is freely called filming. Nothing is film, it’s all digital, but this is the part where we do things in the studio and how we edit it together up. Here I have a GoPro just out of frame. Then we have two lights. I have my Aston microphone in shotgun mode, which is currently the audio source and I’m trying to figure out how to get the audio when I do behind here. I guess I’ll just be oh, so I have my aperture light and my cheap softbox from I well.

I think I got it either for me, I was on or ebay I’ll find an Amazon link for you. This is not an expensive one at all. That’s a little bit more money, but not excuse me that one’s a little bit more money, but I still really like it because it works really. Well, it’s an LED light. It’s portable. It’s got batteries on it, but now that we’re doing more studio stuff, I’m leaving these set up more often anyways.

So when we’re doing a product review, for example, I got a couple of products here. I got my pixel phone, which I’m getting get ready to do a review on. I currently have my GoPro mounted to a boom stand over here, and this boom stand works really good to hold a camera. Now I’ve Marvin’s camera’s, not here right now, I’ve been borrowing his 70d until I can decide whether or not a one of I another, seventy which I think I have a deal on a line on one right now, but that’s primary.

What we’re shooting with over there is the Canon 70d. I’m really happy to the camera everyone’s like. Oh, it doesn’t do 4k or doesn’t do this. I’m like. I don’t think my tutorials would be any better in 4k if they not adding any value, then yeah. Why even add it to there? Also we for the TV hookup, so we can see what we’re doing we have a wire going from that. So this is what I see over here. So kcci do glance over there.

Try never to look, but when we’re setting up this is an easy way for me to see. What’s going on is to look, we just plug it into the TV. I understand everything is going on with the camera and you know gives me a good idea of things on there now with the magic lantern software, it’s nice, because it gives me the audio level. So I can make sure the audio is good on this, and this asked a microphone I’ll leave a link to below I’m really happy with this purchase.

Now everyone’s, like. Oh rode, mic Pro this that I tried the rode mic I had the road might go. I liked it, but I liked the audio quality better on the Aston and it does stereo. So when we did that group setting where we had all of us here doing hot sauce, the acid microphone didn’t phenomenal job. We have it. This is also on a boom. Stand but I will show you that these lights here and the couple poles it’s all – I really need to get a lot of this done.

I am, though, prop maybe today I’ll do this. I didn’t like it I’m kind of getting sick of the orange behind us because I think it detracts from some of the colors, so we’re going to switch to just a gray background. We want to do maybe some color splashes that’ll be like a version 1.1. Changing the background is hardly a major change, but what’s important is the workflow and how this gets done and how the articles get produced.

So this is filming. That’s filming I’m going to splice in a little bit of filming off of this, so I can pull the whole project together and show you what’s going on, but I switch the camera on here right now or maybe I should do the GoPro I’ll do the GoPro. It’s got a better audio because I can put a microphone on the GoPro and I’ll walk around and kind of show you from the other side what this looks like.

So this is the aperture light. I know it’s kind of rigged in here that’s unfortunate, but we’re going to we’re going to put that inner right. That’s like! Shall we to do list? It’s got screw, it’s really solid, isn’t going where this is battery-powered. This is the aperture al5 tu es. So we can dial in if we need to do this, it’s on a tilts, it’s keep it plugged in. But if I unplug it like, I said it’s on battery, so you loses no brightness works really well.

This is the less expensive and hopefully the microphone doesn’t pick up too much noise shrimp. If I don’t get you close, this mic on the GoPro picks up a hum just generic cheap soft box from Amazon with for us and tubes in it, which is why it causes problems with this microphone. This I really like I’ll leave a link to this. This is the boom stand that we use for holding the camera up works really well, and this is one thing that’s really cool about this boom stand.

Let me break it down real quick and it drops down simple as that. Now it’s locked in place and then those legs fold up, so we can make it nice and small same with this. We hang the ear kind of up here when I’m not using it. That way, when we need more chairs and more places, which we keep the chairs all nice and neat kind of on the wall here. This is where all the extra gear ends up. So these are lots of connectors doodads.

There’s all our podcasting equipment, different ball heads. I really like these Joby heads they’re great, for holding things on this little case is where we put things like the GoPro and the other cameras. That’s how we do our time. Louses charging drone stuff the drones actually up there in shelf and when it’s all done, everything goes in here. We lock it that way when we have like get-togethers with random people coming in and out all the gear and all the little doodads.

No, I don’t want to be touching them. It is less I’m worried about people stealing it it’s much more, that people pick things up and touch it and lenses are super expensive, speaking of which that also brings me to this. This is my lenses, the Sigma 10 to 20, so this is for the real wide-angle shots. I really like this lens. I’ve had it for like ten years this, they call the Canon nifty 50. 50 millimeter.

It is a F 1.8. You can pick this lens up for like really cheap. It’s super inexpensive. I definitely like it quite a bit, but some of the other gears just miscellaneous stuff. You know lens cleaner stuff, like that. Maybe I’ll do a separate gear article. I do have a lapel mic in here and that’s what this is. I just don’t use it that often it’s kind of nice when you want to walk around and I get the microphone, but I don’t do that as much when I do.

These are the audio technica Pro 8 8 w RS pick these up for dirt cheap on eBay. I just dislike the fact that they use a 9-volt battery and they create a little bit of a history in the background so anytime I use it. I have to edit that out – and it annoys me, the Canon 70d itself is got the kit lens the 18 to 135, with the Image Stabilizer. We leave it off because it actually uses a little bit of battery when it’s on the tripod, but I use it.

Of course, if I’m trying to your free hand, which is pretty rare, free handing the camera unless you’re a really good camera man – which I am not that needed, so I try to tripod as much as I can. Even this has some shake now. This is just using HDMI out that goes up there. There’s your HDMI in the wall goes through. The ceiling comes back down behind the TV and it’s hard to see, but back there behind the TV is where all the lines come through to get that signal from over here to over there.

That’s simple effective though, and I like it here, is I dislike wires along the floor. If you didn’t notice, even these wires go plug in underneath and over here, so there’s nothing across our path. The only thing that kind of goes across the path is the audio cable. When I plug it into the Canon, but that’s life you’ve got a. I haven’t really found an easy solution, but that’s why we run it on this tall or boom stand from the Aston microphone up over back to the camera.

It’s easy enough for people to walk right under it, and this is that as tuned microphone, that has both the stereo and mono features low-pass filters. Some boosting the auto mode is my favorite because it automatically turns on when the camera turns on and it turns back off. So let’s turn all these things off and get to editing’s. That’s how we see where the open source comes into play and how holla’d all actually happens in case you’re wondering my GoPro setup, pretty simple: it’s a GoPro with one of them metal cages, a little hot shoe mount and the road might go and the stupid $ 50 GoPro adapter that you need to have to make this all work.

I have no idea. This is a cheap tripod that I bought all this off, Craigslist a guy who was just dumping it for really cheap – or at least this metal case. And this thing, so I don’t know what brand is some off-brand x-series, but it gets the job done for well doing what I just did with it. So it’s definitely handy for that. So for those of you see my desk before you know, I have a three desk layout, I’m going to jump to the other camera here and show you I zoom back out against the wall.

These are the three monitors, so everything’s kind of spread across all these screens, and now I’m going to insert that article into the article of me making the article now. This is actually could be showing me how to screw up making a article, because I added at the end of it and did a bunch of editing on how I did the editing and I don’t like the any of the ending of it. So I’m going back and re editing and Reese, placing just the ending of it.

I realized that I was a little bit too zoomed out trying to show three screens it’s how I edit and that didn’t portray well at all on YouTube. You just couldn’t see what I was doing, so I’m going back to dragging everything. So this is the three screen layout with well there’s different layouts here. This is a three screen layout. This is how my layout actually looks when it’s in process and then working.

This is a preview window on one side, but obviously this is really hard for you guys to see. What’s going on, I realized after I recorded me editing, but the article is edited, so I’m just going to cut out the end and redo that part. I tried it like this, and this is also hard to see what I’m doing so, we’re just going to drink everything to the middle screen and get rid of the webcam, so you can see what I’m doing for the editing parks this.

This is the hard part to show because there’s a lot that goes into editing, so I showed some of how I copied files and things like that, and that’s I thought maybe the interesting but maybe not imposed so I do is I’m done. I kind of proof most of my articles I try to prove from, but we’ll just bring over here and show you what I do so here is the editing part that I didn’t like this is going to get deleted.

Here’s all the stuff that came off of all the cameras I use so I had my GoPro. I had my screen capture, which I’m doing again right now, which was called. Finally, I just named it that you know my naming schema. That’s whatever makes it work for you, but what I will talk about is a couple little things, so one of them is – and I’ve talked about before I use sync thing: singing is backing up my article folder continuously, as I drop things in here.

I’ve did a whole article on that and whatever your workflow is making sure you have a solid backup. I like automated backups, specifically using the syncing tool and it backs up to my FreeNAS continuously, so it’s on my hard drive it’s backing up over to there. So that’s getting copied over then we just drag all these files, which I’m not going to direct them again, but you just drag them all in a kdenlive and then we drag them all to the tracks and I’m holding the ctrl key zooming in and out.

I got a tutorial on how to use Kate and live, and you know putting all this together now I started the intro of this article with a little classic 8-bit song. Let me see if I can change the view here so there’s my little preview that I dragged right there, so you can see going through editing the normally I edit on the other, monitor but, like I said, there’s not an easy way to 40-percent a dual monitor Layout it just unless you have a 4k and I export this at 4k.

You wouldn’t be able to read all this, but this is me cutting between all of them. You line up the audio, you get it all say: okay, here’s the audio! This is the GoPro article. This is the main camera article and it’s how I cut between them for the overhead shots and then I’m using OBS at the end, which I’ll drag my OBS screen over here, which it just goes to infinity, because it’s recording, OBS, recording, recording, OBS, recording and makes Kind of a cool effect in the background – and it OBS, is how I do my voiceover, so I got my setups here and this is what it looks like back on a three screen layout.

So let’s do this view. This is actually how it looks. I’ve Shrunk the screens over here, just going to give you guys an idea and a view, and all the voiceovers are recorded on a Yeti microphone in my little office with soundproofing here and very important soundproofing on the other side, because your voice goes this way. It reflects back so the back is to get rid of sound reflection at the back and the front and get rid of the sound reflection in front to kind of keep a dead area for the voice-over work.

But you know these tools are all free and open source and wonderful. Kdenlive is great OBS great cobia, cisco cross-platform, and someone will ask this kdenlive. I know they are working on a Windows version. Sorry, I’ve tried it that doesn’t work very well, it’s once it’s all done we’re going to render in process and then we jump over to GIMP and I have a template saved here in GIMP. That’s got the little black bar at the bottom and then I just go on the web and literally like the Canon 70d I typed in Canon 70d transparent there.

It is there I typed in Kaden, and these are just google image search while she this one didn’t need to be. I went to their website and it’s part of that’s their logo. Author header, I just grabbed it and you can actually just go copy image. Edit paste new layer – and you can get things added on there just like that and GIMP GIMP – is not as easy to use as Photoshop. It’s been a struggle because I’m a Photoshop guy, so I started learning it.

But if you started out, we get there’s some great tutorials you can find on it. I’m not good enough to make a tutorial on it, but I will tell you: I’ve been doing my thumbnails and everything for quite a while and editing the basics like what you’re seeing here in camp, and it’s worked out really well for me. So it definitely definitely can be done and once it’s all done, cuz GIMP saves in its own special format.

We file we export this and I called it how we make youtube articles, the gear and the process and the open source software and, like I said like going in-depth on the software, I have a tutorial on kdenlive already. I don’t really have one on OBS, but it’s maybe I’ll do one at some point. Obs feels almost self-explanatory. You just keep adding the different scenes like the webcam and then that’s what all these are.

Some are just microphones middle screen, webcam just left screen right screen. All my screens with me at the bottom and then you can just go here and if I want to put myself in the middle for this, but this is well technically. This is where I sit, because this is the the layout you’re seeing above is my three screen layout. That’s in here, so hopefully this was helpful kind of give you an idea how we do this.

I will leave links below to the tutorials. I have on how to use kdenlive how to get started with kdenlive in editing article. That’s probably the part break people find the most challenging recording stuff with OBS load it it’s pretty straightforward. Maybe I’ll do a specific tutorial on there, but OBS is a great way to do screen capture. I might do a specific review on a 7, but there’s a lot of mouths to die.

Cameras been around since 2013. So that’s it’s a I’m still happy with it’s a really great camera. I don’t really people like oh go, mirrorless yeah cool. Maybe I have the 70d. I don’t plan to replace it until it breaks. So, for now it’s a great camera and it’s not about the camera. It’s about coming up with teaching someone something the story, and the narrative is much more important. The tutorial the knowledge sharing is important.

1080 seems good enough for knowledge sharing, at least for me. For now, if my thought, my knowledge would look better in 4k great, I don’t have a 4k monitor and statistically most people don’t either. I know it supposed to be future thinking, but especially tech stuff. I have to keep producing because all this is completely irrelevant. Privation. That’s generally how it works. Hopefully, you found some of this helpful.

Give me an idea of behind the scenes how we produce YouTube articles, how this works. You know if you like to count in here like and subscribe. I will do my best to reply to all the comments. I’ve complained before about YouTube comments. Sucking I don’t see all the messages, it’s a YouTube thing. I’ve talked to other youtubers are the same problem. We also have the forums to help alleviate that over on Facebook links are below plus all the gear links and some of the details of all the stuff we use will be in here.

So hopefully this was helpful. I have a great day and enjoy get started on this open source. Editing if you’re interested in this I mean go, get these programs are free, start dabbling and playing and read my other kdenlive tutorials to get you started on this part of. It says the article edit, the press record, is easy. The editing I won’t lie. This is some this little effort that goes into this there’s a learning curve, but I think it’s worth it.

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Videos are truly an awesome way to get the point across. Any type of content from your business is important!

 

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How To Increase Website Traffic Intro

In this four-part series, I will cover all the fundamental free and paid tools that I use to drive traffic to my website and as well as my customers websites. I will avoid using technical terms and make this series easy to follow, so that a complete beginner will be able to follow along and by the end of the four steps series here will have a good grasp of how to actually promote your website.

Your small business website, so starting out module number one. Will you will cover Google Analytics now? What is google analytics? Google analytics is a free tool that shows you who, what where, when who is on your website and very important first thing in order for you to get better with driving traffic and knowing exactly what’s what’s working? What’s not working is having a full set of metrics available to show you the traffic on your website.

You need to be able to measure that, in order to know what works and what does not. Secondly, we will cover keyword, research. I will show you another free tool. What is a keyword, keywords or key phrases are very important for a couple of reasons when you’re targeting customers in the search engines, search engines need to know certain keywords or key terms to know exactly what your website is related to vote and also when you’re targeting Customers, when you’re using pay-per-click advertising, you need keywords and certain keywords will perform better than other.

Certain keywords will be used to, for example, somebody in the market looking to buy landscaping would be you know your cities, let’s say New York’s best landscaping company there in the market to buy some services landscaping services. So you want to target those keywords. That’s a keyword! So I’ll show you exactly how to find those keyword, how to know what kind of volume is available in those keywords in your particular market and moving on from there with keywords, the third module is pay-per-click advertising now pay per click.

Advertising to me is is the way to go. It’s paid targeted traffic to your website, targeted, meaning people in the market. Looking for your services, that you provide your your business you’re, an auto dealer and you’re trying to sell cars, trucks whatever, and you can target and you’re in this city of, say, 30,000 people. You can narrow it down to just people in your city and target people that are doing searches for used vehicles set and bang right at the top of the search results.

A ad for your company will appear and a good chance of beings that set up at the top of the search results that they will click on, and now you only pay if people actually click on your ad. So, for example, of a landscaping company that I do pay per click, advertising for was able to land a multi, ten thousand dollar annual contract from the Civil three-dollar at. So not all out some some ads – or you know, 30 40, 50 Cent’s.

Some ads can be as high as per click could be very high if you’re a lawyer, for example, but in general, most ads pay-per-click ads if they’re clicked on you know one or two dollars and I great lead somebody’s in the market. Looking for your services in your city, it’s a small investment to make to possibly gain a new customer, so I will cover pay-per-click advertising all the best practices, things to avoid things that I’ve learned, spending, tens and thousands, tens and tens of thousands of dollars in pay-per-click Advertising made tons of mistakes along the way and I’ll pass on my my learning curve on to you and a whole bunch of resources for pay-per-click advertising, to promote your small business in your local market and, last but not least, the fourth module will cover.

What’s called Google my business now, Google, my business if you’ve ever seen, you’ve done a search in for a local service, let’s say a painting company, so yeah. I live in New York and I’m looking for New York painting company, I type in all of a sudden. You see this map up here and all of these different businesses are listed in a few businesses are plotted out on the map. How do you get your business on that now? That’s called Google, my business so we’ll review Google, my business, how it works, how to get set up and again some fundamental points: do’s and don’ts with Google, my business.

So those are. The four modules will cover to get your small business up and going so people can actually find you in these search engines. Now. One thing I do want to disclose: I’m not affiliated with Google, I love google. They have fantastic tools. I just want to disclose that. I am not affiliated. I am in this article promoting a lot of their free tools. They’re pay-per-click advertising also Bing also has a similar suite of tools.

If you’re, if you prefer to use Bing you, you can follow this tutorial and apply it a lot of these tools at tipping as well. You can research and look for those, but for the purpose of this tutorial I will be using the google tools beings. They do dominate the market share, so just fall along. I’m ready if you’re ready. Let’s get down to business.