When I visited the AVS4YOU website I was pleased to see that this company offers software for digital video and multimedia processing. This company specializes in developing innovative video and audio solutions for professional developers and high end-users. All of their software tools are designed to make your work with audio and digital video smooth, effective and professional in quality.

I think this website and the software products available would be especially useful to those who create video or audio broadcasts for their websites, and those who want to personalize their mobile phones and multimedia players. There is a large variety of software products on the AVS4YOU site that will assist you in editing, converting or producing high quality video or audio files.

When you visit the site you can use the category menu on the left to look at the software that can be downloaded for Video, Audio, Burning, and Mobile phones. You’ll also find links to product guides and online help.

Just to give you an idea of the type of software products available to you at AVS4YOU:

Video Related Software:

Using the video related products available to you at AVS4YOU you can edit and convert video, watch, capture and record video directly from your television, VHS, camcorder, satellite or cable source, convert video for multimedia players, as well as play DVD and audio recordings on your computer. The products that can help you do all this are the AVS video converter, AVS video editor, AVS video remaker, AVS video to go, AVS TV box, AVS capture wizard, AVS DV to DVD, AVS video to ipod, AVS video to PSP, AVS video to Archos, and the AVS DVD player.

Audio Related Software:

Similar software programs are available for audio as well. There are programs that will allow you to edit, convert, record and listen to audio on your computer or multimedia player. Software available for these functions are the AVS audio converter, AVS audio editor, AVS ringtone maker, AVS music mix, AVS audio to ipod, AVS audio CD grabber, AVS MP3 disk creator, AVS audio recorder, AVS iradio recorder and the AVS CD creator.

Additional Software:

There are additional software programs available for uploading digital media to mobile phones, and burning and copying DVDs and CDs.

Sounds like a great deal

I’m actually quite amazed over the quantity of software programs available through AVS4YOU. There’s no excuse now for not being able to convert those old digital home movies over to DVD.

Now, I didn’t download every single program available through the site, but it appears that you can download a trial version of each program that will offer all of the features of the full version but only work for a limited time.

Register with AVS4YOU and you’ll be able to download, use and install all of the software available through the site using just one serial number. It’s like paying for one product and getting the rest absolutely free.

There are two types of subscriptions that you can choose from. A 1 year subscription with AVS4YOU costs $29, and an unlimited access subscription costs only $59.

As I understand it, if you purchase a one year subscription you’ll be able to download all of the software available on AVS4YOU throughout that 1 year period, as well as any upgrades or patches that come out during that time. If you choose the unlimited subscription you’ll be able to do all of the above for an unlimited period of time.

Frankly I think both subscription packages are excellent deals since I can picture pretty much everyone having a need for at least one of the programs available through AVS4YOU at one point or another.

What not to do to your Blog design

by Tricia

One of the forum that I visit regularly had a thread about what you should not do when designing your website or blog.

Here’s my list of blog design – “what not to wear”

Autoplay video

Autoplay music

flashy buttons

too many buttons (put them in a roll up menu if you must have them)

advertisements that take up the whole header area making me scroll to see the actual header and posts below.

Too many advertisements – don’t do the max Google Adsense – you actually make less money from them if you do too many!!! Plus it turns off your visitors.

Pages with so many plug ins, large file size images, buttons etc that make the page really slow to load- or worse cause it to freeze when loading.

Text that is hard to read – white on black doesn’t work if you are trying to read a long post – light gray text works better … same for florescent coloured text on black or white backgrounds, or neon backgrounds with black or white text.

no paragraphs – this makes posts very hard to read. If you want visitors to come back or stay on your site for a while use paragraphs.

Set your posts so that only 5 or 10 display on the main page!!!! We don’t need to see everything you’ve ever written on your blog for the last two years!

Tips!

Use roll up menus in your sidebars if you have lots of buttons or blogrolls etc. It really makes the page look so much tidier.

Test your blog design in Firefox, Internet explorer, Opera and Netscape – all easy to download and have on your computer. Make sure your site loads correctly and works well in all the browsers listed above,

Also look at your site on different computers. Text and background colour might look great on your monitor, but really bad on 5 other computer monitors that you test it on.

As I said in the last point- visitors only need to see your last 5 or 10 posts when they load your page. If you have more than that showing your page will load very slowly.

Same with categories and archives. Do your visitors need to see your archives dating back to 2001? That’s a long list taking up valuable blog sidebar real estate. Use a roll up menu or modify the code in your page so that only 5 or 10 archives and or categories are viewed.

Every once in a while ask your readers their opinion on your page. Ask for constructive criticism. If the majority of your readers state they don’t like something or that your page loads slowly – do something about it.

I’m sure I could add many more points to this post, but I think this is enough to get you started.

Expandable menus

by Tricia

Have you noticed how the menus on my side bar roll up neatly? The automatically expand when you click the + sign beside the title of the menu.

If you’re wondering how I did that simply go to the Flooble website’s script section and select the Expandable Menu script. Just follow the directions, changing the text and background colours to suit your blog and within a few minutes you’ll have the code for the expandable script to put on your own website.

You need to make a new script for each menu that you create, but once you’ve made the first one with your customized colours it’s very easy.

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