středa 20. října 2010

Images - How to Steal Them Legally

This might be no news to you but I decided to mention it.  We were talking about images at our pages. It is actually illegal to take somebody else's picture unless you ask them and receive the answer yes. I wanted to recommend you "free stock photos".

These are sources of images you can copy or download, store and use, also for commercial purposes.
They are usually a little bit worse than professional photos  but they are worth going through. For example, it looks very professional when you copy pictures of single objects on a white background and paste it at your page with the same white background. The object seem to hover or it just fits in perfectly. You can search the photos or images according to a topic etc.

There are lots of sites you find free photos (just google "free stock photos"), for example I prefer and use this one (which is Hungarian):
http://www.sxc.hu/http://www.sxc.hu/

There are groups of images with different user restrictions but most of them are really free. In some cases you just have to let the photographer know you will use them, in other cases you have to wait for the approval but it is free anyway etc.

čtvrtek 7. října 2010

How to avoid inconvenient comments?

Make sure in your settings that every comment has to be moderated before it appears on your blog. Not every follower of your blog will comment your post in he way you would accept. It is also advisable to set "captcha" to prevent spam comments.

You can't mess it up!

What about blogging about grammar or collocations? What about posting tips for learning?

Try to create your own blog. You don't have to worry if it is not good looking, because noone will find out about it unless you tell them. Just start blogging  and upgrade it until you feel like sending everybody a link!
Let us discover how technical gadgets can upgrade language lessons!!!

Check this:
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/