Webheads Tutorials
We've developed some tutorials over the years to help
you do some neat things with computers. You can link to them here.
Here's one I made over summer 2005 for EVOnline:
How to handle bouncing emails in
YahooGroups
See how to:
These tutorials may be a bit dated ...
Set up your own web
page on Geocities - Geocities is always changing their site, and these
instructions are a little old. But they walk you through a process that is much
the same no matter where you decide to set up your free web site.
Get an egroups password - our
efiwebheads@egroups.com list lets you do more than just get email from your
eclassmates. You can also use the site to ...
- See who the other webheads are and get a list of their email
addresses
- Read all our eclass email on the web - read the first email messages,
or yesterday's
- Send messages through the egroups website from anywhere in the
world
- See a list of all urls mentioned in eclass email, and click on a url
to go there
- Join other egroups and manage your memberships through the egroups
site, or start your own egroup
Make your own avatars to use in The
Palace - Making your own avatars to use in the Palace is simple. The
instructions here tell you how to make an avatar from any digital
photograph.
- You get a picture and you crop it square.
- Resize it to 44 by 44 pixels.
- Click anywhere on it and next thing press ctrl-c to store it in
memory.
Now launch the Palace (if it's not already open).
- Double-click on the suitcase icon to open it (if it's not already
open).
- Click on NEW among the buttons you see there.
- Press ctrl-V to paste the stored image in the work area.
- Click OK or Save (I forget which) and the image will appear as one
of your "props".
Now if you highlight the image and click on the WEAR button, it will
become your avatar.
Have fun, and hope to see you in the Palace with your home-made avatar.
About your photos:
When you reduce the size of a photo, be sure you don't change the
aspect ratio. Aspect ratio (for a photograph) is the relationship of the
height and width of the photograph. If you change that ratio, then the
resulting photo will look stretched.
For example, if you start with a picture that's 64 pixels high by 48
pixels wide and reduce it to 40 pixels high, to keep the aspect ratio correct,
its width should be ....
what do you think?
That's right, 30 pixels. That would make the resulting picture look
normal.
If you resize a 64 by 48 pixel picture to 44 by 44, you will have an
image that looks very wide.
So if you crop (or cut) your face from a photo, try to make the cropped
portion as square as possible.
If you are off by a few pixels, don't worry. In other words, if you
make your picture 44 pixels wide, but to keep the same aspect ration, it's 48
pixels tall, then just import that picture into your Palace props editor. The
props editor will only take 44 of the 48 pixels, but the aspect ratio will be
correct, and the avatar will look normal.
Use
the navigation at the top of this
page or your browser's BACK button to return to a
previous page
For comments, suggestions, or further information on this page, contact
Vance
Stevens, page webmaster.
Page created September 8, 2000
- Last updated: October 5, 2005
