Web Design Blog - April 2009

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Creative Sound Proofing

Five easy ways to soundproof your video studio on a budget? Bring in some plants. Prop used mattresses against the wall. Build a device to reverse sound waves. (maybe not cheap, but fun) Glue crumpled up newspaper to walls and ceiling. Shoot a silent film. ... read more!

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Best Practices: Embedding Flash

What is the best way to embed a flash movie into your website? When it comes to this question there is much debate. In recent years there have been a couple methods that have been very popular. The most popular method is taken straight from the code generated by Adobe. When you publish a flash movie you are given the option to publish the html that you can then paste directly in your site. This code has been written to allow the flash movie to work seamlessly with all major browsers. Basically w... read more!

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Intrusion Detection Systems ( IDS )?

What is an Intrusion Detection System ( in terms of computers )? An IDS runs as an application on a computer or even on a separate device to monitor a network or server for attempts at intrusion or disabling computer systems. Most IDS, in addition to providing monitoring, will take steps to prevent malicious users from succeeding in gaining unwanted access. If an IDS were to find a user's activity to be suspicious, it would alert a network administrator and take steps to block that user from ser... read more!

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A Makeshift Sound Booth you can also Drive to Work

Sometimes you're going to have to use the dreaded ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) to fix bad sound in the field. Also known as dubbing or looping, this process involves your talent watching themselves and re-recording their dialogue to match their lip movements. I refer to it as dreaded, because unless you record it in the same spot as originally shot, it will always sound different to the trained ear. Untrained ears won't care. If you can't record in the same spot, you'll need some kind of... read more!

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Leading Internet Marketing Firm in Utah

Urban Voice Media is known to be one of Utah's leading and most trusted internet marketing firms. With their unbeatable marketing services Urban Voice Media has developed and executed many successful marketing campaigns. As a full service internet marketing firm in Utah Urban Voice Media offers a large array of marketing services such as search engine marketing, pay per click management, web design, reputation management, business development and much more! ... read more!

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Keeping it Clean with Search Engine Optimization

Once upon a time the right keyword placement, a strong title and a few links would get you ranked for just about anything. These quick and easy rankings brought in immediate traffic and helped many organizations develop a strong presence online. With today's extremely competitive online market search engine optimization (SEO) has become an advanced playing field. In today's market getting a web site ranked for a competitive term takes time and most definitely requires the help of an SEO expert. ... read more!

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Apply Effects to a Range of Video in Sony Vegas

Sony's Vegas Pro 8 is a wonderful video editor. I am constantly surprised by what it is capable of. Whenever I seem to be searching for some specialized software or plugin, I always come back to find that Vegas can already do what I'm looking for. This happened recently when I needed a bolt of lightning. Why pay for effects software? Vegas' Noise Texture filter has a preset dubbed, you guessed it, "lightning". Another great feature I recently found was the ability to apply a series of effects fo... read more!

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Ever Increasing server resource requirements

The times where users are content with static websites ( or even basic dynamic sites) are passing by us. Now clients/users are demanding ever more complex web applications to drive their business. The resources required to run some of the more intricate web applications are only increasing. Users want video; they want applications to collect their customers' information, they want a myriad of different functionality for processing vast quantities of data ( image, video and text ) from their cust... read more!

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