Mixform Blog: Articles On Portfolio Design - News & Articles

Usability improvements, feature requests and bug fixes

Sat, 21 May 2011 08:00:00 -0400

Feature requests and fixes:

New Skins

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:16:59 -0400

Three new designs for your portfolio.

Watercolor

Rich textures and bold colors make "WaterColor" an unforgettable skin. Choose the black and white version for a more subdued look.

Imperfectionist

An elegant first draft of your site. This appealing design is available in different colors.

Retro Robot

Retro yet futuristic, this skin makes a statement without upstaging your content.

To add any of this designs to your site, log in to Mixform, and click at "Change Design" at the top of the page. Hope you enjoy them!

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New Skins: Carbon and Writer's Block

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:00:00 -0400

Writer's Block

Clean design with great fonts. Choose this skin if you love beautiful typography. Multiple colors available.

Carbon

"Carbon" has some really cool textures and details. Simple and elegant dark background design. Keeps the focus on your images.

To add any of this designs to your site, log in to Mixform, and click at "Change Design" at the top of the page. Hope you enjoy them!

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Events Section Update

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:00:00 -0400

I've been working on updating the events section at Mixform. Here is a sumary of what I've finished

Better layout

I streamlined the way information is displayed in the event page. You can now see important information such as, ticket prices and showtimes, with a quick glance

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How to update your DNS reccords at go daddy

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:00:00 -0500

Go Daddy made some changes to their domain manager interface, so I put together this tutorial to help you update your DNS reccords and point your domain to your portfolio

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Forget Acting, Teach Me How To Audition!

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 07:00:00 -0500

Article written by Monique Renee Moses - Film & Television Year Student, originally posted on the SFT blog

I’ve only been taking Audition Technique for a little over a month, but I can already tell that this surprisingly specific training is truly going to make the difference between getting the job and not getting the job. Many young actors don’t realize that the actor’s real work is the audition; I’ve been told that quite possibly 80% of my time and effort will be spent either trying to get auditions (or an agent and manager who can get them for me), preparing for said auditions and then, of course, going and coming from auditions. I might get to spend about 5% of my time on an actual set, if my cards/the stars are played right/aligned. Then, of course, my remaining 15% of time should be spent on more training and networking…but will probably be spent either watching entire seasons of HBO shows and/or playing Frontierville. (At least I’ll have control over something, am I right? Ha, ha…sigh.)

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Services Tab

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:00:00 -0500

You can now add a "Services" section to your portfolio website. To do so, log in to your account, and click on manage tabs.

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Album cover custom cropping

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:00:00 -0500

You can now fine tune the cropping of your photo album covers. If you are not happy with the way the album thumbnail is automatically generated, click on the "crop" button (see images below)

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How to track visitors to your mixform site using google analytics

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 07:00:00 -0500

So you got a brand new actor website and you want to get some stats on who has been visiting your pages. You can use Google Analytics to get tons of information about your visitors. Continue reading for the complete tutorial...

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How to Add E-mail signature on Microsoft Outlook

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:17:15 -0500

How to Add E-mail signature on Microsoft Outlook

Open Microsoft Outlook.
Click the "Tools" menu on the menu bar.
Click "Options."
Click on the "General" tab.
Click the "Email Options" link.
Click the "Email Signatures" tab.
Enter the title of the signature in the title box. The title of the signature is important, especially if you plan on using more than one signature for your emails (one for personal emails, one for professional, one for fun, etc.).
Fill in the body of the signature in the text field titled "Create your email signature." Here you can include plain text, as well as pictures, animated images (in the form of HTML links) and anything else that can be displayed in a HTML enabled email server
Click "Add" to finalize the signature.
Click the "New" button to create another signature. You can simply repeat steps 7, 8 and 9 to complete the process. You may continue to add signatures until you are done.

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