Welcome to Digital Asset News, the top stories in cryptocurrency digital assets and break them down to bite-sized pieces. Today, we've got a lot of stuff to go over and it's going to get deep. So first up, Santiment put out a blockbuster of a report which talks about Bitcoin, whales and hodlers. And it's going to tell us the number one strategy to use against all these whales. And the thing about this report, it states that there are way more whales out there than previously thought. Also, talk about the new darling of the crypto industry is Polkadot on the brink of becoming the first Ethereum bridge. This one's pretty interesting because it talks about how not only Polkadot is what it's doing right now, but how it's going to get better within the next four months. And finally, after recent pullback, the next stop for Ethereum price is a new all-time highs, says Weiss ratings, and I'm always skeptical about Weiss, but they actually called the pullback and they're talking about a realistic number as far as Ethereum. That'll lead us to Q and C of the day, which we'll talk about in just a bit. But first, let's take a look at what's going on at the market. So today is Friday, August 28th, it is two o'clock p.m. I got to get this video out so I can get out of the house and do more things. So here's what's going on. First of all, looking pretty good day. So we got Bitcoin pushing past 11.5. Pretty happy about that 2.2% up. Fantastic. Ethereum is almost hitting that $400 mark, which I always talk about. I think that's the level of resistance and support.  Tether and XRP, the two stablecoins, watch out. Chainlink, not too bad, 1526, it's up 5.7%. And I got to tell you, I got to tell you, Chainlink is just one of those things that just refuses to go down.  So I like to see big things and I think it's going to happen. Polkadot, up 12% for the day. Unbelievable. 12%. It's at $6.28. And I told you, I hate to say, I don't want to say it, I told you, but remember a couple days ago, I said, hey, don't, you know, don't fomo into Polkadot and put all your money into it. And because it took a big bit of a dip and it went down a little bit yesterday, and you could have picked it up for a fantastic price. And then right now here we are at 6.28 and I got, and after we go over today's report, you're going to see why this thing's going to be big. Bitcoin cash up, fantastic, like, I don't own Bitcoin cash or Litecoin, definitely not Bitcoin SV. Do you want a Cordano? It's up 3.2. It's at $0.10. Pretty like, that's good. Binance, Coin, Crypto, what's up? Eos? Wow, I own that. But yeah, Eos is Eos. Cosmos, geez, everything's up today. I like to see that, $12.3. There's one called UMA. And I was on Alex Maskiole's show today and we were talking about this one. It came out of nowhere. And I just asked a question because Alex is the big institutional guy and we had CJ on from Marco Rebellion, who's a TA guy, I'm like, where does this come from?  They're like, you know what, it's just got to be an inside thing because I mean, no one knew about this, not even these guys. So I'm like, come on, whatever. But 36%, 58% for the week, UMA, I don't know. If you got some information about that, drop in the comment section. Let's get on to the base stories. First up, this was fascinating. This was fascinating. That's what I've been talking about this channel for a very long time. So this is by Santimet. If you don't know Santimet, it's a data and analytics platform and it helps traders become better traders just by giving them the best information that's out there. They put a lot of time and effort into it and I've done some of their stuff before their different cases and they seem to be on point. So when I saw this, I'm like, oh, this ought to be good. Bitcoin, whales and holders. So what the heck is going on here? So to make it very simple, they just pretty much lay out exactly what we've all known is that whales control everything. And here's the data out of 855 assets that we track on chain data for. 727 have greater than 50% of their total supply located in the top 100 addresses. That is hilarious. For the time being, crypto can only promise the decentralization of their network, not of their supply.  Well, here's the thing, everybody centralized right now. Now, do I think that is going to continue for the long term? No, I think whales can only be around for so long. I mean, this is a very small market. I mean, we're under 300 billion, which sounds like a lot, but it's not. I mean, if you look at like, I mean, the market cap of gold, gold is 8 trillion. The market cap of the entire stock market is like 89 trillion or something.  So we're talking about 300 billion. It's a drop in the bucket. And that's why these whales can do all these things and they're making a killing right now off us. But as time goes on, even whales got to sell. And the more that we stay in this, the more strong hands that we have, then we become the controlling aspect of the whole market. The thing is, just have some strong hands.  Sorry, he did.  So that's what I think is going to happen over time. They can't hold it forever. And that's why I'm here. Well, that's why me and you were here. So it says again, Bitcoin supply is dominated by whales. Look at this, 85% of the total supply of Bitcoin is found in addresses owning more than 10 Bitcoin, which isn't that much, right? You think, well, 10 Bitcoin, but that's still 113,000 61% of Bitcoin. So the supply is currently in the hands, the hand of Bitcoin millionaires owning up 100 plus Bitcoin. And then the top five all coins are no different. So don't sit there all smug and be like, well, mine's awesome. No, it's not. So ETH holder district distribution, 80% the total supply are held by addresses with more than a thousand ETH, which is, you know, almost half a million dollars. And then link, which everybody talks about, same thing. 94.6% held by addresses with more than 10,000 link and XRP. Everybody's favorite likes to bag on even me sometimes, even though I hold it. I will never let it go because I'm so stubborn. 95.4% held by addresses with more than 10 million XRP, which we kind of knew that, right? So when we take a look at all these different all coins and just, just to reiterate, just to reiterate, 727 of the top assets have more than 50% of the total supply in the top 100 addresses. So just let that sink in again. So don't be high and mighty. It happens across the board. So let's move down, move down, moving down. And this is what I'm talking about. Whales have to sell and we'll pick up the scraps. The amount of Bitcoin held by small investors has more than doubled in the past five years. Bitcoin will holdings have declined by a similar margin during this time. Supply on by addresses with less than 10 has grown from 6% to 14% since August 15th. That's being you. We're doing great things just by having strong hands. Retail sector growth will be key for Bitcoin again at foothold in the global financial system. And I totally believe that. I have more faith in me and you than I do in those whales. I'll tell you that right now. Moving down, Bitcoin transactions rely on loyalty. I know Bitcoin activity points down going accumulation. 65% of all Bitcoin has not moved in the last year. This marks an all-time low in Bitcoin's yearly circulation. People are accumulating price will go up. Hope to see fireworks hoping for 100k by 2021. We'll see going down, going down. And then talk about median age and decisive zone. I will link this in the description. But it's actually I actually do my do my best, but it's actually it was sent to me via email, so I probably can't. But let me I'll just link the sentiment there so you can find it yourself. But here's the big thing. Here's the crux of the whole article. Oops, it's these last two slides. So trading Bitcoin based on well behavior. So what they did, what if you want to trade Bitcoin based solely on the behavior of its whales? And I went over them like, that sounds good. We back tested a simple trading strategy using the on-chain activity of the largest Bitcoin addresses. Our strategy, one, fetch all addresses holding 100 plus Bitcoin to review their trend over the last 35 days. Three, upward trend equals accumulation. Downward trend equals distribution. So if the trend slope is greater than 0.5, you got to buy. If it's less than 5.5, you're going to sell. And I thought, OK, this is a great sales pitch. Like I thought this was I swear to God, those were the sales pitch. And they're going to say, just kind of for a trading program for 99.5 a month. But here's what they said. The result of our whale strategy for the past two years are as follows. Number of executed trades, 18 annualized returns, almost 20 percent. So the whale strategy returns were plus 46 percent. Pretty good, right? Pretty good. But here's the benchmark, which is the hodl, just holding on. Being an investor, returns were 61 percent. So as expected, trading only based on whale activity is less effective than simply hodling Bitcoin. And it's what I've been saying the whole time in this channel. Look, everybody wants you to trade. Everybody wants you to leverage.  Just being an investor, if it works out for you.  I just dollar cost average.  You need to trade. You need to get over there and leverage everything and just do it. That might work for the 5 percent of you. Fantastic. But I don't know what's working for everybody.  Relax and just dollar cost average, meaning instead of dumping $10,000 all at once in a polka dot. Why don't you just, you know, put a couple hundred bucks in for yes for a couple days ago than yesterday? Maybe put another hundred bucks in then today, put another hundred bucks in and over time it'll work itself out. Just hold on. That's all you got to do. Just hold on. And I think everything should work out. Anyhow, let me know what you think of the comment section. But that's the big thing. You want to beat some whales? Just hold on. Next up is poking on the brink of becoming the first Ethereum bridge. Good question. So this all comes down to a new bunch of developers called Snow Fork. And it's not so much interesting about what they're going to do, but it's the timeline and speed and efficiency. They're going to do it. That's what got me on this article. So Snow Fork, a group of developers and designers have been working with polka dot to help achieve their new level of interoperability between blockchains. And they say it'll be delivered soon. So if you don't know, blockchain, we covered this a couple of days ago, Ethereum mafia and everything else. And it's one of my new holds. I buy a very little bit every day, like 25 bucks. And I get it out of Voyager. Yeah, I know. And I mean, also, you can use Kraken. You can also use Binance, but that's what I do. And the big thing is that. It's by Dr. Gavin Wood, who was one of the founders of Ethereum. And again, I believe in people. So when they're talking about interoperability and sharding and all these great things, I'm like, I believe in people. I'm going to go with that. And they've got a lot of connections. And here's another thing they're doing. So Snow Fork says we're excited to become a part of the polka dot ecosystem. We're going to help improve interoperability within and across its ecosystem, the group proclaims. And this is how they're going to do it. They only need people who are going to use the blockchain. They only need to trust the protocols, mathematics, cryptography, code and economics with the goal of creating an all-purpose application. Snow Fork explains that interoperability is about more than just token transfers. So I'm like, that sounds great. So how long is it going to take? Two years? Here's what's crazy. According to Snow Fork, an all-encompassing product would include other kinds of assets, like non-manageable tokens, loan contracts, option future contracts and generalized type agnostic asset transfers across chains, which is pretty great. Interoperability cross-chains would be valuable functionality. Phase one of Snow Fork's three-step plan is ongoing and expected to be ready in mid-September of this year, not next year, not 2022. This year, mid-September, coming up. And then this is where it gets just nuts. They expect phase three to be completed with the delivery of an all-encompassing, trustless, general-purpose product by March of 2021. So I'm putting that in my mental timeline. If they can hit that, that is amazing. Look at all the other different chains that are out there and how long it took them. These guys are saying we're going to do this. Now, granted, this is not Polkadot. They're just building on top of it. They're trying to help make it a little bit more interoperable. So if they do that, fantastic. But again, I see big things for Polkadot. Let me know what you think of the comment section. Last story. Next up, a recent pullback to the next stop for Ethereum is a new all-time high, says Weiss Rating. So I'm very skeptical and right on Weiss, but they did call this last one. So Weiss crypto ratings noted that ETH is poised to print new record highs, emphasizing that traders remain overly bullish on the second largest cryptocurrency. Like I said in the beginning, I was on Alex Masculi's show and CJ, if I'm right, a rebellion. He does a lot of TA, which I do not do, but he showed what he did was he said, this is what the TA shows. If they'm going to actually break through 400 and maybe even 500. And he talked about he was very bullish on it. So I'm like, great, I like that. And I like the fundamentals of what I believe in, which is everything's built on Ethereum and DeFi is going crazy. So why not? Let's do this. So in a tweet on August 25th, US based economic research agency Weiss ratings postulated that Ethereum had been overheated. That was essentially due for a pullback. So that exactly did happen. So after that pullback, Weiss is saying this, the cryptocurrency is now aiming for new heights. Now the correction was witnessed. So they're looking at TA, but there's also the other side of this, which is the fundamentals. Despite ETH's price stalling in recent days, the DeFi sector has seen media or growth. And this is according to DeFi Pulse, the total value locked in DeFi protocols. Recently skyrocketed past seven billion with AAVE or AVE being the big player. I think they had like over, yeah, it says right here. AVE is currently the largest DeFi protocol with one and a half billion assets locked in. So here's my final thoughts. Everything's built on ETH and you need gas, you need everything. It seems like an ETH is doing everything that it's supposed to do, right? Decentralized finance, smart contracts. And the problem that I saw was the incredibly high transaction fees. But now that OMG is in there helping with all those costs, I don't see any reason why ETH shouldn't blast off to 500, 600, 700. I only see good things for Ethereum and it's why I have heavily invested into it. All right, that takes care of that. That's our last story. Let's jump in and do the Q and C of the day. All right, buddy, welcome back to Q and C of the day. Welcome back to the office. So this Q of the day is pretty interesting because it was just me that was tagged in actually a Twitter response. And this all comes down to Voyager and Celsius. So if you don't know, I'm a big believer in both of those, but I gotta tell you over the last, I don't know, about a month or so, two to three weeks or so. It seems like the big issue has been customer service. I know what's going on. The thing that's going on is growing pains.  So there is no reason to stick around. Remember, I tell this to everybody. I'm gonna say this again. We do not work for the exchanges, the wallets and the brokerages. They work for us. So if you're not being appreciated, you go someplace else and that's all you gotta really remember. So what I saw a couple of days ago is what made me reaffirm my belief in the different place that I picked. So this is on Twitter and this was a message that was addressed to me and to Voyager. And this is from Bruce and Bruce said, hey, I tried to sign up and invest Voyager as recommended by NewsAsset, that is me and that's my Twitter handle, couldn't connect to Capital One Bank. I emailed Invest Voyager but have not received a response. And I sent out tweets that, well, how long ago was that? Just trying to get some intel. He said it was five days ago, which is way too long. So I always say, work the system. So send an email, let them 24 to 40 hours to get back to you and then hopefully they can give you the right response. But within a couple of hours, this guy comes in named Steve Erlich, the CEO of Voyager, right? And he says, hey, please send me a DM and the info and I'll make sure it gets taken care of. So first of all, I said, well, I said, thanks, Steve, but the big thing is that, how many CEOs do that? How many CEOs of a major company jump in and say, you know what, send me the message and then I'll see what I can do to rectify this. And usually when the CEO takes place and says, hey, I'm gonna do something and he tells his, you know, the staff to do something, usually just saying, usually the staff gets, and you know, takes action. So I do not see this being an issue too long for Bruce. I reached out to him, but he hasn't gotten back to me so maybe everything worked out. But to me, that's amazing.  Well, let me help you out. I don't think it's gonna happen. Not that Brad's a bad guy. I don't really know him, but sure. I mean, if you have a CEO coming in, I think that's pretty customer service. So that was one thing. Second thing is, this was actually an email that I had gotten from Amateo. Amateo is one of the VP of operations or VP of marketing over there at Voyager. And he just sent me this, I mean, he sends it to everybody. It's not like I'm special. He's like, hey, here's the interest rates for this week or for September. USDC is at 9%, Bitcoin at six. ETH at four and a half. And I was like, great. So I put all my USDC into Voyager because I'm gonna get 9% interest rate. That's way better than the bank. And I'd like to put it over at Celsius. The problem is, is that I'm living Texas. And Texas is the only state where you cannot get any kind of interest on a stablecoin like USDC. Love Texas. I love Texas, but sometimes, you know, what are you gonna do? It just happens like that. So I sent an email back. I said, hey, I'm a tail. Just let you know. First of all, great interest rates.  Are you guys going through growing pains? Which is what I assume everybody's doing. And he pretty much confirmed. He's like, you know, he said, thanks for the feedback. We're definitely growing really fast, which I can definitely see. But we've also scaled up our customer support team significantly to handle all of the inbound requests. We're doing pretty well, but we, you know, we find it hard to please actually everyone. And I gotta tell you, that is true.  He will never do it. So you just have to, you know, get just aim for your best excellence and then move forward. So that's pretty much what's going on here. He says, you know what, we did have a bug that's affected a small number of customers, but we fixed it and we're moving forward. He goes, the customer sentiment is overall pretty high, but we're always looking for ways to do a better job. So please feel free to forward any information to me in any negative comments.  So I said, yeah, you know what? There's this thing that came up. Somebody had used my referral link of Dan. They had put money in, they had them receive the referral link and you look into it. And that's it. So again, I'm very happy with how things are going there.  I don't feel like I'm being appreciated here. Go someplace else. That's it. Again, we don't work for the wall, it's the exchanges. They work for us. So that leads me to my next and final point, which is about Celsius. I love Celsius. I believe in people. I believe in teams. I believe in Elon Musk for Tesla and they kill, you know, make it go to great heights. I believe in Steve Jobs for Apple. I believe in Steven Erlich for Voyager and I believe in Alex Moshinsky for Celsius. I think that guy's very dynamic. He created VoiceOver in our protocol. He's always doing AMAs. He's very accessible. He's been on a lot of YouTube shows. I think you should come on mine. What are you gonna do? I gotta actually reach out and do my due diligence and ask him. But this was, so what I'm trying to say is I believe in Celsius. So when I got this email, this is from Tiffany. She said, hey, I've had a problem with Celsius. I deposited 2000 Omisego, or Omise, or OMG in November 2019 and when the price went way high because they are helping out Ethereum with all their crazy fees, which was great and OMG went up pretty well. She stood to gain about $4,000 and when she tried to cash out, it wouldn't allow it. So I said, well, what's going on? Did you reach out to customer service? I said, yes, it's been a couple of days. But then she emailed back to her, you know what? Here's what happened. I was going to, what'd she say here? Oh, it was a number of coins issue. In the app, you need to input the number of coins manually. If you click max, you will get the message not enough fund. So what she had to do was instead of putting the 2089.457018 of OMG that she owned, she went ahead and put in 2089.457 and left it at that. And it was just a little bit enough to actually go through. So this is a glitch in the system. So if you have that issue with Celsius, now you know what to do. But I need to let Celsius know, I need to let Celsius know this what's going on and because they're glitches and they need to know. So again, the same thing holds true with Alex. Alex, if you're listening or watching, probably. Come on the show and then tell us about customer service and what's going on. But I gotta tell you, one thing is I believe in that guy and that's why I use Celsius. There's other exchanges that they talk a good game, but the people behind it, I don't really know. I don't really know what they're doing and they're not doing the things that I see these guys are doing to delight their customers as warm Buffett says. A little warm Buffett for the day. All right, so that's it for the cue of the day. Now we're gonna go into the see the day. See the day is for the correction of the day. If you watch yesterday's video, I did a correction. There's two screw ups I did. So I just tell you, hey, I'm not perfect and if I don't know it, I don't know it. I'll tell you I don't know it or if I screw up. So but yesterday, surprise, surprise. We didn't know screw ups, which is amazing. So that's a good thing, but we will continue to do the cue and see the day. I'm sure there's probably something that needs to be corrected in this video. Maybe yesterday was just a fluke. So if you see something, if you see something, say something. Now if you see something, put it in the comment section and I will talk about that in tomorrow's video, which will be Saturday. All right, so that's it. Let's jump back, huh? All right, I hope that answered everybody's question and thank God, no corrections to do. But here's what we got. If you don't know, there's a join now button underneath on the bottom right. You don't get anything special.  And why do you just do random shout out? So for all, for everybody who's signed up, just let me say, hey, Jorge Alba, modern samurai. That guy's funny. He's always making fun of my pink shirt. Salmon, that's right, salmon. Eric might go amuse web design, Albert Allery and Igor Pusan. So thanks so much for joining up. Really appreciate it. If you like those types of videos, there's gonna be too much going to pop up on your left and right. Not sure, YouTube controls all that stuff. And that is it, so check those out. 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Welcome to All Hands Update. Here's what's happening around your Navy. Chief of Naval Personnel announced Monday new training for 2017 that expands efforts to prevent destructive behaviors across the fleet. The training, entitled Full Speed Ahead, will reinforce the Navy's core attributes and help build a strong foundation for sailors. It follows Chartha Corse and Bicenter Intervention Training conducted the past two years. Continuing Promise 2017 arrived in Porto Berio, Guatemala on a three-month humanitarian mission. The CP-17 joint military team will provide veterinary, dental and medical services to local communities for two weeks. A Keele Lane in authentication ceremony for the future USS Lyndon B. Johnson was held in Bath, Maine. President Johnson's daughters and ship's co-sponsors Lyndon Johnson-Rob and Lucy Baines Johnson participated in the ceremony by welding their initials into the Keele plate. You can read more about what's happening around your Navy at Navy.mil.


We have done research globally in Latin America, in Asia-Pacific region, when we see that women borrowers feel it is much easier and convenient for them to apply for a loan online rather than going to a bank. They feel they are less prejudiced, less judged against, and they can provide all the data through mobile phone, which is much more accessible than working miles and miles going to a bank branch. And we also think from this survey and from our report, the fintechs are offering more women tailored financial products or services, for example a financial literacy campaign, mini drama series or audio clips with fictional character showing you how to open a digital wallet and how to apply for a credit. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises are facing persistent funding gap in many parts of the world, in both advanced economies but also in emerging markets and developing countries. And that funding gap is immense, it's considerable, it's both in debt but also in equity. One of the reasons is traditional banking sector, right, do not have effective way to do the credit scoring of a small media enterprises is cost too much and they may not have all the adequate financial information to ascertain the credit worthiness of a small business who may have a very short trading history, may have a lower headcount, who may not have the robust financial reporting that banks are used to from a larger enterprises. Many entrepreneurs, they feel sometimes quite challenging to raise funding from a still very much mal-dominated sector in terms of Android investors or VCs, but by soliciting capital investment directly from the crowd through online platforms, I think women can feel being empowered and liberated to seek for the capital that is essential for their business growth. In the UK, right, around 12% of all early stage seed and early stage venture funding are now being channeled through online equity crowdfunding platform. I will see great many examples of women entrepreneurs getting the venture funding that they need to expand their business. We wanted to make sure that AI is aligned to our values, to our democratic values and principles. We want to make sure that AI is developed in a safe, in a transparent way and that would ultimately lead to more trust in society. We need to be thinking, are societies protected enough? Are our institutions prepared enough for all the possible threats that are out there? And we believe that there might be threats coming from some of the technologies that are currently available, both to be used for productive purposes, but also malicious actors can make use of them. What more the EU AI Act does is to make sure we put for the first time some guardrails for general purpose AI models. And we do that in a two-tier approach. So there are some companies that are larger, bigger, that are used much more than others, that have bigger computational power, that will have to go through more obligations. But we have left the opportunity for those that are just starting their journey in the generative AI world to obey less obligations. So they have a little bit more flexibility and they can continue with their innovative processes.


Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Porter, excuse me, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is the Commission's weekly webinar series where we cover a variety of topics that may be of interest to libraries. We broadcast the show live every Wednesday morning and at 10 a.m. central time, but in the show is recorded for anyone who is not able to join us on Wednesday, so you can watch it later at your convenience. And I'll show you at the end of today's show where you can access to all of our archives. Both the live show and the recordings are free and open for anyone to watch, so please do share. I spread the word about our show. We'd love to have all sorts of people come on and join us. For those of you not from Nebraska, the Nebraska Library Commission is the state agency for libraries, so similar to your state library, so we provide services and programs to all sorts of libraries in the state, so you will find shows on Encompass Live for all types of libraries, public academic K-12 corrections, museums, archives, etc., etc. Really your only criteria is something to do with libraries. We do book reviews, interviews, many training sessions, demos of services and products, all sorts of things. We bring guest speakers from around the country sometimes to do presentations for us, but we also have Nebraska Library Commission staff that come on and do shows. And that's what we have today. Today is the last Wednesday of the month, which means August is almost over. Sad. Where did it go? It depends on whether you're like your summer or you're looking forward to fall. But anyway, it's the last Wednesday of the month, and that means it is pretty sweet tech day. Last Wednesday every month, Amanda Sweet, our technology innovation librarian here at the Nebraska Library Commission comes on and talks to us about something techy. Good morning, Amanda. Good morning. Yeah, and today we are going to learn WordPress. Well, sweet. Some of WordPress. Yeah, there's a lot of WordPress. There is a lot to WordPress. We use it here at the Library Commission. I know lots of libraries do use it, and so I'm just going to hand it over to you, Amanda, and tell us all about how to work on our WordPress layouts. Cool. So when I do WordPress trainings, I found out that most people, they pretty much like the themes. That's their starting point to get started. But then you want to start getting more customization and doing your own thing with it as you get comfortable. So this WordPress demonstration is going to be about starting completely from the blank page. We're going to have absolutely nothing. And I'll be showing you how to do different things like building out this custom header. We'll use Canva. We'll learn how to do some different images. Like we'll go into Canva, and I'll show you how to get the right sizing and how to get it so it's not horrifically pixelated. I'll show you how to do this little shape divider here so that you have the color blocking that kind of flows from block to block. And you can kind of start replicating this across the page. And I'll also show you how to do these little card layouts on here so that even when you change the size of the screen, it'll start getting responsive. And I'll show you how to also customize those break points so that if your screen looks a little bit wonky when you resize it, you can adjust it and fix it. And that way, when you're viewing across different devices, it just doesn't look all messed up. That's something I think that whole what is it looking at? Everything is really hard to do and also be able to test in all sorts of different places. Yeah. I didn't know there's something you've done behind the scenes already that should account for all of that. It makes things a lot easier. Right. And also I'll show you how to put these little buttons together because these buttons you can find like they are everywhere. And okay. So let me pop back in here. So now again, we are going from complete blank slate. So I'm going to add a new page just from scratch. And excuse me, if my WordPress is taking just a hot miss second to load everything, but we'll get there. And I'm just going to call this class page because I'm going to delete it later. And all you have to do is give it that title. And I installed a plugin that's called element or Elementor. Elementor has a free version and a pro version. I'm using the free version here. And you can also customize it with in a million different ways. But if you don't already have Elementor on your installation, you can go just to your standard plugin, search Elementor and get it loaded in there. If you are a Nebraska libraries on the web library, Elementor is already included in the installation. So you don't have to worry about it. And once Elementor eventually loads here, we'll start, I can give you a quick overview of what that layout looks like and how the block system in Elementor works versus what it looks like traditionally in the Gutenberg editor, which is what you're probably used to in WordPress. Okay. So the first thing that we want to do is you'll notice that in this version, it actually took up the whole section. So the first thing that I usually do when I start from a blank page is I decide whether I actually want the sidebar to show up. And in this case, I don't. I actually wanted to we're going to be making a test home page. So I'm going to get rid of this. And I'm also going to make it so that this test page doesn't display. So I'm going to go down into this little there's a little gear icon of settings in the bottom left hand corner. I'll click on that. And I'm going to click on hide title. So now this is gone. And that just so now this will still look right on the top of the page. It'll still it still has that HTML to be able to pull from and it'll tell people what page they're on. It just won't look fugly and it won't show up there. And then in the page layout, we're going to go to one column, no sidebar and wait for it to load. And once it loads, that little sidebar will be gone. There we go. So now I'm going to click on this plus sign. So this is how our the block editor and Elementor works. The two options you have here are a plus sign to start choosing out your layout. And you can do a right now we're going to do a one column layout. I'll give you if I'll run through most of these just to show you what they look like. But I'm going to hit the plus sign on here.  So the first thing I usually try is the image block. And you'll see that by default, this image doesn't actually completely take up the full width. So the first thing I do is for whatever weird reason, the first block on the screen, you can never actually see this little menu up here. But there's actually a little menu like a hidden menu that's up here. If you click this little three dots that's in the middle, you'll get some secondary settings. So I usually change it from boxed setting to full width setting. And that's going to stretch it out so that it'll actually line up with your little header image. So that's why this actually lines up here. If it's boxed, it'll actually be indented just a probably about a quarter inch on each side. And it just looks weird. The world won't end, but it just looks weird. Yeah, a lot of this is just like, you know, making things look neat and like they pay attention to each other. Right? Just a lot of chaos in there, yeah. And if you have like layout OCD, you will love that feature. There's that too, yes. So now the way that you actually get this to be the right to be like the image that you want, we're going to go into Canva. So Canva actually has like a whole lot of different layouts that actually work incredibly well for the web. You just need to know where to look for them. So if you go to and search for banner, if you find an email header banner, a LinkedIn banner, or set a custom size banner, it's usually about the right size for that top header. But the thing that you will run into if you choose certain size banners is that it might stretch and pixelate. So I'm just going to choose this top one. And I'm going to click on this resize button. So this resize button, if you have the free version, it's not going to actually let you resize it from here. But I'm going to, but all I want to know is what size is it. So because this is actually already massive, we can use a massive layout and we can shrink it down. We just can't use a smaller layout and stretch it out because going from small to big is what pixelates and makes your eyes unfocused when you start looking at an image. So I just going to put in whatever weird random text. And I'm going to say test page and delete me please. Then we'll get rid of this because we don't need it. We're just doing a test. I'll shrink her down so that this doesn't look horribly huge. Then I'm going to get rid of this image, go into this little button that says, Pixabay, I'm going to clear out this, wipe out this, wipe out this. And all I'm doing is clicking on a shape on here and hitting the delete key on my keyboard. Click a shape, delete key, click a shape, delete key, click a shape, delete key. And now all I'm going to do is grab one of these images and drag it over. Pretty, right? That's why you see all these amazing little photos.  You pulled away the curtain. Right? So now I'll send this and move this back up here. I'm not going to worry too much about what this looks like aesthetically just because it's a test. You just get the idea. So now once this actually looks the way that you want it to look, I'm going to go into this upper right hand corner where it says share. I'll go to download. And then I want to keep this as a PNG. And I can't actually change the size because I'm not using the paid version on here. But I'm going to download it. The commission actually does have the paid version of this, but I wanted to show you using only the free features just because I heard that's the one most people use. And if that's what you have, then yeah. So now this will get mine is set up to go straight to the download folder. So I'm going to go back into Elementor. I'll click on this image that I just set up. Now I'm going to, when I click on it, you'll see this little menu pop open on the left hand side. I'm going to click on the choose image here. Then this is just like loading in any other file. You click an upload file, grab the new one that you just pulled in, which is randomly called dark blue modern discount banner, but okay. And then once this loads in, you'll see on the bottom right hand corner, it'll say insert media. Eventually this button will actually be not grayed out, which means that it's loaded and ready to go. So I'm just waiting for this insert media to not be grayed out anymore. There we go. So now you can see this image is popping in here. And I'm going to go to the image size and go to full so that it actually is taking up that whole space. And you can, there are also some additional options on here. You can send this image over to link to, like if you're inserting an ad for an event that's coming up, you can also link this image over to like the signup form or registration form for the event or like a page with additional information about the event. You get the idea. You're linking an image to a website. So now we want to add more stuff underneath this. So I'll give you the example of how do you do this? So this is just a, this is a three column layout. And I'm going to show you how to do this little icon top with a little header, the description and kind of a little button on this on the underside here. And then I'll show you how to flood this background with color blocking to make distinct sections. And I'm going to pop this over on my side just so I remember what I just told you. And I'm going to go into the plus sign here. And I'm going to choose this three column layout here. And I want to go back into the, now you can see this full little menu. This is actually what I clicked on before. When you hover over it, it'll say edit section. And that's where you can change it from boxed to full width. And then you'll just see these little edge signs stretched out to mesh with this side here. And now I'm going to click on this little plus sign in the box on the left hand side here. And we're going to grab that first little section. And what I want to do is I'm going to search for the word icon. And you're looking for something called icon box. So this is one of the most common things that you'll see on the web, which is, and they just made it steep it easy to do it through Elementor.  We're going to change it to something cool. So Elementor actually uses something called font awesome.  So if you were asking people to wake up in the morning and grab a little sun, and then you can, if you don't like that blue color, you can click on this style up here, go to primary color and then change it over to whatever you want. I was aiming for yellow that didn't happen. And so this is just kind of close enough there. And I want that heading to be the exact same color. So I'm going to copy this little hex code here. That's little six digit it's the number that says what it tells the computer what color you want it to be. So I just copied that. And I'm going to go into content now. And the content is what will change this header and the font color down here. So I'm going to go to this color here. And paste it. And now it's the same color. And now we go into the description section, because I want this to be a little bit darker of a gray. And I'm just going to do you there. And now better, right? Just a picture. Yeah, some of the littlest things. Yeah. Right. And so the other question is, Amanda, how do you choose what colors you're going to use?  Neither can I. I'm not a graphic designer. I have no clue. Okay, if it weren't for this website, I don't think I could ever I sometimes match my clothes with this website. It's a problem. And that's the thing about this the things that you're showing here. And I just mentioned, I'm not a graphic designer. I do not have the training and a lot of us in libraries are not. It's not right. Yeah. In library school at all. And using Canva and this color's website, it can it can make you you can pretend you might be really good that looks good together and doesn't clash and looks professional. Yeah. I like it. So this is when it when this coolers first loads, just click on start the generator. And what I usually do if I if I don't have a baseline color that I actually need to use, I will hit the spacebar key on my keyboard until I find one color that I like. So if I like this blue, I'll lock it into place by hitting this little lock icon. And then I'll hit the spacebar to refresh until I find more colors that I like. And it will bring up ones that only go with that one. And you can also drag these around. There's a little left and right arrow. So if you want to know what this would look like in order, you can also pull that over. And then you'll hit the spacebar again until you find something a combination that you really like. And so I'll lock that in. And I'm just going to use these as okay. So and the other thing that I want to point out on here is if you look at the colors on here, you'll see that sometimes this will be printed in white font and sometimes this will be printed in black font. So this is so this is actually surprisingly important for when you're doing a layout. And it's because of readability. So coolers is designed to automatically change the color of the font based on what background color is most readable against it. So that's why I started, I do this. This is something I do automatically now, but I realized, hey, I should probably tell you. But so you'll see that I started automatically choosing colors that have the same contrast.  And as it is with choosing these colors, I already have to go back into that Elementor and change the header font color and that icon font color to a lighter white color so that you can actually read it against it. So let me show you what that looks like. I'll use this glaring blue just because it'll be easier to see it. So I'm going to go to this little copy here. There's a little copy hex. I'll click it and now that color will automatically copy. I'm going to go back into Elementor. And now when you hover over this little section that you're working with, you're looking for this little gray section where it says edit column. So when you use edit column, this is going to flood the entire background. If you only, if you click on this little button here where it says edit icon box, you'll have a little thin sliver of white on the outside where it doesn't change. So I hit the edit column and now I'm going to go into style and I want background type.  When you hover over it, it says classic.  So now you can start seeing how that contrast works because I had, I mean, this is a bad example because I forgot I had changed it orange. That's a really already contrasting color. But let me show you what it looks like from the default. So I clicked back in here and I'm going to go into here. If I had actually had it as the traditional black, I'll go into 10, 10, 10. So you can see that you can read it, but it's easier if you have it as white. Huge difference. Yeah. So that's why I always pay attention to this contrast and coolers. If you do that one small thing when you're choosing colors and cooler, it'll save you a lot of time. Yeah. And so now while I'm in here, I'm just going to change everything over to white or white-ish. One little random thing that you may and may not have known about graphic design for websites, it's that most websites don't use pure white and they don't use pure black. They actually use a hair off of it just because of the way that it renders across different screens. I'm sure there's other reasons, but you know. So now you kind of know kind of a better way to start formatting and fix and like setting this up. So the other thing that you can do is when you already have this all set up the way that you want to go, you can go to this edit icon box and you're going to right click it and duplicate. So it'll automatically go over to right below it, which is not what you want to do. So I'm going to hit the control Z, I'll right click and copy and then I'll click into this new space and now I'm going to go into right click and paste. So now this exact formatting just clicked over to here and you can see that you can barely even see the part where it says this is the heading and the little star and that is why we choose color contrasting. So I'll show you what happens when I go in here and I'm going to grab this green color. So I'll go back into the coolers, I hit copy hex, grab the green and now I'm going to click on this little edit column in this new section. I'll go into style, go to background type, we'll click that little paintbrush looking thing that says classic, then I'll hit the color palette square that has little slash through it. Now I'm going to back space over what was in here, put that in and now you can actually see what that looks like and then I'm going to right click on this last little cube, we'll do a paste. So now our little text is back in here and now I'm just going to grab this last little color over here, copy I just grabbed pink because it was there and who doesn't like pink? I'm wearing pink pants right now. Then I'm going to go back into that edit column, we're going to do the exact same thing again, go to style, go to the background type, hit that little paintbrush that says classic, go to this little color swatch that has the little slash through it, then paste it there and you can also go back through here, change your icons to whatever you happen to want change your heading, change your text, to do that all you have to do is click into this little box, if you click on the text you'll look to the left and this is where you'll actually type in your text and if you do wind up clicking over on this side and try to type in here, sometimes it'll accidentally work, more often than not it won't. Accidentally does what you want it, what you think it should do, right? Let's see if it'll, there we go, you know, but it's designed so that you actually type everything into this left hand side instead of the right, but again world won't end if you accidentally type it over here, it wouldn't be the first time I did it. So now I'm going to go back into this edit section up here and I'm going to go to this columns gap, so the columns gap I'm going to switch it to no gap and I'll also shift this one up here, I'll click on that little three dot and then go to no gap and that is actually how you get the blocks to blend together, so that columns gap is what provides automatic spacing between each of the little new different block systems on here and so that is actually how I got it to look like that, so that it actually all smears together. So then the next thing I'll show you is how to do a layout like this where it has those little cards but it doesn't have the flooded background, it just has like that smaller background and has some spacing in between and I'll use a more contrasting color than that gray just so it's easier to see and I'm also going to choose a contrast color like this just so I have fewer steps for changing the color of the font. Traditionally in a layout you would actually use a similar contrast so if you choose to use a white font on a dark background it's better to actually choose an entire web layout that looks like that because if you try it with a mix and match, unless you do it really focused and in the right way when the user opens up that website their eyes will focus in and out so your eye like your eye focuses one way to see light color on a dark background and then it focuses another way to see dark on light so it's possible but I recommend if you're just starting out choose one or the other. Did that make sense the way I said that? The best way to it's why your eyes wig out when you see when you go from light to dark and so now we're going to add in another little three-colomer here and we'll do that so I'm going to add in this little plus sign we're going to grab our three columns and I'm going to grab I'll go to this little edit section up here we're going to go from boxed to full width then I'm going to go over to no gap I'll hit the plus sign here and now we're going to go into I'll use the same icon box and I'm just going to drag and drop this icon box into the section that we wanted to live and now I'm going to go back into the style so that we can actually see what this color looks like and let's use I'll use that darker color and I'm going to go into content heading and and then I'll change that last one to there so now instead of going into so before we went into this edit column box and that is what flooded the entire column now we're going into this little edit box here right click and go to edit icon box and then when you go into the style and so now you'll see that this is actually laid out a little bit differently so we're going to go into advanced and background and that's going to be where our background color lives here so I'm going to go into coolers I'm going to grab this little random orange and we'll go to classic click on this little slash thing backspace that out and so this is what it looks like when you have it as a the white next to the dark so it just doesn't it works but it just doesn't look quite there and so now you'll see that again this flooded so we're going to do the control z to undo it huh well that was interesting we're just going to reset apparently control z doesn't work on that one that's interesting and I'm going to close this out so we'll go back into background go in here well there's another way we can do it so I'm going to show you a different method of putting that together in the same way so I'm going to go back into style and we'll go into there it was an advanced so the advanced and padding so this padding is going to be what adds space on all sides here and now we're also going to add a margin yeah so this is another way that we can add space just because that other setting doesn't seem to be working right now that's good it's interesting they mentioned because that was something that someone was wondering about those um someone asked about those icons on the top in the the blue green and pink they're really they're they're right up close yeah yeah is there a way to make that not it looks like they're kind of padding yeah actually so on those as well using that same oh yeah the advanced and if we add yeah yeah these two I need one yeah and this only takes like 10 seconds um just because I have graphic design OCD I'm gonna just do another last one now I have to yes right yeah so now the other thing is how do you get those little rounded edges on the side we're gonna go into border and border radius and then when you go to I usually do between like 8 and 15 that's what rounded out what that is what rounds it out on the bottom okay so now I'm going to show you the difference between there's a weird weird weird technicality in how this works so I'm gonna hit this little plus sign here and I'm gonna go into button and I'll go to I'll drag a button over here so if I drag a button down here it actually shows up by default right underneath the this section I'm gonna drag another button here so you'll see that when I dragged it over here this background color didn't flood it didn't go behind the button here too and it's because of the way that setting worked so on this one you use the edit column on the left so it actually by default floods whatever gets plopped into that column but when you use this other setting where it just you're you were only editing the icon box you're just flooding the icon box with color and anything else that you put into that column is it won't be affected it's its own thing so that is so if you do want to be able to put a button in there that looks like it actually meshes in together with that column you'll want to use this setting over here otherwise you're in for a world of hurt and then you can still add in go to the advanced and add your padding in to the button so it doesn't look weird and you can also mimic this exact same setting so if you don't want this to be flooded like next to each other you can go back up into this edit column and you can do the exact same thing we did over here go to the advanced add a margin and you can replicate and then you can go into the style and go to border and go to border radius so you'll see that you will looking at these two the these two different blocks my brain goes wonky when I look at it and yours probably will too and it's because whoever put together Elementor didn't put the settings in the same places so you'll see that border radius is in so the border radius for this one is in the advanced section but the border radius for this one is in the style section so basically my rule of thumb is to start by looking in style if the setting you're looking for isn't in style go to advanced and it's probably over there somewhere yeah yeah and this I think this is good that you went through this and like like the thing we just you thought it would do the control z but it didn't that was that what it was yeah there's somewhere you know don't be afraid to look somewhere else for something you might want to do click on something you're not going to break it um and you can always undo anything you've done yeah yeah so you know just you know look in the other areas there's very different various various places you can find ways to do different things and right yeah and there's always a different way to mimic a style at least like when you start learning about it and figuring it out and good times and I'm going to click back up here so now I'll also show you how to do that shape border and I'm going to get rid of this just because well I'll keep it just in case we need to go back to it later I'll click on this little plus sign here we're going to add a new block so we're going to use this one that goes straight across and I'll click on this little plus sign in the center of our new block and now I'm going to go over to a spacer so here is a spacer so a spacer actually is just completely empty air it's dead air and it'll show you how high this is actually set to be it's about 50 pixels high we're going to bump that up to about we'll go about a hundred and I'm going to change this I'll go to the this little edit button the edit section button and I'm going to go from boxed over to full width in the content in the content with section and then I'll go back into the no gap so that it smushes right up and then I'm going to go click back into this section go into advanced it will feel like you are clicking on dead air because I mean you kind of are and so this is going to be one of those moments where you're going to wind up bouncing across two different sections to be able to get this to look the way that you want it to look so the first thing you want to do is change the background color of your dead air so we're going to go to background background type click your little classic button for your color then I'm going to grab this green color here just because we're going to use two heavily contrasting colors I will paste it in here and now we're going to go click back on to this little edit section here and you're going to go into advanced style I lied and we're going to go to shape divider and type so I'm going to just choose any random one we'll go with clouds and I'm going to change the height of it so you can actually see it and I'll go into there fancy so now you can start to see what this will look like oh do you know what I did I clicked on the wrong area and I'm going to choose shape divider bottom and waves brush that is not behaving the way it is supposed to so when in doubt do it again yeah so I'm going to go back into this edit section we'll go back into the full width and I'm going to go into the advanced style there we go now it's going there you can see it yeah yeah so this is actually how I got this to look like this little wave pattern here that goes in between sections yeah that is how I got it to look like that and I'll go to one here so when you look at this little section here you would set your background color of this top section to that blue the background color of this bottom section to be yellow and then your shape divider the background color of your little empty air is going to be this bottom section and the color of your shape divider will be that top blue section they kind of merge into each other and do the transition yep one to another very slick and it's shiny and so these you pretty much already know how to do them but one thing I will show you is kind of a cheat sheet trick if you're doing multiple rows of these at one time and it will save you a lot of time so let's just assume that this is actually looking the way that you had wanted it to look it clearly isn't but we'll just assume that it is and so instead of going instead of clicking on this edit section I'm going to right click on it and you can go to duplicate and it will exact duplicate that right underneath it so that you can do multiple rows and multiple whatever and it's way easier to set it up configure it and do what you need to do and you can even go back through and start just because you duplicated it doesn't mean that you can't change it so you can also still you can change it to the fogliest shade of neon green you want to that's a good way to start it to duplicate that right off to start with yeah yeah it's just a cheat sheet that makes life easier and just because I do indeed have style ocd I'm changing this button color to the white and then the font color over to and there it is so there all the other reason I wanted to go in here was to show that show you that you can also change your font type so you can go into this in most areas that there is text you can go into the style and change your typography so if you remember I said that I would show you how to make it so that headings and paragraphs looked right when you were changing the font size so in the early days of writing websites they only use px the pixels but they added in em so em actually changes your font based on the size of your screen so the default is one em if you want it to look like everything else that's on your page but if you want it to be slightly smaller or slightly larger you can go into like 1.3 or 4 and I'll also change this so that you can actually see the color of the text on here and I will go into color and text color and I'll go to like black and then I'll go back into so we change this I'm going to show you what this looks like in a heading I'll click on this heading and now I'm going to go into style content and typography basically click around until you find the word typography click on the little edit pen and then switch this from pixels over to em and then we'll go into does that look like it's changing at all I don't think so no and if I'm going to go back into typography we'll try this again so there's two reasons this could be happening when you try to change a setting and it doesn't look like it's doing anything at all it's either because wordpress is glitching out in some way shape or form and it'll work next time you load it and open it or two if you've written some overriding CSS that's taking effect before this goes into effect your custom CSS will sometimes override anything that you try to do in your website I have a tendency of doing custom CSS so there is a possibility that that's happening if you are a beginner in wordpress and you have never touched the CSS it's probably wordpress you wouldn't be yeah that would not be because you wouldn't have got that yeah and so I'm going to go in here and so apparently since that setting is not working in that area I am going to delete this we'll add this go to add in a new block I'm going to grab a heading and I'm going to just type in any random thing and now I'm going to go back into change this to a more contrasting color so that it's easier for you guys to see we'll go over to and then I'm going to go back into style and as I said look for it to the word typography wherever it may land click on that little edit button click on the em and by default one should make it not really change at all but when you go up past one one is what should make it look a little bit larger and now I'm going to go into change this to a full width just because by default if you choose a full width layout make everything full width and then you can go over into this responsive mode here and it'll be an icon in the bottom left hand corner of your screen you'll click on it and then you'll be able to choose between different font size different screen sizes and so you can go from the full desktop over to tablet mode and then over into full screen or over into mobile view and when this responsive actually is working you'll actually see the heading size change automatically and so you can go back into this style and we're going to click on this little heading thing we'll go back into typography and then you can change it over here and let's see well that's interesting I'll have to fix that later 10 to 1 it's just a glitch and I'm not even going to have to do anything but this is just a good way to test out and see if you're how it's going to look yeah yeah so the other way that you can start looking at this is if you look in the very upper right hand corner this is actually the pixel screen size break that you can set manually if this actually starts to look weird so if you if you click on this mobile and then you test on three or four different people's phones and you find out that the average mobile screen in your little group is different than the setting in here you can manually change it so you can change that width to like a little bit wider you can change it to smaller and this way you have just more fine-tuned control over what your website looks like on different screen sizes and that's something that's that's I guess you got to go with what's the best you can get because phone sizes are so many different so many people have the big ones the note type ones and now there's a folding one folding ones that will have a whole different kind of view and yeah there is no standard yeah so you're gonna have to be a little forgiving with it's the best we can do yeah yeah and so as a general rule of thumb if you're designing a website and the it's going to be geared toward a class or a group of people that you have that you know then you can survey that class and you can find out the sizes of their own devices and design to the people that you know but if it is going out to like the library commission it goes out anywhere and everywhere we have no idea there's no way we can ever know I usually just leave it in the default mode and design and pray that's pretty much it's all you can do yeah you do the best and so that's like nine times out of ten you're probably not going to need to change it but if you're working for school or for a small group then it's super helpful and so now I'm going to go back into that desktop layout and I will ask if there is anything if there are any like pressing design questions that anyone had or if there's any like feature or function people wanted to see yeah definitely um yeah before we do wrap up it did um just hit 11 a.m central time but that's okay we started a little after 10 and we'll go as long as is needed for Amanda to show what she wants to and if any of you have any questions so if there was anything specific anything specific you were hoping to see how to do here or anything that you're confused about or you want to have her demo something or show something again or clarify something go ahead and type into the question section of your go-to-webber interface and I'm not looking to answer any other questions or show anything else that people might want to see and if you're unable to stick around while we're doing any other last minute things here after 11 o'clock if you only allotted this one hour that's fine we're recording the show as we always do and you can always watch the full recording later when it's available yeah we should be by the end of the day tomorrow and I'll also put in my email just in case people come up with things later on I know a lot of times that does happen mm-hmm and we do I think yes we do and Chris it looks like I only have the option to send out to panelists I don't think I can send to everyone so would you mind putting my email yeah yeah um yeah it's Amanda Sweet at Nebraska.gov which is all of our Amanda Datt yeah which is all of our emails here so yeah I'll send that out here just so you all have that but also I do have it linked if when you're on the session page for today's show if you notice Amanda's name is a hot link if you click on that it goes to a we have these web form type things where you can email to anybody on the commission staff you get their particular link so right from there I also have that and that will go to her as well and I just thought of like 10 of the things that I could show you in WordPress but there's always going to be some yes so we can yeah yeah and as you said you do do training um for our libraries Nebraska Library through the web uh and we could also do another encompass live on some specific aspect of WordPress so we might want to focus on in the future yeah and what I generally recommend if you want to request like a custom training is to kind of look at your website start making a list of the things that you want to be able to know and the things that you know you'll need to change out most frequently and then once you have that list handy then we can jump on the phone and I can kind of give you a demo and I'll also set up a set of um custom tutorials it's not tutorials that I will have made specifically all the time some of them I did some of them I didn't but if it's super generic like you can usually find it on the web and since I know the keyword terms to search for then I can just pop them over to you or I can give you the keywords so that you can find it yourself yeah um we do have a good question just came in a very good one and um I think it's something that comes up has been an ongoing question uh since the internet started um how do you know what pick what are free pictures ah where do you know if you're not using something and this is something you better be do have to be very careful with you do not want to use someone's picture that is copyrighted or restricted in use you want to make sure you're using something if you're not using your own photos that are from like the library or the other city um where can you find things like that so I just went to a website called pixabay um pixabay is it's p i x a b a y and the reason I went to it is because they have a boatload of free what images that are really high quality that you can pull from nine times out of ten for any project that I do I don't have to go beyond pixabay but the other thing that you want to look for is on this right hand side where it says pixabay license where it says free for commercial use no attribution required that is the golden nugget that you are looking for that says I can use this anywhere and I don't have to do anything to do it and so if you look at the creative commons licensing there are different tiers of licensing some of them say you can use it for education purposes only some of them say that you can use it but you have to give me attribution and that's when you get those little blurbs on here that says source or image author however they want you to cite it but this is the golden ticket free for commercial use no attribution required and they don't have to worry about that yeah but if you do find a photo you want to use that it has the difference it says you know attribution you know we do want you to like you know cite that you got this from this particular artist or something then you can use those you just got to make sure you follow whatever those license rules are that that artist has put onto their picture but you don't have to worry about that then just yeah make sure you limit it to that and anything you see it's out there for you to use freely yeah and if you do find like an image through like shutter stock or something that you I guess pixabay is promoting eye stock now but if you see something through eye stock shutter stock and you actually buy an image for like a buck or like two bucks or however much it is then it's yours you can use it right I mean you can do it and pay yes if you want to yeah yeah but I mean if you look at pixabay they have like all the things and up like up splash is the other one that I use and up splash also has the unsplash snippets and nope that was a typo for me up splash there yeah did up splash change to unsplash no I don't know it just rerouted because I typed in up splash then results for up splash huh well whatever it's unsplash now but it is freely usable images and it's basically exactly like pixabay but that one I've used that one before too yeah and were there any other questions that popped in uh no nothing right now no um anybody have any questions right now you want to ask go ahead and type them in um if not you can always reach out to Amanda at any time as she said also this little dude is adorable yeah yeah I've had problems okay these are great websites for looking for photos um but you can get lost yeah yeah where I ended just looking through so many of them and so many of them and it's just like uh and especially since you can use canva as like a meme maker now it's a problem I've meme so many frogs oh and at one at some point I should actually just make a list of the different um templates that work for canva but you can also make your custom size canva image and the custom size canva image is actually what I recommend for the header image that goes up here and for a two column image just so you know that you get the right size but it is 1109 so I guess if there are no other questions I will wrap it out and we can call that a good yeah awesome uh yeah this is great I learned a lot of things that I'm maybe using on some of the pages I work on some of the sites I work on some things I want to test out I know I'm digging into some of those settings so yeah I think we will thank you so much thank you everybody for being here today if you do have any readers and thanks coming through this program is very good thank you so much Amanda so we do have thanks coming so let's see where we are okay I'm going to pull presenter control back to my screen to wrap things up here there we go all right so um thank you everybody as I said um I put Amanda's email into the chat and everything but here is where I was talking about you can click on her name from here it brings you just to a nice web form that you can just go ahead and fill out if you want to or if you didn't want to get her email up here you click here and then in copy and paste that into your own email account if you want to get in touch with her uh the pages we were talking about pixabay.com unsplash.com are um those those two sites there so uh that will wrap it up for today's show um as I said we have recorded the show and it will be here in our archives these are our upcoming shows um it will be in our archives here at the top of the list as I said by the end of the day tomorrow should have everything ready I will email everyone who attended today's show and registered for today's show even if it didn't show up to let you know and then push it out into our various social media we do have a facebook page for Encompass Live where we promote things about here's our upcoming here's the this week's show reminder when our recordings are available we post it up here we also on to twitter and um instagram we have a hashtag and comp live little abbreviation so um you'll see the announcements out there as well as well through through our mailing lists this is our full show archives I had mentioned the beginning of the show we have lots and lots of topics so if you wanted to search our show archives to see if we've done a show on a topic you are interested in uh you can do that uh you can do the full archives are just the most recent 12 months something just current that is because this is our full show archives and I'm not going to scroll the way down if you look over here you'll see this this page is very is huge this goes back to the when Encompass Live first premiered which was January 2009 so we've got over 10 12 years of shows here so just pay attention to the original broadcast date of any shows that you watch some shows will stand the test of time and still be good valid information but some things will become old outdated um the services or resources might have changed drastically or disappeared entirely so just to pay attention if you are watching an old archive Amanda will be back with us on as I said the last ones in the month September 28th for a certain September pre-suite tech do we have a show idea for that one yet putting it on the spot here you don't have to but um or we'll see what that would happen I have a few ideas but I think this one I'll actually reach out to a couple people and see if I might be able to jump on yeah absolutely yeah so yeah keep your eyes open on our schedule to see what her next topic will be um at the end of September uh but next week's oh and I'll also mention here um while we're looking at the schedule here we do not have we will be off on the week of October 5th that is our state annual conference and I always we always take that week off of the show everyone's involved in the conference instead so um there will be no encompass live on October 5th because this is our Nebraska Library Association annual conference and next week we'll talk about retirement time to ease on down ease on down the road Robin Newell who used to be a library in Nebraska is now the executive director of the Emporia Public Library in Kansas and she's going to talk about um how to plan for your retirement if that's something um you are on that end of your library career so please do sign up for that show and any of the other ones we have coming up over September I'm getting my October dates scheduled in here too so um keep an eye on the schedule too to see uh what new shows come up for later in October on that thank you everybody for being here thank you Amanda uh we'll see you in a month on the show in a month I swear I see some of you on our next episodes of Emporia Public Library Conference Live. Bye bye.