Catching Up

What have you all been doing since I last posted. Yes, one should post every day or close to it so you can see that I am way behind. I hope that this one post will invite those of you who have followed me to comment and share how you have been doing in life and school. I have been very busy with school as usual with new online changes with D2L and new classes. Also, I am thinking about what direction I will take in terms of developing another blog about what I like to do other then teach or school topics. And the thoughts are tremendous. I have so many ideas and so little time. I do hope so many of you that visit will tell me how you are doing. Then I will get back to the business of sharing interesting topics with you.

7 Lively Type Effects for InDesign

Create seven lively type effects in InDesign by following the tips in this article? http://www.creativepro.com/article/seven-lively-sins-try-these-indesign-type-effects. Of course, the same ideas can be applied to Illustrator, Photoshop, and other programs of your choice. What are your favorite type effects and when do you use them?

Mobile Marketing

Read the entire article at http://appsavvy.blogspot.com/2012/03/r-u-marketing-on-mobile.html. Kim has some noteworthy articles on her site  http://appsavvy.blogspot.com that you will find helpful. Thanks for the valuable information.

Graphics to Fabric

As many of you know, one of my favorite sites is http://www.geninne.com/. Today's blog shows the release of her new fabric from Cloud 9. The collection is called Alegria. Can't beat it, two of my favs, design and fabric. I have used these examples in classes before. Why don't some of you look at your designs to see if you have anything worthy of print not on paper, not on the web, but on FABRIC!

Congratulations Geninne on your beautiful work. I hope this is inspiration to many of you. I can't wait to touch and sew on some of these designs.

Have you learned anything new on Blogging?

Have you learned anything new to add to your blog recently. Just because you have started development of your blog, doesn't mean you are done. The learning curve continues. Share a tip or link that you like for 3 bonus pts. I just read about breadcrumbs used in Google search  http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/06/breadcrumb-for-blogger-blogspot.html and plan to try it soon. What blogs are you following? Share two links for sites you have found helpful to your blog or to you for 2 bonus pts.

Notice the New Look of My Blog?

You see the change to the style of the blog. What do you think. Go to template, Dynamic Views and try one for yourself. The one I am using is magazine. I will customize soon. Which one do you like the best for your blog?

SEO, Keyword Optimization

SEO, keyword optimization. Read the following two articles to enhance your chances of having your page search for keywords by Google, Yahoo, and other SEO sources.

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/basics-of-search-engine-friendly-design-and-development

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization

Have you tested your SEO ranking? The following article gives you a step-by-step guide to search engine optimization.

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Now let's see what you have learned about SEO or keyword targeting. Respond by telling us how you have used keywords in one of your blog's pages? Have you used internal links, internal link targeting? Show us an example.