My Writings. My Thoughts.
New Domain Name
// May 17th, 2007 // No Comments » // About Me, Design, Misc
Well, I finally went out and bought a domain name for this site. You can now access my site by going to www.goeasydesign.com. The domain is forwarded right now. That’s why you still see the http://curtjen.wordpress.com in your address bar when you come here. I haven’t bought hosting, YET. Don’t worry I’ll let all of you know when I make major changes like that.
Snipshot: Image Resizer, Cropper, and More
// May 14th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design, Misc
Snipshot is a good site you can go to if you want to resize or crop your images for use on the web. I was playing around with it today. What I was trying to figure out was if I could create an html code that refers to the image that I could use to insert into the html portion of an eBay post. Easy! You would be surprized to find how easy it really is. Go to www.snipshot.com and try it out.
- Click on where it says “WebShots” under Snipshot features on the right hand side.
- Upload an image (you can choose to keep it the same size by leaving it as “Do Not Resize” or you can change the image in the drop-down menu to a number of predefined sizes).
- Then you will come to a screen where you can you get the link to the image in many different forms (as a thumbnail or original image: within these main categories for a Blog or Website, Forum or Message board, Email or Instant Messenger, or even the Direct Link to the Image).
- You can now copy the appropriate code to the destination that you would like to use it. For example, it may be a good idea to use the “Blog or Website” code from the Original Image in an eBay listing. Just copy and paste that code into the html portion of your product listing.
- It would be a good idea to bookmark this page. When finished you can choose to upload more images.
Example of the Thumbnail style link for Blogs and Webpages:
Paragraph Settings for WordPress: Change Color of Text, too
// May 10th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Web Builders
Just found this out from another coworker. You can actually edit the paragraph settings in your post. Hold down Alt+Shift+V
and you will get additional buttons you can use to edit content in your posts. You can change the format of the post (Paragraph, Address, Preformatted, and Heading 1-6). You can change the color of your text. There’s a button you can use to paste from MS Word and from plain text. There’s even a button that you can use to clean-up messy code. There’s a button you can you use to insert special characters like the copyright©, arrows?, fractions ¼, and playing card symbols ???, to name a few.
SEO in a Nutshell
// May 7th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // SEO, eCommerce
The best ways, really, to drive traffic to your site are: 1. Sell a product that there is a demand for and not a lot of competition. And 2. Use keywords and keyword phrases to optimize your site where search engines can find you. You can do this by: selecting good keywords that people are searching for; submitting to directories using good keywords; leave comments on blogs and other public sites; submit articles to article websites; and use your keywords in the text of your site (your text should be 20% keywords). All the while putting links to your site in these keywords. This will create backlinks to your site and will boost your search engine popularity. That is why keyword research is so important.
Transferring Html Code from Nvu to WordPress
// May 7th, 2007 // No Comments » // Design
Nvu is used to create html code for tables and other features. Copy the html code that you create in Nvu into your Wordpress posts or pages and publish there.
1. Create your tables or whatever you’re trying to create in Nvu. 2. Click on the “source” tab at the bottom of the Nvu program window to view the html code for what you created. 3. Copy that code and paste it into an already existing post or page in Wordpress or into a new post or page in Wordpress. Make sure the click on the tab above the editor box that says “code.” 4. Now click “publish” and you’re done.
New
// May 7th, 2007 // No Comments » // Misc, Uncategorized
I created this new blog with the intent of recording the different things that I learn about web design, development, SEO, anything to do with eCommerce, and anything to do with business that I find interesting.
Panaramics and Photoshop
// April 5th, 2007 // 2 Comments » // Photography
Here is a panaramic picture that I took last week. I took others that day, too. The original of this picture was so dark and gloomy, so I lightened it up in Photoshop. I took the photo an hour before sunset, but it looks like I took it in the middle of the day. Pretty cool. Click on the picture to enlarge it. Click the link in the last post for the original.
Panaramic Photo
// April 3rd, 2007 // No Comments » // Photography
Here is a project that I’m working on in school. This is my first attempt to making a panaramic photo. I’m going to redo it though, because it was such a cloudy day. It sure was fun to make.
Intro of Curtis J.
// March 30th, 2007 // No Comments » // About Me
Welcome to my blog. This is my first entry and first time actually playing around with Wordpress. I currently am a student at UVSC which is soon to be UVU. I will graduate with my AS in Graphic Design from the Art department, this fall. Then I will switch to the Digital Media department emphasizing on Graphic Design, Photography, and Audio Recording. I’m thinking of minoring in Information Technology. I work at company called Prosper. I help students with their websites. I enjoy my job, and helping others.
