Archive for March, 2010

March 31st, 2010

Learn To Create Website Header Graphics Using Photoshop


www.photoshopheadergraphics.com This is the introduction from my new 1 hour How-To DVD “The Beginners Guide To Creating Great Looking Website Header Graphics Using Photoshop In 30 Minutes Or Less!”. It is a Data DVD and includes over $200 worth of great bonuses including ‘Photoshop CS2 For Dummies’. Finally, a DVD that shows you how to create great looking website header graphics using Photoshop in 30 minutes or less! This DVD covers purchasing images, organizing workspace, creating documents, colored backgrounds, backgrounds with images, importing images, cutting out images, tolerance levels, transform tools, removing white edges, brush tool, layer styles, distort, lines, shapes and text. Everything you need to start producing your own great looking website header graphics, banners, buttons and much more. In this DVD, Peter Skuse shows you the tools and techniques he uses to create great looking website header graphics using Photoshop for all his websites. You’ll watch as he takes you step-by-step through the whole process of creating a website header graphic from start to finish using Photoshop. You’ll see all the tools, tricks and techniques he uses to get that ‘created by a Design Professional’ look, even if you are a Photoshop novice! ‘The Beginners Guide To Creating Website Header Graphics Using Photoshop’ includes Getting the right images – and which ones to avoid at all cost Choosing the right photos – and how to get the ‘Pro’ look for just $1 Setting up your

March 31st, 2010

Free Website Promotions

Free Website Promotion…Why Not?

Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.

How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?

1. Enlist your website.

Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your site there. This is the easiest and most effective free website promotion tactic. Start with this step and the rest of the good things will follow.

Just don’t forget to prep your website and make it all spruced up for a higher chance to get accepted in your directory of choice.

2. Know your forums.

One reason why forums are created is for free website promotion for everyone. Log in, post actively, let them know about your site in every post and you attract instant visitors right there.

3. Write a press release.

Release your writing prowess and start up a press release that advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your friends, colleagues, internet e-zines, newspapers and other media and massive traffic will come to you pronto!

4. Be friendly online.

Free website promotion means you need to be friendly to other webmasters. Why, you ask? So they can link you immediately! Establish contacts and never tire of link requests and exchanges.

5. Write an article.

Say, your website is about your travel agency. Write an article about the perks of traveling or the hottest travel spots in the world. On the concluding paragraph, mention your website in passing. This article works as an advertorial and doubles as a free website promotion approach.

6. Just let the whole world know about your site.

What is free website promotion without the word of mouth? Insert your website, its URL and features in daily conversations and let the good news spread from one mouth to another!

7. Make a banner ad.

Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap!

8. Take up a free website promotion course online.

Yes, there are free website promotion tutorials. But don’t you know that you can actually take a free website promotion course that can help you out further? Part of the free website promotion program is signing up for newsletters.

When you make a website, you need not pay anything to promote it. You just read it — there is such a thing as free website promotion!

 

March 31st, 2010

FEC report details lavish Republican spending

FEC report details lavish Republican spending
44 | Filings show tens of thousands of dollars spent on high-flying expenses, including private jets, posh hotels and a topless nightclub.

Read more on Washington Post

March 31st, 2010

Area boxers perform well at tournament

Area boxers perform well at tournament
FORT MADISON — The Tommy Joe Boxing Club of Mason City went a perfect 4-0 at a boxing show Saturday, put on by the Lee County Boxing Club.

Read more on The Globe Gazette

March 31st, 2010

Live Long and (Do Not) Prosper: Lessons and Reminders from Yesterday’s Wikipedia Outage

Live Long and (Do Not) Prosper: Lessons and Reminders from Yesterday’s Wikipedia Outage
Yesterday’s Wikipedia outage , which resulted from invalid DNS zone information, provides some good reminders about the best and worst attributes of active DNS management.

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