Thursday, January 27, 2011

10 Ways to use Web 2.0 technologies to boost ones career.

  1. Blogging is a good way to let potential customers and followers to know how ones career is doing.
  2. Twitter is another way to do something similar to using a blog, only it would be shorter messages to followers.
  3. Social Networking is an easy way to show ones work, and keep customers and followers updated and aware of what one is capable of.
  4. Podcasting would be a great way of displaying oneself to others in a professional manner.
  5. Meshups are quite capable of displaying a variety of data at the same time.
  6. Similarly to podcasting, Youtube could be used in a similar manner to help display more information, more information even if it is a repeat shown on other sites.
  7. Cloud computing is another manner of helping display ones information, it's just generally considered the internet even though it is more narrow then that.
  8. Wikipedia would be a great way to help show off the knowledge one knows and probably give off links to sites and such that one makes.
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10 Technologies that are changing the way we work and play

  1. Google's Adword is one of the ways that work, allowing the making of money just to allow Google to advertise on ones site.
  2. Cloud computing helps to provide ease of access to various aspects of the internet, but isn't the internet as a whole, such as facebook.
  3. Web Analytics have be growing in large strides and provides users with more control and ability to monitor the traffic that comes to there page(s).
  4. Managed File Transfer (MFT) has stepped up to take the place of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Secure File Transfer Protocol (sFTP) providing a more secure way to transfer sensitive information over the internet.
  5. The emergence of 3g and higher technology has made it so a phone is no longer just a phone but, in some cases, virtually putting the internet at ones fingertips.
  6. Netbooks are bridging the gap between cellphones and laptops, providing a computer at a convent size and price
  7. Thermal Jet printers, although expensive, can produce 3D wax models of car parts and bodies of cars. Of course this could probably be set for more than just models of cars
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10 Reasons to hire a professional designer

  1. This is a great way to save time to be able to devote it on other aspects of ones business.
  2. A professional designer is capable of making the image that one is looking for.
  3. A professional is able to make a business stand out from the rest of the other businesses that are the exact same.
  4. A professional is more likely to know and understand the programs that are required.
  5. If a design is needing to be fixed it is cheaper to hire a professional than getting a printer to fix it.
  6. With a professional they will know what types of images to use to help promote the look that one is looking for.
  7. They will be able to help make ones site and designs able to be set to a more customizable state.
  8. Should one be dealing with web a professional will be able to make the site optimized to be found easily.
  9. On top of working with the SEO they will be able to make sure that the site is compatible with web browsers.
10. A professional is able to make the difference between a professional site and a personal site.

10 Ways to use the web to promote your business.

  1. Create a profile for ones business using facebook or other networks like this.
  2. One could create ads for there business, via social networking or other means.
  3. Create a blog that one would make daily posts to about ones business.
  4. Register ones website with search engines.
  5. Make sure ones business site is optimized for the search engines.
  6. Buying and selling ad banners for ones business.
  7. Make a newsgroup and a mail listing so users can follow along and get updates about ones business.
  8. If it is within ones ability purchase search engine keywords, this can really help increase traffic to ones site.
  9. The use of people's guide can help bring in local traffic, just like Google local.
10. Use eBay to offer serves as well from ones business.

10 Things to make your site index better.

  1. Make sure that the title tags are unique and relate to the content, if not actually in the content.
  2. Make the description tags a summary of the page and try to include information from the page itself.
  3. Use bold and italic to help emphasize important information that should be remembered.
  4. Research the keywords so that one knows which ones are used heavily by searches.
  5. Talk to webmasters with similar content and request links from there site to the one in question, and link to the other webmasters.
  6. With social media sites one can make likes to their sites via the social media.
  7. When using images make sure that they have the required standards; height, width, alt, and source.
  8. The proper usage of headings help make a site index better.
  9. Try to fill the content of ones page with words that users actually search for and not archaic or intricate terms.
10. Having ones site archived correctly, and not having 20 folders deep, so the spiders can easily search through ones site.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

10 Ways to make money on the web today.

1. The most obvious, using eBay to auction personal possessions.
2. Using various sites/chats to find people who are looking for commissioned work.
3. Setting up a portfolio site account and starting to get ones name out on the web.
4. Placing posts for jobs that one is qualified for one sites such as Cregslist.
5. Using sites like elance or mycroburst to browse job listings in the design/art field.
6. Explore sites for businesses, looking for bad designs, and offer to correct them.
7. Designing a quality web site/page and putting advertising links on it.
8. Purchasing items through online auctions and then turning around and selling them for a higher price to people who are known to like/collect such items.
9. Using online stock exchange to buy and sell stocks.
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10 Skills I Will Develop In The Near Future

1. My PhotoShop skills.
2. My Illustrator skills.
3. I will continue to work on my web design skills.
4. I intend to improve my photography skills as well.
5. I wish to learn how to code, but that might be more than the near future.
6. Developing my layout skills is another that should be soon.
7. I suppose my portfolio building skills will develop further in the coming months as well.
8. I hope to try and do more drawing projects to keep/improve my freehand skills.
9. I also intend to try and refresh my skills with flash in the coming month.
10. Since I am not sure of other skills I wish to develop I am going to leave this one open for the first needed skill I come across.

10 Great Design Portfolio Sites.

1. Carbonmade.com
2. Coroflot.com
3. Shownd.com
4. Behance.net
5. Designrelated.com
6. Deviantart.com
7. Figdig.com
8.Flickr.com
9. Krop.com
10. Virb.com

Thursday, January 20, 2011

How can a business best use a Web Site, Facebook, a blog, Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter to create an effective online marketing campaign?


   The way that I would use these social networks to my advantage in a business setting would be to use every one of them, and not just one. It would be best to be able to make daily posts about the events of the business, but if that isn’t possible at least make something once a week. Also one would have to be sure to not get these mixed up with a personal use social media page because that could cause horrible things to happen if not kept under check, and always watch what you post on the web, it can be found and used to hurt ones business if their not careful.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Ten Aspects of a Bad Website

1) The size of any images and videos should be optimized so they don't take forever to load.

2) Ones site shouldn't cause people to seizure.

3) The images that are associated with the site no matter if they are decorative or content related it should be placed in a way that they don't offend the eye or encumber the content.

4) Make sure that ones site is designed for the needs of your audience and not just what one wants it to be.

5) Make sure that ones site is designed to help solve audience needs, no matter if it is a problem, knowledge seeking, or even to be entertained. Not to make the audience have more difficulty with there intended reason for being on ones site.

6) Making sure that the contrast of the text vs everything in the background makes the content readable to the majority.

7) Make sure that any information that is provided is not contradictory to the cause of the site. Such as a link to gain registration to use a site, but not be able to actually register.

8)The idea that a website is the only marketing tool that is needed is a childish idea and shouldn't be thought of like that.

9) If one can't figure out where they're going on a site, they probably won't stick around. So avoid confusing navigation.

10) Don't use images or flash as a substitute for text. Text is what it is and should remain that way. Text is the prime key to keeping a web page size low.