Designmudd Ramblings on mostly Web Design & Development - Print too.

Ah nothing, just needed a change. I’m a fool for simple so this one’s close enough for now and i’ll tweak dem stylesheets with time. Enjoy.

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UPDATE - I signed up for an account here but was very disappointed with the service. It’s nothing more than linkfarming which does very little for your site in terms of both ranking and relative content. My advice on this topic is to simply stay away.
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For the past few days i’ve found myself entirely caught up in SEO, Link Trading, and hooking in RSS Feeds into my sites. Basically I’m caught up in generating traffic. I have a good handle on optimizing sites to be search engine ready through use of Clean Document Structure, CSS, Meta-tags, Alt-tags, Title Tags, keyword rich content and so on. I also understand that a constantly growing document library is what makes sites big search engine players - the sites need to be constantly changing and constantly added too. What I didn’t realize to this point is that there are places (sites) where companies, people, organizations actually trade links at a very high volume. For instance, I’ve stumbled this site called Link Market. I signed up and all I can say is “Why the hell haven’t I known about this”. Well, I shouldn’t say that I didn’t know about link trading, but what I didn’t know was there was such a great place to do it and i’m sure there are more. We’ve got some big players in here, I think that’s the biggest surprise. There are sites in there with Alexa Rating of 200, 1300, 33,000 < - that's just a few that I saw, but point being they're high and they'll raise my rankings. So why am I so excited about this? Because this is the part i've failed to realize about SEO. See, I think I understand SEO just fine, I prepare the site and it's optimized and ready, but that's not enough. Engines Raise your rank based on your popularity - reciprical links. Of course content is very important too, but if you've got lots of good high ranking sites connected to yours, it will raise you. I think i'm definately seeing the light here and I'm thinking this is another one of those services to throw into the mix... Websites that actually bring in visitors. Christian was talking the other day about how he's studying and getting a grasp on building dynamic websites and how he's had more firepower with that, another tool, something that set's him apart from the rest - And I agree 100%, Dynamic is in Demand and that's where the money's at -> not to mention is just more interesting in general. But this is no different, we figure this out (this SEO business) and we’ve got ourselves jackpot… Dynamic Sites that actually pull in clients. Shopping carts that’s actually bring in Clients. Sky’s the limit and i’m feeling stupid about not knowing this already.

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My brother-in-law went on a trip home (Croatia) and took some shots. I felt the need to photoshop them, make them more dramatic. Here’s what I came up with.

croatia pictures

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Exciting news… I know.

First book sold was “Real World InDesign 2″ by Olav Martin and David Blatner. It was an OK book, but I had already known everything in it. Typically the “Real World” books are setup for the more advanced user, this one wasn’t so much… kind of started at square one. Well i’m psyched, all into ebay now. I’m Selling More! for anybody who’s interested. I’m gonna start selling everything!

None of my picture books though - you can’t have those.

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.mac account auto-renewed - This caught me by surprise - I didn’t need it. If you’ve got a .mac account but don’t plan on renewing, make sure to log into the account and turn off the auto-renew button. Luckily Apple gives you a refund before 30 days but I thought I’d give the heads up to the many millions of people who read this site. ;D

If you’ve auto renewed accidentally and are looking to cancel, you can go here a simply fill out the short form.
Dotmac Support Form.

(UPDATE) Got my refund as promised. Pretty quickly too. Apple Still Rocks.

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WWDC was today and apple announced they will be dumping IBM chips for Intel. IBM’s roadmap was looking grim and so here we are. Do I care? Not really, the OS is what get’s me. Do I think this is a good move for Apple? Yes, I think this is a move that will increase it’s market share for a variety of reasons (but i’m too frigin tired to sit here and make bullet lists). A few funny things about the conference…

1) Apple has been secretly working on an x86 version of osX for 5 Years!
2) The Demo computer at the conference was actually running on an intel Processor

Ah, anyway… it will be another bumpy transition for most… but if I remember moving to OSX myself correctly, it wasn’t all that bad. I have to wonder how the poor little printshops will react to this news. Also noteworthy, although Windows won’t be supported on the mac x86, it will be doable. We’re talking about a machine that runs both platforms natively, that’s pretty hot.

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Has anyone ever seen this? How weird.

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