During all my website projects I have tried to make each website in a totally different way. While doing this project I took the idea of creating the each page in Photoshop and saving each page as a complete image, following up with “hot spotting” in Dreamweaver.
Website: http://www.lak-art-mob.com/hahn/
The problem with “hot spotting” is the fact of not being able to change the links color and I find that very annoying. And the fact that I created each page individually in Photoshop and saved them as a full image, makes the loading process longer for other people still using land-lines or just a bad connection. So in the long run, some may actually just lose their patients and move onto a different website. So, as far as “hot spotting”, you will never find me using it except on a minimal effort.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
#3 of 3 Critiques
The 3rd website that I chose to critique is AlphaHorse.com. Visually, I believe this website could use some work, but as far as information and functionality. I find it very useful. The colors chosen are very warming to the eye making it easy to read the information provided and the navigation on this site is also very easy to work with. Because of the main navigation links available at the top right of the page and bottom (secondary links).
But one thing that really bugs me is the actual “header” of the page…. At least for me when I think of sites that I’ve visited and liked, I always remember the header with its logo. But in the instance of this website, the logo is so darn basic and with hardly any contrast. If it wasn’t for the drop shadow given to the actual words on the logo I probably wouldn’t have even noticed it.
2nd of 3 Critiques
The Second of three websites I’m critiquing is “FreakingNews.com”. Heck with a name like that, how can you not checkout the site? On this site you will find daily Photoshop contest ranging from the daily news to just about whatever you can come up with from a single photo that the site provides. The main design of the site is fairly simple, but the one thing I don’t agree with, would be the ads at the top of the site. The one thing I would like see with that is to have them moved to the other side of the page in ascending order and out of the way. And with them out of the way it now gives a little more room for the header and navigation area.
As far as the navigation of the site I find that to be efficient, with the main navigation at the top and the secondary navigation at the bottom. Although, I would probably clean up the secondary navigation a little. “It just looks thrown together”
1st of 3 website critiques
The 1st website that I choose was obviously my brothers (David Hahn, http://www.graphicwolfart.com/), and as far as the color scheme of the site. I find it very pleasing with the way the overall image merges with the background. Obviously, this site was designed with “no” CSS and only HTML. But with such a great design, anyone still using land-lines or just a bad connection will have problems loading the page because of the size of this image (which is the entire page). And most likely lose interest in waiting for the page to load fully.
Although, I find the site visually pleasing, I would have to say that the navigation needs some work (at least in my own opinion). In the current websites being posted now, you will most likely find a secondary navigation bar for the users somewhere on the page. This site only contains a link back to the “Home” page. And most users would find that very annoying after time. But as an overall portfolio website I like that fact that it includes the artists work that has already been done for previous clients. So that future employers have an idea of what they are getting for their money.
Although, I find the site visually pleasing, I would have to say that the navigation needs some work (at least in my own opinion). In the current websites being posted now, you will most likely find a secondary navigation bar for the users somewhere on the page. This site only contains a link back to the “Home” page. And most users would find that very annoying after time. But as an overall portfolio website I like that fact that it includes the artists work that has already been done for previous clients. So that future employers have an idea of what they are getting for their money.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
This past Monday....
This past Monday, I had the chance to finally post project1 of class. So, this is just a short message to provide with the link to the site and ask for ideas, thoughts, compliments. Or heck, if you need help yourself let me know. Now for the link: http://www.lak-art-mob.com/adamhahn/
Are "Freelance" websites really freelance???
It doesn't matter how many times you sign up at a freelance site and bid for jobs, because I guess other countries have a totally different idea of what freelance work is. I say that because many of the people posting to do the jobs offered, are not indeed individuals wanting to do some work on their free time, but actual companies from other countries... WHATS UP WITH THAT?
Come on America... you know the problems that all Americans are having and your giving these jobs (our jobs) to them. I'm starting to think American businesses are enjoying are economic downfall.
They just need to keep in mind that because of there actions now, there business will soon follow!
Come on America... you know the problems that all Americans are having and your giving these jobs (our jobs) to them. I'm starting to think American businesses are enjoying are economic downfall.
They just need to keep in mind that because of there actions now, there business will soon follow!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Freelancer.com - Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign by GraphicHoundDesigns in Haines City, United States
Monday, March 29, 2010
Hmm...
Well, it's one of thoughs days, that all of my creative vibes have just gone to crap. I just found out that one my best friends from the early days of school has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. I mean, it just makes you realize that nothing is for sure! Alfonso is only 32 and learns that he has terminal cancer! How unfair is that??? So, besides for my creative vibes taking an early Spring Break, please take the time to pray for my friend. Have a great week...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
First two weeks of class
I found that the last two posts I made available on here really helped me in creating the website that I will be turning in for my class assignment. I only hope it can do the same for you as well.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
How to go about using Social Media (correctly)
Many people will ask the question, how should they go about using Social Media (atleast the proper way). And they ask these things because they are either trying to promote themselves for a job or they are wanting to improve rankings for a website/online business. Because with social media they will have the chance to improve web-traffic throughout.
But before you even get started take the time to:
Map out a clear objective: consider such ideas as branding, networking, customer relations, exposure and trust.
Customer comes first: always consider yourself as the visiter/customer to the website and what they might be looking for and then take the step to impress (no matter the content of the site).
Focus on your content: Most people will get this confused with marketing, but if the content remains strong. Then the a well structured "content" will do the marketing itself.
-remember, as long as you have the well structured content that easy to understand and it easy to share through other social media, your readers will most likely share your content with their friends as well.
Don't over optimize: to avoid this, simply don't use the same anchor text and instead use different variations of anchor text for the links that point back to the main website.
Don't link to your homepage: It has become common sense not to have all of you links pointing back to the homepage. Instead they should be linked to the internal pages of the site toward the specific content the visitor is following. And compared the a neighboring website the one (hopefully yours) containing more "deep links (internal)", will show higher in search engine rankings.
Become a Valuable Resource: Stay away from being overlooked or deleted by followers by not self-promoting yourself to much. Instead, try sharing links to your competitors and become friends/equals with them, and in the long run improving you networking and inter-linking skills.
Social Networking: make a goal to locate every competitor on your level and to create an "inner circle". Giving you the opportunity towards interviewing and being interviewed, sharing ideas for help, and joint adventures. Stay away from asking for favors, or showing the ones that you might do. Instead, stick to commenting, following, and linking. By simply doing this, you will be noticed and your good deeds will be blessed with the kind of karma we all wish for.
Build Rapport: We may all be online reading similar things, but every individual will have their own personal thought towards each topic and taking the time to reply to others blogs, will give them a chance to see you as a true life form and not just the computer showing numbers.
So, in the long run be sure to have a "clear objective" and stick to it.
But before you even get started take the time to:
Map out a clear objective: consider such ideas as branding, networking, customer relations, exposure and trust.
Customer comes first: always consider yourself as the visiter/customer to the website and what they might be looking for and then take the step to impress (no matter the content of the site).
Focus on your content: Most people will get this confused with marketing, but if the content remains strong. Then the a well structured "content" will do the marketing itself.
-remember, as long as you have the well structured content that easy to understand and it easy to share through other social media, your readers will most likely share your content with their friends as well.
Don't over optimize: to avoid this, simply don't use the same anchor text and instead use different variations of anchor text for the links that point back to the main website.
Don't link to your homepage: It has become common sense not to have all of you links pointing back to the homepage. Instead they should be linked to the internal pages of the site toward the specific content the visitor is following. And compared the a neighboring website the one (hopefully yours) containing more "deep links (internal)", will show higher in search engine rankings.
Become a Valuable Resource: Stay away from being overlooked or deleted by followers by not self-promoting yourself to much. Instead, try sharing links to your competitors and become friends/equals with them, and in the long run improving you networking and inter-linking skills.
Social Networking: make a goal to locate every competitor on your level and to create an "inner circle". Giving you the opportunity towards interviewing and being interviewed, sharing ideas for help, and joint adventures. Stay away from asking for favors, or showing the ones that you might do. Instead, stick to commenting, following, and linking. By simply doing this, you will be noticed and your good deeds will be blessed with the kind of karma we all wish for.
Build Rapport: We may all be online reading similar things, but every individual will have their own personal thought towards each topic and taking the time to reply to others blogs, will give them a chance to see you as a true life form and not just the computer showing numbers.
So, in the long run be sure to have a "clear objective" and stick to it.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
3 Ways Social Media Marketing Helps SEO
Social Media Marketing (SMM) has become a part of the search engine optimization SEO world because of it ability to draw in more reliable listings.
1) Getting quality, relevant inbound links
It’s no secret that a successful social media marketing campaign can result in thousands of new inbound links to your site. It’s also no secret that inbound links are one of the most important things that influence the rankings of your site. Put two and two together, and it’s easy to see how social media can be a great way to improve your rankings.
The best thing about this is that the majority (if not all) of the links that come from a social media marketing campaign are natural links; they’re not reciprocated, bought, or solicited
2) Using social media websites for reputation management
Lots of social media sites, especially the more popular ones, rank very well within the search engines. This can be both a positive and negative thing when it comes to managing your reputation.
On one hand, it is very easy to control the first page of results by leveraging these sites. Get people talking about your company or site positively on Digg, MySpace or YouTube, and you might end up with those almost as "good references," listings that show up on the first page of search engine results for your name, along with your own site.
On the other hand, if you’re not careful, it can be very easy for someone to tarnish your brand with social media. Take Comcast for example; if you look at the first page of results on Google for comcast, you will notice that there is a video on YouTube of a Comcast technician sleeping on a customer’s couch.
3) Ranking pages on social media websites
Do you have a new site that you’re having trouble ranking? Consider trying to rank a page on a social media site instead. Like I mentioned above, these sites rank extremely well on the search engines. Their domains are very powerful and with a few links to an internal page, it has a great shot of ranking, even for competitive keywords.
So if you’re launching a brand new site and you know it’s going to be awhile before it ranks, you might want to consider uploading some videos to YouTube or creating a MySpace profile and building a few good links to it. I’m not saying it’s better to have these pages rank than your own site, but it’s definitely better than not having anything ranked.
source of this information at:
http://searchengineland.com/3-ways-social-media-marketing-helps-seo-10715
Written by: Cameron Olthuis
1) Getting quality, relevant inbound links
It’s no secret that a successful social media marketing campaign can result in thousands of new inbound links to your site. It’s also no secret that inbound links are one of the most important things that influence the rankings of your site. Put two and two together, and it’s easy to see how social media can be a great way to improve your rankings.
The best thing about this is that the majority (if not all) of the links that come from a social media marketing campaign are natural links; they’re not reciprocated, bought, or solicited
2) Using social media websites for reputation management
Lots of social media sites, especially the more popular ones, rank very well within the search engines. This can be both a positive and negative thing when it comes to managing your reputation.
On one hand, it is very easy to control the first page of results by leveraging these sites. Get people talking about your company or site positively on Digg, MySpace or YouTube, and you might end up with those almost as "good references," listings that show up on the first page of search engine results for your name, along with your own site.
On the other hand, if you’re not careful, it can be very easy for someone to tarnish your brand with social media. Take Comcast for example; if you look at the first page of results on Google for comcast, you will notice that there is a video on YouTube of a Comcast technician sleeping on a customer’s couch.
3) Ranking pages on social media websites
Do you have a new site that you’re having trouble ranking? Consider trying to rank a page on a social media site instead. Like I mentioned above, these sites rank extremely well on the search engines. Their domains are very powerful and with a few links to an internal page, it has a great shot of ranking, even for competitive keywords.
So if you’re launching a brand new site and you know it’s going to be awhile before it ranks, you might want to consider uploading some videos to YouTube or creating a MySpace profile and building a few good links to it. I’m not saying it’s better to have these pages rank than your own site, but it’s definitely better than not having anything ranked.
source of this information at:
http://searchengineland.com/3-ways-social-media-marketing-helps-seo-10715
Written by: Cameron Olthuis
Search Engine Optimization
All I can really say at this point is, WOW! I mean, you can spend so much of your life studying different things and you turn a corner in your life. Only to have the chance to study about "Search Engine Optimization".
For the people that know me personally, they know that I'm pretty much a, "straight to the point", kind of person. And SEO, can be just that, but if you don't understand the operation of this type of web-media work, then you will just remain lost.
But when you do have the ability to understand it and put it to good use. You will find new doors opening, because you've now figured out how to put your media out there and attract the attention you need to broaden you career. GOOD LUCK
For the people that know me personally, they know that I'm pretty much a, "straight to the point", kind of person. And SEO, can be just that, but if you don't understand the operation of this type of web-media work, then you will just remain lost.
But when you do have the ability to understand it and put it to good use. You will find new doors opening, because you've now figured out how to put your media out there and attract the attention you need to broaden you career. GOOD LUCK
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Just when you think you understand...
This 2nd week has been crazy...
Just as I reach a point in this program (Dreamweaver) and I think I understand everything I'm doing. The program jumps up and slaps me in the face to put my "so-called" knowledge in check. It has just been a difficult week and I'm wondering how this could even be considered art. But in its own right I know that it is.
Just as I reach a point in this program (Dreamweaver) and I think I understand everything I'm doing. The program jumps up and slaps me in the face to put my "so-called" knowledge in check. It has just been a difficult week and I'm wondering how this could even be considered art. But in its own right I know that it is.
Monday, January 18, 2010
What makes up a good Website? (wk1)
Every Website will or should contain its own homepage, and because of that reason...
The homepage becomes just that (The Homepage/index), and should clearly state whats to be found on the site. As well as contact information and were to find additional information. It doesn't matter who you ask, every person can think of at least one website that they would never want to visit again because of the design. But equally, they can also state the websites that they do go to or prefer. If I had to choose just one word to describe website design it would be....ORGANIZATION!!!
The homepage becomes just that (The Homepage/index), and should clearly state whats to be found on the site. As well as contact information and were to find additional information. It doesn't matter who you ask, every person can think of at least one website that they would never want to visit again because of the design. But equally, they can also state the websites that they do go to or prefer. If I had to choose just one word to describe website design it would be....ORGANIZATION!!!
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