how about some SEO swag in the form of web badges.
here are some free SEO Badges from Mytypes.com
download it in Adobe Illustrator format for the pack or individually as .png below enjoy!
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Working in tech I get to see many types of people with varying backgrounds. one of the things I like to ask is how someone stays in shape. Since the tech industry is mostly sedentary in nature most of us sit for long periods of time during the day. I personally love to work out and I find it lets me function better when I am working if I have a consistent work out routine, breaking up the SEO webdesign and work is Key.
I wanted to mention my local CrossFit gym in Seattle. this is not your typical work out. learn Russian kettlebell training, gymnastics fundamentals, Olympic lifts…. all wonderful training. Take a look at some pictures below to get an Idea of what it is all about.
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This is not an elitist club either, good people, lots of support and just plain fun! If you are ever here in Seattle on Vacation or other wise go visit Crossfit Seattle.
in addition check the fitness group at community.mytypes.com/fitness
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Some of us web designers find ourselves having to be technical out of necessity. Yes I mean logging in to the Command line doing some task more suited to a programmer. If you can get one to do this for you then all the more power to you. If not here are some resources. I decided to place this Command Line Reference sheet for download because I tend to use it for reference quite a bit. I have added a few things from other Command Line Reference sheet in to this document. Just open the doc in your favorite text editor and search for the command your looking for.
I would like to highlight one Command that I’ve found super useful for large or small Mysql DB Migrations I would like to Give Props to Dreamhost for having this on their Wiki
I have used this command to move mysql DB’s in between hosts that are too large to move or download with phpmyadmin, Cocoamysql, etc. this has worked on shared and dedicated servers so lets get to it
have ssh access to both web servers
use of a text editor.
old db to migrate from and a new EMPTY db to migrate to
access to both db’s with the administrative user.
Now that you’ve got your old db and new EMPTY db with the users and passwords we’re ready to start
1. oldhost
2. oldusername
3. oldpassword
4. olddbname
5. newhost
6. newusername
7. newpassword
8. newdbname
mysqldump -h oldhost -u oldusername -poldpassword olddbname | mysql -h newhost -u newusername -pnewpassword newdbname
now that we’ve got the mysqldump command filled in with your new data lets get the actual migration going.
note that the ssh user needs to be able to access mysql
now that we are logged into the server, cut the mysqldump command from your text editor and paste it in to your open SSH session at the command promt. and click enter!
there you go. if there are no errors then you should have copied the old DB to the new DB on your new host. If you do have errors try using mysqldump command and specifying –verbose it will show you what is going on with your transfer. Let say you have errors in your DB and the mysqldump keeps failing at these errors. try using the force command –force to push the dump through even if there are SQL errors. remember to clean those up after your on your new more capable host! Lastly use mysqldump –help to get a list of all command associated with mysqldump.
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today It’s all about design and inspiration for the non artistic folk ahem… or design impared. I would consider my self a hack at best when it comes to web design. When at all possible I like to leave the design to the to the designers, AND sometimes I feel like putting myself through the torture of creating a logo from scratch, or a complete web design for friends and family. Let me tell you after ending up looking like this guy a few times I decided there has got to be a better way to come up with foder to fuel my design ….
Here are a few trips and trick I use to create designs
Where do designers get their inspiration? Talking to clients, using current trends in design, from the project parameters, or maybe right off the ether.
I go to a few sites:
For Logo inspitation check out - http://logopond.com/
For complete web design inspiration check out - http://www.designshack.co.uk
For More in depth design information check out - http://webdesignfromscratch.com/
lastly if you need a color palatte take a look at - http://www.colourlovers.com/
Now That you’ve been inspired the design and creative juices are flowing…or at least trickling where are you going come up with graphics? the subtle aspects of a sites design that add that extra touch. Hell lets bust out the Wacom tablet fire up adobe illustrator and start drawing! oh you don’t have a wacom tablet? Ohhhhhh riiiiiight, how about a graphics editing program? No? Ok forget the wacom tablet too much hassle. but the graphics editing program is essential. I personally I would choose adobe illustrator and photoshop. The reason being is that it’s the industry standard. If you want to go the Open source route use GIMP a great photo and image manipulation app. now that you’ve got an editing program lets go find some images and graphics
For vector images check - http://www.freevectors.net
for Free photos check - http://www.freephotosbank.com
Don’t forget to google as a resource, to find similar sites there are many out there. please provide attribution the authors of images and photos when appropriate.
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Recently we started working with a top web design firm, and realized to the full extent that we need to help them with our website design SEO techniques. Now, here is a very smart web design firm, and they know the value of SEO and some basic SEO site structure stuff. But like most of their counter parts, what they don’t know costs them too much in traffic and business opportunities. So Website design and SEO really do go hand in hand. Our technical Wordpress SEO guide explains how to SEO wordpress templates, and I believe any website designer can look at the technical details of how we do that, and learn to apply them to their website architecture.
We are constantly asked basic site structure questions that no brainer to us, but our clients really need answers to. So we decided to create this resource for web designers, and for web site design. We will also discussing web site design from an SEO perspective. And if anyone needs a professional website design help, we will offer it through our SEO friendly web design firms. We just started to work with this web design St. Louis firm, and through our partnership with them will be offering web design services to the whole wide world, not just web design in st. Louis.
More on this later, but I think we will cover web design as the main on-site SEO segment as a lot of people really do want this help. We will talk about all the Meta tags, content, h1 tags. We will talk about Robot.txt, database applications and how they affect Search Engine Friendly URL’s. How we can automate our tags, and maintain a proper on-site SEO guidelines in our design as we implement any code or design element to our web site. We will cover, footer text strategy, and contextual links from our own content along with use of site maps. We will try to provide and cover webmaster guidelines from both MSN and Google, we think Yahoo will soon be irrelevant. There are talk that both Yahoo and MSN are back at the table negotiating.
If you have any questions on web design and SEO you can ask in comments and we will do our best to answer them on this website design SEO blog. I will take this first post here, and write it up on our SEO blog and promote it on our other sites to get this blog ranked high for web design. So do come back for weekly website design and SEO news, tips, and trends.
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