For my students I am writing an article on search engine optimazation (SEO) to help them understand how Google and other search engines read a web page, and how they can create pages that have better chances of getting ranked higher in search engines. I don’t claim to be an expert on SEO but I [...]

[Read more →]

This will be the fourth and final post of my series on blog promotions. To view the other posts check out the links bellow:
Part 1: http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/06/advertising-your-blog/
Part 2: http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/08/twitter-and-blog-promotions/
Part 3: http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/09/forums-and-link-building/
This post is to suggest a number of other ideas that you might try in promoting your blogs. Keep in mind that the more effort you [...]

[Read more →]

This Post is part 3 of a series of post to see the previous 2 posts visit the links bellow.
Part 1: http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/06/advertising-your-blog/
Part 2: http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/08/twitter-and-blog-promotions/
The biggest factor in driving traffic to a site is link building. This helps you tap into other web site’s traffic and siphon some traffic over to your site. From there if [...]

[Read more →]

This post is the second in a multi post series on promoting your blog, the first one can be found at the following link:
http://mrvaughan.com/mu/blog/2009/01/06/advertising-your-blog/
Twitter is an interesting little social networking tool that allows you to share with your friends and associates the response to one simple question, what are you doing right now? You only [...]

[Read more →]

Now that you have started developing your blog and you’ve begun creating content how will you get people to visit your site?
Well if you told people about your site then they would visit. So your first step is to tell people. This step is usually easier said then done, or is it?
What does this mean for [...]

[Read more →]

Now that you’ve had some experience using the blogging systems along with installing plug-ins and features, it is time to start blogging with more of a purpose.
Your job will be to develop a professional blog. Keep in mind the difference from a professional blog and a regular blog as we have discussed in class. This [...]

[Read more →]

After our discussion and demonstration yesterday on improving skin inperfections I thought I would investigate more methods of enhance an image with respect to photographs of people.
Bellow I found  a site that offers complete tutorials on every aspect of a applying digital make up to a persons image and even some really cool special effects [...]

[Read more →]

On the Internet right now there are literally thousands upon thousands of photoshop tutorials, I would go so far as to even say millions of tutorials. The tutorials on the internet range in difficulty from very basic to very very difficult. Some can take you just a few minutes others can take hours and hours [...]

[Read more →]

Students in the afternoon section of TTI 1O1 will begin creating their blogs today!!!! Please have your blog plans and diagrams finished before you begin your blog. You can start by creating a post and choosing a theme, then you may also try and create a page describing your blog to the world and what topics [...]

[Read more →]

Upon completion of your keyboards, please submit to me a written reflection of your project.
Things to include in your reflection:
Describe your keyboard and what you did to achieve your result, explain its features and flaws.
What where the challenges of this project?
How did you overcome these challenges?
What would you do differently if doing this assignment again?
How [...]

[Read more →]