Blogging for SEO

With the last of sites for affordable web design in Las Vegas, I really ran out of design ideas. Asking around, I got the idea to put a building extending out with some graphs going up, but I don’t think I portrayed it as best I could. I look at it and it feels like it’s missing something. I just can’t tell for the life of me what that something is.

Even with asking around, one can only do so much. There were further ideas, but the things I wanted to find were just too difficult apparently. Luckily, the project is over and now I can go through different kinds of clients and maybe find out just what I was missing.

A parent who works at home is called a work at home parent. These parents intermix working from home with normal everyday parenting. Many parents start a small home based business in order to supplement existing income or to have an income from home while still parenting and caring for their children. The concept of the work art home parent has been around for some time now, as long as the small business. Most small buinsess were usually ran out of or close to home, so the children would always be under supervision by the parents. The term Work at home parent began to gain popularity around the 1800’s and now is a big part of our business in SEO.

1: Change your Bullets

Sometimes, all your list needs is a new set of bullets to set it apart from all the other lists out there. For that, you’d turn to the list-style-type attribute.

2: Add Margins and Padding

If you really want your list to stand out, you could do worse than to literally set it apart with a bit of margin and padding.

3: Use an Image

One of the easiest ways to make your lists truly unique (and to ensure they mesh well with your site’s design) is to use images instead of bullets.

4: Borders, Backgrounds and the Hover Class

For a unique list style that doesn’t make use of images, you could always use borders, background colors, and the :hover pseudo-class to set your list apart.

The Whole Shebang

Of course, why stop at just using one of these techniques, when you could apply several at once?

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Place a div around the main content of your page, apply the id “content” to the div and use the following CSS command:

#content {
width: 700px;
margin: 0 auto;
}

This will put an automatic margin on both sides of the page’s content, ensuring that it’s always placed in the center of the screen. Seems all well, but not quite. There is still the pre-IE 6 on PC to worry about, because IE is of the devil. Add these CSS commands:

body {
text-align: center;
}

#content {
text-align: left;
width: 700px;
margin: 0 auto;
}This will place your content in the center of the page and left-align the text withing the content div.

When styling fonts with CSS you may be doing this:font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
font-variant: small-caps;

When you can do this:  (CSS shorthand property)

font: bold italic small-caps

More to come.

Ran into a problem today with two new accounts I had….NO ORIGINAL WEBSITE BUILT….one was a new client called Photo Graphics and another client a rework who’s site is currently down Express Financial Services….
This is a problem when you are trying to write relevant seo content and styling….on the styling it is understood do to you don’t know how the original looks and thus can not design a seo template to emulate there original site…content is not that bad, just it would always be nice to review what they write about themselves before you write about them…..needless to say I got stuck today, wrote content but have no way of styling there site without potentially having to go back and redo the CSS style, which no one has time for….such a quagmire!!!

Nothing much this time around, but while working on a site for affordable website hosting, I used a lot of different opacity levels in photoshop. Thinking up several different themes for the exact same thing is really drawing on my imagination and I find myself needing more inspiration. Nothing like searching through photoshop to find something new to play with and think of a design. Now the opacity levels aren’t anything new to me, but in the header image of this particular site, it’s used an awful lot.

Look through your tools and try something new. Don’t use brushes all too much? Give em a try, why not? Trying something new will help you to develop your techniques and that’s never a bad thing.

More experiments with the Gradient tool in Photoshop Cs3. I’ve discovered the Gradient Editor! I know , I know. What took me so long? Well, I’ll have you know that um, uh, er….

Anyways, back to the Gradient Editor. Select the Gradient tool (right click the Paint Bucket if Gradient is not already showing) then open the gradient editor and play around with the little slide things on the color bar near the bottom. On the top of the color bar is the Palette Menu, you can create as many of these as you wish. Wait, I’ve got a better Idea.

Give me a sec.

Take a look here for an overview of the editor.

Gradient Editor overview

play with it….um the Gradient tool

The look of your site is very important. If your site is not easy on the eye, then the people browsing your site will not stay and look through your content. If you need help choosing a color scheme there are many different sites that could help you. The best one, in my opinion is Kuler. Kuler is designed to help you choose a color scheme that you like, using colors that you choose. So the next time you need help deciding your color scheme for your site, use Kuler to choose those colors.

I haven’t run into very many dealing with this line of work while working, but recently I had just completed one for a creative website design company and content writing is a little murky after writing so many other ones. Luckily, I’m going to be getting some help on that end so for the most part, I won’t have to worry as much when I do the next one. Content writing in itself can be one of the hardest things to do when it’s something along these lines of keywords, but as we all must do, I get through it.