With great power comes great responsibility” is the tag line at this digital testament to the pitfalls of Photoshop magic gone awry. Take a look at this example for a taste of what’s in-store for the design geek in us all:
Hat tip to Coudal Partners.
All of us who have web sites know the importance of great web hosting. In this blog post I will mention two different types of web hosting I consider to be interesting and valuable.
Blogging is for sure the way of the future and the future is here now. I hate to start up with such a cheesy line but in all honestly it’s exactly how it is. Everyone knows someone who is blogging today and it doesn’t exactly seem to be a dying trend. I for one am glad for it! I think it’s great with all the knowledge that’s being shared around the world through blogs. Think of a subject and there’s someone out there writing about it.
Wordpress blog hosting is what I would recommend for all of you bloggers out there. It’s a very cheap option and it’s the biggest blogging tool there is. There are many hosting providers offering Wordpress blog hosting and the price for it varies from around $4 up to $9 amonth. In other words it won’t exactly cost you a fortune to get this type of hosting. As a tool Wordpress is extremely simple and it won’t take you a long time to learn it.
The other type of web hosts I find interesting is reseller web hosts. Why? Well, because you can make money from this type of hosting. You buy server space, market it and sell it to your customers. It’s a great way to increase your earnings!
It can sometimes feel as a jungle out there but you won’t get lost with any of these two types of hosting!
When it comes to setting up your blog, provided you already have it designed and coded by a web design firm you have two main options. You can either set it up using a free blogging platform and account, or you can use the free software and set it up using your own domain name and server.
The second option will cost you money, but the first option will almost certainly cost you money in the long term, as many blogging platforms are very picky over what they will allow you to do with your blog. If you are serious about building it up as an ongoing concern as well as you care about its further promotion and Canada search engine optimization, with an eye towards monetizing it properly, then it’s best to pay the small amount required to get your own domain and get it properly hosted every month. Here you can find the best hosting for wordpress blogs.
When you come to actually creating your blog you should remember two words and two words only - quality content. This is ultimately what will draw people to your site and keep them coming back for more. Not every post needs to be a long drawn out epic, but the more you can involve your visitors the better.
To this end you can use a variety of techniques to keep people coming back. You can tell people what your next post is about, offer them a free report if they sign up to your newsletter, or simply encourage them to bookmark your blog so they can revisit more easily. One of the most effective ways - is actually making your blog appealing. WordPress is a famous hosted platform, known for its success, brought by the flexibility it offers for customization. With WordPress, you just choose a WordPress theme from the dozens available over the Internet, and start implementing your blog policy.
All the best blogs are created over time, not overnight. If you are prepared for the long haul and you genuinely love your subject, you have every chance of creating a successful blog that will last the test of time.
Symbian Forum Logo Contest
Ladies & Gentlemen, once again we are back with a brand new contest for you!
http://www.mobilecastle.biz/mobiles/competitions-zone/46169-new-symbian-forum-logo-competition-earn.html
For those who were here during the past competitions knew that we always honor our engagement and this time, we won’t fail you again.
Because the past competition was not a most brilliant one, we decided to make this one even better to catch up for the last time.
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So let’s get to the point with the competition.
As you might have noticed, Mobilecastle Changed Skin Recently. And with that, we changed our logo and banner.
You might have already guessed it, so we are in need of a better looking logo!
If you are good in photoshop or in any other image editing program and that you are interested in winning stunning prizes, then DO participate as there will be unique prizes this time!
Here is the conditions and the requirements:
1) Size of image = 251px by 130px
2) Static or Animated image, but no flash movies
3) You must use this image as the background
4) You may submit only 1 for voting. But during the competition, you may change as many times your banner as you want.
The competition will last 1 month … From 01/04/08 to 01/05/08
Please note that we are after a logo, not a banner.
Now For the prizes
We have decided to bring in a new reward system and this is going to be history as it will be the very first time that we will be handling out CASH as prize!!!
You’ve heard it, CASH!
So please view the prizes in order:
1st Place
15$ Cash *
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Lifetime Member+ Status
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300Rep Point
2nd Place
1 month Rapidshare Premium Account
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Lifetime Member+ Status
+
200Rep Point
3rd Place
Lifetime Member+ Status
+
100Rep Point
* Cash payout by Paypal only. If you don’t have paypal, please sign up 
Go , Participat and WIN 
http://www.mobilecastle.biz/mobiles/competitions-zone/46169-new-symbian-forum-logo-competition-earn.html
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Aren’t the prizes interesting? So what are you waiting for!
Simple design your logo and drop it in this thread!
We are counting on your participation and hope to see good entries.
Thanks
Sometimes it’s just like searching for a needle in a haystack: if you’ve ever googled for free and quality Wordpress Themes, you know exactly what we’re talking about. Most designers love to create Wordpress themes, so they can demonstrate the quality of their work and add some fresh works to their portfolios.
However, most Wordpress themes are either used too often (Kubrick theme, now K2, is definitely overused) or just have nothing to offer - particularly, if you are looking for a free, impressive and professional design. However, sometimes search is worth it. In the gallery below you’ll find 83 free Wordpress Themes you probably haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly interface.
Time passed by and I didn’t become a special effects makeup artist like Tom Savini or Rick Baker, but I still enjoy a nice horror movie with some decent gore and splatter effects.
Lately I’ve been noticing that many Photoshop artists are mastering the horror makeup techniques and believed that it was time to gather a nice (er, sort of…) list of Photoshop tutorials filled with gore, splatter and blood. Some previews have been blocked just because the final effect was too explicit. Have some fun with your photos, but don’t scare your kid brother too much, please.
Click on each image to read the tutorial
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use of robots.txt make sure content is only crawlable and indexable in one URL location
use of nofollow in comments, yes you might get more comments with dofollow
URL method: WordPress comes with several built in search optimization tools, including the ability to use .htaccess to create apparently static URLs called permalinks.
Sitemap: Creating a Google sitemap for your blog is a easy process.
WordPress SEO Plugin - Plugin optimizes titles, meta tag information and RSS link feeds for auto discovery.
Title Tags Change: Changing a post’s title tag you need to install SEO Title Tag WordPress Plugin. SEO Title Tag lets you define custom page titles for your posts.
Optimize images : Images can open up a whole new stream of search engine visitors for your blog.
Optimize links : Links are one of the most important factors that determine your page’s value in a search engine’s eye. Knowing how you should link to internal and external pages will improve your rankings a lot.
a list that you can use to help optimize your website
Content
Regardless of how “pretty” your website is, content is what the search engine spiders look at. When a spider hits your page it is going to scan the entire website, including the links that you have on your page. It will determine if you meet the minimum content requirement to be listed in their directory. The content on your page needs to have some “BULK” to it . By this we mean that you should write multiple paragraphs on your page using relevant words to what it is that you want to be listed under. There is no SET number of keywords that you should use, but we recommend having at least 300-500 words on all of your web pages
Keyword Density
Having the right keyword density is one aspect of the SEO “game” that we can control. If you want your web page to be listed for the phrase “webmastergroup”, you need to make sure that this phrase appears multiple times within the text on your website. A keyword density of between 2% and 5% is a general rule that you can follow. This will make the focus keyword/phrase apparent to the search engine spiders and will get you a better chance of being listed for this keyword
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