Adobe CS4
I have recently updated all my software from CS3 to CS4. The new Creative Suite consists of many more programs including Adobe Soundbooth, Premier Pro Captivate and Presenter which means much more for my clients with WebDesign.
I have also been learning Adobe Illustrator CS4, i am hoping to use this package to produce effective vector graphics such as the ones below.
Current Projects
Richard Cook Building Renovations
Richard Cook contacted me to produce a flyer! The brief was simply to create something eye catching and sleek.
Click To view our final design
Lower Harton Farm
Our latest Web Design is 80% complete. Lower Harton Farm is currently live, we still have some modifications to make and additional content to add however its an example of what you can expect from my Design Studio
Click Here To View Lower Harton Farm
Tutorials
I will updating my tutorial section when i can, however each section will show an example of what i can do.
The Photoshop Airbrushing tutorial is online and is very popular and a good entry level for someone new to the program.
Search Engine Optimisation
September 1st, 2008 by Steve Leonard
Competition on the Internet is fierce. So if you want to ensure that your site ranks highly on the world's most popular search engines, such as Google and Yahoo. Don't be fooled by what some Web Designers tell you, believe me if you register any domain name and then type it in to a Google search it will come top, this is not S.E.O.
There are ways to rewrite your pages: content, titles and meta tags in order to allow web spiders to crawl your pages more easily. Coupled with some well thought out paid for sponsored links or pay per click advertising you can really start to see the difference.
Search engine optimization (SEO also search optimization) is the process of editing and organizing the content on a webpage or across a website to increase its potential relevance to specific keywords on specific search engines and importantly ensuring that external links to the site are correctly titled and in abundance. This is done with the aim of achieving a higher organic search listing and thus increasing the volume of targeted traffic from search engines.
SEO is one of the key Web Marketing activities and can target different kinds of searches, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines.
SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Sometimes a site's structure (the relationships between its content) must be altered too. Because of this it is, from a client's perspective, always better to incorporate Search Engine Optimization when a website is being developed than to try and retroactively apply it.
Another class of techniques, known as black hat SEO or Spamdexing, use methods such as link farms and keyword stuffing that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user-experience of search engines. Search engines look for sites that employ these techniques in order to remove them from their indices.
The term 'Search engine friendly' refers to a website that has been search optimised.