As a designer I strive to create out-of-the-box designs, push the envelope, and welcome new challenges with enthusiasm. This blog is about my journey as a freelance designer. Different things I have learned along with templates I have created and offer to you free of charge are included in this blog. Feel Free to take a look around, leave some comments or questions please email me. And be sure to check out My World Of Design and my my portfolio Thanks for visiting Graphic Art Collections!


WordPress blog can be installed easily in any website and it can be used to drive traffic by writing useful posts that contain relevant information and relevant business key phrases. As we use a blog in our websites to update our prospective and existing customers about our products and services, we can also use it strategically to enhance traffic to our websites.

WordPress blog is very easy to install in your website. You or your web designer can customize it as per your specific needs. The WordPress admin interface is so handy to use that it hardly takes few minutes to write and publish a new post. But it is important to know how to use your blog for search engine optimization and to drive traffic to your website.

Four important things you need to show on your blog are recent posts, archives, categories and comments. Every new post you generate through the WordPress admin must be done strategically as search engines consider it as a new page on your website with a distinct link. Hence, it is vital to understand the importance of the title you select for your blog post. You can easily customize the titles of the posts in WordPress blog in a way that only title comes in the new post link and not the date or category of posts. You can even include business key phrases in the title of the post. For this, you must write a post that contains useful information on the services or products you want to promote. Title must be selected accordingly.

As it is not easy to update content on your website regularly, writing new posts serve that purpose. You can target new keywords through the blog posts. What you need to do is to write relevant content including these keywords and link them with the appropriate page of the website. It serves dual purpose. First, you help your customers to know more about the services you provide and second, you make search engines to see the appropriate interlinking with targeted keywords on your website. You can also target long tail keywords through blog posts as it is not easy to target these keywords through main pages of your website. This way you can drive traffic to your website through WordPress blog.

Try a WordPress blog to drive traffic to your website through strategic writing in your posts and to keep your targeted customers updated through relevant information about your products and services.
About The Author
Prashant Kumar is Project Coordinator at E-Definers Technology. E-Definers Technology is a leading web designing company in Delhi and it possesses expert web designers in Delhi, India.
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One area where web designers and search engine optimization (SEO) professionals usually butt heads is over the use of images as text instead of actual plain text, usually done in the navigation or other important elements of a website. This can cripple an SEO implementation by limiting the effectiveness of elements that could have been textually based, as text is much more effective for interlinking. This is just one area where image alt text can be very useful.

Alt text � which are found in the �alt� portion of image tag � allows you to add a short descriptor of the image, whether it�s a photograph, a navigational element or some other useful image or graphic. Alt text allows you to describe to users who hover their mouse over an image what they�re seeing, but for SEO, Services, it also gives the search engine more information than the image�s file name might. Optimizing image alt text is a part of any effective on-site SEO campaign, and in this article, we�ll give you some tips on how to optimize alt texts to make them more useful and effective.

First, if there is text in your image, make sure your alt text matches it precisely. If it�s a one-word image such as menu item, for example, you would include this word in your alt text, as well as possibly a short description of the menu item. This gives the search engine some idea as to what that element is all about.

Secondly, for pictures and other descriptive images, you want at most a sentence describing what users can see in that picture, and again, it has to match what the picture actually is. Google�s crawlers can�t see images, but humans can, and if one of Google�s engineers see that you�re filling your image alt tags with irrelevant information, it could raise red flags.

Finally, not every image has to have an alt text in it. You wouldn�t add alt text to transparent spacer images used to align other elements of a page together, for example, but you would add alt text to all important and relevant images on a page. Alt text doesn�t carry the weight of actual readable text in the eyes of the search engines, but it�s better having it than not.
About The Author
Brian Rubin, provides Professional SEO and Smo Services.

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From the maker of Flash and PDF reader, Adobe has another program that has been gaining in popularity among professionals in the field of web design and development.

Adobe Dreamweaver is used by web designers and webmasters – novice and professionals – to create engaging and dynamic websites. If you aren't familiar yet with Adobe Dreamweaver, here are some reasons why this is one of the best website development programs available in the market.
  • With Adobe Dreamweaver, website management can be done a lot easier – as you can simply toggle between the many sites being worked on. This feature is a must for those who must tackle several projects at once.
  • The software comes with a feature that lets you upload the websites via built-in FTP. Combined with the keyboard shortcut, updating websites can be done in a flash. The built-in FTP also allows automatic changing of file permissions.

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Adobe Illustrator is a companion application for Adobe Photoshop, and is designed for the typesetting and logo aspects of design. Vector artwork is the key phrase here, and Illustrator has developed over time to give worthy competition to applications of similar scope such as Microsoft"s CorelDraw and Macromedia"s FreeHand. With specialized Adobe Illustrator training, it is possible to create diverse business stationery, flyers, vector logos and illustrations with consummate ease and control. Employees of organizations involved in creative design, as well as other hobbyists eager to master vector artwork, must partake of such a course to hone their skills.

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Many companies throughout the world today are operating their business with no website. When the internet keeps moving forward and advancing, your business needs to advance as well. If companies do not own or operate an online business as well as a physical business, they will lose out on sales and additional profits.

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When you visit a large web design company the chances are they outsource the work to a freelance website designer just like I do in the majority of cases. You may have a current web site design project, you may be updating an existing site, or just interested in learning new skills. If so then this article will help you with your web design process decision making.

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A recent medical journal study showed that people who sit for most of their day are 54% more likely to die of a heart attack. Majority of designers sit at our computer working on average eight hours a day. Sitting down for eight plus hours is worse for you than you probably ever thought of before. Exercise is very good for you, we should all know that and studies have proven this to be true. This is why I decided to write about how important it is to remember to take breaks while at work, in the office, and even at home.

Here are some "fun" facts that have been proven from sitting down for long periods of time


-A 2010 editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that those who sit for prolonged periods have a higher risk of disease than those who move a muscle every now and then in a non-exercise manner, such as walking up the stairs to grab a cup of coffee.

-Researchers at the American Cancer Society found that even if you exercise nearly every day, those health benefits can be undone if you spend the rest of your time on your keister. (More at TIME.com: Is Running Barefoot Better for You?)

-Scientists at the University of Missouri have found that the act of sitting seems to shut off the circulation of a fat-absorbing enzyme called lipase.

-A study published by the American Journal of Epidemiology showed that sitting for long stretches, more than six hours a day, can make someone at least 18% more likely to die from diabetes, heart disease and obesity than those sitting less than three hours a day.

-Scientists at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana analyzed the lifestyles of more than 17,000 men and women over about 13 years, and found that people who sit for most of the day are 54% more likely to die of heart attacks.


Your health is greatly affected in general from not stretching and sitting down for multiple hours at a time. Below I have listed the common health problems graphic/web designers and developers have.

Computer Eye Strain

Due to spending multiple hours at work, the most common health issue designers have is eye strain. Prolonged use of looking at the computer screen can cause head aches, 


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Website templates are very affordable and they save you a lot of effort and time when you want to create a new layout for your website. However, a lot of people make mistakes in the process of choosing and using a web template and end up with something that was unlike the image they had in mind. Here are some guidelines to help you avoid those mistakes.

The first obvious mistake you should be aware of is using a template that is very popular. If many people use the same template, your website will not appear unique at all and your credibility as a solid, different website will be tarnished. In other words, you will appear generic just like your next-door neighbours.

To whole point of using a web template is to save time and effort. You just change the title and appropriate details and you're done. The biggest mistake one makes is to customize the template beyond recognisation. While that may be good in the sense that you're creating a unique graphic, you're defying the very purpose of using a web template -- saving time and effort.

However, on the opposite side, if a template you purchase is suitable but some changes must be made to suit your site's theme, then you will have to take some time to make the changes. For example, you can find a very nice template that suits your hobby site except the original designer has put an image of stamps in the header. You can find images of garden plants and spades to replace the stamps for your gardening hobby site. However, do only make the necessary changes and don't redesign the whole template.

In some circumstances, some people simply make the wrong choice of templates. This is a very subjective issue but you have to be careful in selecting templates to suit your audience. Do not choose templates just because they are pretty, choose them because they serve your purpose.



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 It isnt easy trying to choose the correct and best web hosting plan to best suit your needs. Even though there are so many web-hosting companies out there, some thought and careful consideration should be implemented. Two things you dont want are:

You dont want to end up having to pay for extra features that you realize afterwards you needed.
You dont want your sites not showing up on the Internet due to excessive downtime by your hosting providers servers.

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With the ever-growing popularity of cell phones, PDAs and smart phones, mobile application development has entered its golden age.  With this boom in technology, a new outreach of Java emerged - Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, or J2ME.  J2ME provides a full-bodied, elastic environment for applications running on consumer devices, such as internet-ready smart phones and PDAs.  J2ME delivers the power and benefits of Java technology to consumer and embedded devices. J2ME includes great networked support, an ever-growing follower of programmers, and integrated applications that are as user-friendly as many desktop applications.

J2ME-based applications are able to take into account the specific characteristics of the devices they inhabit, making them capable of utilizing each device to its full potential.  In summation, J2ME is the standard for mobile application development today - with a following of software vendors, consumers, programmers, and marketers.  Although programmers aren't as common as they are for desktop applications, many firms offer great J2ME application development packages.  Full-service companies like Red Fly Studios, of Ireland, offer J2ME services at competitive rates. 

When coupled with a powerful operating system, J2ME can really begin to reach its full potential.  Symbian has been a power-player in the mobile operating system game for some time.  Symbian is a software licensing company.  Established as a private company in June 1998, Symbian has been around the mobile application development game for some time.  Symbian is headquartered in the United Kingdom, but employs over 1000 people in its worldwide offices.  During early 2005, 14.5 million phones were manufactured with Symbian operating systems, bringing the worldwide tally to 39 million Symbian-based phones.  Symbian refers to itself as "THE Mobile Operating System," and it's difficult to argue with numbers like those.

To conclude, mobile application development focuses on two things - a programming language, and an environment for it to manifest itself in.  Sun's Java outreach, J2ME, is a front-runner in the mobile application game.  Symbian is the definitive operating system (environment) for mobile applications.  When you're looking for mobile application development, it's important to consider these two factors and then find the development firm that suits your needs.

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To have more creativity, follow this two-step plan:
1. Encourage creativity.

2. Train your brain to be more creative.


Start on both of these right now, and you can experience greater creativity today.

Encourage your creativity and you'll increase your creativity. Of course, this is true of most things you want to see more of in your life. Encouragement can work wonders, but how do you encourage creativity?

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A Fully Interactive Training Workshop for any one who wants to build a web site. It is not just a book to read. We have used the great qualities of the Internet to allow you to partake in practical exercises. This means that you will be learning many of the skills and terminology necessary to get your site built and loaded ready for the world to view. We teach you the different aspects of the web page design, such as backgrounds, formats, graphics, tables and much more.

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The Importance of a Sitemap


A sitemap is often measured redundant in the development of building a website, and that is in truth the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own requirements.

1) Navigation purposes

A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets puzzled connecting the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

2) Conveying your site's theme

Once your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the general picture of your site within a very short quantity of time. There is no need to get the "big picture" of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors' time.

3) Site optimization purposes

When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a specific page which contains links to all single page on your site. Picture what happens when search engine robots hit this page -- they will stay on the links on the sitemap and easily every single page of your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed significantly on the front page of your website.

4) Orderliness and significance

A sitemap enables you to have a completed bird's eye standpoint of your site structure, and whenever you need to put in new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a end result, you will have a perfectly systematic site with the whole thing sorted according to their significance.

From the above reasons, it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through this way, you will be able to keep your website easily accessible and neatly organized for everyone.

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