I’ve abandoned ship! Well, kinda. If you’ve noticed I’m ‘missing’….

Here’s why.

So yeah, things have been pretty quiet around here. (Lots of other stuff going on as most of ya’ll know.)

Anyway, I’ve made a goal for myself: to pick a bookmark a day (I have LOTS) and do something with it. Thanks to a project at school, I ended up stumbling across The Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Tips and wanted to share it here.

Read the article.

I figure, since I’m in such a productive mood (and CDBaby’s email list kicks ass) I’d share an article with some tips on making SEO-friendly links.

Turning ‘click here‘ into something like ‘learn how to make SEO-friendly links from CDBaby‘ can score some major points – both with visitors AND with Google! Learn how NOW!

(All tongue in cheek of course but very good advice for those who, like me, rely on such things!;)

I’ve written several ‘tutorials’ in my years as a WordPress geek but, until recently, it never occurred to me that it would be beneficial to everybody else (and easier on me) to just throw them out here instead of writing up a customized email for the client over and over again!

I’ve had the pleasure of coding up a design for forget.me.knot.weddings (beautiful site – AV endorsed!) and, as a result, want to share some tips and tricks for editing images. (A part two – using them in WordPress – will be coming soon!)

This is actually the second tutorial I’ve done up in recent months (no clue what happened to all my originals) but I promise the first will be posted as soon as I get it edited!

-donning my specs- Down to business!

School’s back in session (doubly the disadvantage living in a college town like Tallahassee!) so, after I dropped my munchkin off, I settled in to do some schoolin of my own, figuring I’ll get it done early so I don’t have to fox with it later. As I was finishing, a thought crossed my mind and that led to a super long tangent that might just give ya’ll some insight into the awesome-ness that is me and my journeys through the educational system.

Higher Learning, my way.

Love Adobe products? Think they’re the greatest thing since sliced bread?

I DISAGREE!

Yeah, I said it.

I’m talkin to you, Flash, Photoshop, Premier, et al.

My time in school is givin me more and more reason, too.

Heh.

Okay, sometimes I really wish my creative talents were a bit more expansive! I just saw this and had to share:

Check out the rest of Exey’s pictures on Flickr!

I want!!!

Want more? Go here!

I have to say – I am in love with the folks who make Ubuntu. So much so that they will be receiving a lot of pimpin from me in the very near future!

I’ll spare you Windows lovers the screen space but, seriously, after using Windows since ummmm…1993? I promise you don’t want to sleep on what is back here…

Okay…I’ve been doing a lot of talking on/around the social media lately and I think it’s time to do one big updated post to get it all outta my system. (While I procrastinate with the whole digging in the dirt bit.)

I have never been one to deal with any social media beyond IM and blogging. I was around before MySpace, Facebook, Twitter or any of that jazz. Loathed the idea, really. I got my first MySpace page to keep up with a distant friend. And, if I’m not mistaken, I didn’t sign up with Twitter or Facebook until I was under the influence of Planet Zoron.

(Started this post two hours ago and I’m just now gettin back to it, compliments of one of the best ladies I know!)

Now I have to make this relatively quick.

One thing I’ve really not wanted to do is go through to all those sites to update/promote/whatever. That’s one reason I’ve held off on expanding. It’s hard enough to maintain the websites I do without all the added hassle of plugging it! Til Magee was kind enough to turn me on to Ping.fm.

Oh man…I’m so in love!

I’ve got my Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace connected (MySpace has always been picky when it comes to cross-posting stuff) so I have regular status updates at my disposal and I have Eddy De Clercq’s super dope WordPress plugin WPing.FM. That pings Ping.FM which, in turn, pings all my social networks and tons more!

Ya’ll should really check it all out, if you’ve been sleepin like I have anyway. -grin-

Time to get back in the dirt before I have to start cookin breakfast!