I just finished another of my ‘senior’ courses (Instructional Design) about two weeks ago now and, through the class, I finally got a jump on the multimedia tutorial series I’ve wanted to work on since before I got Authentic Vision’s WebWorks up and running. I highly doubt the next ones will be Flash-based, but I do plan to update the WordPress tutorials I’ve done so far and add more as I can.

Meanwhile, here’s an introduction to the WordPress blogging platform, the ‘New Post’ page, a dash of HTML, and a good start to search engine optimization: Click here to view or right click and ‘Save As’ to download for later use.

I have a slightly dated article back here that has some information relevant to processing your pictures before putting them on your website. Seven months later, I’ve decided to go ahead and actually write the Part 2 to all that – working with images in WordPress!

Let it be known, however, that I only endorse their editing tools for smaller jobs and easily updating your previously uploaded images should your sizing requirements change. It’s easier and far more efficient to edit lots of pictures offline then upload!

On to the Finale!

I wasn’t feeling any sort of inclination to mess with school last night so I decided I’d just go ahead start working on passing one more gem of knowledge on to the world at large: HTML Snippets I Think Every Blogger (and ‘Multimedia Designer‘) Should Know But Don’t.

Sure, push button editing of any sort seems ‘cool,’ and is supposed to make stuff easy but if you’re serious about writing out here on the Wild Wild Web (or coding it up) and being effective, you have to know some basics. Obviously, the book I mentioned before (and now over there —>) is one way to go about it but all you writers don’t need to get that in depth, especially if you’re working with WordPress and/or have me runnin thangs. For any up and coming code Geeks – please do yourself a favor and learn this stuff before you dive head-first into adoration and worship of Adobe’s ‘tools!’

But enough preaching!

For members of the Tribe and others who might be interested, here’s one of a series of tutorials I’m working on to help WordPress initiates get on their way to content publishing.

It’s long so I’m hiding it back here!

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 do Google searches every once in a while to see how things are rolling on the SEO front.

I did one today.

Searches for ‘Planet Zoron’ and ‘Poison Designs’ both turned up number 1 results for our sites! (Damn good compared to slots 7+!) And I’m almost caught up with Planet Zoron – all the way up to number 3!

Now all I have to do is boost the stats for the lower keywords. -grin-