Category Archives: Tutorial

Developing a Social Media Strategy: Buzz Free Advice

If you are building a brand, or looking to improve upon a present one developing a good strategy for social media is a good investment of your time and efforts. While searching for some advice is full of buzz words … Continue reading

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Useful Cheat Sheets For Designers & Coders

With the web constantly evolving, even those with a fantastic memory need to find ways to remember the information about the latest in best practices and usability. This is even more true for those with the memory on par with … Continue reading

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What to do Before You Start Your Own Blog

Working online with a primary focus on blogging, more specifically, for the last few years has taught me a bit about the business end of it.  Considering I’m also a freelancer, finding and securing those jobs that help me pay all my bills is obviously an important factor.

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Auto-Keyword Tools: A Look at 5

Keywords are important sure, but a lot of times they are avoided or just glossed over due to confusion or being pressed for time.  Having automatic tools is helpful, but actually finding some good ones with the thousands available is a imposing job.  Below you will find 5 … Continue reading

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How To: Use the Two-Line T Shirt Maker

Okay, honestly it’s a crummy title but a really awesome widget.  The Paradox9.com Two-Line T Shirt Maker (look at the sidebar, or even grab it from here: Two Line T Shirt Widget)is the easiest way known* by me to make your very own custom t shirt (there may be … Continue reading

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Fixing Crummy SEO

There is a school of thought that any traffic is ‘good traffic’, unfortunately it simply isn’t true.  There is both good traffic and unproductive traffic, and the SEO of your website will decide on which one you will ultimately receive.  If you are checking your search statistics … Continue reading

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How Much Attention Are You Paying to Your Website’s Search Stats?

By using multiple tools at once you can gain some insight over how people are getting to your website, and by what terms they use.  Taken alone that is basic SEO, and if you are gunning for better terms you can both use your existing search traffic, … Continue reading

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What Makes Good Content? Advice From a Pro

Sure, anyone can have content.  It’s really not too difficult to throw together some words and call it a day.   Looking around the internet, it’s why there are so many people blogging and on social networks, they enjoy the attention and being able to be seen for saying something.  Inherently … Continue reading

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Make Stylized Typography In Photoshop (Very Easily)

The sample above took about five minutes.  While it looks incredibly complicated, accomplishing this effect is really simple. This how-to will show you the easiest way (that I know of)  to create a stylized text look using Photoshop.

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Promotional Ideas That Have Shown Success

Of late I’ve been toying around with some promotional idea for a newer website of mine.  The above is my personal favorite, it’s a matchbook box (here’s a link to the template: Matchbox Template).  It also brought up some other fun and different ideas that business and artists (and other business) could use … Continue reading

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