I changed up the design of the blog today. It was actually not too bad figuring out how to do it. Most of the work is done for you and you can just tweak a template a little bit to get the right look that you need.
I don’t know if I am done with it yet or not. I might actually do all the graphics over again now that I know how to do it. We will see. I am still working on the footer. I might create some catchy php include for the footer of the website to give it a little better look. I am no programmer but I can follow php and duplicate it if I need to so working with the Wordpress blogs have been a little tricky but not too bad.
I think it will look really good once it is done. An important part of having a blog that gets a lot of traffic is having an appealing blog that gets traffic. That is why I say to practice your Photoshop skills all the time.
Technology is great. I have a good fealing about this blog and even though I am writing this before most of you will even get here, hopefully you will go back through everything I have done and learn a little yourself.
I started building a section for videos on the website. I am making lots of videos and I want to make sure that there is an easy way to access all of them. So if you are new to this blog you can still go back and see everything you want…. To catch up in a way. You don’t want to miss out!
The video section will be broken up into four sections. One for all videos by date. The second, will be organized by the category it falls into. The third will be strictly video tutorials. And the fourth will be the daily video blog organized by date.
Right now I only have about 10 videos but I am adding new ones every day. Soon I will have a large selection of videos and I’m not running out of things to say in the near future.
In the video section you will be able to find out information about the website (Updates and techniques used), great learning tutorials, the daily updates and all kinds of other random videos I will add. It will be a complete video log of the website. Pretty Cool Huh!
If you want to watch the building process of the video section you may. As you can see I already added the link to videos page at the top menu. The video section will continue to be built by the end of this week. If you want to check it out now you can use the menu at the top or go here to our video section.
I figured if I was going to put some Photoshop Tutorials on this blog that I might as well start from the beginning. I am going to go through all the basics of Photoshop CS3 and do it all through video presentation.
Because I think that Photoshop skills can be very useful when it comes to online business I am going to show this. If you have the ability to put up websites, then it will greatly increase the number of ways to make money on the Internet.
I decided to start with the Tools Palette. I will cut this up into different videos and provide them in high definition so it will be like learning with someone right in front of you.
In this first Tools Palette tutorial I am going to go over the first 6 tools in the menu. The video is about 7 minutes long and there will be more to come about the tools palette this week. Stay tuned and make sure if you haven’t already, to subscribe to my You Tube Channeland get even more Photoshop videos.
Sam Baker
Photoshop Tools Palette Part 2
Here is the second part of my Tools Palette overview. I want to get through this as quick as possible so we can start getting into some cool stuff.
Once you have learned to use all the tools and what they do, we can start doing that.
As i have said many times before, Photoshop is an Internet Marketing Tool. Those who know how to use it have no problem building there own business from home. The Internet keeps growing and those who know how to use the Internet and display web pages, will usually make money online.
As I said before, I was going to go through a Wordpress test and see what kind of results I could get. There are a few things I want to determine in this test. One is that can anyone do it with little to no knowledge of marketing on the Internet? And two, what is the longevity of blog traffic compared to paid traffic? If you build your website up via natural ways, how long will that traffic continue to come in with limited to no updates.
So far with my blog, I have added a few features that would make it interactive. I added a chat and live stream, videos and up to date articles. The viewers can also post comments but this is common on all Wordpress blogs by default. I think the videos are going to be a big part of the blog and soon I plan to organize all the videos I am making on the blog itself.
I added a plugin called the “All in 1 SEO Pack” and it makes your posts way more search engine friendly. I also added the plugin “XML Sitemap Generator” which builds a new site map every time you make a post. This should help out quite a bit. Both of these plugins can be found at :
So far I have 9 or 10 articles on my blog. I feel that writing 2 a day is a good start.
I also hooked up Google Analytics to the blog. This allows me to track everything about the traffic I am getting. Is it a new or old person, the top pages they visited, average time people stayed at the website and most important, where they came from? All of these things will give me a good idea of what audience I am capturing and where they are coming from. Then I can modify and change my blog as needed to accommodate the traffic.
Soon like I said I will have a video section on the blog for all the videos I am making. I will organize the videos in different ways to make it easy to find the information and videos you are looking for.
So stay tuned. I will have more updates about the blog and how well the search for natural traffic is going.
I tried to finish the Photoshop tutorials but my video was too long. Now I have to re-do the tutorial and make them shorter. I might go into more depth of the tools and add on a few more tutorials so I think that you will make out better from this anyway.
Do you know much about Search Engine Optimization? If you have a blog or a website and are not using SEO to get free traffic, then you are missing out big time. Search Engine Optimization needs to be a daily part of your routine. Why? Because its free traffic and it lasts a lot longer then if you paid for your traffic.
My Wordpress designed changed overnight. I didnt change anything but it wemt back to the themes default value. Not really sure what happened and cant find any good answers to this problem yet.
I changed up the design of the blog today. It was actually not too bad figuring out how to do it. Most of the work is done for you and you can just tweak a template a little bit to get the right look that you need. I don’t know if I am done with it [...]
