Week 5: How Google works, Intro to Analytics and 3 Landing page mistakes
How Google search works: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/70897 Sometimes we feel that Google search works by magic. And to some extent it does, but more like David Copperfield than Merlin. Perhaps the biggest illusion that people have of Google is that it searches the internet the moment you press search. But to be able to serve results as (read more)
The 3 Monkeys Cafe
The Project this week was to make an image for a Local Coffee house’s website. I decided to create a coffee house I’d love to run, and one that would be a bit more than just college students studying (though that of course would be welcome). The first thing I did was come up with (read more)
Media Diary: Rough Numbers
So my Media Diary data collection week is over. Over the 7 Days from midnight 9/13 to 11:59pm 9/19 I’ve compiled the following numbers: media hours computer 66.65 phone 9.99 books 5.10 pandora 4.82 TV 3.96 hybrid 2.05 planting 1.24 movie 1.06 paper 0.47 youtube 0.40 music 0.25 So it’s not surprising to me that (read more)
Media Diary: Screens
One things that I realised recently is the “how” of how I multitask. The primary way I handle multiple tasks is to use a digital notepad (Google Keep to be exact). I keep notes, and checklists of items I have to do everything from things I do “Every week” for classes, to planned blog posts, checks (read more)
Media Diary: Multitasking, Education and use changes
One of the topics we’ve been discussing is new media’s impact upon our society and multitasking. This professor is studying how to implement multimedia in the classroom in a new way. It’s quite interesting that the students who used the tablets felt they were learning more, and they were more excited to attend class. It (read more)
Media Diary: First Few days
I’ve been logging my media use since Saturday for my Digital Communications Theory class. So far I’ve had two revelations: 1.) I have so little time, I barely found time to blog now. 2.) I have so little time this semester, that my traditional Media usage has ch anged dramatically. I’ve especially noticed that my entertainment (read more)
Week 4: SEO Basics: Be the Lone Ranger.
We’ll get to SEO in a sec, but lets talk about hats. There are white hats and black hats, and of course grey and tan hats. Tan and grey hats can’t make up their mind to be black or white hats, so lets just stick to the important ones. White and Black. White hats: Bold (read more)
Dream Bench
This week we worked on a variety of tools from cloning to adjustment layers and the wonderful spot healing tool. Our source image for this week’s project was a choice of three: I originally thought to go with the bouquet, but given that one of the instructions was to clone more flowers, I felt that (read more)
Albert’s Grille
For my Photoshop class, our assignment this week was to make a BLT from several source files. All the source files had backgrounds(usually white). And the primary goals of the project were getting people familiar with layers and editing selections. These were the source files: With those files, I extracted the parts of the (read more)
Week 3: Why Survey online?
This week, I’ll be looking into how online surveys can benefit businesses. Online survey provide a variety of benefits over other methods. Here are several features that I think are important to small businesses taken from the Evans and Mathur article “The value of online surveys”. Benefits of online surveys cost effective and timely Internet (read more)