Design Leap http://www.designleap.net/blog Helping Small Business Owners Understand Online and Print Media Thu, 17 Apr 2014 07:15:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 Quick Tip: Use Live Text to help with SEO http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/04/quick-tip-use-live-text-to-help-with-seo.html http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/04/quick-tip-use-live-text-to-help-with-seo.html#respond Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:36:51 +0000 http://www.designleap.net/blog/?p=1725 Text that’s NOT part of an image is HTML text, also referred to as Live Text. Having live text is an important aspect of search engine optimization because search engines can’t read text that’s part of an image. Be sure when you’re working on your website content that your pages use live text. [Tweet “Search […]

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]]> http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/04/quick-tip-use-live-text-to-help-with-seo.html/feed 0 Optimizing Your Blog For Search Engines http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/03/optimizing-your-blog-for-search-engines.html http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/03/optimizing-your-blog-for-search-engines.html#respond Thu, 27 Mar 2014 12:00:52 +0000 http://www.designleap.net/blog/?p=835 Creating a blog is a great way to promote yourself and your business—in addition to driving traffic to your website, regular blog entries are an opportunity for you to showcase your expertise in your field. But as with everything on the Internet, people must be able to find your blog before it becomes useful for […]

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]]> http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/03/optimizing-your-blog-for-search-engines.html/feed 0 Beware: Getty Images stock photos NOT Free for Business http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/03/beware-getty-images-stock-photos-not-free-for-business.html http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/03/beware-getty-images-stock-photos-not-free-for-business.html#respond Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:30:00 +0000 http://www.designleap.net/blog/?p=1714 You may have heard a couple of weeks ago the worlds leading stock photo company Getty Images, is now offering embedding some of their 35 million stock images for free. This was exciting news to the online community, especially bloggers, who normally don’t have a big budget for purchasing images. However for small businesses this […]

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]]> http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/03/beware-getty-images-stock-photos-not-free-for-business.html/feed 0 How to Remove Checkered Background in Photoshop http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/02/how-to-remove-checkered-background-in-photoshop.html http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/02/how-to-remove-checkered-background-in-photoshop.html#respond Tue, 11 Feb 2014 12:57:49 +0000 http://www.designleap.net/blog/?p=1682 A checkered background in Photoshop is not really what it seams to be. What it really is a way for Photoshop to tell you or actually show you that your layer doesn’t have a background and it’s actually transparent. Let’s use this image of a rose as an example: As you can see here there’s […]

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]]> http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/02/how-to-remove-checkered-background-in-photoshop.html/feed 0 How to Fix a Tilted Image in Photoshop http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/01/how-to-fix-a-tilted-image-in-photoshop.html http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/01/how-to-fix-a-tilted-image-in-photoshop.html#respond Sat, 04 Jan 2014 11:45:32 +0000 http://www.designleap.net/blog/?p=1680 http://www.designleap.net/blog/2014/01/how-to-fix-a-tilted-image-in-photoshop.html/feed 0