Omar Aviles

Measuring up

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:40:42 +0000

Hi I know it has been a while so let us begin. The ruler is a tool use everywhere in work. We use rulers to measure,wood,metal, buildings, liquid, magazines, and websites. So how do we measure websites? well, this might need to be ask again. How do we measure the width and height of elements. Well, [...]

Looking back at 2009 website inventory

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:49:53 +0000

Since starting this website, I have to say I have only put 2% of work into it. Without doubt, it clearly shows. In investigation my analytics, I see I have a total of 255 visitors for this year. My biggest moment was when I sent my website link into StumbleUpon and that got me [...]

Needing Design Inspiration when all is dark

admin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:15:16 +0000

With the Holidays coming to the near end, I’m overwhelm with the vast quantity of media that is available to use as a resource when it comes to print and web design. As of late, I have been visiting Barnes and Noble and digesting all forms of inspiration. First off I found the board [...]

Getting the creative wheels turning

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:02:42 +0000

It was a sunday afternoon and I was in wordpress land trying to read another blog about designing themes, when I decided to take a break. Then it hit me. I have no motivation to make a revised layout, design, colors, fonts for my personal site. Yuck. I needed to do something. This is when [...]

Should I put Flash on my homepage?

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:29:27 +0000

Let me start by saying I have little experience with putting flash on homepages. My experience with flash has been to make a photo slide show for an artist on CD, not for web. So, when it comes to flash, I do have opinions on how and when to use it. Here are some: When to use [...]

SEO – Marketing

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:27:44 +0000

Here are some marketing tools that I have been using this past August to hopefully boost pageviews on the Brooklyn Indie Market website that I manage. Marketing Tools : * Google Analytics - This a must have tool. This displays your visitors views, bounce rate, time on a page, new visitors, loyal visitors, where your visitors are [...]

The Stumbleupon effect

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:58:02 +0000

Continuing from my prior post about using stumbleupon to increase new visits, I have screen capture the results when you do submit your site to stumbleupon. As you can see, since I just started this blog I have 87 visits from Stumbleupon. However, To maintain more anymore visits I must stumble upon others who share content [...]

What is StumbleUpon?

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:27:15 +0000

I know I could just copy and paste what Stumble Upon is from their website or another resource, but I rather say what I think it is. I do not promote that what I say is always 100% accurate. Stumble Upon is like a search engine that looks for similar categories and interests that you [...]

Installing wordpress on your computer before you make it live on a website

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:11:06 +0000

So I’m guilty of pulling the trigger in haste. While excited about making wordpress my blog of choice, I forget to mention a useful method for me when in production. Putting a local copy of wordpress on my computer. The process can be a bit intimidating at first glance, but with some careful slow reading and [...]

Installing Google Analytics on Wordpress

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:33:32 +0000

Well I have Wordpress as my homepage and now I want to put Google Analytics to track my visitors and see what is working and what is not. Here is a blog I found some information on how to do it: http://themeplayground.com/2007/tutorials/for-wordpress-users/how-to-install-google-analytics-on-your-wordpress-blog/ I believe after you install it, you have to wait 24 hours before you see [...]