For more dramatic results from your photographs, trying weaving two copies of the same photograph together. This technique creates a three-dimensional artist look. This technique would look great on a scrapbook for a graduating art student or a scrapbook for a friend who is quite artist and creative. This technique might also look good on a child’s scrapbook with a kid’s art background giving the whole page an abstract look.
To achieve this technique, first you need two copies of the same photo. On one photograph, draw evenly spaced vertical lines on the back of the picture. Cut along these lines with scissors or an exacto knife. On the other photograph draw and cut along evenly spaced horizontal lines.
Next, using alternate strips, from photograph one and then photograph two, weave the pieces together. To preserve the rectangular shape of the photographs, start your weaving in the center of the piece and work outwards.
Collages are congregations of photographs or news clippings. These items can be placed in any order or pattern. Collages can have a theme such as a single individual or an entire family group combined.
Collages create great funky scrapbook pages. This method is especially useful for surprise scrapbooks meant to overwhelm the reader either with all of their accomplishments or all those that care for them.
In addition to photographs and news clippings, collages can also contain blocks of text or embellishment. These additions can be used to increase the busyness and overwhelming nature of the collage or reduce the effect slightly by distracting the focus away from the collage.
To reduce shifting of the photographs as you select an appropriate collage design, place temporary tape on each photograph or newspaper clipping. Once the display is set, start permanently attaching the collage to the background.
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There are many types of directories including general directories and niche (often reffered to as vertical) directories. There are also many ways these can be structured.
The first step in planning to build a directory is deciding what it will be a directory of. You could choose to be general and have a vast array of categories and sub categories where a website on any topic can be submitted or you can choose to have a niche directory which are often reffered to as vertical directories. Vertical directories are becoming popular with users and webmasters due to the entire site and it’s listings being related to one topic.
Your next choice is whether to have static pages and create each page manually or use a script that creates pages, manages your listings, site submissions and more. Using a script is the popular and sensible choice and if you have programming skills you may choose to build your own. Otherwise there are numerous directory scripts available and some are even free, for example: PHP Link Directory, Barracuda Links Directory or WSN Links to name a few.
Once you have your directory up and running with all the categories relevant to a general directory or your chosen topic the next task is get listings as without those it’s not much. For other webmasters to submit their link they need to be able to find your site so getting links from ‘directory of directories’ sites are a good place to start in promoting your site. Although there may be catch, those sites may not want to list yours if it’s not populated with listings to some extent so choose some quality sites and add them to your categories and sub categories.
For a start you may need to give free listings to get things going although there’s something to watch in who you list on your directory which is summed up by quality attracts quality and trash does trash. Screen your listings and be sure they aren’t banned by search engines,low quality sites, scrapper sites or just plain spam. The quality of your listings will reflect the quality of your directory to users, webmasters and to some extent search engines.
Your next choice once your directory starts to grow is how you will benefit from your work. Choices here can be running Pay Per Click advertising, banner ads, affiliate ads or charging for links or maybe both.
To get submissions from quality sites and maybe payment for links webmasters will be looking at or for Higher the Google PR the better, well keyworded title and category description, low density of links/listings per page and the quality of the other sites listed. Here is a neat trick, add top ranking sites under the appropriate categories and other sites trying to achieve top ranking for that particular keyword/category title will probably submit to have their site listed.
From there it is a matter of constantly promoting your directory via links to your site, advertising and marketing.
Rod Charles is the owner of the Directory of Directories site where you can find over 1000 directories categorised by submission type or topic.
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Successful websites don’t happen accidentally. A business that runs an effective website thinks carefully about the website’s role, plans the website’s design and content, and closely monitors the website’s activity.
Conversely, those businesses that fail to undertake any planning are, inevitably, planning to fail.
Don’t let your new website become a disappointment to your business. Some careful planning will ensure that you:
- know what you want your website to achieve and who it is for
- can undertake appropriate actions to generate visitors to your site
- have reliable, regular methods of measuring your website’s performance
Mistake 1 - Most Website Owners Don’t Know What They Want Their Website To Achieve
Producing a successful website starts with understanding what you want your website to achieve and, as the business owner, you know your business best. Despite this, having decided to start work on a new website, many business
owners immediately phone their website designer.
When you can define clearly the overall aim of your website, you are ready to present your thoughts to your website designer. Their role is to develop a website that achieves your aim; your role is to decide what that aim is.
Do not feel that you need to develop an aim that is radical or unique. Many business websites exist to generate sales enquiries from prospective customers. Just because this is the most common raison d’etre, it can be your aim too. As long as you have thought through your objectives and understand what you want your website to achieve, you have made the first step towards a successful business website.
Mistake 2 - Most Website Owners Don’t Know Who Their Website Is For
You have given your new website some thought and developed an insight into its purpose. Closely allied to this is the matter of who your website is for: who is your website’s target audience?
The usual answer is “customers” but this is too vague. Is your website aimed at existing customers, with whom you already have a relationship, or prospective customers who don’t know your business?
If your website is focused on prospective customers, is its role to attract their initial attention or is the website involved at a later point in the sales process?
Many businesses use their websites successfully to generate initial interest from prospective customers. This is particularly evident in industries where customers use the Internet as part of their research into sourcing a supplier. Other businesses will generate initial interest through different means and will then refer prospective customers to their website, either to
demonstrate credibility or to provide more detailed information.
In both instances, the target audience is “potential customers” but the approaches are different.
Mistake 3 - Most Business Websites Have A Poorly Defined “Call-To-Action”
The most beautifully-designed website is, in itself, entirely useless unless it encourages visitors to take some specific action. That action will vary with the nature of the website but common examples are to:
- complete an online enquiry form
- register on the website
- purchase a product
- sign up for a newsletter
- progress deeper into the website to read more about products and services
Each of these is a measurable action which should correlate with the website objectives you defined earlier.
Once you understand the particular call-to-action that you want visitors to follow, you can address your website’s content, design and navigation. Without a well-defined call-to-action, your new website is only going to produce disappointing results.
Mistake 4 - Most Business Owners Don’t Work Hard Enough To Generate Visitors To Their Website
Generating visitors is an important aspect of running a successful business websiteThe “build it and they will come” philosophy rarely works for websites, especially for business websites. All businesses exist alongside competitors that offer broadly the same products or services. The notion that you can launch your new website on the Internet and wait for a stampede of visitors is optimistic, at best.
Instead, owners of successful business websites work hard to attract visitors.
The specific way you approach this will depend on the nature of your website. The most common visitor-generating initiatives involve:
- search engine optimisation - encourages search engines such as Google to position your website prominently for keyword searches relevant to your business
- search engine advertising - enables you to pay search engines such as Google to position your website prominently for keyword searches relevant to your business
- online PR - generates interest in your business as well as links to your website
- email marketing - you can market directly to a defined target audience and encourage them to visit your site
- off-line marketing - using your website address on company literature, clothing, vehicle livery etc. will raise awareness of your site and encourage visits
Marketing the website to generate a consistent, reliable stream of visitors is the most overlooked aspect of running a successful business website. Careful thought about which methods of generating visitors will be most effective for your website is vital if your site is going to produce the results you want.
Mistake 5 - Most Business Owners Don’t Measure Their Website’s Success
Website statistics help you measure the activity on your websiteYour website will require an investment of both time and money and, as a business owner, you should expect a return on your investment. Unless you measure what your website achieves, you will not know how much difference it makes to your business. If you do not know what affect your website has on your business, how will you know whether continued investment of time and money is justified?
Your website’s success can be measured in three ways:
- qualitative feedback from website visitors will give you a feeling about how well your website performs. Do you get positive comments about how easy it is to navigate or about how useful someone found its content? Do you get enquiries from prospective customers via your website? Are you and your staff proud of the website?
- you can set up your own key performance indicators to measure your websites’ success. Monitoring the number of enquiry forms completed by visitors each month, for example, or the average order value from online shoppers, are important website metrics that you can track.
- website statistics provide details about your site’s overall activity, including the number of visitors it receives, how those visitors found your website and which pages of your site they look at most. (Our article covers website statistics in more detail.) Website analytics is a step on from website statistics, providing more detailed information about visitors’ behaviour, such as the particular sequence of pages viewed during each visit.
Mistake 6 - Most Business Owners Don’t Keep Their Website’s Content Fresh
The work involved in developing a successful business website does not stop at the moment you launch your new site on the Internet. A website that is allowed to age, without new content being added, will become increasingly out-of-date and offers few reasons for visitors to pay a return visit. The best websites are not allowed to fade away because new content is added regularly, keeping the site alive.
Not only does fresh content give visitors a reason to return, it encourages greater attention from search engines as well. Google, Yahoo and others will happily follow links to new pages on your site and index the content they find. More exposure in search engines generates more visitors, which further increases the chances of your website achieving its objectives.
New content, particularly press releases, announcements, articles and case studies, gives you a reason to contact people and encourage them to visit the site. For instance, many businesses distribute a regular newsletter which refers to recent additions to their website and this helps them to generate return visits.
A facility that enables you to add new content to your site is important. (Our article about the benefits of a Content Management System may be of interest.)
Many websites fail to live up to initial expectations and are regarded by the business owner as “a waste of money”. Planning your site’s objectives and understanding what action you want your target audience to take is critical preparation. Developing a strategy for generating visitors and ensuring that you have the means to measure your website’s activity will help you to assess how well your site meets its objectives. And, once your site begins to produce the results you want, regularly adding new, informative content will encourage return visits and enable you to build a website that is highly valued by your target audience.
Jeremy Flight runs Iceberg Internet, a web development business in Derby, and he works with business owners in the East Midlands who want their website to contribute effectively to their business.
Jeremy regularly writes articles relevant to running a successful business website and has undertaken various speaking engagements about website design and search engine optimisation. He graduated from Brunel University with a first-class honours degree and is a qualified Search Engine Marketer.
Iceberg Internet develops successful websites for businesses in a variety of industries. Why contact us at http://www.iceberginternet.co.uk/ to discuss your website plans?
Two Poems and an Analysis [’Witness,’ & ‘An Old Love’]
Witness
My face belongs to whoever sees it
Everything has a meaning but life
Even the bugs strive for existence
God saved man, from God
Ghosts have lonely sins
Her bones are stones
Up and down the hill
Gardens blossom
Spotless skies
Dramatists
August
I can not
rest!…
#708 6/3/05
An Old Love
Around the world from me
are the many lands I’ve seen
I, who have longed all his life,
that never shut his eyes
but to look up for his next flight
…for things I’ve yet to see
wait, wait, wait, wait where
echoes from poets write,
wait, for far off destinies.
And where my thoughts are
I must go, for there too is my
. soul; thus, best to poke the
fire again!…
6/3/05 #707
Analysis: I was asked the other day to do a verbal and quick analysis for a poem. It can be a terrifying experienced, especially if the person is a friend. What do you say? Like it or not, it is a worthwhile thing to do, and have done. And I’ve had a few hundred of my poems analyzed, poked at, chewed up; thus, when asked to analyze a poem, I do it with great care. But I do realize I am not going to contribute to anything other than my own attentive response. Well this poem baffled me and that was not good, but I studied the poem well after he left, I could only give him a few pieces of my thoughts prior to his leaving. I did afterwards mark phrases that caught my attention, good and bad, things that were striking or difficult, and where the focus was lost. I do trust my intuition, so that is one good thing.
There are three things I try to look at 1) the purpose of the poem, as I understand it to be 2) the central emphasis (problems and concerns, etc), and 3) imagery, tone, meter and so forth, while at the same time trying not to diminish the poetic effect the poem is trying to give. But then, I do not do analysis but on a few special occasions other persons poetry, for I have a hard enough time doing my poetry. But I thought a few comments might be worth mentioning. I guess, if I like the poem, I just like it, period. The Author
Here are two more poems, both different in their focus, poetic emphasis; both short poems, but enough to give a distinctive effect. The tone is of special importance. An analysis comes along with the two poems, not on Mr. Siluk’s poems, for that is for someone else to do, but on how he looks at times on other poems, recognizing the combination of different elements.
–Rosa Penaloza
Poet/Author Dennis Siluk http://dennissiluk.tripod.com
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Jennifer Aniston is most popular for playing the role of Rachel in the hit T.V. series, Friends. Born in Sherman Oaks, California on February 11, 1969, Aniston is also a talented painter who once performed off-Broadway. Her stint on Friends made her a household name and opened many movie-making opportunities for her. Despite her busy schedule, Aniston is able to squeeze in valuable time for the different charitable causes she supports.
Aniston is a regular supporter of the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation which auctions the hottest celebrity outfits. All the proceeds from the public bidding are given to children’s charities like The Art of Elysium and World Education.
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In May 2008, Aniston joined other Hollywood celebrities in expressing their support for the Burma: It Can’t Wait Campaign. The campaign intends to gather a million voices in 30 days as a protest against human atrocities in Burma as well as seek for the release of Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s Democratic Party leader.
Jennifer Aniston’s continuous support for various human rights causes is a testament of her caring personality, and in a way, symbolizes her hard earned success.
Active supporters of human rights such as KKR are profiled on the Human Rights Supporters site.
KKR and the Environmental Defense Fund announce a new environmental initiative.
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Have you ever thought about this question:
“Why do you want to achieve financial freedom?”
I know it’s an obvious question. But many of us never think about this question even though you are clear that you want to achieve financial freedom.
As for me, why I want to achieve financial freedom? Because financial freedom gives me the power to:
- do what I really love.
- get out of rat race.
- not to worry about money.
- spend more time with my wife and family.
- go to gym and work out more often.
- have more free time.
- live the lifestyle I wish.
- go on vacation as long as I want.
- socialize with friends and relatives.
- do charity.
Before you start taking any steps to be financially free, sit down and figure out your own ‘why’.
Your ‘why’ might not be identical to what I have here. But it’s fine as long as you have your own list.
When you realize that you are able to do all the things that you want to do, isn’t life wonderful?
You must know the ‘why’ first and the ‘how’ part becomes easy. Most of us are very busy with our lives but we do not know why we are so busy.
You must regularly ask yourself why you are doing something. Is what you are doing now important for you to achieve your ‘why’? If you do this, you become more focus and the ‘why’ will keep you motivated and keep you going.
Whenever I feel down or my plans did not go as I wanted, I will always refer to my ‘why’ list. The list gives me strength not to give up.
Now, you have done with your ‘why’ list.
Another important step is to take a personal inventory of you. You have to know where you are now before you go somewhere.
To simplify your job, there is an e-book called “Benchmark” that can assist you to take inventory of yourself. It’s a great tool that helps you in determining where you are and where you want to go, in every aspect of your life. It’s a 10-page e-book in PDF format. Please note that it might take a while to download but it’s worth the effort. You can get a copy of this e-book at this URL:
http://www.financiallyrich.com/benchmark.asp
It’s a great experience doing this exercise. This simple exercise not only allows you to step back but also to make sure that you are in the right direction. After the exercise, if you realize that you are in the wrong direction, make corrections to go back on track.
Having completed your ‘why’ list and personal inventory, you’ve laid the groundwork for success. Congratulations!
PT Cheng is the owner of FinanciallyRich. Get excellent tips on how to be your own boss, have more money, and free time. For future articles, subscribe to his FREE newsletter at http://www.financiallyrich.com/subscribe.asp and receive a BONUS report.
