Are Adobe developers magicians?

By Administrator / April 12th 2010 / 3 Comments

I’ve recently been looking at the new PhotoShop CS5 features and the one that stands out for me is the new “Content-Aware Fill”.

It seems that Adobe have some strange mystical people working for them if they can create tools that can do this.

In a nutshell this new tool allows us to erase areas of images, which PhotoShop then automatically fills with the new background crafted from the rest of the image  using some very clever new algorithms created by the clever people at Adobe.

From a designers point of view this will save a lot of time. I don’t think I need to say more, just check out the video below but be aware that it might shock you!

I’m really looking forward to the new release and trying out the new features =)

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White Hat vs Black Hat SEO

By Administrator / April 11th 2010 / 7 Comments

There is a lot of debate to which technique to use when looking at optimising a website for SEO. These different techniques come under two different areas (well three as there is a “Grey Hat”!).

Black hat SEO uses the darker (hence the name) techniques mainly aimed at deceiving the search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing whereas white hat SEO of course uses the opposite. White hat SEO uses methods that are recommended by the search engines.
Is Black Hat For Everyone?
So why doesn’t everyone just adopt white hat methods? Well some believe that using these techniques alone won’t fully get the most out of optimising a website so they turn to black hat tricks to try and accelerate results in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

There are many different black hat techniques optimisers are using but in my own experience using white hat techniques are the safest option. … Read More.

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Custom Header Tag for WordPress

By Administrator / November 03rd 2009 / 4 Comments

As brilliant as I think WordPress is I do feel that there are a few features that do need to be addressed. One of the big areas of SEO that I feel WordPress lacks is the simple ability to use custom H tags (H1, H2 etc…), I’m hoping that this might be addressed in the new 3.0 version of WordPress soon to be released.

The H1 tag is arguably a very big part of SEO when it comes to inserting keywords into a web page so surely it makes sense to be able to choose what the tag itself says.

With the help of the custom fields however there is an easy way:

Find: (in your page.php for example)

<h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

And replace with:

<h1><?php $thisPost = $post -> ID; if  (get_post_meta($thisPost, changeH1, true) !=null)
{ echo (get_post_meta($thisPost, changeH1, true)); }

else { the_title(); }
?></h1>

Next open up the … Read More.

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