Sam Blakeley

I thought I would share some of my coursework from the first year drawing class.

Four drawings of a pine cone.

Drawing of a teapot, cup, soft-boiled egg, plate and knife

Drawing of a man sitting down in the cubist style

Google is the number one search engine! Therefore anything they publish regarding SEO we should take note of.

Google has its webmaster tools and it has its webmaster central blog to keep us up-to-date with SEO best practices. But what can we take away from this plethora of information.

Here are my tips:

On your webpage

• Ensure each page in your website has accurate but succinct Title, Description and keyword meta-tags.
• Structure your pages to include <h1>, <h2>, <p> anchor tags
• When using hyper-links include keywords within the links

On other webpages

• Have people link to your website. The better quality the website (e.g. Apple) the higher the credibility of your own website.
• The more links the better but with relevant text surrounding the link too.

I’ve run out of time, more to follow…

We own a Canon 50D and it is an amazing camera (at least in my non-expert opnion). The reason I love digital SLR’s is that you have control over how the shot looks. In time I hope to share my tips and tricks as I become an “expert”.

I’m taking art classes at Brock University and in 2009 one of the tasks was to create a stop motion animation about colour. There were several catches though. The first is that we had to choose a colour from a list; I chose “russet”, a rusty-red colour. Then we were given an MP3 track from Ken Nordine’s album Colors. We were also given the mundane task of creating about 100 painted colour swatches based on our chosen colour from which we could “cut up” to create our animation. The result is shown in the video below:

Russet – Stop frame Animation in Art Class

Another love of mine is Wallace and Gromit

Another example of stop motion animation - Wallace and Gromit

More to follow later…

It’s my aim to share exciting revelations about how to program in asp.net and sql server (ssms).

The problem is I’m an average programmer with a need to understand programming in basic terms. I like seeing the big picture in relation to what I am doing. I like creating code snippets and figuring things out with pen and paper. My friend Matt is a great programmer, he just gets it! Me, I have to work at it.

I’m hoping to post articles on programming, photography, art and football but it all depends on the amount of time a person can spare when having a full time job, a full time business, a baby and house to run.