Whimsical Design by Tad Carpenter
A great designer working in Kansas City featured by Grain Edit. Wonderful use of color and simple pen and ink illustrations. His poster works are my favorite. The article includes images from his working process and photos from his office, very slick. Read the article and see more of his work here >>>
9 Ways to Optimize Blogs for Search Engines
1. Keyword Rich URL One of the best ways to let search engines know that your website is highly relevant to a specific keyword phrase is by having it in your URL. There are two ways to go about this. First, you could buy a domain name that includes your keyword phrase. For example, let’s use the keyword phrase “Springfield MO Real Estate”. Our domain might look like this: http://springfieldmorealestate.com Depending on how many keywords you plan on targeting, this could become expensive very quickly. An alternate option is to add a subpage to your already existing domain. That URL would look something like this: http://lincco.com/springfield-mo-real-estate Note, when either of these results is shown on Google, our keywords will be in bold. Also, if...
Red Cross Responding to Japanese Earthquake
The American Red Cross is offering assistance to the Japanese Red Cross following Friday’s magnitude 8.9 earthquake and resulting tsunami that left towns and villages in Japan devastated. Make donations at the Red Cross
Box Car Press – Letterpress
Boxcar Press is a nationally established commercial letterpress shop based in upstate New York – NOTHING, I MEAN NOTHING looks better then letterpress business cards. These guys print with real German Heidelbergs!