In browsing this years submissions to the Blurb photo book contest I found some books of interest: Read More
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Ari Salomon is a web designer, WordPress expert and fine art photographer working in San Francisco.
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SEO: Search engine optimization: checklist
A quick checklist of “low hanging fruit” that I use as a guide for helping my clients promote their websites and grow their businesses. Read More
CSS: How to vertically center content on a page
Do you have a page where you want to simply center it both vertically and horizontally? Looking for a pure CSS solution?
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Do-it-yourself website options – photography
I am often asked how to make a website on low/no budget…
Tim Peter’s”Thinks” Blog: Here’s a great overview of current blog/cms options. it compares these 5 services: Weebly, SiteKreator, SynthaSite, WordPress.com (the free version) & Webnode
Most of these sites offer free versions with paid upgrades for ad-free, custom domain names and other add-ons. Read More
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5 Responses
Web 2.0 expo 2009 notes
1) For screen sharing
http://www.oneeko.com/
Free for one-to-one. Allows sharing of only part of a screen – interesting interface. Guests don’t have to download anything – it runs in flash.
Paid version has support for 8 guests, whiteboard
But users can’t control each others cursor. So skype screen sharing is tough competition for them since it’s already ‘right there’ for many people.
2) Interesting input device:
TrackBar Emotion Roller Bar Mouse
http://www.ergodirectusa.com/Roller-Bar-Mouse-p/trackbar.htm
http://www.specialneedscomputers.ca/em-swheel.htm
3) all o’rielly books online free!
Safari Techbooks Online
Full-text online access to over 1000 computing, IT, and management titles released by leading publishers that you can read online. The collection includes all of the Safari Techbooks titles for the current and previous two calendar years.
http://jason.vox.com/library/post/oreilly-safari-access-for-sfpl-members.html
3) simplified web marketing
http://www.yieldsoftware.com/
Offers a tool for placing ads on google, yahoo and msn from one web-based interface. Includes other tools to simplify advertising options like landing page optimization.
Interesting security note:
http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/
If your laptop memory is removed from your computer the information on it can be copied for up to a few minutes before fading away. So even encrypted hard drives are vulnerable. There is a video here that explains the procedure clearly.
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Mission Armory
Each of these articles I found online adds another small facet to the strange history of this building.
I’d heard of this idea of converting the Armory to creative uses a long time ago when I moved to the Mission in 1993. A couple years later I visited PS1 in New York and it occurred to me that the Armory could be just as cool.
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Resources for marketing your art event in the San Francisco Bay Area
REMINDER: marketing is attention you pay for, PR is attention you pray for.
ARI’S A-LIST OF FREE-TO-LIST-YOUR EVENT SITES
- Fecalface
- Squid List
- UpComing
- Happenstand
- FaceBook Their ad system is great for getting the word out inexpensively and very geo-targeted.
- ArtSpan sends out a nice monthly newsletter. I think they will list events by anyone who has participated in Open Studios.
- SFAQ online
I have also used Eventful, SF Station & SF Arts
LOCAL PAPERS
- The City Star SF
- SF Bay Guardian 8 days a week
- Chronicle (Pink, daily Datebook and SFGate) – how to submit listings
- Examiner (used to have “Submit an Article” but no longer)
LOCAL SF BLOGS ABOUT ART
- ArtBusiness Alan Bamberger has an amazing archive of SF Art Openings with photos and comments. Sometimes this is the only place to find out about local artists who don’t have their own sites.
- Emma Krasov’s “Art and Entertain Me” blog. Here’s an entry about my show.
- Noah Beil
- Not for fun only
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Ari’s blog: intro
Ari Salomon is a graphic designer and a fine art photographer working in San Francisco.
This blog will covers a wide range of topics including:
- San francisco Bay Area fine art with a focus on photography
- Web Design – for the designer and for the small business with a focus on WordPress (the tool that powers this blog)
- Sign Design – a specialty of mine
- Inventions – big ideas and small. From space elevators to kitchen gadgets, I’ll post finds as well as my own contributions.
I’ll update this post as the blog grows.
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