The Seo Rapper

If you ever need a little outline to live by when it comes to web development This guy says it all. Follow this man's words and your site is going to increase traffic and functionality ten fold. Plus it makes me dance. Which I know everyone loves to see. And Yes...I have incorporated the dougie into this song. Will I make a video of it? Doubtful.


But not only does he cover the basics of web development, he also makes very valid points on several matters like social networking, page rank, and all that good stuff. Check this dude out and maybe even buy one of his albums at his site

if anything at least check out this video.

Holiday Portraits: Blog!!

I am very happy to announce the GTC Holiday Portraits blog is now complete! I made it all using css. I did have bigger plans for it to make it a little more elaborate but working on 3 blogs, plus twitter, plus photojournalism, plus portraiture, plus math, plus speech, plus plato's closet, plus watching seinfeld / assembling 2000 piece puzzles really took too much time away from me. But here it is now - done. although - I did stick to my sketch ideas which makes me feel good about it. comments and critique?

Banksy

I saw this on The Simpsons the other day and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Banksy - the infamous graffiti artist is now a household name. That is amazing that an artist is so revered he is on The Simpsons! well - this post isn't about that, it is about the work Banksy makes.

Tutorial Time! How to Upload a Favicon

What is a favicon you ask? It is the small icon located at the very left of your URL. If you look at mine - you should see a black and pink icon. We are always trying to improve our web traffic, and I know this little icon can make a pretty big improvement. Considering how much work is involved in making one, it would be silly not to make one.

The Future of Web Design 2010

If you have never heard of FOWD, well let me tell you. It is an amazing conference held in NY which exhibits some of the biggest names in web design. It is a two day event and it costs a LOT of money to go. Although - if anyone is interested there is a promotion on Abduzeedo that is giving away free tickets. I'll definitely apply and hope others do too. They will be covering some new material about the new interfaces of the web as well as CSS3 and HTML5. Sounds awesome right?

Wordpress: The Final Frontier

Welcome to my room. Here on my floor we have a pile of magazines. I am an avid reader of Web Designer magazine, and recently I stumbled across an old issue on Wordpress. I also found one of the many css issues they publish that has a LOT of awesome css tags and codes to simplify any style sheet (ahem - like wordpress). I recommend giving these a look through if you ever find them (Issue 149(WP) and 151(CSS)), that is if you care to learn a thing or two about how to spice up the ol' template a bit.

Ma.tt: The Master of the (Blog) Universe

So one of my favorite sites to check out is the founding developer of Automattic: Mr. Matt Mullenweg. Automattic is the company behind wordpress, buddypress, akismet, and gravatar. even his URL demands authority - Ma.tt. This guy is an amazing web developer. If you can ever find his layouts give them a look. He makes a lot of stuff for wordpress you can download as well. He also has a lot of presence on different support forums giving some advice on coding compatibility and other technical issues. I read about this guy in PCworld when he was nominated one of the top 50 people on the web. He's cool, check him out, give him props.

EHD V2.0

Part of my ultimate goal in life is to be a successful designer as well as photographer. I've begun my work on my new site Erik Helms Design V.2.0, and I should have it live in a few months. It will be my new portfolio site for any music projects, design projects and of course photography projects I do. I'll post up any new things I want to try and I hope to get some input about it. I'm so excited to see the new site!! I promise it is going to ROCK!

Oh ya....there may be a touch of flash on it.