Search Engine Optimization (SEO), getting your website appearing on top of the Organic Search Engine results like Google, Bing, and Yahoo is important to increase ROI of your web site. Out of hundreds,  I have listed here 10 very simple, but great result delivering SEO tips for your web site.

1. Page Title

Forget using ‘Welcome to my website’ as your page title, if you really want to attract target media specify your keywords and list your product keywords separated by an | (hold Shift + backslash key) symbol (eg: Digital Cameras | Video Cameras) will boost the strength of your chosen keywords, in this case Digital and Video Cameras.

2. Page Filenames
Still naming your page filenames as products.htm or aboutus.php, why not add some weight to your website and help the SE distinguish from the multitude of pages with generic names and again utilise your keywords into your filenames (eg: paper_back_novels.htm) for a Book selling site with this link to the list of Paper Back Novels.

3. ALT Tags
Again keywords play a huge part in the design of your site and another area to include these words is in your image ‘ALT” tags.

4. Header Tags
Getting back to your Page Title, there is no point in making the heading text “Welcome to my Website” especially if you are selling Garden Tools. Using , and tags to emphasize your Products and Services in order of importance, lets the SE’s.

5. Bold Text
Got something to say?, say it in Bold Text, this tells the SE that this text is important and relates strongly to your content and keywords and should be taken notice of.

6. Keywords
Some say they aren’t that important anymore to getting results in the SERPS (Search Engine Result Pages) but using them correctly can add to your sites overall effectiveness. Concentrate on 3 – 4 keyword phrases (eg: “custom website design” or “web site design” for web site designers) and make sure they are used in the first and last paragraphs of your home page content.

7. Google Toolbar
Not only a search tool the Google Toolbar displays each sites Page Rank according to Google on it popularity and web presence.

8. Alexa Toolbar
Download the Alexa Toolbar from Amazon and sign up to their affiliate program, the toolbar is an essential tool in gauging the popularity and hit results of how your website ranks in the www..

9. RSS Feeds
Want to increase traffic? well consider starting a RSS Feed on your website with important news items relating to your business and your chosen profession then link these to your articles.

10. Article Writing
Article writing is another way to cross promote your site with helpful information for others and with links back to your site.

In conclusion
There are many facets to Search Engine Optimisation of websites and these 10 tips are merely just a few and a good starting point to get your website promoted in the www. Good luck for you! until next post.

This time Adobe is introducing another cool software that would revolutionary change the designing and content publishing world soon. Project ROME is an all-in-one content creation and publishing application that lets virtually anyone at work, home or school inject the power of graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation into everyday projects. application that lets virtually anyone at work, home or school* inject the power of graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation into everyday projects.

With the Project ROME you can create, publish and share any type of mostly used communications material, varied from printed materials and presentations to digital documents and websites; It suits for work place, schools and homes.

Project ROME offers a comprehensive tools, media types and publishing options to design your everyday projects with multimedia and easily create new things like animations and websites.

Making designing more easy project ROME contains an inspiring set of templates for all types of communications. Making interactive media with flash animation is become a piece of cake with Adobe ROME. After making your designing project spiced up as you need you can publish it as a presentations, web site, printable document or an animation.

Project ROME also never forgot the Web 2 world, where sharing is the core; giving the ability to share your contents via common Social Networking tools like Facbook, Twitter and blogs & forums. You can also share contents with other Project ROME users and get their feedback for your project.

Amazingly user friendly Project ROME’s user interafce ensures that you can learn it fast and work fast. Currently this application is Free for use under a free preview program for a limited time.

However, though Project ROME will be an ideal solution for average designers and individual personal users for quick design projects, professional designers and developers will still continue using Adobes’ flagship applications like Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash and Microsoft’s PowerPoint for projects where complete customizations and original works are needed.

Here is the the link to Download and Try Project ROME for FREE for a limited time. Do not forget to post your experience of Project ROME in comments. Happy reading, until next post.

Often our friends and clients who are planing for their Startup businesses ask Creative Presenters Team’s help for a suitable name for the new Startup. Of course we helps them with great suggestions, but it would be easy if you read little bit on Google about some tips of naming your Startup. Here we suggest a very good timely article written by Dharmesh Shah on www.onstartups.com, for you to read before naming your Dream-baby.

“Naming a startup is hard. Very hard. On the one hand, the pragmatic entrepreneur thinks: “I shouldn’t be wasting time on this — for every successful company with a great name, there’s one with a crappy name that did just fine. It doesn’t seem like a name has much influence on the outcome at all. I’m going to get back to writing code.” I sort of agree with this. You shouldn’t obssess about your name. But, you also shouldn’t dismiss it as unimportant. Part of the startup game is to try and remove unnecessary friction to your growth. Sure, you could build a spectacularly successful company despite having a lousy name — but why not stack the odds in your favor?…” Click HERE to read full article on Onstartups.com.

If you find more interesting articles please share them here. Good luck!!

Most of the times Creativity is all about Lateral Thinking, or how we see things out of the box. If you have the ability think differently from an ordinary person, you can create new things or create thing in a new way. You can be creative. So lateral thinking helps you to standout from whatever the the work you do, may be presentations designing, web designing, or graphic designing, and even for a carpenter,a sales person, or a CEO in a big corporation creativity helps for success.

Still it is not well understood whether the Lateral Thinking ability is a inborn talent or a learnt talent. However there are no. of lessons, exercises and activities out there to improve the lateral thinking power of our minds. In today post I present you a sample of a such exercise. Hope you will enjoy it!!

EXERCISE

The first 4 images are the questions and the answers are given at the end.

Please do not look at the answers first, these are really good, try it out.

There are no joke/silly answers…..Each question has a logical answer.

Question 1

Question 1

Question 3

Question 4

ANSWERS

1. The last person took the basket with the egg in it.

2. All the other card players were women.

3. Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth.

4. The recluse lived in a lighthouse.

HOW WAS YOUR LATERAL THINKING??

Today I watched a video by Nancy Duarte*, (I respectfully treat she as my Presentation Guru) sharing a precious piece of presentation design secrets. “Duarte Design’s Five Rules for Presentations by Nancy Duarte” perfectly visualizes the funderentals of designing a Professional PowerPoint presentation. If you watch the video I am pretty sure you will not decorate your next presentation, but design it.

However here is the Duartes’ Five Rules for Presentations.

Rule no 1 : Treat your audience as king.
Rule no 2 : Spread ideas and move people.
Rule no 3 : Help them see what you are saying.
Rule no 4 : Practice design not decoration.
Rule no 5 : Cultivate healthy relationships with your slides and your audience.

So, here is the video and watch it.

Hope you will learn to decorate design presentations and change not only the minds of people but also HEARTS!

English for Presentations at International Conferences
Springer | 2010 | ISBN: 1441965904 | 180 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Good presentation skills are key to a successful career in academia. English for Presentations at International Conferences is an essential title, as this is the first guide to giving presentations at international conferences ever written specifically for researchers and professors whose first language is not English.

This book is designed to help non-native English speakers to prepare and deliver effective presentations at international conferences. It will be the first book ever written on presentations specifically from the perspective of non-native English speakers. It will be written in an English that readers will be able to understand easily. This is not ’simple’ English as a native speaker would interpret it, but a particular way of writing with minimal redundancy in which key points are highlighted clearly. The book will cover not only the typical difficulties of all presenters (structure, gaining audience attention, graphics on slides etc), but will also focus above all on those issues that cause specific problems for the non-native.

With easy-to-follow rules and tips, and with examples taken from real presentations, the book covers: â?¢ English usage â?¢ gaining and maintaining audience attention â?¢ handing questions and answers from the audience â?¢ overcoming nerves â?¢ preparing and practicing â?¢ pronunciation and intonation â?¢ slide preparation â?¢ useful phrases for each stage of the presentation.

Adrian Wallwork is the author of more than 20 ELT and EAP textbooks. He has trained several thousand PhD students and researchers from 35 countries to prepare and give presentations. This guide is thus also highly recommended for trainers in English for Academic Purposes. Other books in the series: English for Writing Scientific Papers English for Scientific Correspondence English Usage, Style, and Grammar for Science

If you are interested to buy the book in Amazon Click HERE.

Once you know what you want, you must take strategic steps to
get what you want until you actually do accomplish your goals.
Then, you must act to maintain your vision and keep it real.
Whether it’s a project within your business, a product, a
company itself or anything else, these steps are how you
develop a vision.

Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks — including death itself — at the Stanford University’s 114th Commencement.
source: Youtube

Follow your gut and that’s your best marketability.

The profession of Communication Designing is difficult to define. It is never been easy to explain. Difference between the artist who draw painting on walls and the artist who create graphics on Adobe Illustrator is not just the media they use.

However “Icograda” (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations), the world body for professional communication design has made a good attempt to define the profession of Communication designing. ‘Icograda’ gives the standard definitions for the terms and concepts of Communication Design, Communication Designer,Graphic Designer, Graphic Design Process, and Graphic Design.

Take some time to read and understand the design as a strategic process that enables communication in a visual format. If you are a designer, know who really you are!

“Icograda” DEFINITIONS

Communication design
Communication design is an intellectual, technical and creative activity concerned not simply with the production of images but with the analysis, organization and methods of presentation of visual solutions to communication problems.

Communication Designer
One who has the sensibility, skill and experience and/or training professionally to create designs or images for reproduction by any means of visual communication, and who may be concerned with graphic design; illustration; typography; calligraphy; surface design for packaging; or the design of patterns, books, advertising and publicity material; broadcast, interactive or environmental design; or any form of visual communication.

- Ratified by the Icograda General Assembly 22, La Habana, Cuba, 26 October 2007

Graphic Designer
One who has the artistic sensibility, skill and experience and/or training professionally to create designs or images for reproduction by any means of visual communication, and who may be concerned with illustration; typography; calligraphy; surface design for packaging; or the design of patterns, books, advertising and publicity material, or any form of visual communication.
- Articles of Association of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations, September 18, 1984

Graphic Design Process
The graphic design process is a problem solving process, one that requires substantial creativity, innovation and technical expertise. An understanding of a client’s product or service and goals, their competitors and the target audience is translated into a visual solution created from the manipulation, combination and utilization of shape, color, imagery, typography and space.
- Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA), Profile/Purpose

Graphic Design
Graphic Design is an interdisciplinary, problem-solving activity which combines visual sensitivity with skill and knowledge in areas of communications, technology and business. Graphic design practitioners specialize in the structuring and organizing of visual information to aid communication and orientation.
- The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario

“Icograda” also invites additional submissions of definitions from its Members and Friends around the world. So, what is your definition for the Designer?