http://www.robcomm.net/blog create + cultivate = captivate Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:07:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Picasa2Flickr is a dream come true for many Picasa users I was able to get this nifty open-source program working in a few minutes with a little tinkering. It adds a button to your Picasa bottom bar that lets you upload pictures directly to Flickr. When you click the new Picasa2Flickr ... http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/06/08/picasa-and-flickr/ Photoshop brushes by hawksmont, especially the floral brushes. Some great tutorials too. Photo grunge border tutorial by Dubtastic. Eduardo Recife's fonts and brushes at www.misprintedtype.com Playing with sIFR fonts to use with David Chait's excellent plugin for Wordpress. 24 pages of free patterns by Travis Beckam. http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/06/07/time-wasters/ Check your website's importance and visibility SEOmoz.org is a leader in optimizing websites for search engine rankings. The folks there have this handy-dandy Page Strength tool that will check any website based on 13 factors including internal links, Technorati links, and Google page rank. They have several other tools that might interest ... http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/05/25/page-strength/ Update: Technorati has introduced an "authority" ranking for each blog, which is simply a number reflecting every link your blog has received in the last 6 months (even if it's spam). Ionut of the Google Operating System blog makes a good point that Google's pagerank is much more sophisitcated and ... http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/05/24/linkrains-technorati-experiment/ Update: I put up my editing rates. Evaluations were easy--they're free:) 10 rules for your small business home page - Download Squad If your site says, "Call for pricing," I'm not calling because someone else displays the price online. No, my rates aren't up yet:) http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/05/16/price-list/ Lovin' the frenetic Wordpress development. New release info here. http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/05/15/wordpress-22-out/ I've been running both the new Automattic stats and ReInvigorate for the last few days and there's really no comparison. http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/05/09/feeling-reinvigorated/ how to use the custom forms included in the cforms plugin This is an amazing plugin, but it can be a little difficult to jump into and figure out as a new user, especially if you want to use the custom forms and CSS required to put the form in the ... http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/04/27/adding-a-sidebar-form-to-your-wordpress-blog/ Adobe Illustrator tutorial by the web design guru, Veerle Pieters, on making great backgrounds just using lines: Random Lines Made With Mesh. http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/04/23/non-rcc-tutorials/ http://www.robcomm.net/blog/2007/04/18/subscribe/