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It’s time for the Weekly Mash Up again. This week’s Mash Up has 11 articles about design, photography, blogging, SEO, social media, and inspiration wide-angle photography.
Each week, I try and gather articles that I have read that I found helpful and might be helpful for our readers. Where do I find these great articles? That’s kind of hard to explain. I stumble across most of these from my Twitter Stream, bookmarking sites, and through my RSS feeds in Google Reader. Sometimes I find great articles through my reader’s comments. We use CommentLuv on this site as way give back to our readers for leaving a comment. Using ComLuv will help me see what you write about. If you leave a comment and use CommentLuv to share one of your articles, I will be more likely to click on that link and read your latest article then click on your main site link and look around. I try and visit everyone’s sites who leave a comment, if you are using ComLuv then I have a better chance to see your better articles. So if you want us to start sharing your articles, all you have to do is produce killer and useful content that will help us out and I will share your articles.
Design / Photography – Photoshop Tutorials
33 Stunning Tutorials To Become A Master Of Photography
“Photoshop is the basic requirement of a designer and that’s why designers all around the world regularly look for the tutorials that can help them in polishing their Photoshop skills. Today showcase is for photographer’s lovers. We collected 33 unique photography tutorials that enhance your skills. Photography field is most emerging industry now days. Now, you can learn and master yourself in different areas of photography.”
Create Attractive Web Typography with CSS3 and Lettering.js
“In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to take basic markup and transform it into an attractive typographical design using only minimum images, pure CSS3 magic and we will spice things up with lettering.js – a jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography.
To make things a bit interesting and less boring, instead of just using meaningless placeholder text I will use text from Jules Verne’s “Moon-Voyage” book, chapter X. The Observers of the Moon. So, let’s get started.”
20 Essential Tools For Graphic And Web Designers
“Graphics and business-related software are key for graphic or web design because they will help you stay creative and organized. Below you can see 20 important tools that any designer should know about.”
Basics: Difference Between Pixel and Vector-Based Graphics
“This article is about the differences between pixel and vector-based designs but before going into details, I would like to give you an introduction to graphic design.”
Learn Lightroom in a Week – Day 1: Workspace and Preferences
“In today’s tutorial we’re going to start the process of learning Photoshop Lightroom from the ground up. Over the course of the seven article series, we’ll cover everything from setting up the application, right through to in-depth techniques for post-processing and organizing your work.
In this first piece, we’ll investigate the Lightroom interface, adjust basic preferences, and personalize the software for your own business. Ready to jump in? Let’s get started!”
Blogging
Tips for Optimizing Photos and Graphics for Your Blog
“This post may seem very basic for those of you who are experienced at blogging and maintaining a website but I’ve been surfing a lot lately and I’ve come across several blogs and websites that could use a few tips on optimizing photos and graphics for the web. So for those of you who are ready to hit that back button, stick around and add your 2-cents. What are your best tips? Where do you get your photos for your blog?”
Email Marketing
Creating HTML Emails – How To And Design Inspiration
“Creating html emails is not as easy as most people think. This little thing may cause problems even to experienced coders who are working on a new layout on a daily basis. I know some of you are asking yourselves why on world would anybody invest time and resources in html emails. The answer to that is very simple: efficiency. According to a study, for every dollar invested in html email marketing, aprox. $40 came in return. You don’t have to be an economist to realize that this rate is extraordinary.”
SEO
“When consumers use keywords to search for your type of business, do the results point to your company or your competition? Because the right SEO keywords essentially grab potential customers by the wrist and lead them right to your business, it’s up to you to make sure you facilitate the meeting between the user and your website. Relevant keywords bump you to the top of search engine rankings; without targeted SEO keywords, you could be losing business 24/7.”
Social Media
HOW TO: Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile’s New Skills Section/
“Keeping your social media profiles updated is a key component to your success. If you want potential opportunities to come your way via social media channels, then your profile has to be current. This is especially true if you are using social media as part of your strategy to get a new job.”
Exactly How Powerful Are Tweets & Retweets? Help Us Find Out!
“Over the last few months we’ve heard a lot of talk about how social signals are starting to influence rankings, but how powerful are those tweets really? Today I wanted to explore what we know so far, take a look at some examples, then push the envelope a bit with another test. Who’s with me? Ok, let’s do this.”
Inspiration
Wide-Angle Photography: 30 Best Examples
“As the name suggests, wide-angle photography refers to a specialized field that requires the use of wide angle lens. Wide angle lens differs from normal telephoto lens in terms of perspective and depth of field. With a wide angle lens (focal lengths 35mm and below), you will be able to fit a lot of things inside the frame while at the same time apply distortions to make the photograph interesting. However, shooting in wide angle lead to some complications.”
About James
Glad to find some posts related to SEO and blogging you referred. I’d been away for some time and now when I return I find so many new posts. Finding hard to go though all of them. But the posts that are referred worth reading.
Great Mash Ups. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing the info, I’ve never thought about vector in that way.
I really wanted to take some tutorial of photoshop because I wanted to make my own website design soon.