I spent two days last week camping in the mountains near our home with my brothers and father.
Afterwards we spent some time looking at old mining equipment (from the California Gold Rush) and touring the old city of Downieville. A quaint little city smelling of pine trees – with the rushing of water from a large river, dancing in the background.
Father’s Day was terrific also. All of our family, including grandparents, gathered at our home for a taco bar feast. Yummy!
What did you do for Father’s Day?
Don’t you love photos?
Apps for photo manipulation are continually pouring out at reckless speeds. There’s a new one called Instagram that allows you to snap a photo, apply some incredible photo affects – and submit online.
Kristi Hines of Kikolani runs a beautiful photo blog over at Photostry.
Building Your Traffic
SEO is a wild beast. You tweak something here and a little more there; all in hopes of conjuring up more visitors via search engines. I found this little guide that gives 9 excellent tips for building search friendly sites.
Be A Better Blogger
Are you asking these three questions before posting each blog post?
I thought this post was superb. It gives you a video and graphic on 29 ways to stay creative. I think we all could use a little more of this in our lives. I’ve got a copy as my desktop wallpaper now. Takeaway? Carry a notebook with you at all times.
Here’s a nice list of 20 bloggers you’d want to comment on your blog.
Some of the best bloggers are consistently producing blog posts with incredible infographics. Here you’ll find ten tools to help you with the process.
Maybe you should travel more.
Jason Yormark gives us a breakdown of how to get a same-day passport. Sweet stuff.
Need a laugh?
Maybe there’s someone reading the blog who might remember this strange Swedish music video. It has over two million views on YouTube – and is considered the worst music video ever.
If you ever catch me dancing like this, let me know. Please.
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"You’re such a smart boy!" were his first accolades heard. So, it’s no wonder that this phrase became the title of his business, Smart Boy Designs.
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Twitter: janetcallaway
June 20, 2011 at 10:30 am
Christian, aloha. What a wonderful way to celebrate Father’s Day–basking in love and appreciation while enjoying good food.
Speaking of enjoying, Christian, your posts always delight me and this one has me looking at how I can rearrange my schedule to spend more time exploring these links–NOW!
Love this compilation of miscellaneous treasures. Thx so much, Christian. Best wishes for a magnificent week. Aloha. Janet
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June 20, 2011 at 10:41 am
It always feels like a touch of sun has visited the blog when you’re around Janet. I really appreciate your support, kind words and thoughts.
There must be something about living in Hawaii that permeates its patrons.
You always have such helpful resources. I swear….every time I come to your blog I find at least one thing to start or investigate. I love it! Hope you enjoyed your weekend!
agreed! meg, thanks for turning me on to christian’s stuff!
Twitter: smartboydesigns
June 20, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Thanks Meg. I’m SO happy to have you here. You really make my day, both you and David. It’s fantastic, really. I’m so excited to get to know the both of you over the course of this summer!
Hey!
First question, do you go by Christian or Chris? I’ve just recently seen you write Chris in some places. Wanna get it straight.
Secondly, I’m a bit worried you found a video like that. Too much free time? LOL! That is some horrible dancing!! If you dance like that and vlog about it, I’ll be sure to RT that all day long.
Are you on Instagram? I’d like to follow your feed if that’s ok. It’s a great app for sure.
Twitter: smartboydesigns
June 20, 2011 at 2:48 pm
I go by Christian. My father is Chris. In some places I have to mark as “Chris” in order to fit my name.
I thought the video was whacked! Someone posted it to my Facebook. There’s never a lack of interesting YouTube videos to watch when you’ve got friends.
I’m on Instagram under SmartBoyDesigns. I just signed up today – so there won’t be much of anything there yet.
Thanks for stopping by Benny.
Appreciate your support.
Christian
great idea for a post. it helps because you always post such gems! keep them comin my friend!
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June 20, 2011 at 2:50 pm
Feel free to send me a gem when you’ve found one yourself. Even if it’s yours – I’d be happy to spread the love.
Christian,
Great collections of very good and helpful links! There’s alot of gems I’m going to use.. and the desktop idea!! excellent. I’m stealing (and being public about it!)
Thanx!! Laurinda.
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June 21, 2011 at 10:58 am
Love that you’re using the creative desktop photo. It’s helping me a lot. I’m loving it! What’s your favorite on the list?
Thanks for stopping by Laurinda.
I’m working on #11. Surround yourself with creative people.
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June 21, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Surrounding yourself with creative people. Aaah, love it. Such great advice.
I envy you. Your blog is much better in content and design than my site. Who did you design?
I just wanted to stop by and express my thanks for the link over to Site Sketch 101. I’m really thankful for it. Keep up the awesome work here.
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July 1, 2011 at 6:24 am
You’re welcome. Thank you, yourself, for producing such great content.