Create unique, accurate page titles

Posted by Mike Watkins on Oct 24, 2009 in Web Design

A title tag tells search engines and the person looking for your website, what the topic of your webpage is.

The <title> tag is placed within the <head> tag of the HTML code in your website. You should create unique titles tags for each page on your website.

A recent new customer was unhappy with his old web designer,  as they had put the same title tag on all the pages, the company name.

They are a mobile phone repairs company and the words ‘mobile phone repairs’ was in none of the title tags. A simple adjustment to all the pages to make the title tage relevant to the page details and now with some extra marketing, we are beginning to see some good results.

Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide at Google Webmaster Central goes into this in more detail. I would recommend downloading this.

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Photo Fun from Photo funia

Posted by Mike Watkins on Oct 20, 2009 in General Messages

Check out this cool website, upload your image, apply it to a picture and there you go! cool eh

Photo Fun

Photo Fun

Photo Funia

Who is this

http://www.photofunia.com/

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Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Posted by Mike Watkins on Oct 20, 2009 in General Messages

As a Designer using CAD products, my knowledge of Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is very limited.
Just imagine how excited it is when CAD users like you and me CAN perform a CFD analysis and still be able to be on top of the interface.
The software is a revelation for all fluid dynamics newbies out there and, combined to their very good Sales and Tech Support teams worldwide, I would strongly recommend it to all.

Have a look at the website

http://www.cfdesign.com

CF Design

CF Design

PS this is my option and I have not be paid to make the statement above! it’s just for your info!

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Autodesk Thread Spreadsheet Top Tip

Posted by Mike Watkins on Oct 15, 2009 in General Messages

As most of you probably know Autodesk Inventor uses a spreadsheet to drive it’s threads in the model. And as we all love from time to time Autodesk (might!) change the format or add new threads to this spreadsheet.  So if you have added any non standard sizes to the old spreadsheet, but you want to use the new spreadsheet with all the new threads contained in the thread.xls then this becomes messy.

Our tip is to change the colour of the newly entered line in your existing thread.xls to Green then it will be easily visible to see all the additions you have made to the old thread.xls, and thus making it easier to copy them to the new format.

Autodesk thread.xls

Autodesk thread.xls

Hope this helps.

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Inventor 2010 SP1 fixed

Posted by Mike Watkins on Oct 15, 2009 in General Messages

There was a small issue with the original service pack, the problem was that the Live Update and Communications Centre  did not recognise the fact that Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 had been installed. Therefore it continued to notify of an available update.

Autodesk have since released a newly compiled version of the Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1, which does not contain the problem described above, this can be downloaded from the link below

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334435&linkID=9242019

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Hyper-Real Hand Modeling from Autodesk Maya

Posted by Mike Watkins on Oct 13, 2009 in General Messages

I’m getting into Maya now working on designing some characters for my client and a new website similar to second life.

This demo really helped

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