Making progress with GIMP

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:07:00 GMT

I ran across a tutorial on how to create "Vista" like buttons with GIMP. If you have ever tried to use GIMP to do anything, you know how much different it is than most other graphics editors out there. For the longest time I just thought it was just terrible...but that was before I found some examples on how to use it.

I'm happy to report that by following along with this tutorial (read it here) that I was able to duplicate these buttons. Ok, so GIMP might not be so bad...what else does it do?

I then dug some more and found another cool tutorial on created "old" photos.

Once again...success! I got reallly close on this one, with a pic of my son. In this tutorial (read it here), I realized that there is a whole world of add-ons for GIMP. Some brushes from here were used to create the distressed looking scratches on the image.

For more GIMP Tutorials, you can check out gimp-turorials.net

Robots and main page accessibility

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT

On my quest towards e-stardom (aka a relevant and content-rich website), I realized that the navigation towards my older "news items" was somewhat lacking. My solution for this problem was to create a side bar menu that would contain all of the news item titles in descending date order (aka newest first).

A day or two after this change, I began to notice a positive side-effect to including all of these titles as links on the main page...The robots (spiders) were crawling all through my site! I'm not 100% sure, but I can't imagine how this increased indexing would hurt my chances of being returned in some search results.

In a possibly related subject, a Google search for 'Aaron Lynch' now returns this page in the top 10 search results (#6 as of this entry) and an MSN search returns www.AaronJLynch.com as #3!

Does anybody want my autograph?

UPDATE 1/25/06: Either Google has changed my ranking somehow, or my switch to BlogCFC has harmed my accessibility somehow. I now turn up on like page 5 or something terrible. Back to the drawing board!

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Making progress with GIMP

Robots and main page accessibility