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Search Engine Optimization Tips for Bloggers

Looking for Search Engine Optimization Tips for Bloggers? You’re in the right place! Some of the largest sources of traffic that a blog can potentially tap into are Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Blogs are naturally suited to rank well in Search Engines as a result of their frequent updates, targeted topics, interlinking structure and ability to generate links from other parts of the blogosphere – however there are many ways that bloggers can enhance the way their blog is indexed and ranked. These techniques are referred to as Search Engine Optimization (or SEO). Following are a handful of links on how to optimize your blog for search engines: 8 First Step SEO tips for Bloggers Search Engine Optimization for Blogs  – this post basically summarizes everything that I know about SEO into the one place The Importance of Title Tags in Search Engine Optimization  – a basic tip that can revolutionize your blog’s search engine rankings for keywords What Should...

Design Calendar in Expression Blend 4

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Step 1 Open  Expression Blend 4  -> select  Silverlight-Application  -> select  Silverlight-Application  -> change  Name and Location  accordingly -> hit  OK. Step 2 Select  Assets  -> select  Shapes  -> select  Rectangle,  draw an rectangle, manage the  width & height, background color, margin  and  shadow-effect  as shown below:  Step 3 Select  Text-Box  from the  Toolbox , enter a  Month-Name  according to your choice to the  left  of the rectangle shape and  2008  to the  right  of the rectangle shape, manage the  width & height, font family  and  font size  as shown below:  Step 4 Select  Assets  -> select  Shapes  -> select  Ellipse , draw an  ellipse  as the Handler for the calendar, manage the  width & heigh...

3D Animation with Repeating Behavior Using Blend4 and Design4

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3D Animation with Repeating Behavior Using Blend4 and Design4.zip   3D animations are becoming quite popular. Earlier only the artists of a few big companies had access to the software required to create a 3D animation movie. However, today more people are getting access to these software and more companies are using these for various reasons. These days even mobile phones with 3D display screens are being developed. I have tried in this article to show the effect of 3D Animation using Microsoft Expression Design 4 and Microsoft Expression Blend 4. Stepwise description is as under: Step 1:  First of all we start from Design, Open a new document in Microsoft Expression Design 4.   Step 2:  Draw a circle holding Alt+Sft keys to constrain the shape of the circle using Ellipse tool. Step 3:  Fill it with stone99.png from Properties ->Fill -> More Swatches ->Categories ->Stone Textures->Warm White Marbles: Stone99.png and name it as "Circle1l...

Creating an animation in Expression Blend and edit in Visual Studio 2010

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Creating animations in Expression Blend\Silverlight is made quite easier with the introduction of XAML but the animation created in Silverlight could be enhanced or enlivened when the animation is provided additional functionality through coding and this job is well accomplished through Visual Studio 2010\C#. In Visual Studio 2010\C# we can edit the Silverlight animation and add behavior to it. This not only brings life to the animation but also enlightens it with excellent look and feel. First create a simple animation in Expression Blend. Add a Storyboard Workspaces. In this animation, what we do is add a button and name it as Click me!! on the art board. The aim is to create an animation such that the artboard changes color on pressing the button. Lets Start, the design part looks like this. Working with Expression Blend the animation would result in change of the background but it would change just once and to bring continuity to this application we would edit and add fu...