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Mom

For Mom I decided to use a photo we got a couple years ago of all her grand-kids together. The photo was almost two years old, but it represented the last time all her grand-kids were together in one place. Since my brother’s oldest lives with his mom in Utah, and me and my son live in Utah, it’s not that often we are all together at one time. Two summers ago I drove out there for several weeks and my nephew was able to come with me. So not only does this photo represent all her grand-kids, it brings back happy memories of all of us together again for a short time.

Stephanie

When I was deciding what memory to preserve for my sister, Stephanie, I remembered that we had done a photo shoot at the local park with her kids and her dog right before the dog passed away. She had that dog more than 13 years and was very attached to her. I took one of the photos of her and the dog that I thought was such a beautiful picture. She loved it so much she cried. Not only that, her youngest son cried too. It was a bittersweet moment.

Brandon and Christine

For my brother and sister-in-laws’s collage, I decided to go with a family theme. I’ve always loved the saying “All because two people fell in love” and wanted to do something around that theme. Several months before they had visited me in Utah and happened to have copied their SD card from their digital camera to my computer. So I had lots of their own family photos to choose from. Including this awesome shot of my brother with the kids on the beach.

Amber

And last, but certainly not least, for Amber’s collage she’s the sentimental type anyway, so I went through my photos and chose a collection that I knew would mean something to her. A little bit of several moments in time. Finding the love of her life, hanging out with her kids, and dancing with Dad…oh I can’t forget the photo of her and Dad comparing bellies. We weren’t sure who was due first.

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My unbreakable rules for choosing a domain are:

• No hyphens. Been there. Done that. Regret it to this day.
• No numbers. Do I spell it out “five” or is it the number “5??
• Nothing difficult to spell. Although I once was really excited about using a domain with the word “catalyst” in it — I found that no one could spell the darned thing.
• Domain must end in .com. I don’t bother with other endings.
• Domain must NOT have any copyright names in it. I would not recommend using “Google”, “Disney”, or any other company name in your URL or prepare to be “ceased and desisted”.
• If I’m looking to sell the site down the road, it must be generic enough. For instance, I wouldn’t buy “NicoleKnowsFootball.com” to talk about my favorite football team if I planned to sell the site ever, because I’d have to find someone named Nicole – or who wanted to call themselves that — to buy it.

And my big, bad unbreakable rule.

• It must pass the Oprah test.

What exactly is the Oprah test? Well, I picture Oprah saying it out loud. “Today I have with me, Nicole Dean, author of Blah blah blah and owner of NicoleontheNet.com”. Is it memorable? Easy to spell?

It’s not just the Oprah test, though. It’s the Willie Crawford test, too. If I’m in an interview with Willie Crawford and he introduces me – I want people typing or writing down my URL easily – and remembering it long after the fact.

You can’t do that with MyNumber1-BestHome-Remedy-Treatments4New-Mothers.net.

Why is this Important?

A difficult domain is actually wasted opportunity and wasted traffic slipping through your fingers. If you’re promoting via audio or video (in webinars, iTunes interviews, on BlogTalkRadio, live radio, TV, or even your own podcast) – you need a domain that is EASY to remember. It has to make it into the person’s ears and to his brain and stick.

Plus, honestly, it’s a credibility issue. Would you really buy something from MyNumber1-BestHome-Remedy-Treatments4New-Mothers.net? I hope you wouldn’t even think of getting out your credit card for a site like that. SCARY. And would you feel comfortable referring it to your friends? Not a chance.

What impression is your domain giving of you?

How to Avoid the REALLY Bad “Oh My GOSH I CAN’T BELIEVE I DID THAT” Web Domain Names?

I’ll also touch on avoiding really bad ones.

Oftentimes when you search for domains you read what you want to see. I recommend you type the domain in all capital letters and show it to a friend before buying. For instance, ending a word with “s” before the word “expert” can all of a sudden be misinterpreted.

So, I’ll give you the same advice as I give my friends who are expecting a baby. Run the name by your most juvenile, dirty-minded friends – before signing on the dotted line. You’d be amazed at how something totally innocent can go bad in a big hurry.

I hope this has been helpful. I look forward to seeing YOU on Oprah!

Nicole Dean is the FUN online business coach. If you’d like to see more tips about choosing a good domain name, check out this post: How to Choose the Right Web Domain Name. Once you’ve got your website up, you’ll need lots of traffic. Be sure to check out Nicole’s free course: WebTrafficBasics.com

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I’m always running across articles about Comic Sans and most of them, as far as I can remember all of them, that I found mention that most designers do not like Comic Sans. Apparently it’s made fun of. A lot. A quick Twitter search showed all but one post (well at least the ones that were in English so I could understand them) were not a fan of Comic Sans.

My name is Shannon, and I like Comic Sans.

I mean really, I feel like I should join a support group because apparently I’m the only one who does like it.

I’m not saying I use it on everything, or even on much of anything really. But it does have its uses. And it does have its purpose. The challenge seems to be using it when appropriate, especially in business settings where somebody in the office is drafting something up using a Microsoft Office product real quick. This site gives a quick and amusing explanation of when to use and when not to use this beloved font.

Also to be noted, apparently a recent Princeton study has said that information presented in an easy font is hard to remember and retain than a more challenging font. Of course, I haven’t been able to find an actual article with these findings just two blog type posts mentioning the study and worried about the impact that will have on the eReaders such as Kindle.

The lesson? Doesn’t look like you should create anything you want people to remember for the long term in Comic Sans.

Find Comic Sans, or an acceptable substitute here.

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Follow this easy to understand video series step by step to create your own minisites and before you know it your friends and customers will ask you “Who’d you hire to make those websites?!”

Video#1: Understanding Adobe Photoshop Features You Will Use
(9 minutes and 38 seconds)
Adobe Photoshop can be a complex tool only because you can do so much with it, however for in this video series, we’re going to keep it as simple as possible. In fact, in this video you’ll see an overview of the few tools and Adobe Photoshop features we will use. When you see this video, you’ll see how you can do so much with so few features, but you’ll learn how to use them in depth in the future videos.

Video#2: Importance of Royalty Free Images and How to Find Them
(7 minutes and 39 seconds)
When you create your own minisites, you’ll need to have access to professional photography to make your designs look great for whatever subject matter. Well, in this video, you’ll learn the importance of using Royalty free images and how you can find them to fulfill your needs.

Video#3: How to Use the Adobe Lasso and Crop Tool
(7 minutes and 35 seconds)
The Adobe Photoshop lasso and crop tools are the tools that you’ll use to take people and objects out of regular pictures and put into your minisite designs. I’m sure you’ve seen headers with people or objects in them right? We’ll that’s where the lasso tool and crop tools come into play. So you’ll learn what they can do for you, but most importantly how to use them correctly.

Video#4: How to Work with Layers to Make Art Creation Easier
(5 minutes and 40 seconds)
Layers are the big secret to making photos come to life. In Photoshop you can take several photos and merge them together to make it looks like it’s one picture. At the same time, layers will make your life as a minisite creator so much easier, you’ll save lots of time. In this video, you’ll learn how to use layers to your advantage.

Video#5: How to Understand the Art of Balancing Your Designs
(7 minutes and 59 seconds)
Do you remember looking at a picture and saying to yourself, nice picture, it’s looks right. Or maybe you thought, “that picture doesn’t look right”. We’ll this is when balancing your designs comes into play. If you learn how to balance your headers, footers, ecovers, and more correctly you’ll learn how to make your minisites look right when people look at them.

Video#6: How to Create a Minisite Header
(11 minutes and 14 seconds)
Here’s the fun part. You were shown videos 1-5 for a reason, that is, to help you understand the basic fundamental concepts before you got started creating the actual designs. The best part, is that you can take videos 1-5 and apply them to other things besides just minisites! So with that said in this video, you’ll learn how to create a professional minisite header using the tools Adobe Photoshop and what you learned earlier.

Video#7: How to Create a Minisite E-Book, DVD, E-cover
(9 minutes and 47 seconds)
Just as it says, you’ll learn how to take the header you designed in the previous video and create an ebook or dvd ecover. You see, creating the header first allows you to understand how to easily transfer the designs to the ecover and balance it out.

Video#8: How to Create a Minisite Background and Footer
(6 minutes and 41 seconds)
Lastly, you’ll learn how to create the final touches of the minisite, which is the background and the footer. These two are very easy to create, because you can use your learning experience from videos 6 and 7 to transfer those ideas to video 8.

To follow along with the videos you must have Adobe Photoshop already installed in your computer (version 6.0 or newer).

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